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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.
“Foresight By Choice?”
ReplyDeleteThis mystic forbids
hatching any plans. Future
gauging’s not his style.
OMK
"Crazy Career"
ReplyDeleteMindy was not autistic
but her logistic was that of a mystic.
Some crazy plans she did hatch
and at times wild messages dispatch.
To make sure no one could forbid,
her strategies she hid.
She did her choices gauge
and some performances stage.
Yet in the end it was her voice
that made her a singer by choice.
Sometimes I think it is the very randomness of the J-words, infuriating as it may be, that leads us to create stories we could not invent on our own. Whether tiny stories or sprawling tales, they can introduce readers—as well as ourselves!—to characters & places outside of our usual haunts.
ReplyDeleteThe main challenge then is to draw the spread of the words into a wholeness, so our pieces do not simply meander “any old where.” This is one of the reasons I like haiku. It demands that something about the ending must already be present in the opening. It can’t wander off the map.
~ OMK
Nice & neat economy & rhymes, Misty!
ReplyDeleteI would not have thought of rhyming "autistic/mystic," but they form a natural pair, don't they?
Alice is fortunate in the end to find her voice.
~ OMK
Thank you for the kind words, OMK. It always floors me how you manage to work four off-beat Jumble words plus solution into a terse 4 line verse. Amazing!
ReplyDelete[Eddie has a few questions for Chet[
ReplyDeleteI've tried religion before , all the forbades , begats and shalts not
Admittedly, my ways haven't worked. Drinking, what has it bought?
[Chet responds]
I'd gauge that you're ready to try a new plan; no more down the hatch
"OK", says Eddie, "But tell me just one thing. What's the catch,"
"We're not suggesting, 'Go Mystical', although some actually are
If by choice one is serious about meditation. It's not bizarre."
WC
Wilbur, nice to see Chet making progress with Eddie. And there they were, all four Jumble words and solution worked into your narrative. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteSo Chet is suggesting meditation to Eddie? Let's see if it helps, in future installments.
ReplyDeleteGood advice from Chet to this Eddie-guy.
ReplyDeleteI don't know Eddie, but he seems to ask the right questions.
Seems open to Chet's answers too.
Forgive me, W.C.. I know this may not be the right place to say this,
but just in case you--as the author--are up for it
(and not to rush you or anything),
please know that I am ready for some drama.
Y'know, for a bad example: for somebody to go off the rails.
(And it doesn't have to be Chet or anybody we care about...)
~ OMK
OMK, it happens all the time. NA is worse because they die from fentanol.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned a guy last year , friend of Chet's, who was returning from a slip.*
WC
Typical AA jargon but when a relapse occurs often it comes out of nowhere
There is something too soft, Wilbur, when the drama is relayed in the past tense.
ReplyDeleteIt is the typical tense in which English novels, poetry, journalism, etc are reported. It automatically assigns the events being described to history. It thus "enshrines" them and places them at a safe remove from our shared, unfolding experience.
The present tense brings things closer to movies & TV drama. One step closer to realism.
~ OMK