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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.
11 comments:
Pretty straightforward. Don't really see much of a joke.
A partial similarity does not a homophone make. Or a pun.
Sandy, agreed: it’s the kinda 4th or 5th grade attempt I remember trying.
You’d hear the expression, get its literal meaning, but you’d also hear that it contains the word of the thing under discussion. Wow!
So you’d just grin like a fool, repeat it to your pals, and say, “Get it? Huh? Didja get it?!”
Here’s today’s response:
“A Test to Try Us”
If I may attain your leave
(and please don’t think me batty),
I’ll pitch my loom and weave
a shroud from that dress! It’s natty,
stylish, and smarter than the rags
they usually use to wrap us.
Most are no better than bags.
This is a way to have us
eternally intimate, together,
in a snazzy embrace of lace & leather.
~ OMK
My Uncle Ned moved to Cincinnati.
He was eccentric, or simply batty!
He'd been asked to leave his last residence,
After he invented fart scented incense!
His latest invention he kept shrouded;
A family coffin, tho it could get crowded!
His inventive genius was attested to
By his one-man band -- an electric kazoo!
He was determined to attain an Edison Award,
A golden light-bulb, with a power cord!
It was given out by the inventors guild,
It would be to Uncle Ned, a dream fulfilled!
Chets "sonnet"
If you should ever leave, my love, I'd be shrouded in grief.
For attaining that love seemed batty, seemed beyond belief
This locket is testimony of my undying love and affection
I humbly attest, "In you there's not the slightest imperfection "
WC
Wow, Chet is definitely 'batty' about Lois. Lois, I hope you appreciate his devotion.
"Relief Attained"
Batty Patty had once been arrested
as her records vaguely attested,
though the reason remained under a cloud
as if enveloped by a shroud.
This made her family grieve
and they worked had to get her a leave
and energetically requested
information that attested
that the arrest had been a mistake
because the evidence was a fake.
Batty Patty was never insane
and has now managed to attain
a healthy and happy new life
far beyond her childhood strife.
Eccentrics are popular today, from Owen's Uncle Ned to Misty's Batty Patty.
Both are "unusual" citizens. Ned has that kind of imagination that renders him a less-than-desirable neighbor, while Patty seems to have been maligned in some vaguely official way.
Patty is said to have been "never insane," so it might be illuminating to learn how she picked up "Batty." Such appellations aren't usually handed out gratis.
I guess I should add my own narrator to today's oddball list.
He's a Liebestod romantic, 'tho the glow kinda dims when we look at the details.
Thank you, Wilbur, for answering our calls for Chet's poem. He certainly doesn't stint on his terms of endearment.
~ OMK
My friend Mike celebrated 43 years and sang this song playing guitar Sunday morning coming down
He(and I) felt it reflected the despair of an addiction on the next day. This is Kris Kristofferson singing
WC
Ironically, on Thursday I was listening on the radio and these words arose:
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And lo and behold when I got to the meeting the topic was feelings and emotions. ie Those buried during the disease days and returning because of healing.
Perhaps Chet or Lois have similar experiences
WC
From "Alone again, naturally " by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Big Kristofferson fan here.
And Cash too.
~ OMK
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