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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(We had a lake, since lost to the great heat, by name of Toad.
Not to be confused with Tahoe. It was a popular spot for boaters & vacationers. Its adjacent golf course was a local fave.
Admission to nine holes was forty bucks, but more dough would get you lotsa treats…)
“Lake of Toad Golfing”
Forty knocks would get
you in, but fifty earned your
fellows a parade.
~ OMK
31 July ‘23
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Wordle 772 2/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
____________
W772
Come and list to me but a while,
but be sure, please, not to clog up the aisle,
while I sing you a song in the finest croon “….. .”
~ OMK
Coming down the runway, never a smile.
ReplyDeleteShowing off clothes as they walk the aisle.
Fashion's majesty,
Let everyone see,
The models are just mannequins in file!
Wordle 772 4/6
🥋🥋🥋💃💃
💃🥋🥋🥋💃
💃💃🥋💃💃
👗👗👗👗👗
Took me a second try to get this Wordle, but still, many thanks for the help, Ol' Man Keith:
ReplyDeleteWordle 772 2/6
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lake Tow (Doff your Fears)
ReplyDeleteHis knees were knocking,
The boat was rocking,
The young fellow felt so afraid.
But he would join the parade
Of novices learning to waterski.
Could he survive forty seconds maybe?
It wasn’t his style to retreat.
OMK- I almost went with Lake Toad, but couldn’t make it work. I smiled at your backstory and haiku. Money will buy you extras.
ReplyDeleteOwen gives us multiple rhymes for the W. Plus an observation on those unsmiling models. They are often as thin as mannequins.
Misty- great story about that fellow Fred and his forever friends.
(I am just wondering how one knocks their thanks?).
CE?, I do believe i caught you today, with a simple trick at the junction of lines 3 & 4!
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ Sorry it took you TWO tries on the Wordle. I guess you went with SMILE first, as that also echoes, and Owen actually used it as his first rhyming word.
ReplyDeleteYour Fred must have made a lotta friends, for them to organize an entire parade in his honor!
CEh asks how anyone "knocks their thanks." I suppose Fred does it in a manner similar to my haiku's substituting knocks for dollars.
"knocks" = mighty flexible in a poet's mitts.
CanadianEh! Your title works better, I think. I was halfway there, but when I threw in "Golfing" as part of my backstory, it all went awry.
If you happened to do yesterday's NY Times crossword, you'd have seen several fine Spoonerisms among the fills. The challenge there is to encapsulate an entire backstory in a clue. My fave was "Three Mare Squeals a Day."
The clue was "Enjoy your stay on our horse farm. Hope it's not too noisy."
You went with a sport of your own--waterskiing. Is "forty seconds" a typical beginners' challenge? Like 10 seconds for rodeo riders on broncos?
I couldn't do it. The one time I tried to waterski, I could not stand up.
They make it look so easy...
~ OMK
Neat poems and commentaries again today--thank you everybody.
ReplyDeleteOl' Man Keith," I liked your golfing haiku, with your "forty knocks". And thank you for explaining my "knock" to CanadianEh!. I guess one meaning of "knock" is "to impress greatly." And, yes, I did try "smile" for my first Wordle.
Owen, what a neat fashion model verse this morning--elegant.
CanadianEh!, what a great image, to picture young folks learning to water-ski, all lined up in a parade! I didn't learn to swim until I was in my thirties and am still very nervous in the water. So I'm glad your guys and gals are getting such good early training.
Hi, Wilbur, hope we see you later.
It's funny, Misty, when you think of it--that in our hands "one meaning of 'knock' is 'to impress greatly,' when the slang dictionary says knock means just the opposite--'to tear someone down'."
ReplyDelete~ OMK