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20 comments:
FLN, Misty, C’Mon now, where’s your spirit of adventure? All of my rhyming hints were 2-syllables! Not your simple mono-syllabic variants—& easy enough for you to work through!
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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(The Chinese Tongs,or Dongs, were family associations, or turf gangs for younger members, that were usually deactivated, but revived—made to live again—whenever their elders needed support, such as spreading a message, from a …)
“Live Dong”
Chinese Vendors of
ozone pollute, but try to
remove guilt through tweets.
~ OMK
Also FLN, Misty, follow Owen’s clues, and give some thought to our themes.
What was the final sentence of my poem leading up to, with a serenade on a noisy… what?
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Wordle 20 June ‘23
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He went swimming in the pool & then crossed
the lanes sideways. I reckon that’s when he lost
his plastic whistle prize. The one that had cost
two Crackerjacks. Later, with summer heat exhaust-
ed, they closed the pool. No more swimming in the …..!
~ OMK
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
Whose woods these are I think I know.
Something there is
that doesn't love a wall,
Some say the world will end in fire.
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The human race has been on a trip,
A guilt trip, and that's not really hip.
Vendors filled the air with chlorofluorocarbons,
Then backed that up with hydrofluorocarbons.
Together those gasses, once full-blown,
Were destroying Earth's vital ozone!
But is that layer fighting back now,
Contributing to climate change somehow?
Chloro and hydro-fluorocarbon
Were greenhouse gasses, removed and gone.
But now the ozone layer is back.
Is it hoarding heat for a winter snack?
Should we drive some ozone from our skies?
Or long for ultraviolet shield otherwise?
FLN, CEh! ~ Thanks for your piece from your unseasonal top of the world!
Ho ho yourself. You’re pretty high up, but lower than my orbit. Cheaper, too, I reckon. But it has got to be more expensive than all those Dear Santas at the dead letter office.
How costly was your space pilot’s tripping, Misty?
He was partly in orbit, like mine, but maybe more practical.
The happy family, receiving his missives, maybe accompanied their joy with music played out with tissue paper on a comb!
~ OMK
As I was pondering today’s W, I reflected on how that
amazingly unique one-off roster of the Dodgers
could have such a blow-out 15-0 loss to the Giants.
Yeah.
~ OMK
"Forgiveness"
After John did his girlfriend jilt
he initially felt no guilt.
They had met in a game on the phone,
discussing the hazards of ozone,
and his need for a generous loan.
Mary offered to serve as his vendor
by becoming a generous lender.
Then all contact with her he removed,
an act she angrily reproved.
It did not take John too long
to admit he did everything wrong.
But it took him a long moral drive
at a confession to arrive.
To a profuse apology he was driven
and has now been by Mary forgiven.
Dear Ol' Man Keith, I'm sorry if my verse yesterday disappointed you because it didn't respond to the themes and designs of your, and Owen's, verses.
But I have a simply different program for producing my poetry. I do the morning's LA TIMES Jumble answers and solutions, and then jot down words that rhyme with the J words. For example, this morning's first word was GUILT, and so I jotted down BUILT, JILT, QUILT, TILT, and others, and then produced two lines that rhymed GUILT AND JILT. And so it goes.
I do all this and have my verse written before I come to the blog, and so I'm afraid it doesn't reflect your work. I don't believe your haikus and verses reflect my work either, but I don't expect them too. Is that okay? I just like it best when we all appreciate and reflect on each other's work without any criticism, if we can help it. Your later kind comments on my space pilot were much appreciated.
My apology if I misinterpreted or misunderstood your initial comments to me.
Misty ~ I won't bother you with my writing schedule. I only ask you to consider why I bother leaving hints so regularly.
They are for you, my dear.
They have grown--without anyone discussing it-- into a commitment.
But If they are not used, I'll appreciate that I may occasionally relieve myself of the burden.
~ OMK
Misty, I'm like you, and prefer to write my poems before I come here and get contaminated. I suspect we all do. One difference is that i try to bury the words in the line instead of at the end. It usually makes for a smoother flow.
I almost got today's
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In two. I grabbed the first word I saw(ADOPT) and it payed off
Misty, your rhymes always entertain me and sometimes your verse is excellent. Keith was talking about his wordle hint- poems where last line has the wordle in rhyme
I do think that the hints from C-eh and Owen provide a better test.
Then again no hint at all is good. My method is to use a J word with no E; then I can make a second word with an E easily.
Today the Jumble wasnt handy but a xword had a clue "Claudius' adopted son"
WC
Speaking of hints, Owen is very subtle today. Even after solving I couldn't make Jack or Robert out of it
WC
Even if it was nipping at my nose
The opposite of our weather here today.
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Well, thank you all for your kind and helpful responses, and I was especially thankful to get your hints, OMK, even if I don't always 'get' them. Wonder if part of my problem is growing up in Austria and speaking German until I was twelve. But after I learned English I fell in love with the language and became an English professor--go figure. But that's also why I love this blog, and the chance to produce and read rhymes and visit with all of you. Thank you.
Well, took a bit of effort, but it worked:
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Nice work Misty.
I had a busy day coordinating a social activity for a senior’s group.
No time or energy to do anything else than say thank you all, I enjoyed your offerings.
I am up late every night, a legacy of a life in the theater, so I usually post before anyone else, so naturally avoid “contamination.”
I came back today and, yes, buried the words, placing another clue within the middle of my middle line (about the Dodgers).
Good for you, Misty, for working it out today. You mustn’t expect to always get it in one, especially when benefiting from multiple hinters.
Don’t give up. You are getting it now.
This is just how Wordle is expected to work.
~ OMK
WC was onto Owen’s authorship ploy today, his “very subtle” hint.
It was, shall we say, a most “holistic” approach, especially in the company of professors of English and Theater.
Misty ~ I just finished submitting my foreword to a collection of theater reviews by a Bay Area critic. In it, I explained that one of the things I appreciated about his work was “balance.” I explained that a reader cannot quite trust reviews that are all favorable, without criticism. I certainly can’t.
He doesn’t tamp down his enthusiasms when they are earned, but he is a true friend to those he respects & will often point a way in which something may be bettered.
I am not sure Mary can ever really trust John in your poem today.
He apparently “ghosted” her after finagling a loan.
There is no word of paying her back when he renewed contact and offered his “confession” and “profuse apology.”
I dunno, my friend, he seems happy enough to say the good things, but doesn’t bite the bullet.
I’m with Mary.
I’d tell her: Enjoy what you can, Girl, but the moment he mentions money again, you tell that Bozo to hit the road!
~ OMK
More delightful messages from Ol' Man Keith and CanadianEh!. Thank you so much,
so much--you've made my day!
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