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Looking back to when he went AWOL,
ReplyDeleteEbenezer thought of a Christmas carol.
In reverse
A hidden verse
Sang that not just above was it so!
Wordle 685 4/6
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⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
¡Feliz cinco de mayo!
ReplyDeleteBy the high plateau’s edge
(easily rimming the ledge)
looking out on the scene
overseeing the green,
we’re surely above what we dredge.
~ OMK
==> W hint: 2nd verse of The Emerald Tablet.
Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete“(To) Glut his Girth”
That hefty alpha
wolf raided rotary grills.
Brains were strewn behind.
~ OMK
Owen- I found the reversed W, but I am still trying to figure out the Christmas Carol (or am I reading too much into it?).
ReplyDeleteYour brilliant offerings make us work our brain cells every day.
OMK- I won’t give away your hidden W this early in the day.
And you work our brain cells too. I had to Google The Emerald Tablet.
What on Earth is It?
ReplyDeleteWill future antique collectors
Pay a hefty price for a rotary phone,
With numbers and letters
In a pattern seemingly unknown,
Strewn like alphabet soup,
The novice to dupe,
With a finger hold below?
Dial to say hello!
OMK- I like your title. I could not get any rearrangement to work for me,
ReplyDeleteWe went in totally different directions today. It is interesting what the given words bring to our minds.
The imagery of those brains strewn around is vivid.
"Recovery"
ReplyDeleteCousin Ralph needed a notary
because his finances were rotary.
His debts were now hefty and strewn
and he feared he would soon be in ruin.
So he learned how to stop making bets
and paid off his many debts.
When his wife in the next year gave birth
he was the happiest man on earth.
Misty gives us rotary finances to go with our rotary grills and phones! Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is good that Cousin Ralph has given up betting and will provide a stable upbringing for his new family.
Lovely couplets Misty (bravo for strewn and ruin).
Misty ~
ReplyDeleteGood thing for Ralph that you were in charge of his story.
After facing near ruin for his profligate ways, your second stanza came along to teach him to quit gambling.
To top it off, you let him become a dad—and a responsible one at that!
Lucky, lucky Ralph!
CEh! ~
Your poem teaches us to appreciate the oddity that we once took for granted. It can serve as a prime example of “Brechtian alienation” or Verfremdungseffekt.—often rendered as “defamiliarization.”
(I sometimes simplified it for my students as a “jolt,” causing one to look again with fresh eyes.)
Thanks for enjoying my efforts today. I like that you liked my “brains” line. I imagine the wolf running off in a hurry, spilling bits as he scurried.
It was originally going to be “giblets,” but I needed a single syllable instead of two.
And, besides, the giblets aren’t usually left on the spit to grill…
~ OMK
Hmmm. I guess the brains aren’t, either.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
CanadianEh! ~ Was CELEB your penultimate guess?
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Woohoo! I got today's neat Wordle on my third try:
ReplyDeleteWordle 685 3/6
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Afterwards I realized there were clues here and there, but I'm not sure whether they helped or not. Either way, it's a treat to get a Wordle!
Owen, I found your today's verse above delightful.
ReplyDeleteOld Man Keith, thank you for your kind comment about lucky Ralph. Wish we could get him to tell your wily wolf to stop raiding grills or he may end up tossed off a high plateau. (I'm sure he'd heed your helpful hint).
CanadianEh!, thank you for liking my 'strewn' and 'ruin.' I loved your story about the rotary phone. I still remembered how amazed I was when I came to the U.S. at age 11, and saw my first black-and-white television and was shown the rotary phones. Felt like I had entered a whole new world. Well, I guess I had!
Looking forward to your Wordle, Wilbur. Give us a hint about what it plays.
Misty you skipped TUMMY
ReplyDeleteYou went straight under
Wordle 685 4/6
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🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I was stumped because I has ORATOR on #3 not noticing that missing Y and I was missing that extra A to give me the riddle-solution
WC
OMK- no, it was JELLO!
ReplyDeleteMisty- interesting about your introduction to rotary phones.
I was thinking of this viral video about two teenagers trying to make a call on a rotary phone. Hilarious.
RotaryPhoneChallenge
JELLO! But of course! Veddy clevuh, these Canadians!
ReplyDeleteDoh! I was not thinking proper names, CEh!
(Nor anything marketed by Mr. C.)
Yes, Misty! I too admired your pairing of “strewn” and “ruin.”
I could not have used them together in my shorter effort, as my syllable count demands only one for “strewn.”
(Psst… if you are truly eager for hints, remember to look for acrostic aid. But good for you, getting Wordle in three.)
~ OMK
Christmas Carol was just to link Ebenezer Scrooge and rhyme with AWOL; lines 3 & 4 were hints to the double gimmicks, and line 5 was a reference to the same aphorism as OMK's "as above, so below / as below, so above" tho I didn't know it from the same context. Not sure where I knew it from -- Mormon, Masonic, or just general knowledge.
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