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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(These “kazoos” are lady crabs that crawl on grassy beaches.
You’ll find them at home if you…)
“Look to Sook Lea”
Oblong kazoos are
the norm. They often shrank from
too-long stretchy ones.
~ OMK
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Par = 4
Wordle 578 3/6
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“Impressive”
My usual
starter again.
~ OMK
"Support"
ReplyDeleteThe couple had been together for so long
that he had written her a lovely song
which he sang to her often,
and did her low spirits soften.
In return she bought him a kazoo
which his own worries shrank,
until he felt no longer blue,
and a glass of wine they drank.
And so, at sea, on a bended knee,
he asked her, "Will you marry me?"
Ah, a sweet poem, Misty, a lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteI like how you vary your rhyme scheme, especially when you alternate for a while, then wham the ending with a single couplet.
You know I can tire at times of the marriage theme, but I guess a verse like this softens me up. It’s why we have poetry, right?
Maybe it’s the timing too, as we just had a celebration dinner, for our 27th anniversary.
Love is in the air…
~ OMK
Mistook a Lease-Ok
ReplyDeleteThe lawyer shrank back in his seat.
This couldn’t happen often
Or his career would be charred.
That job long ago,
Defining the terms of a Bat Farm’s boundaries,
Was now coming back to haunt him.
It would take a zoologist
To rescue this case.
OMK- good quick solve with the Wordle today.
ReplyDeleteAnd your haiku created a mental image of those lady crabs - some oblong and some stretchy. Hilarious.
Misty- yes, another of your sweet poems with wonderful rhyme. (Rhyming is not my gift!)
Isn’t it good that music (even from a kazoo) can shrink worries and chase the blues.
OMK- Happy 27th Anniversary (belated?) to you and your DW.
Ol' Man Keith, so glad to hear that my verse echoed your lovely 27th Anniversary Celebration! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!, I liked your the way your poem's title riffed this morning's Jumble solution. Very clever, and I also loved your play on "kazoo."
Well, I wasn't going to try a Wordle today, but now your offerings have tempted me.
CEh! ~ We both had fun with our titles. And isn't it weird how title twisting gave us the themes for our verses! Your play on "Lease-Ok" put you in a legal setting, while my Google surprise (!) --that "Sook" actually means a female crab--sealed my fate.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your lawyer's worries. I guess it's always fun to see lawyers in trouble.
Eh?
Today's KAZOO reminds me of one of my favorite musical numbers from the past. Back in the early '80s, in Richmond VA, I staged a spoof in my theater-- a "Black & White Minstrel Show."
The Richmond City Council in those days was half Black/half white.
(Although they helped our theater with grant funds, they were not above spoofing.)
Among our music breaks in that show, I had the whole cast do a soft-shoe shuffle while playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on massed Kazoos!
It was fantastic--brought the house down every time.
~ OMK
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PS. Thanks åto you and Misty for your kind anniversary wishes.
Wilbur ~ Sorry, I did not notice your Wordle posting last night. But I sure respect your persistence.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the odds are that a six-level attempt might ever fail? By the end of the fifth tier, wouldn’t a striver have exhausted nearly the whole alphabet?
But let’s figure they would have locked in at least 3 letters. By this point then, they would be excluding 2 X 5 letters plus another 4 or 5 from before those 3 got locked.
All together, they would at least have covered 17 of the 26. It’s not as if the remaining 8 deserve equal attention. Normal letter grouping and word roots would narrow the possibilities considerably.
Wouldn’t it seem fair to conclude that serious players MUST succeed in six tries?
~ OMK
Re. Eliminating most letters.
ReplyDeleteFln I had CHAR and tried M and T before D. Is CHARL a word? I had 4 on my 3rd try but barely escaped
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