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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(If you see a strange word in the 2nd line of today’s verse,
It refers to the new breed of societal “influencers.”
In this context, it isn’t meant to be negative.)
”Rays Pre-Aspect”
Our prancing Eros
sculpture impels Love’s Carells
to cast nifty spells.
~ OMK
Reposting FLN...
ReplyDeleteI 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
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Makes it more enjoyable to dig a hole and eork my way out. I'd be bored with the same starter word
Hmm, more accurately From This Morning
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ReplyDeleteThe prance of the horses
Past monuments and sculptures,
Veterans marching wearing medals,
A bugle playing Taps.
All impel us to pay respect.
“Lest we forget”
Sorry- no rhyme scheme today. Just a heartfelt thank you to our veterans and those who gave their lives (and the families who mourn them) on this Canadian Remembrance Day. May we never take our freedom and peace for granted. “To remember is to work for peace.”
ReplyDeleteWell, we've left plenty of hints for Misty re. Wordle
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Wordle 510 3/6
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Made it to
the podium.
~ OMK
"Complex Courtship"
ReplyDeleteThe loan shark did his best to impel
poor Ivan, who was very thrifty,
to sculpt a nifty statue he could sell
and pay him back his fee of fifty.
The threat made Ivan worry and prance,
fearing that his girlfriend he'd have to reject,
a friendship that had become a warm romance
since they treated each other with so much respect.
Thankfully Ivan then won a lottery bet,
and a week later he did his lover wed.
Your poem needs no rhyme, CanadianEh!
ReplyDeleteIf anything, I would suggest repeating the last line. For the pure echo effect.
Sometimes, we need to hear a thing more than once.
I join you in your follow-up celebration of veterans, especially the wounded and fallen—the heroes and their families.
It is a fine sentiment, “To remember is to work for peace.”
We don’t seem to work hard enough.
Nothing can detract from the glory earned by our heroes.
It takes nothing from their honor to add Bert Brecht’s quotation:
“Unhappy is the country that needs heroes.
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted on them.”
~ OMK
Another fine dizain from our Misty!
ReplyDeleteI worried just a bt when I saw "loan shark" in the first line, as we know they are never up to any good.
But this incipient villain turns out to be a would be patrono delle arti.
Ah! Perhaps the shark's commission will inspire Ivan to produce a work of great beauty!
But no, Alas! --another shift of fortune has Ivan winning the Lottery instead.
Hey! Maybe he's the secret $2 billion CA Lottery single ticket holder! WooHoo!
But probably not. He apparently earns just enough to keep outta the shark's clutches and get married in the finale.*
Well, I gotta admit, you took me for a real ride, and all in just ten lines.
~ OMK
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* One more note about final couplets. Their rhymes need to be perfect--more exactingly correct than anywhere else in the poem.
Why?
Because the couplet is the climax of the piece, and its meter and rhyme both stick with your readers long after they finish the piece.
"Bet" is not a perfect rhyme with "Wed." The unvoiced "t" loses its kick, or bite, when dulled by the droning vocalization of the "d."
Check Shakespeare's endings.
But be careful with # 116.
Shakespeare being Shakespeare, we give him a lotta latitude. But we sorta, hafta look the other way when he tries to rhyme words in which the vowels are near misses: "proved" and "loved"!
Aargh, Will!
SORRY to see no word yet from Owen.
ReplyDeleteNo answer from him to my email either.
And no reply from the Blog Team. My messages are returned as undeliverable.
I hope the Maestro is OK.
~ OMK
Your morning Haiku intrigued me, Ol' Man Keith, and I can't figure it out. Tried to look up "Carrell," which turns out to be either a private study room or a home improvement organization, or something. But now that I think about it, I suppose that might make them "societal influencers" of a sort.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was also intrigued, and a bit addled, by your informing me of the rule that the rhyme of a final couplet needs to perfect. Have not heard of that, and find it fascinating. But in my case, I'm not sure I'll follow it. I can't imagine my final couplets ever stick to a reader's mind--if even for a second--so I'll be happy to just let readers go on with their lives without being haunted by my poetic ending. But I still thank you for teaching me this about poetry, OMK.
And I too am getting really worried about Owen. Thank you for your kind efforts to explore contacts, and will just hope and pray that they'll work.
Thank you for your kind Veteran's Day verse today, CanadianEh!--very moving.
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for calling my rhyme a "fine dizain," OMK. Looked it up and it appears to be a French rhyme pattern of ten lines of 8 to 10 syllables per line with the rhyme scheme
ReplyDeleteababbccdcd. Did I get that right? If so, the last two lines wouldn't rhyme, would they?
My goodness, poetry is much more complicated than I ever imagined. But it's great to start learning about it as a retired English professor in my late seventies.
Well, Wilbur and CanadianEh!, if I had just thought a little more carefully about your Wordle hints, I might have gotten it on the first try rather than the third:
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I had a post before OMK @ 3:16 but it has disappeared. Sigh! I will have to start copying everything.
ReplyDeleteMisty~ You added an extra "r" to "Carell."
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's why your dictionary steered you to the wrong definition. In truth I only found my preferred definition in a couple of online sites, so that's why I took pains to provide you with a definition in the parenthesis right above the haiku.
All you need to know is that it is a new term for an "influencer." By matching it to "Love," I personify it as one of those young people, mainly female, mostly on TV or YouTube, who steer others to take action, in this case towards people they might actually adore.
Sort of like old-fashioned matchmakers. Thereby, stirring nifty spells, or feelings--those internal shifts among our organs that we like to call "love."
Regarding "dizain": I believe you missed one or more earlier postings of mine, or you would have already read about the "dizain"--and how it differs from the long sonnet form.
The precise French form is not what interested me, merely the 10-line count.
Your current English scheme of ABABCDCDEE is fine. It's my own preference when I'm ready to go ten lines--because I happen to like the Brechtian V-Effekt or "jolt" that occurs when we switch from alternating to sequential rhyme on those final two lines.
When it comes to foregoing my advice about perfect rhymes on couplets, you are entirely free (always have been!) to go your own way.
My advice is only based on my years of sounding them aloud, not on a rule I read somewhere.
And No, I guess you you needn't worry (any more than I do) that our couplets will be remembered for long by readers.
But still, my point is that they gain their fullest impact as the last thought of a poem when they catch the reader's eyes and ears by being so damn GOOD! Not just sorta good.
Anything short of that strikes me as wasted opportunity.
I thought my Wordle hint would help you to get it by the 2nd row--for sure.
Now where was YOUR hint? Really, you do so well by now, you ought to chip in.
~ OMK
Now OMK’s 6:31 post is repeated and my comments for Misty continue to disappear, even when I used some ** in some words.
ReplyDeleteOh well.
Now OMK’s duplicate has disappeared. Blogger has gremlins!
ReplyDeleteIt is strange that this censorship--or whatever it is!--seems to be singling you out, CEh!
ReplyDeleteI do wonder if it has anything to do with your being Canadian. But the internet is, as its name suggests, international; it shouldn't make any kind of difference.
When you refer to "OMK's duplicate," do you mean something you copied to me, or something of mine that seems to be a dupe?
~ OMK
OMK- your post at 6:31 is the duplicate one. The original was posted before my post @6:27
ReplyDeleteVery strange today.
CEh!
ReplyDeleteAh! Nothing strange there.
I edited my original post, erased it, and re-published.
~ OMK
Misty ~ Did you see my longish message to you @6:31?
ReplyDeleteI ask because, in it, I express concern that you may have missed some earlier communication(s) concerning the Dizain.
~ OMK