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Lois' mother, Martha continues]
ReplyDeleteIt's been so long since last I saw you, Lois, my how you have grown"
"Not just taller , Mom, but in life- In ways I'd never have known
The hammer came down on my old life in ways difficult to gauge
Coming here to make amends is just one of the many ways"
"I'm just glad to see you've changed and are back in the game
It's as if the clouds have lifted and I'm seeing the aurora borealis aflame "
WC
Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(The morning’s light is the measure of the goddess’ strength. This gauge is her special totem or power.)
“Dawn Danger”
Her aurora gauge
crowns the dawn; Eos’ equal
to Thor’s great hammer.
~ OMK
Wordle 18 Feb ‘23
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Wordle 609 3/6
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W does not
accept the
name of a
month.
~ OMK
I don't know what to tell Ava.
ReplyDeleteI left a small dent in her Vega.
Well, not so small,
But it's smooth now --
By a steam roller, while I got a margarita!
Wordle 609 6/6*
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Censored again! The AI doesn’t like me commenting with my Wordle.
ReplyDeleteMy guesses were almost of no use. I was feeble, and then a bird - oh, another duplicate letter day!
(Then) Came Danger
ReplyDeleteThe winner was hard to gauge,
The chess players were quite sage.
But then the game was changed,
A win out of range.
Checked, the kingly crown had failed,
It tried to move to no avail.
A roar arose from the crowd
The champ had been hammered.
WC- thanks for the update on Lois and Martha. It is good that Martha is accepting that her daughter has changed. Lois is stepping up and admitting her past failures. Let’s hope for a continued reconciliation. (I was missing one J word, but think you have disguised it at the end of the first line?)
ReplyDeleteOMK- no Spooner again today; we both went to Danger, but with different themes. I managed to disguise the lights that led you to use the goddess. Great haiku - I love the thought of EOS vs. Thor’s hammer.
You used your vowel-rich W starter. Having that first letter was probably helpful.
Owen- your poem brought a smile, and then I went looking for the W. Great hiding spot spanning those first two rows!
"Stardom"
ReplyDeleteWhen Aurora won the crown
it very much changed the game.
She now wears a lovely gown
and has achieved considerable fame.
Reporters with a camera
follow her up on stage,
and newspaper questions hammer,
trying to gauge her current wage.
Being a star is not easy or light,
but it did make her life much more bright.
What shall it availeth a man…?
ReplyDeleteYes, CEh! Danger was appealing to us both. I like to think of Eos’ beauty as equal to—or better than!—Thor’s hammer. Because it is already there, at the goal for which all strife is aiming.
Your poem gives us a neat example of how the most “kingly” power may prove unreliable. Yes, it will often conquer, but sometimes the Super Bowl swings the other way.
WC ~ Good to see Lois & Mom continuing their sweet reunion. There may still be some bumps ahead, but they both seem to be aiming for warmth & understanding rather than to revive old animosities. Good for them!
~ OMK
Misty ~ Your title “Stardom” put me in mind of a film celeb, and indeed your poem suggests the kind of press quizzing that often follows an Oscar-win.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to see Aurora in her glam-gown clutching her statuette as she responds to questions. The only anomaly is the interest in her current salary (!)—which seems too crass even for Hollywood. But maybe I am reading it too literally, and that’s a metaphor for her current standing among H’wood royalty.
In that sense, I like your final couplet. A neat finale!
~ OMK
Misty- like OMK. I saw your Aurora as an Oscar-winning actress being badgered by reporters. You managed to pull all the J words into a beautiful poem, full of light.
ReplyDeleteOMK- yes, the beauty of Eos is the dawn of a new day, full of brightness and promise. Much better than Thor’s strife.
Woohoo! You did it Wilbur--first in line this morning, and you managed to work all the J words and solution into your delightful Martha/Lois conversation!
ReplyDeleteManaging all the Jumble words and solution in a haiku is clearly a challenge, and once again you pulled it off beautifully, this time in the land of the gods! Ol' Man Keith. And thank you for your very kind and much appreciated response to my verse.
I'm sure Ava will forgive you, Owen. Hope you enjoyed your margarita.
What a lovely and kind response to my verse, CanadianEh!. It makes me appreciate your own much more realistic and down-to-earth verses. This morning you once again had your champ come into danger, sadly, in a chess game surrounded by a roaring crowed. Hope the poor fellow survived being hammered.
And so our weekend has begun with a lot of great art! Thank you, everybody.
"My usual starter"? A J with no E and no repeats
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