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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.
For our environment we must not whine.
ReplyDeleteTo save it, there may still be time!
We may still find some solution
If we can limit our pollution!
We have befouled, it was not wise,
Both Mother Earth and Father skies!
Gasses in our air cause much heat,
Our perfect climate can not compete!
Our bodies, and our children's, too,
We overfill with sugary soda goo.
With plastic we fill the ocean's craw.
Drinking, let that be your final straw!
Wordle: There are a small number of vowels, but a whole lot more consonants to go thru, so I would think as many non-vowels as possible would be the better choice.
ReplyDeleteBesides, how many words might have a final letter of W, as opposed to how many have a 4th letter of A? Consonants give better footholds.
Since there is no consensus on a best first word, might I propose a challenge? Six days a week, the Jumble gives you two five-letter words. Use one of them as your seed word each day. You can even reveal which you used without too much of a spoiler.
Interesting idea, Owen.
ReplyDeleteBut I have a favorite word which I think gives me a good start, because it holds the three most popular (I think) consonants and two most popular vowels, that is, R,S,T,A,E. If used they provide letters or if not, eliminate a whole lot of words. Haven't done the Wordle yet, awake because of trouble sleeping.
P.S. Today's jumble solution jumped right out at me, but I read your poem to confirm and there it is!
"Fatherhood"
ReplyDeleteThey almost didn't bother
to tell the father he had a daughter.
But as soon as he heard the whine,
his eyes began to shine
and he opened a bottle of wine,
saying "Here's to yours and mine!"
His affection had no limit,
it was sugary and he loved every minute,
and the final straw of his love
was that he bought his new daughter a dove.
For years they never would part,
and his daughter's love still fills his heart.
We wanted Dad to toughen up,
ReplyDeleteto get a backbone & overcome his…
“Spinal Flaw”
So, Father told us:
“Limit your sugary glut—
and knock off the whines!”
~ OMK
Sorry to be late in submitting today’s haiku. I thought I’d already posted, but it was all a dream—as in fact I fell asleep early (early for me).
ReplyDeleteOwen ~ You give fine expression to the Great Irony of our existence upon this earth—how in just a few centuries our wonderful “industrialization”—the marvelous advances we have made in easing our days—may actually have doomed all “higher forms” of life.
Yes of course there may still be time, but not in the mode to which we have become accustomed.
As the father of boys, I can only appreciate the father/daughter connection at 2nd hand, through reports such as yours, Misty.
It may be sugary, I can’t say, but I rather like the dove as a symbol of its beauty.
~ OMK
I've followed in spirit Owen's suggestion re. First word
ReplyDeleteWordle 327 5/6
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I may have prolonged my wordle but from word 1 to 5 was less than a minute
WC
Did your father want you to stop "whining', OMK, or did he want you to stop drinking "wine"? It's not too sugary, is it? Think I'll have an early sip of Merlot and see what I think.
ReplyDeleteIf your merlot is sweet, Misty, take it back & demand a refund!
ReplyDeleteI dunno, I never understood the appeal of sweet wines--sherry, port, or muscatel &c.
I'd rather have a lemonade or a soft drink when it comes to a sugary taste.
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That's a decent showing, Wilbur. Today's Wordle was a stinker, wasn't it? An offbeat verb in a weird tense.
I guess the theory behind a vowel-rich starter, Owen, is that you are almost bound to score some hits, since odds are good a 5-letter word is going to have one or two of the 5 vowels.
Any vowels that don't hit really narrow down which ones remain.
And you can't avoid consonants anyway among the rest.
~ OMK