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FLN: Misty ~ You really must keep in mind that the sought-after word need not rhyme with the one immediately before the final line. You were trying to rhyme with “here,” but why do you think I spent time with “a-plenty” & “twenty”?
ReplyDeleteAnd the message of the poem pointed to the fact that there are hardly any true rhymes with the W-word, not something you can say about “here”!
Sometimes it helps to blend the last two lines into one long line—to see where it is pointing.
~ OMK
Today’s Jumble haiku
ReplyDelete(A cousin to collard greens, kale is a nutritious addition to many modern salads. Today’s couple enjoys eating pre-dinner greens while facing one another on matching furniture.
Incidentally, they happened to purchase the last of this week’s …)
“Sold Out Kale”
Their plural settles
face each other as they chomp
their mossy salads.
~ OMK
11 AUG ‘23
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Wordle 783 2/6
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
____________
W783
This fellow
is not yellow.
But he is mighty mellow.
He leaves with “G’bye,”
& greets with a happy “….. .”
~ OMK
Orijinz:
ReplyDeleteIn Ukraine we can see modern war.
Smart phones they must check at the door.
Russians can trace them,
Tell bombers where to place them,
So radio silence includes more now than before.
Paul would greet visitors to the museum
ReplyDeleteLet the them know he was glad to see 'em.
He would set them at ease,
Guess which ell ought to please,
And give them a tour to the lyceum.
Wordle 783 3/6
🙋♀️🙋🙋🙋♀️🙋♀️
🙋♂️🙋🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋
🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
We picnicked by the river bank,
ReplyDeleteTo a mossy bed our blanket sank.
Our cooler held cold beverages,
Cold cut sandwiches, fruit wedges.
We settled down to enjoy the day.
Thru our viands we chomped away.
The spot was isolated, no eyes near,
Sated with food, I began, "My dear..."
Acting out some ideas are easy to sell,
And she was eager to try it, as well.
...
We dried off on our blanket in the sun,
Exuberantly joyful, we had playful fun!
Underwears (plural) had not gotten wet.
Closing our clothes -- Best Picnic Yet!
The hunter is rated on his ability to spot the quarry (solo or in a herd).
ReplyDeleteSlow-scout Scale
It chomps through mossy swamp,
Settles for the occasional romp.
But why is the plural so queer?
Any number is stilled called deer.
OMK- I toyed with Kale in my title. The J answer was hard to Spooner today. I liked how you had the couple chomping their mossy salads. LOL re vegan food choices. But I think there may be a typo or autocorrect as I think you meant “settles” to be “setties”with your furniture comment in the backstory. .? (I had to correct autocorrect myself to get setties. But apparently the spelling is settees!)
ReplyDeleteOwen- I see the Wordle in line four. Great hiding spot in the museum ell.
Best Picnic Yet lets us all imagine that glorious day, and fill in the blanks with some of our own “picnic” memories (some racier than others). I LOLed at the no wet underwear’s (plural) after the skinny-dipping et al.
My poem settles for a deer romp.
"Park Art"
ReplyDeletePolly's talents were plural,
and she decided to paint a mural.
She settled on a scene in a mossy swamp
where many small critters did romp and chomp.
To paint the park ranger she chose
to dress him in some sporty clothes.
When she was done, she put the painting on sale
and was pleased that the viewers did her scenery hail.
The whole experience had been much fun,
especially when it earned Polly a handsome sum.
Ol' Man Keith, sorry I didn't comment on your interesting verse yesterday, talking about its own empty rhymes. Maybe I'll look at it again and see what I can come up with.
ReplyDeleteNice to see that your kind fellow today doesn't bellow but just greets people with a happy "Hi!".
Ol' Man Keith, wonder if a kale salad would work well at a picnic? Would be interesting to try it sometime (well, if I ever get to go on a picnic again).
ReplyDeleteOwen, actually, picnics don't get to be any lovelier than the beautiful one your fortunate and happy couple were able to enjoy today. My goodness, what a wonderful experience!
CanadianEh!, you're so right: I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to multiple members of the species as anything but 'deer.' . . . I just looked up 'deers' and came up with the DEFENSE ENROLLMENT ELIGIBILITY REPORTING SYSTEM. Not exactly a forest animal, is it?
Wilbur, where are you? We'd love to see your Wordle accompany Canadian Eh!'s.
And OMK's brief and probably clever Wordle as well.
ReplyDeleteSorry, CEh! I don't know why your search couldn't find it, but a settle (correct spelling) is a pretty well-known antique wooden bench with a lid over a storage compartment.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settle_%28furniture%29
It has a straight wooden back that makes it fairly uncomfortable for sitting. I suppose that's why our favorite old-timey English restaurant places a pair of them facing one another within the heat of their huge fireplace hearth!
Physical discomfort is offset by the cozy warmth of their fire.
~ OMK
You may be joking, Misty, but if not, today's W-rhyme was NOT with "G'bye."
ReplyDeleteGlad your muralist Polly was able to realize a tidy profit (Hmm, is that smaller than a "handsome sum"?) for her work.
Since she included the park ranger in the piece, did he receive any of the sale price?
Or, perhaps he was the buyer...?
~ OMK
CanadianEh! ~ I suppose we might follow Churchill by saying "English may be the worst of languages--except for all the others!"
ReplyDeleteThe plural of deer is indeed deer... just as the plural of fish is fish.
A damnable language!
What's even worse, consider our spelling. Was it Mark Twain who asked what is spelled by GHOTI?
To which he answered: we pronounce it FISH.
The "GH" from COUGH
the "O" from WOMEN.
and the "TI" from ATTENTION...
I think I'll take a break and go ghoti-ing.
~ OMK
Hope you had fun ghoti-ing, OMK.
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