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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Among my Sufi friends, one pal in particular, a dervish, sometimes dedicates his dance, like a prayer, on my behalf.
The bell sounds, and he’s off!
About an hour before midnight, he and the other mystics will be hard at it, their blood pulsing fast and steady. He’s usually in a deep trance, but sometimes I can catch his eye. He seems to wink, as if to remind me, “This one’s for you!”)
“Bell!—Hoof It!”
11: 00,
and my dervish whirls fondly,
while aortas pump!
~ OMK
Wordle 11 March ‘23
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Wordle 630 2/6
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Replaces the
pony show…
~ OMK
Love letters were once our heritage
ReplyDeleteIntimate looks at the private page.
Amour in ink,
Mail ribboned in pink,
Evidence to look back at love's opening stage!
When traffic arteries get clogged,
ReplyDeleteThe main drag is oft the cause.
When this asphalt-paved aorta
Gets jammed, well, it shouldn't orta!
Was there a multi-car collision?
Protesters to a mayor's decision?
Police pursuing some. transgression?
You'll see it on "News at Eleven" !
Automotives constantly whirled
Populate our gyrating world.
Do we fondly want our placid past?
Momentarily, but not to last.
We live today in cars and transit.
Concede the case, but don't dwell on it!
Does it have a hyphen?
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Reposting my midnight
ReplyDeleteWordle 630 3/6
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I used a J to start , not ideal but gave it a shot
WC
When your prince returns with the glass slipper, don’t hesitate-
ReplyDeleteWell, Don It!
Cinderella at the ball,
Dancing happily in the hall.
Clock strikes eleven as they twirl,
One more hour left to whirl
Ere the dream flees the night.
Music in the air takes flight
As she bolts to carriage yonder,
With memories she will fondly ponder.
But wait - the male with slipper appears!
WC- you started at the dance!
ReplyDeleteOMK- I was looking for the number in your haiku! Oh there it is in broad daylight. Great back story. I went to the ball instead with a well- known tale.But we both had dancing.
Owen- your poem brings the observation that our modern forms of communication do not leave a trail that is nearly as romantic as those love letters of the past . . . and they certainly aren’t wrapped in a ribbon.
Once again, we all went in a different direction with the J words, but Owen has been very original with his treatise on modern transportation. Yes, we do have to take the good with the bad, and learn to live with it.
"New Home"
ReplyDeleteGreta was just a sweet girl,
adopted when she was eleven.
Her new parents set her life a-whirl,
fondly giving her a birthday pearl,
and she felt she was now in heaven.
In her new home she does now happily dwell,
and never in her life has she felt so well.
An addenda to my poem on love letters, listen to 7.42 minutes
ReplyDeleteMisty, your Greta must indeed be a “sweet girl” to win adoption at the relatively advanced age of eleven.
ReplyDeleteMost would-be parents want younger kids. This Greta is unlikely to be a Thunberg type, blunt-speaking and nagging—unless of course it is a “woke” family that wants an in-home reminder to keep themselves and neighbors on the right side of climate-change practices!
Either type, I’m sure, would approve of your neat, well-built verse, terse, directly to the point.
CanadianEh! I prefer your title to mine, much cleaner. By going the Cinderella route, you could rely on reader familiarity,, and you made fine use of it. The rhyming couplets draw us right into the dance—and they set us up for the unrhymed jolt of the stand-alone conclusion.
The extra challenge of haiku is the need for context. I’m glad you liked my backstory. It had to cover a lot of ground today because of the syllabic length of the J-words!
11:00 = “Eleven O’Clock,” an entire line all by itself.
Owen’s brilliance is shining through today.
Each stanza is tight and right. I loved the slangy word-play of the first, in the longer piece.
But my favorite was the shorter opener, a lament of the passing of the kind of paper trail I found after my parents’ death.
~ OMK
OMK, I loved that you worked AORTA into your neat haiku--something I just couldn't manage this morning. And thank you for your kind comment on my verse.
ReplyDeleteOwen, your "Love letter" poem was lovely, and then surprisingly followed by your remarkable piece on traffic. A great morning of writing for you.
CanadianEh!, I don't know why I'm always prepared to have your verses come with a serious and sometimes sad ending. But lately they have been so cheerful and your Cinderella this morning was a delight. And I especially dwelled on your 'Well Don It' title.
Don't know if I'll have time for a Wordle, CE and Wilbur, but always happy to see yours.
Have a great Saturday, everybody.
Misty- what a lovely result for dear Greta. What a relief for her to have a happy home now. Yes, I was searching for that aorta in your poem. It was a hard one to use. I have it hidden (not very well I admit,) in my sixth line.
ReplyDeleteMy “stand alone conclusion” as OMK calls it, contains the Wordle (again I didn’t disguise it very well).
Glad you enjoyed my offering today.
(See OMK’s kind comments re our titles, which are both our attempts to use the J answer words in a Spoonerism.)
Good news, CanadianEh!
ReplyDeleteI have been an unsuspecting administrator on this site for a while, appointed by Owen to help with the date changes, earning himself a break.
But I did not know my power.
Over in the Corner, TTP posted instructions for me, so I know how to reach into the Jumble-site's spam filter and "rescue" any unfairly censored posts.
I can't do it on any other sites (like the Corner), of course, but I can do it on Jumble.
I have already gone back through February and reversed several of your bleeped posts. (He advised me to do this, as a way of "teaching" the AI Blogger to leave you alone.)
In future, send me a post right away if you find a serious posting of yours has been erased.
~ OMK
Thanks OMK Yes I saw TTP’s post. I have not lost any posts here lately. It seemed odd that it was often my Wordle post that would be deleted if I had comments in it. But when I separated the comments to a separate post, it would remain. Very strange- I could never figure out what was offending the AI. I now copy everything until I am sure it will not be deleted and lost. I’ll be sure to let you know of any future problems.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I just thought - maybe the AI doesn’t like all my Canadian U’s
ReplyDeleteHmmm.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. I did not notice that on the ones I unbleeped.
But I wasn't looking for them either.
We have to give AI credit for learning as much of our spelling as it already has.
It is not exactly a logical or consistent set of rules.
You are probably aware of the old example of proper English spelling, whereby...
Ghoti is pronounced "Fish."
Because of the sounds in touGH; wOmen; and naTIOn.
~ OMK
Owen ~ Thank you for the link to the Miller/Nin letters!
ReplyDeleteBeautifully read—much appreciated!
~ OMK