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Call 911 for me. For real. Call 505-660-3705 for my location! I'm being tortured!
ReplyDeleteI'm in Albuquerque Nm
ReplyDeleteOwen, SOS? Or are U hacked?
ReplyDeleteSorry not t respond sooner.
Did you get help?
Blogspot team, hello!
ReplyDeleteMessages from Owen 5 hrs ago. Can you check it out?
Jumble friends!
ReplyDeleteAlarming posts ostensibly from Owen last night. I suspect a hack.
I sent an email to Blogspot.com but have not heard back.
I figure too late to call 911–and why wouldn’t he anyway if he can use KB on a phone or an online app?
~ OMK
Resuming biz as usual—yes?
ReplyDeleteUntil we get fresh word…
FLN, WC, last post (#26) was for you.
Today’s Jumble haiku:
(The spheroids used at Wimbledon and in all competitive events are composed of a pressurized hollow rubber core and a wool or nylon nap.
School team managers should be sure all efforts are taken to prevent rough usage of the balls once their can is opened. Also avoid extreme changes of temperature, as these may cause air seepage and ruin the spring, or recoil, as balls are propelled between rackets and ground.
Beware air…)
“Loss, a Problem”
Nothing spoils bounce like
wrecked inner rubber. Manage
your team’s tennis balls!
~ OMK
What a troublesome problem this morning, Ol' Man Keith. I'll pray that Owen is okay and you'll be able to resume your day.
ReplyDelete"Wreck Recovery"
ReplyDeleteThe wreck caused considerable damage
with the car stuck on the soil,
but Don said he could manage
and let nothing his voyage spoil.
The insurance company might rob them,
blaming Don on all counts,
but he said he'd manage the problem
and would back to normalcy bounce.
They proved that Don did not the wreck cause
and that he had not broken any laws.
Pause the Bedlam
ReplyDeleteHow have we managed to spoil
The sense of all hands upon deck.
Instead there is anger and turmoil.
Can we avoid making a wreck,
Solve the problems that divide,
And bounce back to national pride.
“A house united will stand.”
I moved from my privileged position of colour to a Very long pause, until I finally got it together!
ReplyDeleteI reposted my Wordle and comment separately, as it was censored.
ReplyDeleteSo was my other comment. I will try again. Sigh!
Trust that Owen is Ok and posts are just hacks. Thanks for contacting Blogger, OMK.
ReplyDeleteOMK- we went in different directions with our pseudo-Spoonerisms today. (and our poems).
I think that I may be more immune to charges of “no politics” as a Canadian looking at both our countries. I think my thoughts were pushed in that direction by today’s Wordle.
You played it safe with tennis (and got all the J words into that succinct haiku!).
I worked a little harder and managed to create a rhyme scheme today.
Misty- You are becoming quite a pro with that couplet rhyme scheme.
ReplyDeleteHappy ending with Don being absolved of blame. I was a little confused whether he was on land or sea with “car” and “voyage” (leftover from trying to rhyme with manage or damage?).
You took the J words literally and wrote about a physical accident, as opposed to the routes that OMK and I took. Interesting how the brain works.
WC- I see that I am not very good at identifying the Js. Zero correct!
Sorry for all the separate posts, but I keep getting removed. I split up my long post and tried smaller posts to test. It seems that my comment with specifics (and capital letters) about Misty’s rhyme scheme triggered Blogger.
ReplyDeleteI see that I removed the letters, but not “couplet”. Anyway, I was referring to OMK’s preferred rhyme scheme.
C-Eh, fln I wanted to say that "Spoiler alert" got one of the J's. I used it as my starter.
ReplyDeleteHere's my Wordle fln Wordle 509 3/6
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"Common welfare" AA declared in 1970 is crucial
That's my hint to Misty
After #1 I strung some letters together and rearranged them for the finale
WC
BTW, I saw Owen's post several hours after he posted it. Frankly I just didn't know what, practically, I could do.
ReplyDeleteShould we repost on CC?
Try email?
WC
WOW!
ReplyDeleteBoth Misty & CanadianEh!
You guys are hitting your stride, knocking out those rhyming beauties today, each poem a model of alternating "echoes."
Misty, you are mastering the whole scheme with your classic two AB stanzas followed by the couplet.
And isn't it impressive, how the application of a poetic form can turn a routine problem of modern life--an auto accident, with insurance follow-up--into a near-epic adventure?
And CEh! ~ You've rarely trusted rhyme, and yet here you are, leaping in with an ABAB start!
You follow with a couplet nd a final prose line.
That last line works for me, and it underscores another way rhyme can work--with its surprising absence!
Yep. Sometimes, after our ear becomes attuned to rhymes, a switch to prose can carry a punch--as it does for me here.
I liked your title too. (But if by chance you were hoping to rhyme "Bedlam" with "stand," it does not work for me. I think a title stands apart from the body of a poem.)
