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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Robinson got his ticket
And went on board the boat.
A side trip was his wicket
And he liked to be afloat,
The voyage wasn't a three-hour tour.
In a storm he was washed overboard!
On a tiny island, a wee bit of shore,
A lone palm the only shade did afford.
His shirt as a flag he was raising
To thumb a ride on any passing ship.
He was soon rescued, and praising --
That was a real doozy of a trip!
About as lame as anything I've done lately. Actually, the story isn't bad, but the poetry sucks.
Reindeer play a role in today’s poem.
They have antlers, which left me nervous…
“But [heheheh] Un-Gored!”
The voyage of Jack Horner (He of Pie-in-the-Corner),
should not leave you bored, but make you feel warmer.
He put in his thumb—now this is a doozy!—
and pulled out no plum (the shock will be newsy),
but a raisin! That’s right! Now this is amazin’!
Out tumbled something. I don’t mean to be brazen,
but a herd of tiny reindeer left a whole field of raisin.
~ OMK
"Sweet Romance"
Suzy was a bit of a floozy
but Don considered her a doozy.
She was his favorite chum
and with his thumb her praises he'd strum.
Using his sailor's badge
he invited her on a voyage.
Her fear of water she gladly ignored
in order to join him by getting on board.
They'd sleep together on a cot,
which she considered romantic and hot.
He rewarded her with a cake full of raisins,
a gesture she found dear and amazing.
The voyage their love a message did send:
Suzy and Don, stay together until the end.
Sorry, gang!
The iPad just ate my comments. I will try again a little later.
~ OMK
The color pic is up. I try to do that when it comes online, at 3am my time. But lately I've been going to sleep before then, so not getting it up until late like this. I used to not get sleepy until 5 or 6. The proper sleep is probably good for me. If I haven't got it up before noon, I don't bother.
I think “Sweet Romance” is one of Misty’s very best. The rhymes are free & easy, the rhythm felicitous.
The phrasing (w/ perhaps the single exception of “did send”) is honest & natural.
The second couplet (“chum/thumb… strum”) is truly charming—and broke down my resistance well before the standard Happy Ending.
Owen ~ You caused me to learn a new (to me) meaning for “wicket,” reason enough to respect any verse.
No need to be hard on yourself. Your “lame” = “sturdy” for anyone else.
~ OMK
Owen, as soon as I saw Robinson, I thought of Robinson Crusoe, and that he was on a boat, even if not a three-hour-tour reminded me instantly of Gilligan's Isle, where they passengers of the "Minnow" also end up on an island. Only, unlike your Robinson, they don't get rescued.
I gather your little Jack Horner stays in his corner eating his raisin pie and not his plum pie, and doesn't really go on a voyage, does he, Ol' Man Keith? Hope he's not bored by not being able to get on board. Bet that herd of tiny reindeer made him happy.
Thank you for your incredibly kind comments on my verse this morning, OMK.
If there's any improvement in my rhymes, it's the result of the great advice you've been giving me throughout the year, which maybe has finally sunk in. Thank you for that gift, very much.
I was deleted twice today. I wonder if it has to do with my attempts to sign on with my new iPad the way I signed on with my old one?
Over the years I found that the only way I could work from bed with my iPad (as opposed to using my desktop down stairs) was to use the Name/URL route. Today, using my new iPad, that route worked twice. Then when I tried to use it again for my comments, the blogger showed it accepted them, but when I looked back at the main Jumble Hints page, my comments had mysteriously vanished!
Finally, I skipped the Name/URL route and used my Google account, same as with my downstairs desktop.
And it worked! (It never worked with my old iPad.)
I know my new iPad emulates my desktop in other areas, but maybe I no longer need to use the Name/URL work-around with it.
We shall see, over the next few days.
~ OMK
Owen ~ I'm sure you have thought of this. But what if the reason so few new people post on this site is in some way connected with my "deletions" today?
I never knew why my old iPad could not use my usual Google account to sign in. By experimenting I found I could sign on using the Name/URL option. I had no idea what was inside that earlier generation iPad that allowed one way to access, and not another.
Today was especially frustrating because, using my fancy new 6th generation iPad, the adjunct blogger reported that my comments had been "saved"--the usual confirmation.
But then nothing showed on your beautiful creation, the Jumblehints.blogspot.
If I were a newbie and got that sort of reception, I certainly wouldn't return.
Do you suppose there is any clue here?
~ OMK
Misty ~ Jack's voyages are of the mind; he's the imaginative sort. In addition to his delight in mental peregrinations, he has a marked propensity for self-congratulation ("Oh, what a good boy am I").
This is well and good, as he is a deserving lad who very responsibly follows his imaginary raisin-pooping herds with a figmental scooper.
~ OMK
Keith, I have only my laptop, so no way to test anything else. If there's a problem with Apple or tablets, you'll need to be the one to figure it out. Sorry.
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