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Fln, I did indeed enter CABBY after rejecting campy.
ReplyDeleteMisty, you saw tarry and guessed CARRY? I skipped hinting since you were doing so well without them
Re. A verse. My late Wednesday C&L combined Wednesday and Thursday as I tried to or did say
Later on tonight I'll combine Fri and Sat
I've found a CBD gummy that mellows but doesn't have THC
I just took melatonin and w/2 Tylenol pm which will take awhile to get me back to sleep
WC
I stand corrected, my combo was Tuesday and Wednesday. So no Thursday
ReplyDeleteFriday’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete”Strange to (be) Wrecked”
Stung by the cycle’s
downturn, I lost a bushel.
Adjoining pecks too.
~ OMK
She may have spotted “marry,” too, WC, in my note to her.
ReplyDeleteAt one point, I almost called my haiku “Harry.” That’s how addictive hinting can become.
Was TONIC your first word?
My title today is no Spooner. In fact, it’s kinda twisted. I went with rhyming the main syllables of the solution, but in reverse order.
Think ABBA.
~ OMK
Object Strange
ReplyDeleteCycling between adjoining farms,
Imagining all sorts of harms,
On a dark eerie Halloween,
Not a human to be seen.
Sneaking through the orchard,
With visions of the tortured,
Conjured up by apple bushels
And warnings of fiery Hells.
Hoping not to be stung
By the wasps feeding on the windfalls.
In the tree a hoot owl calls;
Wait- is that a ghost or someone hung?
OMK- we went in different directions today. You with the stock market (I love the bushel and peck reference!) and me with the seasonal Halloween theme (albeit an old-fashioned country scene). I worked hard to get some rhyme (although your less-favoured AABB scheme) but the last verse is not consistent. I see now that I could have easily shifted the first verse to an ABBA scheme . . . but not verse two.
ReplyDeleteAh, the dilemma of the aspiring poet.
But I did like my title, although not a true Spoonerism.
WC- Wordle was a little easier today. Misty might be sly enough to get it.
That would be freaky
Delete"Rural Neighbors"
ReplyDeleteThe farmer's wife was subject
to being stung by bees,
so her adjoining neighbor to protect
her, sprayed poison on her trees.
For this change she paid him with a coin
and a bushel of fresh peas,
a cycle of kind exchanges
that did both neighbors please.
Well, somebody gave me a little hint that helped me get the Wordle in just a few tries:
ReplyDeleteWordle 496 4/6
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Oops--I guess that was more than just a few tries.
Misty- good work! Four tries is respectable.
ReplyDeleteAh, you must be quiet before you can be sly!
Misty etal, reading CED 's post reminded me of this
ReplyDeleteTuesday, 6/7/22
Modem,Niece,Target,Inward;
"Ride" on time
—------
[Chet and Lois have arrived at Aunt Noras]
"So Chet, don't you think it's time to trade in your modem for Wi-Fi?"
"Since it's use is for printing and it does the job, then 'Why?'
Social media I've eschewed with a passion, I'll not be a target
Sticking to the Program and it's Principles for me is a far surer bet
I'd rather use the time for meditation, look inward not out"
"Well Chet, it's time well spent on the ride to recovery without a doubt.
And by the way, Nora's not my aunt and I'm not her niece in fact
My mother is her cousin and on that subject be sure to use tact"
"Actually , mon choux, I've been thinking and though Charles it never stated
I suspect that the 'Big Problem ' is that he thinks we may be related"
WC
I think that "related" business was settled because Chet was actually adopted and thus not in the bloodline Charles was thinking of
ReplyDeleteThanks for clearing up that "related" problem, Wilbur, you had me worried there for a minute.
ReplyDeleteLots of delightful verses today--many thanks, everybody.
ReplyDeleteOMK, sorry that you lost both a bushel and adjoining pecks. I had to look up those quantities and it sound as though if you lost the 32 quarts in a bushel and then also lost 4 pecks, which have 8 quarts each, you would have lost 2 bushels--is that right? (I'm an English major, not a Math major).
