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Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
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We were alone here yesterday, Misty, so I’ll postpone my Sunday day off, to be sure you’re not flyin’ solo today.
ReplyDeleteThe scene is set aboard an old wind-powered clipper ship.
(My biggest challenge was how to include a large central sunny court!)
”Stormy Seas: An Estimable Crew”
“The seas are high tonight; turn to the wind!”
(White waves splash o’er the gunwales.)
“Use gaskets to tether the sails again,
and clamp lids fast on those funnels.
“There’ll be an hiatus when we hit the eye;
don’t forget to prep for directional slew.
Stand to your posts now, look alive!
Bless your bold atria!—and ventricles, too!!”
~ OMK
I'm still caught up in my moving. At first glance I only got one J. Xword will have to wait too
ReplyDeleteI was disappointed with the cartoon today. All those book bindings screaming to be illustrated?
ReplyDelete"Pet Lover"
ReplyDeleteBetty liked nothing better
than to tether her sweet Irish setter
and take him for walks in fine weather.
The puppy loved to dash
into the pool and splash.
And Betty would never forget
to take him to the vet.
When he slept in his basket in the atrium
she'd sing to him as her guitar she'd strum.
Her love for him was so high
that the best kibble she did him buy.
And in a hiatus she'd often dream
how loving her pet raised her self-esteem.
And just a single set of encyclopedias is showing…
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~ OMK
Took a few tries, but I got it!
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Loved your handsome verse about your estimable crew surviving sailing those stormy seas, Ol' Man Keith.
ReplyDeleteAnd woohoo, we're not alone. Good to hear from you, Wilbur and Owen.
And your verse, Misty, was very fresh today.
ReplyDeleteI especially enjoyed the "atrium/strum" rhyme.
I only missed "gasket." But I'll take "basket" as a hinting rhyme, if you'll accept my "Estimable" as a wide-o'-the-mark pointer to the solution.
I'm glad you liked my "crew." I told me hearties you'd take "heart"!
They're eager for shore leave, where they'll have their choice to be paid off--either 100% in Chits or 60% in today's Wordle!
~ OMK
There were many possible solutions today, but “ The love of ______” won out over sweetness.
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When I saw your Betty strumming a guitar, I could not help wondering if there isn't some other instrument she might play, one that might supply that missing internal rhyme for "basket."
ReplyDeleteGoogling "musical gasket" produced a number of repairs that can be made with gaskets on horns, valves, etc.
But there was one other usage, and it allows me to offer this:
"When he slept in his basket in the atrium
she'd lift it from its gasket, and wake him with her drum!"
WooHoo?
~ OMK
Ol Man Keith, you're a wonderful editor. I hoped you wouldn't notice my gasket/basket shift, and if I'd gotten your help, you certainly would have improved my rhyme. I'll try to remember this in the future, but again, forgive me if I forget.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Misty, but I suspect we can be at our best as editors with each other’s work!
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I might have found a better way to position “Atrium” on my ship.
I can actually remember a marvelous atrium, huge, sunny, and filled with trees, on one of the cruises I took—to Russia of all places!
But that was on a modern liner, while the sailors on my old-time clipper didn’t have enough room-- abeam, as it were.
I had to settle for breaking a heart into chambers.
Not quite the same…
~ OMK
The one 20sm
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The only other possibility would've been an ex Celtic who originally played baseball
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