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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble and/or Wordle and/or Orijinz.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual Jumble or Wordle answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(The “HMS Oriole” is a ship aflame! Alas! Tied up to the dock, she can’t be saved by her crew knocked out by the smoke.
Fortunately, the harbor fire dept. is staffed by macho firefighters, unafraid of heat, soot, and the heavy lifting needed to carry all to safety!)
“Fleeing the ‘Oriole’—Vrrrooom!”
Manly grime becomes
hard work. Their ship’s exodus
is all in blackness.
~ OMK
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Wordle 789 2/6
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If you should find bliss
in the abyss,
something must surely be “….. .”
~ OMK
Little Willie put an apple on his sister's head.
ReplyDeleteTurned and walked ten paces, straight ahead.
A. M. is sometimes cool.
Noon will heat a fool.
P. M. is when Willie didn't shoot his sister dead!
Wordle 789 3/6
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Orijinz:
ReplyDeleteToday a dog can do his duty
As service dog, not just beauty.
A well-trained poodle
Can use his noodle,
And help his charge join the community!
Baseball, some say, is a manly pride,
ReplyDeleteTo stand and wait most of the time.
To grind in dirt when you try to slide,
And let your Mom worry about the grime.
And team names are for the birds.
Orioles and Cardinals, those strike fear?
Braves and Pirates are not absurd,
But Blue-Jays? If you're a worm, I hear!
From the stands, I'll make my exit,
Another afternoon I've wasted.
Join the thronging fans in exodus
To watering holes where beer is tasted.
I'm expected there by guys at work.
I'd rather read in my room, like a jerk.
"Better Home"
ReplyDeleteMatt tried to be manly
dealing with the grime,
but leaving the place dirty
would surely be a crime.
He did not want any fuss
and tried to avoid an exodus.
And a silly way to reach his goal
was to adopt a singing oriole.
Now his entire home and bedroom
are no longer filled with gloom.
Both reading and bird-feeding
made him feel no longer needing.
And soon his friends came to meet him,
and gave him a warm greeting.
A very interesting day, watching how my colleagues & I aim to integrate birds and filth. Owen examines baseball teams through an avian lens. Leaving the grime aspect to base-sliding…
ReplyDeleteHis observations have us all wondering how our feathered friends might strike fear in opponent teams.
Hmm. He makes us question how team monikers were chosen in the first place. Were these the indigenous birds of the teams’ locales?
But then were pirates the favored profession in landlocked Pittsburgh? How about baby bears in Chi-town?
And Dodgers…? You get my drift.
Misty offers Matt, who somehow is already dirty before her poem begins. And he’s ashamed of it.
He finds the way to clean up his act is to adopt a singing bird. A novel notion.
My own approach is the opposite—guys taking pride in the soot that comes from manly rescue work. I suppose they leave all the ash and dirt on until it just wears off naturally.
So folks can point to them and say, “They did that ‘Oriole’ rescue!”
Quite a range of responses!
~ OMK
Woohoo! Woohoo! Ol' Man Keith, your hint once again helped me get today's Wordle:
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Many thanks for this gift!
Ol' Man Keith, I looked up the HMCS Oriole and she does indeed turn out to be a ship belonging to the Royal Canadian Navy based in Halifax. Hopefully she's still safe.
ReplyDeleteAnd as you know, Matt's story, like all my others, is determined by the Jumble words. So he had to end up being stuck with a silly oriole bird today.
Owen, hope someone gets Little Willie to behave. Maybe a service dog would help?
And sorry you found the baseball game such a waste of time. I hope you at least had a great novel to read!
We miss you today, CanadianEh!. Hope you'll check in with us tomorrow.
And hope your injury problems are improving, Wilbur, and that we'll see you back soon.
I made up the Oriole for my backstory, Misty, thinking of the sad real-life fire of the diving ship Conception in 2019.
ReplyDeleteYou may remember it; it was anchored at Santa Cruz Island, and 34 souls were lost. I shouldn’t suggest my tale was the same: it only inspired me to think of a burning vessel for my firemen to perform a rescue. Too bad there could not have been such a lifesaving experience for the real event!
Sorry to miss CanadianEh! She might have exploited the baseball theme as suggested by Owen, with a “Blue Jays/Orioles” matchup!
~ OMK