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| _goofy, pilot, stanza, finale, aloft (in) a loft.Image(s) from the Internet.
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.
FLN, Misty ~ That’s funny! “Scouse” is also short for “Lobscouse,” defined as “stewed meat, vegetables, and hard tack,” common to sailors and Liverpudlians.
ReplyDelete“A Basic Plan”
I’m aiming to pilot my goofy first stanza
with alternate rhymes on an A-B scheme.
It’s the way to defer a real bonanza
to an ending that serves as the crème de la cream.
Hold back your C-C (it’s more than a hunch);
give your couplet finale—a fresh, lofty punch!
~ OMK
"New Career"
ReplyDeletePete was a retired pilot
who was sad and did sigh a lot.
He lived in a stuffy loft
where he often moaned and coughed.
Then one day he wrote a stanza
and decided to take a chance. A
friend urged him to go to a valley
where he joined an artist rally.
It was a goofy decision
that put him on a mission
to choose a finale and throw it
all in to become a poet.
Anyone scanning this site for Jumble hints should appreciate how well they’re being served by the two we’ve posted so far.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, I’m offering a “basic” model for building to a punch, and Misty is showing a most creative sampling of rhyme experiments.
This is her most daring work in a long time, with such beauties as “pilot/sigh a lot,” “loft/coughed,” and “stanza/chance. A.”
All I can say is “Wow”!
~ OMK
"Liverpudlians"? Ol' Man Keith? Jumble words don't get any wilder than this.
ReplyDeleteWhat will never cease to amaze me is how you fit three totally unrelatable Jumble words--pilot, goofy, and stanza--into a single first line of a poem. Totally crazy and amazing. A delightful verse, many thanks.
A fun start to our morning, but I miss Sandy, Wilbur, and Owen!
Come back, everybody, we need you.
On second, or third, or even fourth thought, I kinda like this jumble solution. It is deadly obvious (once solved!), but cleverly obvious. Or is that obviously clever??
ReplyDeleteI guess it's sort of a homographic pun, only sort of because it's not just two words with different meanings, but one word matched with a two-word phrase.
Okay, what I didn't like and what put me off at first was the awkwardly transparent way the writer avoided using the relevant word. I wish jumble writers could be just a little more subtle about that.
Well, have I bored you enough with my meandering thoughts? For sure.
No! Not a bore, Sandy, not at all!
ReplyDeleteIt's always good to see you on the page. Misty spoke for both of us earlier; we need you to bring your perspective so this doesn't devolve into a one- or two-voice blog.
I admit I would not have analyzed today's solution in such detail as you have done. Please, whatever your response to the Jumble, just BRING IT!
~ OMK