CanadianEh!, I've never spent much time thinking about Halloween on a farm, but you sure made it sound interesting, especially by rhyming "bushels" with "Hells", and "orchard" with "tortured". Very Halloween spooky! And lots of fun!
Wilbur, "without a doubt," my favorite lines in your Chet and Lois poem were "inward not out."
Have a great Halloween coming up, everybody.
Misty ~ Congrats on getting today's Wordle, and at Par!
ReplyDeleteNow, how about giving me a little hint?
Fair is fair...
Your "Rural Neighbors" poem was fun. You knew I'd like the opening ABAB scheme. I think the farmer's wife appreciates it too, as it gives a little more attention to her neighbor's protection.
I do like how they treat each other with kindness, not an overly-familiar virtue these days.
BTW, my preference in rhymes doesn't mean we can't enjoy your smart couplets! They are best, however, in small doses, or as a single capper at the end of (after) an AB pattern.
(But what do I know? I take refuge in haiku!)
~ OMK
Yep, CEh! Making verses can be taxing. You give up something here to gain something over there, then find you've created a whole new issue.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes: your first verse could go in just about any direction, rhyme-wise. I tried it out loud, and you can flip any phrase. I think that's partly because all your lines are end-stopped.
Actually, the 2nd is my favorite of your three stanzas. I don't believe anybody has ever rhymed "orchard/tortured" before!
It doesn't matter that the latter two lines don't rhyme ("bushels" has the wrong accent to go with "Hells"), because with enjambment your meter drives your point home.
I am still trying to find my place with rhymes. There is a certain challenge, of course, in finding rhymes as one way to sell a poem. But is it worth it?
You do a pretty fair job w/o rhymes.
When I try my hand at regular rhyming, I'll often go for a four or six-line stanza. With four lines, I do ABAB. With six lines I do ABABCC. The couplet at the end has the effect of a climax, of capping off the thought process. (Hardly original; Shakespeare does it at the end of his 14-line sonnets.)
But Rhyme has little place in most modern poetry.
For too long, it is reasoned, we subordinated ideas to quaint or cutsie rhyming. Thought is more important now. Fresh diction and imagery are in a high place. Meter is valued. The more obvious devices, the flashy ones like alliteration and rhyme, are down on the list.
~ OMK
CanadianEh! Are you signaling W hints to me, in your dry, maybe wry, sentences to Misty?
ReplyDelete~ OMK
OMK- thanks for your extensive comments on my rhymes. I loved my English classes and reading, but as a science major, I moved in a different direction. But it is fun and mind-stretching for me to try these creations every day. Your advice re modern poetry may direct me in future.
ReplyDelete(I must admit that I found “tortured” by Googling “rhymes with orchard”. I loved it!
There are plenty of Wordle clues today - WC@1:35, a version of the Wordle is in my poem, hint in my comment @ 8:20 and WC’s response, and yes, I commented on Misty’s solve @11:29 re her third and fourth guess.
Misty ~ Nice to see WC + CEh! helping me with hints.
ReplyDeleteDo you wanna give it a shot--before it's too late?
~ OMK
[Sigh…]
ReplyDeleteToo late, Misty! Here I go…
Wordle 28 Oct. ‘22
Pad = 4
Wordle 496 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Thanks, WC & CEh!
~ OMK
For any W-fans passing through, you can get a birdie if you know what those convicted of “B&E” are said to do…
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
~ OMK
Misty reported @10:46 that she got the Wordle in four.
ReplyDeleteYes, I saw that. I was trying to tease a hint from her.
ReplyDeleteTo no avail, apparently.
~ OMK
Sorry that I wasn't able to help with the Wordle, OMK. After 5:30 my time gets taken up with dinner preps and chores and conversations, and I'm here only a little early because I wanted to erase some things before watching "Alaska Daily" at 10pm (taped it yesterday). So no chance to respond to all your kind and delightful and fun postings. I'll try to do better tomorrow.
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