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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.
A starman's life is a dirty life,
ReplyDeleteTo keep those engines running right!
To get the warpers aligned we jog 'em.
And talk in engineering jargon!
Up on the bridge is the Captain's castle,
Plotting courses and all that hassle.
Give me my messy engineering rooms,
With a sonic wrench and synthoil fumes!
Mag-fields are strong, must never weaken,
If they failed, we'd all be freakin'!
But I keep them tuned, this is my domain,
For my two good hands and linked-in brain!
Based upon the content of my poem today,
ReplyDeleteshall we say Messrs. Hoyt & Knurek use
ESP
in their...
"Verbal Domain?"
How strange it is, the evening after
I ended a poem with "weaken"--
a word chosen to cue reader laughter--
today's jargon posts it as a beacon
of light. As if the Jumble folk
wanted me in on their joke.
That they choose their bumbly terms,
gleaning our minds of nouns & verbs.
And no matter how messy or dressy
the cant;
or flirty and dirty
the rant,
they are closer to us than we knew,
close enough to say, "Boo!"
~ OMK
Owen gives us an insider's sense of a spaceship crew member's pride in his work.
ReplyDeleteHe writes with such detail, as if he is himself a veteran of many starry voyages.
It is a wonderfully convincing performance, a tour de force!
~ OMK
"Dubious Duo"
ReplyDeleteGerty was a bit flirty
and her jokes were sometimes dirty.
But in spite of being messy
she was also attractive and dressy.
These confusing traits were a beacon
that worried her boyfriend, the deacon,
and did their relationship weaken.
But after talking and trading some jargon
they came up with a working bargain.
Gerty would more courtesy feign
with politeness, to ease their strain,
and no longer be such a bane
in the deacon's important domain.
It worked: and for both, a gain.
Misty ~ We found several of the same rhymes today. Sometimes, I guess, the options are just so very narrow.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like your Gerty practiced that old dictum, "Fake it till you make it!"
That's the message I glean from "feign"ing "courtesy... with politeness."
By faking it long enough, she was able to bring the deacon around--right?
This reminds me of a slogan we had in grad drama school.
The orthodox training for our actors was the Stanislavskian System or "method," in which pretence was to be avoided at all costs.
You learned ways of stimulating true emotion on cue on stage. These were forms of improvisation, substitutions, auto-hypnosis, etc. They require close coaching, of course, and much practice; and many found the techniques difficult until they had opportunity to use them for different characters in varied scenic situations.
There would be times when what we called "indicating"--or fakery--was more appealing.
But our motto became, "If you can't fake it, be sincere."
~ OMK
I just read 3 days worth of jumbled. Owen was masterful as usual especially the one about the 12 month hiatus amongst the wood nymphs.
ReplyDeleteOwen has me hungry for shrimp . I have fried shrimp for lunch every Thursday. And Misty: A primo work of art re. your gossip poem. Very well done.
I just barely managed to keep up with xwords. Ironically I had awaken instead of WEAKEN and had no where for my W. But I found it and noticed "NE Largest State" hence MAINE. DOE was obvious.
I've done Wednesday but can't get the riddle-solution. Something about favorites losing a game????
Sandy, I can't think of you as ill tempered. You always seem sweet to me especially when you encourage my doggerel.
WC
WC ~
ReplyDeleteI have a hunch--just a hunch, mind you!--that the 2nd Owen in your posting above was intended for me.
We seem to share a taste for shrimp.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, how interesting that your poem today was about writing the poem. What's that called--I know there's a term for that? A neat way to use the Jumble words.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for the kind remarks about my verse, and for your fascinating discussion about the complicated culture of acting. I was very interested in acting in my late teens and early twenties and unfortunately never very good at it. But I loved reading about it--so your discussion this morning was a delight.
Owen loved the verse about your "domain"--with all the Jumble words unobtrusively worked into it. Always a real pleasure.
Wilbur, so glad you checked in with us. But we missed your poem and will look forward to it tomorrow. Another great favorite.
Misty ~ It's called "meta-poetry," but I don't think I have ever seen the term used. Not in my experience anyway, as I never taught a class (or took one) on the specific topic of poetry.
ReplyDeleteI was moved to the subject because of the bizarre coincidence that today's J-word "weaken" happened to actually be the final word of my poem yesterday.
It is not as if "weaken" is that common a word, so I immediately suspected some long distance mind-reading.
Just got my COVID booster, plus my flu shot, so I am Winterized, ready to face the chill, darkening days ahead.
~ OMK
OMK, of course it was you with the tempura shrimp. And Owen calls it prescience. We tend to see it around here because we're a wordy bunch.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Stanislovsky METHOD acting was big in NY. I read about it in the past. Brando was a big one, n'est-ce pas ?
Still can't get what the losers are doing. Ironic because I'm reading a John Feinstein book about ACC Basketball. Upsets of favorites is nom de guerre
Name of the game I guess I mean
WC
Thank you for the compliment, Wilbur. If you asked anyone who knows me, especially my family, thw last thing they would call me is sweet. Maybe well-intentioned, but not sweet!
ReplyDeleteSandy ~ I would say that well-intentioned (& sometimes successfully-intentioned) beats sweet hands down.
ReplyDeleteOf course sweet has its place,
especially among cannibals...
Wilbur ~ The Stanislavsky System, often called the "method," is still big in NY--and elsewhere.
Since his work at the Moscow Art Theater became known, and his books first published in the '30s (in English in the U.S., even before publication in his native Russian), his system has been the standard for actor training all around the world.
It works for realistic acting, of course, and not for such traditional forms as Kabuki, Commedia, French Mime etc. Those must be acquired from "the outside in," as we say, whereas Stanislavsky famously works "from the inside out."
Yes, Brando was a famous example. Some of his characterizations gave the "method" a perjorative label as the "Scratch 'n Mumble School of Acting."
He and many others came through NY's famous Actors Studio, headed by Lee Strasberg, where I studied after grad school.
~ OMK