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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.
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Sometimes I wait for a poem to occur to me.
I stare at the screen, it seems it'll never be.
The words don't appear, phosphenes from the air,
And no viable ideas are in my brain's lair.
To miss a day of posey would be a sore stigma,
But where to find a subject is an enigma.
Can I feign I am sick, my brain has a fever?
No, someone would try to fix it with a cleaver!
I need to come up with some fresh comedic bit,
To tickle my readers, and stimulate their wit!
But nothing is coming, I'm getting nervous.
Anything at all, at this juncture, would be marvelous!
What finally led his followers to...
"Quit (his) Service"
His systems weren't viable; his color was drained.
Scores gathered around his sprawled body.
It occurred to the Disciples then--his stigmata were... feigned.
They could no longer accept his immortality!
Who was this man they'd mistaken for a god?
What's this mass hysteria--that left half the nation awed?
In the cool light of day, it just seemed mighty odd.
~ OMK
"Honesty"
Sally wanted to promote good service
but the plan made her very nervous.
She was asked to feign she had pain
when walking with a cane.
This would make her insurance liable
and make free care mostly viable.
Her condition would be an enigma
with fake symptoms its visible stigma.
But Sally did not want to blur
her real problem, and so, to demur,
this fake plan did not occur.
She just wanted to be healthy
with no interest in being wealthy.
And so, she was happy as hell
when days later her sore throat was well.
Owen captures the startup condition for many of us.
I can only add that sometimes (maybe as much as half the time) when I am staring at a blank screen, I just start typing.
As long as I can connect any two of the clue words in a phrase, I will type that much.
Then, as I continue to stare, other phrases occur to me.
That's what happened with my poem today.
I did not start with any notion that my central figure (the "sprawled body") would serve as a stand-in for a former US president. That only crossed my mind as I wrote that some could no longer "accept his immortality."
Ah, if only it were that easy...
In real life, his followers already know his "orange" is feigned--as is much else--but still go along with it.
[Sigh...]
Misty--You know me, now I am wondering...
Who on earth (!!)
would put poor, innocent Sore-Throat Sally up to such a criminal scam!
We didn't know she had any pain at all to begin with. I hope she didn't get a sore throat as a karmic punishment for even listening to the plan to defraud her insurance company!
But in the end, we are glad she did not go along with the wicked scheme--AND that her throat is better now.
NEXT, we wanna see how the wicked insurer gets its justifiable comeuppance.
~ OMK
Owen, your poem about the difficulty of writing a poem is truly marvelous!!!
I just loved it, and you shouldn't be surprised if some of us will try a possibly similar poetic response on the days when we just hit a blank about what to write.
And, Ol' Man Keith, I'm praying that your poem did not have a religious or a biblical theme--which would have made it a bit troublesome, in my view. But if your "sprawled body" is a political figure, hey, that's okay, as long as he belongs to the opposing party.
I dunno, Misty, if it can make any difference how I intended my little number.
Sure, I came to see it as a political piece (and of the other team at that).
But so long as the "body"'s followers found the so-called stigmata to be "feigned," they were not seen as true--and it could not have been an honestly religious figure, could it?
~ OMK
I couldn't get FEIGN. I thought fengi? I think that's close to gamer world character.
Yes, I thought you were getting (NT)Biblical OMK. Orange's disciples are more loyal than the original 12.
WC
I can't be positive, but am pretty sure stigmata feigners are all post NT Biblical, WC
~ OMK.
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