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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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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDeleteOK. Trying something new.
(Backstory ~ This speaker may not be troubled by even excessive verbal obscenities, and yet takes total umbrage at the slightest sign of [ugh] inappropriate arousal!
Hear his response…)
“Go 4 It!”
Gripe ‘bout his potty
mouth?—No. But the horny beast?
—Aye! / Well, wonder be!
~ OMK
Well, not so easy to cram all the story AND the word tricks into 17 syllables.
ReplyDeleteI have learned that good haiku have two cooperating rhythms—that of the story and of the metric bounce.
The latter is most elusive in English. Japanese doesn’t have the heavy beat to which we’re accustomed, so there are no rules or guidelines for achieving an engaging rhythm. We just have to feel our way.
If I were to aim for the haiku spirit with today’s tale and NOT feel bound to the exact structure, I would try something like this:
I got no gripe
‘bout his potty mouth.
But loosing that horny beast…
Gaah—Wonder be!
Three more syllables, now with a clear rhythm.
20 syllables in all,
4 lines;
beats per line: 2,2,3,3
~ OMK
Wordle 22 Nov. ‘22
ReplyDeletePar = 4
Wordle 521 3/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Firstly…
~ OMK
Misty, last night's post had a different hint
ReplyDeleteKentucky Or Ascot?
ReplyDeletePrimed for the start of the derby,
The rivals gripped the rails,
Though the path was thorny
They spotted the finish bales.
Go Ferret Go!
My first Wordle post disappeared!
ReplyDeleteI started with OMK’s vowel-rich word. He avoided my second and fourth guesses.
I finally called in Amazon to clean up the mess.
"Pet Bet"
ReplyDeleteGail didn't gripe
when she lost her gopher
yet tears she did wipe,
sitting on her sofa.
With chances thorny and spotty
she made bets at the derby.
Her winnings were knotty
and she came down with scurvy.
Still, she hired a chauffeur
to go fetch her a new gopher.
OMK- I like both your offerings today. But I see your point that the second one has a better rhythm. It stretches our brains every day to get all the given words into some sort of poem. Good mental exercise.
ReplyDeleteI love your “potty mouth” and “horny beast” adaptions from the J word. Oh, I just got “Wonder be”! I thought you had missed a word and went looking. Haha- terrific camouflage!
Misty posted while I was writing my post to OMK.
ReplyDeleteWe have tears today (do we need TP?). Poor Gail.
(I think WC’s accent will rhyme gopher and sofa perfectly!)
And she did not read the poem from the other day with the scurvy prevention recommendation.
But obviously she has still has some money left after her derby losses to hire a chauffeur and replace her gopher; hopefully she will get some limes or cranberries.
CanadianEh! ~ Your ditty is a sweet morsel. You whipped the J-words into a clear image of competitors perched at the starting line. A crisp through-line, not an easy thing to do…
ReplyDeleteThanks for scooping out my hidden words.
The “d” word was the hardest. It forced me to stretch a reader the most, to imagine the speaker swearing an invented oath.
The closest parallel IRL would be “Glory be!”
~ OMK
Whoops, CEh!
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention I thought your disguising of half the words was a fair attempt to follow Owen’s wish that we avoid posting the words in-the-clear.
Maybe two naked but two “clad” is a decent balance.
~ OMK
Thanks OMK. Today’s words were easier to combine IMO.
ReplyDeleteAnd those two naked words were my only hope of any sort of rhyme.
I debated over using my last line as a n attempted Spoonerism title.
Now that I think about that d word, it could have been clued in another way. I’m working on another brainstorm
With my apologies to T.S.Eliot, the Wordle and all four J words are better hidden here. The solution is naked though (as was the babe).
ReplyDeleteTo get you in the spirit of the season (not your American Thanksgiving), I give you . . . .
The Journey
Torn by the absurdity of the trip,
Rime in the dead of winter,
Cold and darkness in its grip.
But a glory we had spotted:
Magi outburst -
“Yonder be the star. Go for it!
Most cool, CEh!
ReplyDeleteAnd "Yonder be" is perfect! It fits within the idiom you establish with the biblical tone.
