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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.
OK—While this is supposed to be my day off, I thought it might be fun to see if I could write a haiku containing all six of the J-words that we get on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteI will take another day off during the coming week.
Here goes…
Background: For this haiku, I imagine I’m a Dallas NFL player on a long hike with DeMarcus Cousins, a one-time Houston B-Baller. We run out of food & have to scrounge the bushes for edibles. We choose different areas & find good pickings—beneath a cliff and by a weeping willow.
A storm hits, and we shelter under the cliff.
When the storm stops,
”As the Cowboy Writes it…”
Cousins abruptly
resumes foraging. Myself?
I claim the willow.
~ OMK
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ReplyDeleteMy cousin started to forage
for cowboy boots in his storage.
He found a willow branch and a plume,
but stopped abruptly and would not resume.
Instead he took a journal off his shelf
and wrote "Here's the story of myself."
A brilliant job, Misty!
ReplyDeleteI am sorry your cousin had to go bootless, but congratulations on your tight sestet.
He may have lost his aim, but you managed to squeeze the J-words into one of your shortest poems--giving me a run for my money!
As for moi, I apologize for adding three extra words!
~ OMK
Thank you for the kind praise, Ol' Man Keith. The Jumble words first looked like a nightmare to rhyme, but surprisingly they worked okay. I think I'm slowly learning a bit of your technique, OMK--thank you for that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I of course enjoyed your Cowboy poem. Did you add three extra words? Your three line rhyme looked like the class 5-7-5 structure to me.
No, I kept within the haiku limits, Misty,
ReplyDeletebut I meant to say I added three words that are not J-words.
Until my third line, all the words are only Js.
Then comes "I claim the..." before finishing on the remaining J-word.
Some day I hope to compose a poem made up entirely of Js, with nothing addded. That will probably be on a Sunday, as I doubt there can be a haiku of only four Jumble words. (Although I am sure it is possible if we don't limit ourselves to Js.)
~ OMK