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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.
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Thank you, CanadianEh!
ReplyDeleteIt was very good of you to read & comment graciously on the Sunday poem I left behind.
Thanks for understanding my intent—not so much to disparage our work as to offer an appreciation of how far we may go.
Your own work shows, from OG pirates to Inuit sleighers, all can imbibe good nutrition! (And yet it’s the Brits we still call “Limeys.”)
~ OMK
FLN, Wilbur ~ A neat way to finish last night, with a ceremony acknowledging Chet’s victory-to-date over his alcohol foe—and conducted by his very own Lois!
ReplyDeleteI’m grateful to you for explaining the “coins” and such.
Thank you for using the occasion to catch up with your J-words.
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And Misty, too, got all the words in, as well as dealing with TWO birds. Looks like you solved your avian overload by sending them off on their own sleigh ride (if I read you right).
I wonder if you were able to check the scheme of my sonnet…?
~ OMK
OK, here’s today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete[I already had a title when I found the solution yielded a near-Spooner!—with the correct phonemes if not the exact letters.
But there was no room for it at the top.
So… I tacked it on at the end.]
(Backstory- Apparently some commercial cattle corrals have had a problem with latter-day rustlers.
They have become very particular when hiring.
They will want to know if there are…)
”Any Old Issues?“
To apply for work
in stock yards, send résumé
and references…
& Pee in a Cup!
~ OMK
Wordle 21 Nov. ‘22
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Wordle 520 3/6
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So true…!
~ OMK
Wordle 520 5/6*
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I made some wrong assumptions before I got to guess 5
Fortuitously, although starting late, the Sunday xword was a relatively quick solve which gave me time for C&L.
ReplyDeleteThen I noticed the time and was able to finally knock off Wordle.
I see OMK solved it backwards which made it easier. Interesting starter word and #2
Did I fail to comment on the sonnet and the rhyme scheme. My thought was that you were picking up on my comment to Owen re. "Real poet"
Trying to stuff 10 J's and two riddle-solutions can't help but produce unwieldy poetry.
I cheated a bit with slayed for sleigh. I think today's J's are more workable. Anybody ty to pick them out last night?
WC
Teepee Cup
ReplyDeleteSage axiom for stocky eliminators:
Apply tissue,
Resume.
1. Disregard previous comment about wordle. I hadn't solved it after all. I fell asleep just before midnight, EST
ReplyDelete2. I hadn't seen C-eh 's poem, that wasn't the clue
3. But I recalled OMK 's solve, remembered his starter word and voila
I need help and the age old rule "Any lifeboat when the ship is sinking "
Or something like that
BRAVE was indeed yesterday
WC
FLN WC- thanks for the Chet update. I hope he will stay the course.
ReplyDeleteNo time last night to guess the Js. They have been an odd collection of words to try to make any sensible rhyme out of.
Misty- thanks for your kind review of Sunday’s contributions.
OMK- I should have started with the vowel-rich word, as you did today. I might have fared better.
When I read your offering today (after posting my own), I LOLed at how we both tried to get a Spoonerism out of the solution. The result was so silly that I just created a “faux” haiku to include the Js (and Wordle- SPOILER ALERT). I leave the back -story to your imagination!
"Strong Susie"
ReplyDeleteSusie was short and stocky
and applied herself to playing hockey.
Her accident created an issue
that caused everyone to assume
that she would pat her wet eyes with a tissue,
but she instead decided to resume.
No way was she going to weep it up
when she'd just rather keep it up.
Susie-Doozy:
ReplyDeleteA favorite poem of yours, Ms. Misty
—of mine, that is, of yourn.
Tidy in theme,
with a neat rhyme scheme,
your hockey stalwart-sworn…
~ OMK
Misty - I love your strong female figure today. Susie “applied herself” in a formerly male-dominated sport. She eschewed the expected response of tears and backing away, and decided to “keep it up”. I hope she enjoys herself.
ReplyDeleteI must apologize for stealing your storytelling rights at the CW blog today. I could not resist, since there were so many of the CW fills that seemed to join in a theme. (Better than the J words today). But it was a lot of work, and I will leave it to you for other days.
