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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.
Wow, no comments yet. So I guess my little contribution is better than nothing. I hope.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find a Jumble in today's Los Angeles Sunday Times. Did I miss it? If so, please let me know the page.
ReplyDeleteBottom of page B5.
ReplyDelete(That's the second section, the "California" section.)
~ OMK
We seem to have a warped agenda today.
ReplyDeleteWith others filling in, I haven't needed to say.
But no one has a bee in their bonnet
To fill in today, so I guess I'm on it!
Sundays, of course, are harder to poem.
Three extra words for the poet to pose em.
Harder to outwit the hurdles of the Muses,
Placed there because the Muses like abuses!
So I struggle with hyphenated lines,
To insert words like a guitar's whine.
Like a bleached brain coral in a reef,
My brain is dying, with nothing better than this for relief!
[Chet is reminiscing with Lois re. The Lost Years]
ReplyDeleteThere was a hyphenated span between teens and later
Where I'd bleached my hair and played around on guitar.
I had no agenda, no plan, no bee in my bonnet;
No plan other than scheming to outwit the "Yet*".
When you met me in that seedy bar something went Ding
"I don't know if this idea will work, I said, but
'It's surely better than Nothing'"
WC
* AAers speak of the "Yets" as in "Oh that (DUI,blackout,divorce etc) hasn't happened to me- YET!"
DeleteThe acronym? Your Eligible Too
WC
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DeleteOMK takes Sunday off, LATIMES has messed up Misty's hard copy, Sandy's comment was "No comments?"
ReplyDeleteSo I came out of my personal doldrums last night. The dreaded Saturday stumper was like an iceberg to navigate.
When I actually finished it with only a misspell I perked up. And today's FIW was minor too considering.
And reading my old Bilbo jumble poems to a ten yr-old perked me up too. It's much better read aloud and I imagine it would be a good vocabulary tool for 4th-6th graders.
WC
Also, like Misty I like to do the Jumble on hard copy. I left my insert containing the weeks puzzles back north so I didn't get in Friday.
ReplyDeleteI do the Sunday Jumble occasionally, but...
ReplyDeletemainly, I like to look.
Misty ~ I first spotted today's Jumble on the on-line digital Times, but then I found it in my hard copy too.
Bottom far left hand side of the page.
Is yours missing?
~ OMK
Wilbur, Chet certainly confides in Lois. But will Lois be confiding in Chet??
ReplyDeleteJust like the hero Vlad Ionescu
ReplyDeletehelping his Ukrainian pals to escape,
Owen is rushing in for the rescue,
the first to break the Sunday tape.
He's followed closely by W.C.,
also eager to fill in the gap.
Misty may join to bring it to three,
not bad for a Sunday, while I skip a lap.
~ OMK
Many thanks for giving me the LA Times Jumble page, OMK--I finally found the Jumble. But haven't been able to do anything with it yet because my family has a series of family Zoom meetings on Sundays. Had one at 11 with my son and brother. Then later, had a chance to talk to my Dad in his new nursing home. Got to say hello to my daughter-in-law and grandson. And in a few minutes we'll have a Zoom meeting for the whole family.
ReplyDeleteSo I may not be able to get back to the blog here until later in the day. But it's great to see you're all here, having a good time and visiting. That makes for a good Sunday, doesn't it?
Just had a minute to look up the Jumble words and then check out Owen and Wilbur's terrific, inventive verses. Owen, how clever that you used today's poetic difficulty as your subject. Very cool! And Wilbur, Chet's always thoughtful memories were also filled with all the Jumble words and solutions. Great!
ReplyDeleteAnd then a third surprise: Keith checking in with a brief poetic message as well.
Thank you all for making this a delightful Sunday gathering. On my first day in ages, when I haven't produced a verse, this has been a great gift.
Can't help commenting on today's solution,
ReplyDeleteto let Zero know that
left to himself he's worthless.
~ OMK