Your question about the possibility of union despite political turmoil is well timed. Our midterm vote seems to show the electorate tiring of disunion.
We will know more when all the counts are completed.
~ OMK
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PS. Misty ~ Your ten line poem is a classic form. It is sometimes called a dizain, but is occasionally referred to as a sonnetina, or "little sonnet."
This is because you only need to lengthen it a bit and alter the meter to reach the full fledged form of a Shakespearean sonnet.
There is of course no need for you to go any further. The dizain is certainly strong enough for a daily output!
Still, Misty, if you are ever tempted to try for the full sonnet, just add one more ABAB stanza--for a total, with the couplet, of fourteen lines.
ReplyDeleteOh, and add a few more words, so you can switch to a five-beat line. This makes it less sing-songy, and more conversational.
(Whenever I need to count out a 5-beat pentameter line, I recall the first line of Sonnet 73:
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold....")
BTW, when you go to pentameter, you will note that the final rhyming couplet is what we call the "heroic couplet."
Why "heroic," I wonder...?
~ OMK
WC- I missed that Jumble word. At least I had one correct guess.
ReplyDeleteOMK- I am learning so much about rhyming from your kind words.
No, I was not trying to rhyme Bedlam with stand (never thought of that possibility!). It was just my adaptation of Problem for my attempted Spoonerism.
And then there are your words to Misty . . . I can only aspire to writing a sonnet.
WC ~ I still haven't heard anything from the "Blog Team" regarding Owen's posts--though apparently the team has been at work, busily censoring CEh! again!
ReplyDeleteI saw the SOS messages on my iPad while still in bed this morning, several hours after they were posted. I keep no phone in the bedroom (on purpose) so could not have contacted 911. Like you, I wasn't sure what to do.
I sent an email to him, but he rarely reads them.
I don't know that we will ever get a clear answer if it was a hack job.
I really hope Owen is OK. I hate to think he needed somebody, but got no response for all those hours.
It would be good to hear from him soon.
~ OMK
CEh! ~ Happy to hear you wanted the "united will stand" line to be on its own.
ReplyDeleteTo illustrate the punch of the non-rhyme, here is a favorite opening of mine, from Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.:
"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table..."
And No, he doesn't rhyme it later on. It just sticks out--like the surgical image it presents.
Some will even say this is an example of Brechtian alienation. People give many illustrations of Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt, and one of them hinges on the switching of conventions (like changing horses in midstream.)
I never liked the translation of this as "alienation." In my classes, I called it the "jolt."
~ OMK
Scanning a little further through Prufrock, I find this blank verse couplet.
ReplyDelete"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
There are a great many beauties in this poem. This strikes me as a positive example & challenge to those who aspire to write poetry w/o rhyme.
~ OMK
Re. "United we stand"...
ReplyDeleteHave you done Wordle ?
That's C-eh's hint. Similar to one(s) I left. AA motto is
"This we owe to A.A.'s future: To place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on A.A. UNITY depend our lives and the lives of those to come."
Re. Rhyming schemes. I went with ABBA in my last and threw in an aside marked by [ ] to get the second riddle-solution in
I changed Hora to Conga( Line)
WC
From reading something TTP posted I wonder if posting from Canada is related to censorship.
ReplyDeleteC-eh, have you noticed any wording which might get your post censored
I think Picard gave up fighting blogger
WC
Anybody think it worth while to try calling the number posted by Owen?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it is rigged to compensate for his deafness.
I won't try it as (a) I am partially deaf myself, but have no telephonic aid, and (b) I'm geriatric phone-phobic, have been for some time, and avoid it unless forced to use it.
But one of you younger comrades...?
~ OMK
I wasn't going to bother Wordling today, Wilbur, but you seem bound to have us all pull together--and you do everything but tattoo it on my forehead...!
ReplyDeleteWordle 509 2/6
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I used my old starter word to confirm your H I N T S.
~ OMK
Misty, check my 457 post. The word leaps out at you.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I posted the latest edition of C&L last night. It combined Thursday and Friday j words and riddle-solutions. C-eh gave a shot at guessing the embedded Friday J's
You would have done better
But congratulations on continually mastering J-poetry. Your approach actually parallels mine. I tell a story and you write a parable.
Today the honest but careless driver atones and the world is a better place
WC
Was your 4th guess QUITE?
DeleteI no sooner posted ans voila it's time for Wordle 510 4/6
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No gold prize for a mere par but I handicapped myself with a J-word
WC
Makes it more enjoyable to dig a hole and eork my way out. I'd be bored with the same starter word
BTW, OMK, I hate the phone too. Texting OK, talking uhuh
ReplyDeleteWC- yes, and Misty too I think. I was so sure that was correct, and thought Wordle was being sly at using the QU.
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