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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 NOT required.
Since August 2022, Wordle brags and links to original jigsaw puzzles are also welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual Jumble or Wordle answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
It was afternoon when John first heard them.
ReplyDeleteThe wind in the trees almost drowned them out.
But the muttering of the mosses came to him,
The sounds of the forest became a muffled shout.
The trees that someday would just be planks
Wanted their living voices to be heard first.
Likewise, the reeds, the bushes would give thanks
For their voices to be heard would quench a thirst.
The fungus had a baritone, lichen soft soprano.
They gave John a chorus of the sounds of nature.
He was vouchsafed this music as a trust to know.
To keep it in his heart, to pass it on, to nurture.
Is it ethical to pass on as your own
The instrumental music by John alone?
ReplyDeleteToday’s custodial haiku:
Janitor Max was a significant factor in keeping the gym’s wooden floor pristine.
With broom, mop, and scouring brush, he was…
“Instrumental”
Max muttered, “Fungus!”
His ethic allowed a curse
as he scrubbed those planks.
~ OMK
I’m on a roll today. Woohoo, as Misty would say!
ReplyDeleteWordle 424 2/6*
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Walk the Plank
ReplyDelete“I shouldn’t have to say it twice”, he muttered.
“Your lack of ethics will get you into deep trouble.
The rot will grow like a fungus
And be instrumental in your downfall.”
Shape up or ship out!
Owen- I love your nature poem today. Yes, there is music in nature.
ReplyDeleteOMK- I don’t know how you get all those words into such a succinct, yet understandable haiku. Great job.
Here's my Wordle 424 3/6
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C-eh nice job with that birdie
"Rotten Poetry"
ReplyDeleteHis poem would be instrumental
and could therefore not be sentimental.
Ernest's aim was to follow his own ethic,
avoiding anything that sounded pathetic.
But the words he was obliged to use
would anyone confuse:
What rhymes with 'mutter,' 'plank' and 'fungus'?
Who can answer that among us?
In the end, Ernie was so confused
that the offer to publish he refused.
Now that CEh! & WC have done so well hintless, here’s my offering…
ReplyDeleteWordle 424 Hint: Twixt once & thrice.
Par = 2
Wordle 424 1/6
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~ OMK
A richly orhestrated opener, Owen, thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to even think that Nature might become entangled in a plagiarism suit.
Thank you, CanadianEh! for your kind words. Like all of us, I go where the words lead.
I did flirt with a "Walk the Plank" theme, so I am glad to see you picked up on it--and did a fine job warning some shipmate to shape up.
Or else!
Misty ~ Your poems usually take on the heaviest challenge of rhyming ALL the J-words.
But today your Ernie's confusion inspires us. I had to think for a moment before answering his question:
You already beat him with your "among us" rhyme,
BUT,
let's add the probable response of fellow inmates to, say, the incarceration of a despised school shooter (one who happens to be of Mongolian descent), when they decide to "shank that nutter Tungus"!
~ OMK
Woohoo! (especially to you, CanadianEh!). Wonderful poems from everyone with Jumble words here there and everywhere, all over, and great Wordle's with my own one try alone, thanks, as always, to OMK's kind help:
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Owen your poem about the sounds of nature, will be my favorite one of yours for all time. I will try to figure out how to copy it and save it in one of my poetry files.
OMK, I always love your haiku and especially the custodial theme of the one this morning. And then, always to my surprise, there they were: all J words and solution. Yay!
CanadianEh!, found your verse delightful, and later, after I posted my Wordle, read your poem again and it cracked me up when I saw the W word! Even more fun!
Wilbur, always great to see your Wordle, but I finally have to ask you: what's the 'birdie you mention? Not a little bird, I'm guessing? Sorry to be so out of it when it comes to popular expressions. Also hope Chet and Lois come to visit us sometime this week.
With no hints in hard mode I
ReplyDeleteconsider 4 a par. Hence 3 is birdie, 2 is eagle. 5 is bogey and 6 is double
bogey. Greater than 6, pick the ball up and go to the next tee.
Golf is Greek to you, eh Misty? Actually, you should watch it some night when you can't sleep. The voices are sleep inducing.
WC
C-eh, I suggested * because AI won't identify the key words so easily
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Thanks, Wilbur--but what does golf have to do with Wordle?
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ It is because "par" is a golf term, the number of strokes that experts say it takes to score at each hole. You do well if you score at par or below.
ReplyDeleteBoth Wilbur and I have been applying the concept of par to Wordle. That is the only way in which golf and Wordle overlap.
When I post a Wordle hint, you can look at the second line to see the par I assign to each Wordle--if you use the hint.
Naturally, Wilbur has a different par for when you don't use a hint.
~ OMK