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FLN, CanadianEh! ~ Yes, that’s pretty amazing. Even on my day off, I check the Sunday Wordle, & I was nearly stunned to see that coincidence.
(Hey—Maybe that’s why the Bot picks on you! It senses you have an ability, unknown even to YOU, to read its secret brainwaves!)
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Not to worry, Owen (FLN also)—The basis for my acceptilation is not “illusion.”
I occasionally assume the privilege allowed to every writer, including poets, of employing fiction.
I recall some years ago, when I explained to Sandyanon that not all my pieces are true-to-life, she seemed displeased to know that.
In this instance, I do not actually believe my postings fall short of “earning” my time off.
But I thank you, Good Sir, for reassuring me that J-free (& now I suppose W-free) pieces are within your tradition & acceptable. Many thanks!
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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(Indiana spotted a black mamba slithering by the sleeping dame.
No time to delay! He leapt into action!!
She’ll probably wake up, but he’ll call if she doesn’t.
The…)
“Word is ‘Boo.’”
He whisks the viper
from beside her head! She feels
a draft in her ear…
~ OMK
If you try to work this Wordle
Like a Jumble, there's one hurdle
The W
Will never do!
What's left ain't getting younger!
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Orijinz:
Today a clue there is not
To help untangle this darn knot
I'm knotty while
It's knot my style,
But wasted efforts come to knot.
11 SEP ‘23
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On “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Ray gets a cold shoulder
from his wife who, if he persists, makes her shoulder colder.
The characters are fun, including Robert, his brother, who’s “….. .”
~ OMK
We all wish for a storybook end,
To be whisked away to a palace
By our hero, or our heroine --
To learn new uses for a phallus?
But a viper, standing guard,
Pops our daydream. Reality
Reminds us real life is hard,
And a fancy's more a fallacy.
And thus the serpent, evil one,
Walks beside us, day to day.
First draught of coffee, to day is done
He prods us to the prosaic way.
Would I could leave him, for the sky,
For such a view, you'd hear a bird sigh!
I should have used OMK’s vowel-rich starter to eliminate my vowel choices
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Owen- trust you to notice that today’s W is an anagram of W (minus the w). Great poem including the antonym.
And with your poem, I entered the Orijinz in 19 seconds. Interesting history of the term.
OMK- maybe I do unknowingly have ESP. I do have the ability to make printers jam, staplers run out of staples, credit card terminals run out of paper etc just by being in the vicinity. It is a standing joke.
You had a N on the end of your second W guess?
The derelict building was the epitome of haunted.
Whew! Bywords
The drafty, older house
Stood quiet as a mouse,
Beside the tangled thicket.
Scrub those cobwebs with your wipers,
Whisk away all the vipers.
Then it will be just the ticket.
OMK- we all went different directions today with that difficult J reveal. I think my favourite is Owen’s “bird sigh”. But I did smile at the thought of Indiana waking the fair maiden with a “Boo”. I also liked the imagery of the whisking causing a draft in her ear.
Owen gives us the classic serpent image of Satan, and we ponder the the theology of Original Sin and the dilemma of Evil in our world. But he gives us a smile with his x-rated fourth line. New uses? OK, he did have to rhyme with palace. LOL
Woohoo! Woohoo! Thank you, thank you, Ol' Man Keith, for helping me get today's Wordle on a single try. Woohoo!
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"Good Guard"
The hawk took a considerable risk
hoping the viper out of his woods to whisk.
The weather was drafty and would soon snow
and there was nowhere else for the critters to go.
The hawk tried to use his bird's-eye view
all the snakes and other predators to pursue.
It worked, and he now does happily reside
beside the thankful neighbors by his side.
Wow!
‘Tis a day for whisking vipers!
All around the action is alike, whether to remove same from CanadianEh’s old house (love the house standing quiet as a mouse!) or from Misty’s risk-hoping woods.
None of us thought to call animal services, or to leave the damn *#@! Snake alone…
Misty, at least, leaves it to Nature, for a hawk to keep the predator in check. CEh calls on readers to imagine a serpent-less future when, perhaps, the mousy house will draw top real estate dollars!
Meanwhile Owen strikes out on his own, turning a typical children’s story to a moral fable, in which the viper represents the evil lurking to spoil a dreamy (mildly naughty) ending.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, never saw "Everybody loves Raymond", but I loved your verse, even if it doesn't seem like an entirely happy family.
Owen, I think seeing your viper as a guard made me decide that a hawk might do a better job protecting everybody. Wish my hawk could help you leave and make it up into the sky.
CanadianEh!, maybe your drafty, older house could also use the help of my hawk to get those vipers out of there, and make it a safe, comfortable home for some folks who need one.
Just hoping that hawk actually has all the strength and motivation to do any of this.
Misty- I enjoyed your nature emphasis today with your hawk. You kept to the bird part of the J reveal. Let’s hope that hawk has lots of energy.
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