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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Traditionally, the Rhine River’s siren is a bewitching female perched atop a giant stone, tickled by tendrils of cloudy fog, singing to lonely sailors & gesturing to them to come crashing to their doom.
They plunge to their deaths, sailing & feverishly using their oars to smash into her stony shore, these hard-…)
“Rowing Blokes…”
… dimly beckoned through
smoggy clouds woven about
the Lorelei’s rock.
~ OMK
Wordle 472,
ReplyDeletea hint I used: a main branch of a tree.
Par = 2
Wordle 472 1/6
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~ OMK
LOL WC. Your clues are wicked. I’ll take a birdie to sit in it.
ReplyDeleteS’Mores Anyone?
ReplyDeleteHe beckoned them to come closer,
But they could only see dimly
Through the smoggy air.
The huge bough in the campfire
And the moss woven onto it
Was blowing smoke.
OMK- once again, I love your title riff. . . and your ability to get all the J words into a short haiku!
ReplyDeleteBusy day- off to the Shaw Festival.
C-eh, that must be George Bernard. Did you see my clue before solving Wordle?
ReplyDeleteBoth of our Wordle clueing seems to be lost in smoke.
I wouldn't have wanted to have had the last four letters and try to find the first:5 non rhyming possibilities
I agree re. OMK 's picturesque haiku and yours reads well with that branch as fuel
WC
"Disaster Help"
ReplyDeleteThe winds of the hurricane were blowing
as the sunlight was dimly glowing.
When people that morning awoke
the sky was woven with smoke.
Folks soon realized they had to reckon
that friends would need help when they beckon.
On that smoggy day they would try
to help all their friends to get by.
Woohoo! Got the Wordle on my first try, thanks to your helpful hint, OMK--many thanks!
ReplyDeleteWordle 472 1/6
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Exciting myth interwoven with all the Jumble words and solution, Ol' Man Keith--brilliant haiku this morning!
ReplyDeleteYour delightful campfire poem made me realize I've never had s'mores, and can't remember if I ever even got to sit around a campfire.
Your verse makes me wish and hope I did, CanadianEh!.
Just noticed how you worked today's Wordle into your fun comment, Wilbur. Yes, you're right--I've got to start paying more attention to your Wordle postings.
Hiking through Germany many, many years ago, I treated myself to a break, a cruise down the Rhine.
ReplyDeleteThat's when I saw the "Lorelei," the great rock where the siren lives. She towers over the flowing water.
A crew member pointed out to me that she lives near a "Drachenfels," or Dragon Rock, with a cave said to house a fire-breathing monster.
I gotta say, Germany does not lack for mythic critters.
~ OMK
Your poem is wonderfully atmospheric, CanadianEh!. You take me back to warm (quite literally!) memories around campfires with my parents, and at Scout camp.
ReplyDeleteBut you didn't want to be caught sitting on the smoky side! That was never a problem with a family fire, plenty of room for all. But at a big pow-wow at Camp Royaneh, with everybody crowded around a bonfire, there'd be just enough room to squeeze onto your log. If the wind shifted, you might be out of luck--while the rest of the campers would get a good laugh.
I envy you, getting to go to the Shaw Festival! I think I wrote here about my happy experience there.
Please let us know how the new theater is!
~ OMK
Whoops, sorry!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of the new Tom Patterson stage at the Stratford Festival!
~ OMK
Glad again to be of help, Misty!
ReplyDeleteI may take a break, on and off, from giving clues--because it looks as though both CEh! & WC are giving you some very fine hints.
You may recall, from early on, that I am not a big Wordle fan.
Please, just read their postings if you don't see me giving one.
I liked your poem today. You offer a call for community help for what seems to be a combination of our recent disasters--the California fires and Florida's Hurricane Ian.
The news reports hail the fires (mainly in No. CA) and this last near-Cat 5 hurricane as "historical" and "record-breaking"--as if to view them as climaxing past disasters.
I fear they will more accurately be seen as the harbinger of a new series of even worse catastrophes, the products of climate change yet to come.
~ OMK
Here's two days worth of J's
ReplyDelete[ Lois asked]
"So, how do you like Pastor Carl? "Give me your candid opinion"
"I was skeptical but I liked the interwoven bible message in the short run
Along with AA principles. I tell you, pound for pound he's not blowing smoke.
I felt like being back on campus rooting on the eagles, that's no joke."
A fog had crept in when they arrived at Nora's. They saw a figure dimly beckon
"Chet is that you" they heard through the smog. "It sounds like Charles I reckon"
"Up and at em early tomorrow Chet, meet me at my office at eight
Such a deal I have for you but it's important that we not be late"
WC
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ReplyDeleteWC- no I never look at any Wordle info before I solve.
ReplyDeleteSuch a cliffhanger re Chet and Charles!
Misty- S’mores and campfires go together. Yum! I hope you still get a chance to experience them. Around Niagara, some of the wineries do very posh winter evenings where guests can have S’mores around an outdoor grill (with icewine!) in the snow. Now that’s Canadian!
OMK and WC- actually it was an Oscar Wilde play that we saw at the Shaw today - The Importance if Being Earnest. Well acted and fun- surprise ending was great. Plus it was a beautiful fall day to enjoy Niagara-on-the-Lake’s beauty (and restaurants).
OMK- we saw Richard III at Stratford back in June. The new Tom Patterson theatre is very intimate, with thrust stage, and the acoustics are wonderful. The outside of the building is unique with all the curved glass panels giving a view over the Avon River from the lobby areas. We had tickets for Richard in the summer of 2020, and had to put them on hold until this summer; it was quite a wait.