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| _apart, plush, dismay, happen, made (a) splash.
token, doily, lagoon, butter, totaled it.
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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.
Yes, it sure did!
ReplyDeleteI've seen that film more than once; love it. Early Tom Hanks.
I noticed the interesting style of her dress in the cartoon.
CONTEXT: Performers sometimes test the authority of a director.
ReplyDeleteThis is a mantra for those who point to their own successes to win a cast’s confidence.
(ALERT: Please forgive a common vulgarity!)
”Directing Actors in a ‘Splash’”
“It really should cause no dismay
to make happen whatever I say.
Apart from my knowledge
of drama in college,
my life is as plush as a play.
“Staging a winner’s a gas;
our show’s gonna be world class.
I know how to fix it,”
he said ipse dixit,
“and my balls are made out of brass.”
~ OMK
"Pleasant Present"
ReplyDeleteThe married couple lived apart
a move that almost broke her heart,
and made her pray that one fine day
he would return and end her dismay.
He too wanted this to happen.
So he bought her a blouse that was very plush
and it made her happy and made her blush.
This little gift, for just a bit of cash,
made such a splash
that their marriage was restored in a flash.
Glad to see them back together, Misty.
ReplyDeleteOf course we do not know why they were apart.
But given the circumstances of the first stanza, I rather expected she would be buying him the blouse (or something) than the other way around.
Still, All's well that ends well, I guess...
Sandy, Yes, that dress is what one might call...er, "suggestive."
~ OMK
Well, you did it once again, OMK: worked all four Jumble words into your cool poem about directing a play, including a solution word in the title. Must have been fun for you to write this, given your own experience in directing plays.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Misty ~ I find there are really only two tricks to writing limericks:
ReplyDelete- finding the two middle rhymes, and
- giving the final line a punch.
The second was the harder for me.
~ OMK