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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.
ReplyDeleteFor whatever they’re worth,
two poems from me today.
Each stands alone: first, a haiku;
then, an octet…
”Notes on a Courtship”
Gave her three tulips…
My efforts clicked —with the fourth.
Afraid I’m older.
”Tactical Withdrawal”
Jeb hoped a tulip would win her affection,
and offered a second to double his chances.
He was older than she & afraid of rejection,
so he threw in a third, to festoon his advances.
Still nothing? All Jeb’s efforts were meeting with silence,
Should he be thankful she hadn’t resorted to violence?
“All right! All right!!” He tossed a fourth—ten!—a dozen!!
“Wait! gimme one back, and where—Where’s your cousin?!”
~ OMK
This was the hardest set in a very long time. I appreciated the baseball theme.
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ReplyDeleteA puzzle like this was an all out effort,
not my second or third but my fourth
because I was afraid
of all the mistakes I made.
But it worked, and to give me a tip
my husband bought me a tulip.
So doing puzzles now when I'm older,
makes me a little bolder.
Ah, welcome back, Ms. Misty...
ReplyDeleteYour charming verse reminds us of your recurring theme, that marital love brings a special joy!
Furthermore we see how encouragement--along with repetition--brings confidence, a notion that should inspire any faint-of-heart readers.
~ OMK
Well that explains it. I had "litup" and "drole" for the first two. Hence riddle-solution was ungettable.
ReplyDeleteMisty you're getting very good with these J-verses.
Both of you had similar ideas about those tulips but OMK 's guy wasn't going to let rejection beat him. Btw...
Didn't she have a younger sister? Oh the tales I could tell...
Lemonade, do you do Wordle?
I got one in two this week.
WC
Btw, that would be interesting J-verse material
WC
Who's afraid of the big, bad wordle? Just knocked it off in four-started with tulip
ReplyDeleteOl' Man Keith, I was amazed at your long, complex versifying today.
ReplyDeleteLoved your haiku, which helped you avoid having to rhyme 'tulip.'
Also liked Jeb 'festooning' his advances, though I gather things sadly didn't turn out all that well. Well, maybe better luck tomorrow.
Thanks for the kind words, and for checking in with us, Wilbur. We'll look forward to maybe getting a verse from you tomorrow. Have a good weekend coming up.
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