Nice to see you starting our week with us on the blog this morning, Ol' Man Keith, and for posting your lovely work yesterday. I did indeed enjoy your rhyme schemes: ABBA CDCD and ABCABC--very clever. However, I have to admit that after reading your haiku this morning, I plan to never work in, or visit, a stock yard, if I can help it. But I loved your ABBA response to my Susie poem this morning. You should really think about teaching a poetry class at the Susie Q sometime.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!", did you really follow up on OMK's verse with your own TP trip to the? oh never mind, I don't even know how to talk about this. But I enjoyed your story-telling on the other blog, and much appreciated your kind comments about Susie.
And Wilbur, always great to have you check in with us too. Looking forward to see what Chet and Lois will chat about next.
Wilbur ~ I appreciate your including me as being helpful to your Wordle solve. But I sometimes find it hard (as in today's case) to follow which Wordle you're referencing. I don't do them all the time, hence my lack of posting every day.
ReplyDeleteIt might help if we were to include the Wordle number.
When you say I "solved it backwards," was that #520? Yes, I started with my usual (ADIEU) but then went forward into ALIGN for #2 which fared no better but gave me more consonants to avoid.
My best guess is that when you say you "cheated a bit with slayed for sleigh" you are actually conforming to Owen's original ideal--more than we usually do.
(He can speak up if I am incorrect.)
I believe he favors "embedding" the J-words in this fashion rather than printing them out nakedly.
In today's haiku, I attempted to do it with "stock yards" for "stocky"--but that was rare for me, and a puny example.
Owen does both, but I see that in his latest Wordle poems, he disguises the W-words very cleverly.
~ OMK
"At The Porno Movie Studio"
ReplyDeleteWhen the stocky guy
Went to apply,
His resume up to snuff,
They said the issue
Wasn't just if you,
But if you can keep it up!
Wrote the above last night, then slept without posting until now. Couldn't figure a way to disguise the Wordle, so this poem is the Jumble.
ReplyDeleteYes, OMK described the policy correctly about altering words.
CEh! ~
ReplyDeleteYes, I enjoyed your similar take on a solution Spooner!
I confess, though, not presuming to get your intent, whether a drinking vessel in a plains wigwam or a holder for Charmin...
The special challenge of haiku, even a "faux" version, is its very terseness.
The syllabic restriction forces us to cram the content, to force ideas into their briefest expression. This economy can produce evocative images--or leave a reader in the dark.
I loved your 2nd and 3rd lines. I almost went with your 1st line, but wasn't sure.
When you say you "leave the back story to your imagination," did you mean you weren't going to try giving us a tale that might explain your cryptic 1st line (IF so, I encourage you to give it a try*),
OR, that you want to piggy-back onto my story, esp. with its reference to cattle?
~ OMK
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* I find the backstory is the easy answer to making an "odd collection" into a "sensible" poem.
Just like a good alibi, the right backstory can make sense out of anything.
Owen ~ Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteOMK- My title started with the plains wigwam idea. But my verse went in another direction and I never changed the title. Then when I read Misty’s TP comment, I realized that possible use too (d’uh). TP Cup would have been better!
ReplyDeleteI did say that my result was silly.
I did think too of Owen’s interpretation of the solution, but I wasn’t venturing there.
Hopefully I get a better subject tomorrow.
Mz Brodie would be proud
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Yes, it took four but less than a minute. Yes, I took a J-word but not what you'd think.
Oops, it was a Tuesday J so you'll have to guess tomorrow
Just read Monday's comments and it's great to see Owen back in form. I hope he "keeps it up"
Lots of girl jockey back in Boston. Betsy played an interesting sport: Polo. Very rough when the distaff had those staffs swinging.
And who can resist TP humor?
I have to credit OMK for those haiku, a form that seems beyond me.
Incidentally, my initial wordle comment had to do with the wrong day. BRAVE was the wordle I thought for Monday. I do things late at night and Sunday had a late start.
Yesterday I spent the day at the enormous Gaunsville VA. A girl with a badge was out for a walk and I asked for directions and she took me right to the ultrasound area. What a gem.
WC⁰