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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Misers are butts of gags, as they go to great lengths to measure the products they consume.
To them, such fastidious behavior is admirable. Among other virtues, it includes…)
”Weight Strengths”
The levity is
side-splitting: we all laugh while
Scrooge weighs his gravy.
~ OMK
Wordle 19 Jan. ‘23
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Yuck!
~ OMK
I moved from sewing, to the pitcher’s location, to the swamp.
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"Career Crash"
ReplyDeleteLen's brevity was gravy on his plate,
and levity made his performance great.
The press did fine descriptions paint
and very highly did him rate
and also went to considerable length
to weigh in on his successful fate.
But when Len broke his leg and was put in a splint,
the end of his career the press began to hint.
Bad turns, late in life, can lead to dire consequences.
ReplyDeleteWiki - “In the allied Aryan languages some connect Lithuanian grฤziรน, grฤลผti, ‘to twist, turn,’ with the Aryan root grengh”
Late Grenghs
Speaking with no levity,
The doctor weighed in,
The diagnosis grave, even eerie.
The fall in the mucky swamp
Had twisted the knee
And required a splint.
Aha, Misty posted while I was creating my offering. An abundance of rhyme (even within the lines with brevity and levity!). Poor Len. Let’s hope this temporary disability doesn’t end his career. The press is fickle.
ReplyDeleteOMK- I wondered about using Strength (and admit that my use of Grenghs was a bit of a stretch!). You avoided the doctor (unlike Misty and me) by removing the N from the S word. And you do conjure up a humorous but sad image of Scrooge weighing his gravy. It might have been M . . . . . (Like the Wordle)
At first, Misty, I thought Len was either a politician or a stand-up comic. Brevity can often serve either well.
ReplyDeleteBut when a broken leg threatened his career, I had to revise my assumption.
I get it now, or at least have narrowed it down.
Len is either a song-and-dance man or a race horse.
~ OMK
“A bit of a stretch” is what we need, CEh!—to serve our creative turn.
ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize.
Your “Grenghs” helped you to a true Spoonerist title, whereas I had to go with mere rhyme.
I am not quite sure why the doc’s diagnosis (a common knee twist & splint) was “eerie,” but the medical faculty has their own way of weighing in.
So I’ll go with you.
~ OMK
Had no idea that this was an actual word, and am surprised that it worked:
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Ol' Man Keith, thank you for the kind comment, and let's go with Len being a song-and-dance man. Does that make him a possible colleague for you? And I loved your haiku, except that one of the J words was missing. Then I read CE!'s comment, and Voila! there it was with just a single letter missing. Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteNo one can mess up "Great Lengths" better than you can, CanadianEh!! Your verse cracked me up right from the very beginning, and I was especially glad that the doctor gave a grave diagnosis, which gave you all the J words!
Wilbur, you did it! Your puppy and your mummy helped me get the Wordle in just three tries this morning! Woohoo! Many thanks for that gift.
OMK and Misty- thanks for your kind words; I am happy to bring a smile and be creative.
ReplyDeleteI started with the third line as “With a grave, eerie diagnosis” to give the G word. Then I was trying to think of eerie things in the swamp- ghosts, bats? But it was getting too complicated.
I went back to the drawing board, turned that line around, thought of even for the ee sound that I needed, left eerie because it rhymed (rare for me). Ah, those creative juices were flowing. But I agree that my doctor was a little overdone with his diagnosis.
Good work on the Wordle Misty.