The trickiest (and maybe least effective?) embedding is when we split between lines.
I admit it is fun to fnd, but you really need to know in advance which word you're seeking-- as with your "trip/Rime" job.
~ OMK
OMK- I agree that embedding the words is harder than leaving naked - both to do and to find.
ReplyDeleteRe trip/Rime: I must admit that the splitting between lines was purely accidental and unseen by me. I actually moved the “trip” line from a lower position to get the rhyme with “grip”. I did not even notice that. LOL
Wilbur, I checked last night's post twice, but sadly did still not get the different hint, I'm afraid. But your Wordle looks cool!
ReplyDeleteOl' Man Keith, I wonder if "potty mouth" will ever leave my brain after seeing your funny haiku this morning.
CanadianEh!, you clearly got on the racing theme right from the start, though charging through a thorny path would be tough, wouldn't it? Of course your winter journey would be even tougher, but the Magi will look after the travelers, I'm sure. And thank you for wishing my Gail some limes and strawberries!
Misty ~ Gail seems another stalwart heroine, wiping away tears while suffering apparently random afflictions.
ReplyDeleteFirst, her gopher goes missing.
Next, she makes foolish bets. And then, she plunges to her nadir with a bout of scurvy
--of all things!
But she still has enough moolah to hire a driver to go fetch her another little beastie.
I bet that first gopher just scampered to safer ground!
Run, lil' rodent, run!
~ OMK
Good job on Wordle, Misty; you made Par!
ReplyDeleteWas that PRICE in your 3rd slot? Or PRIDE?
And was that an actual hint I read--in your caption?! Good for you!
WC ~ Your Par FLN (#521) makes me wonder...
In 3rd place did you have GRIPE? TRIPE?
The 2nd slot is hard to guess, but maybe CRIME? Or did you go with TRITE?
Surely not BRINE or BRIDE?
~ OMK
Sorry, Ol' Man Keith, I've got to start writing down my Wordle first, second, third, fourth, and other tries while I'm working on it. But I get so caught up in the letters that work, the letters that don't, that I forget to write them down. I'll do my best to do better tomorrow if I can. But I have relatives (son and brother) showing up for a Thanksgiving visit, so I'm not sure if and when I can check into our blog at all in the next five days--but I'll do my best.
ReplyDelete"The _____ of Miss Jean Brodie"
ReplyDeleteHow's that for coincidence
.WC
I was referring to the clue on Wednesday, 18D:
DeleteIt wasn't Chet's ideal career path to be the chosen office gopher
ReplyDeleteWhile the would-be office moguls were living it up
But griping, to Lois, or complaining to Neal his Sponsor
Would yield bromides like 'Have faith', 'Give it time ', 'Keep your chin up '.
But one thing he'd heard in the halls was "You are not exempt.
We all face thorny problems in the Kentucky Derby of life ".
He knew that during the length of his sobriety nothing should preempt
Strict adherence to the Principles, no matter the discord or strife.
WC
Go ahead and jot down what you think are the Wednesday J's. The riddle-solution is split making it harder to spot
ReplyDeleteWC
No need to work at it tomorrow, Misty; give your focus entirely to visiting family. Thanksgiving week has priority. Enjoy precious time with your son and brother!
ReplyDeleteI'm still not that big a fan of Wordle. I do it some days, but it's not a habit.
~ OMK
WC ~ Looks like Chet has to put up with a lot from his office-mates.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn’t see any recourse, though, no way to complain w/o triggering unhelpful responses from his usual compadres. It seems he may be too bright, sadly, for his own good. He will see right through the support he seeks.
It is a good thing he is determined to stick to the Principles.
As for spotting tomorrow’s words, I see ‘em all. Now that we are trying to do a better job of disguising them (I aim for “burying” half of them), your naked ones are pretty easy to see.
But there’s no need for you to try hiding them; I am sure we could NOT find them then.
~ OMK
Thank you for your kind understanding, OMK, much appreciated. I'll still try to do what I can tomorrow, but even if I don't have time to check in, I'll be thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Wilbur, great to get a Chet and Lois verse from you at the end of the day. Gets our Thanksgiving off to a good start!