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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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It 's clever, I will say. The sort of pun that makes you laugh and groan at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAnd makes good sense both ways! Although it's interesting to me that the literal sense is actually the figurative one as well.
Yes, you’re right, Sandy, they are using the phrase in a literal sense quite different from the more common literal sense (of pulling a carriage or other vehicle). The fun of course is that the depicted sense is completely unexpected equine behavior.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what you mean by the “figurative” sense, though. Unless you’re being extra-punny in the sense of life-drawing or figure-painting… Yes?
Wilbur ~ FLN, Thanks for weighing in re. “Trust but Verify.” I offered a little more context for you.
Here’s today’s poem:
It is of course drawn from sad experience…
“A Part (not memorized)”
“Do I whine before my first line, or my fifth?”
(Er… nobody brought a script to rehearse with.)
~ OMK
Michael always would whine
ReplyDeleteWhen Daisy would leave him behind.
His coaster bike was no match,
Her ten-speed he never could catch!
He'd whine while out on a date,
He'd whine when apart from her face.
But at last he thought what to do!
He'd get a tandem bike for two!
But when he made his proposal,
The script she flung in the disposal!
Said nobody was ready for marriage
Who didn't have a horse-drawn carriage!
The whining of the wheels signaled the arrival at the Station
ReplyDeleteRogozhin and Lebedev had a script to follow, Leon went apart
For his business was to see General Epanchin a distant relation
On his wife's side. The Prince chose to go in a horse drawn cart.
The Prince knew nobody in Petersburg he'd play it by ear
"If nothing works out, I'll try Plan B though the future is unclear. "
WC
Wow! What an amazing array of poems before 9am on a Saturday morning! Tough to follow.
ReplyDelete"Pet Partner"
When their relationship came apart,
it nearly broke her heart.
She tried hard not to whine
though this was a difficult time.
With nobody in her script
her plans for the future dipped.
So she started a whole new course
by getting drawn to a beautiful horse
who now lives on her lawn,
and gives her life a whole new dawn.
OMK, I meant that what literally reflects the action in the cartoon is figurative in the sense that we could never see it IRL, in real life. Whereas the second meaning that makes a pun is the one we literally see in real life. Isn't it usually the other way around?
ReplyDeleteOh well...
Misty’s couple may yet
ReplyDeletebe gone!
Daisy & Mike
don’t need a tandem bike.
She & her boo
have a quadruped built for two.
The horse on her lawn
(that I did research
on)
must be a Perch-
eron!
~ OMK
Owen & Wilbur were typing away simultaneously on this bright morning.
ReplyDeleteEach verse deals with wheels, ‘though there the likeness ends.
Owen’s starts as a charmer,
a sweet disarmer,
but ends with his guy in the lurch.
Wilbur picks up Feodor’s tale
as his chaps start to bail,
& Leon goes off on his search.
Along comes Ms. Misty
to add to our list-y.
What say is the chance
her thwarted romance
may yet end in church?
~ OMK
OMK,
ReplyDeleteHer Percheron
is a very kind breed
who does what he can
to serve her need.
And I believe his name is
ReplyDeleteOberon.
~ OMK
And she Titania.
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