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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Inside the computer, it's a harsh environment.
ReplyDeleteCircuits run as hot as a heating element.
And-gates and or-gates, but no garden gates exist.
Diodes do what diodes do, transistors transist.
Chip designers strive to make everything compact.
Any extraneous nodes they remove or extract.
Electrons move at the speed of light -- that's fast!
Yet microscopic circuit lengths need to allow for that!
The world of digital brains is designed with elegance
To house our next creation, Artificial Intelligence!
Mechanical thought processes without signs of emotion --
Except for pranks they play on men -- they relish them!
I've been wracking my brain for days trying to remember the term for what Keith has been calling mills. I finally gave in and asked Google 'term for violating normal word sequence'. Answer from Merriam Webster
ReplyDeleteDefinition of inversion
1 : a reversal of position, order, form, or relationship: such as
a(1) : a change in normal word order especially : the placement of a verb before its subject
Then I checked for synonyms for that, and got
anastrophe: the reversal of the normal order of words
hyperbaton: An inversion of normal word order. A generic term for a variety of figures involving transposition, it is sometimes synonymous with anastrophe.
So now, Owen, I think you get why I settled on "mill."
ReplyDeleteIt comes from an early mention of "milling about" in one of our exchanges.
~ OMK
Just a couple days ago, Owen mentioned that some Jumble words seem to align themselves into tight, terse verse.
ReplyDeleteI find today's fit into most conveniently into two perfect iambic pentameter lines.
Here's the set-up ~
It is good to know some torturers recognize limits, as witnessed by two lines contained in this quotation I call a...
Hellish Gem:
"We'll go harsh lengths to gain conversion, but
removing digits rarely wins a friend."
~ OMK
My lines above contain all the hints.
ReplyDeleteBut for readers who feel blank verse lacks a certain je ne sais quoi, I'll add one more couplet--for a quatrain avec des rimes.
...Spoken by veterans of Abu Ghraib?
--or from a Bible Camp to assure straight men?
~ OMK
"Kind Kin"
ReplyDeleteHelen lived near a marsh
where the weather was often harsh.
Her digits were frozen and rigid
and she no longer wished to commit
to living there--so she split.
Her parents did approve
her decision to remove,
and after a friendly argument
agreed, at length,
to pay the rent
at a comfortable new apartment.
Helen greatly relished this gift
which her spirits did lift.
And so loving her parents reached new ranks
as she owed them her most heartfelt thanks.
Just wanted you to know that I wrote you all a little tribute on the blog last night, in thanks for our great Sunday.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Misty!
ReplyDeleteYou remind us that
in addition to the pleasure we take in posting our poetic efforts
we find it's also nice to be acknowledged!
The friendliness we feel on this blog
can often make our day.
And thank you, too, for your poem today.
Helen's parents' love prevailed
despite their "friendly argument."
And your use of near-rhymes
& assonance
prevailed for me.
~ OMK
Ah, a poetic tribute to my poem--nice gift, many thanks, OMK.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of being "acknowledged,"
ReplyDeletehere's a shout out to Maestro Owen
for starting us off today with his computer piece.
He writes of how "AI" resorts to pranks.
The biggest prank of all of course
is when a metaphor
makes its own metaphors.
When will AI
invent its own AHB?
An Artificial Human Brain distilled into an app?
~ OMK
An Artificial Human Brain distilled into an app 😂🤣😂
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