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The opening poem should contain 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.
FLN, Owen ~ Enjoyed your play(s) on “Wag the Dog” yesterday! Thanks for the historical perspectives.
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Today’s Jumble haiku:
“Fixed Cat Scrum?”
Dimly formed efforts
rarely excel. They’re as jinxed
as herded felines.
~ OMK
18 SEP ‘23
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Wordle 821 3/6
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W821 (“The name’s not Hank, but—.”)
I did tequila Saturday; it’s what I drank.
If you get the W, you’ll have me to thank.
I am being candid, so just call me “ ….. . “
~ OMK
In "The Importance Of Being Earnest",
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Oscar Wilde laid a plot
Whose sense was naught,
But with laugh-lines was well furnished!
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Orijinz:
ReplyDeleteShe ran the show, that mattered,
Still Lady Gaga muttered,
She wouldn't let
An iron gauntlet
Leave her uninspired!
My apologies, I misremembered the protagonists name in TIoBE, which will make that one harder to guess. Mixed it up with the comic strip Frank And Ernest.
ReplyDeleteI was too expansive when I should have been candid
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Owen- Orijinz took me 44 seconds today. I thought it was going to be “gauntlet” from your poem, plus they had “combing” instead of “combining” which slowed me down.
ReplyDeleteI remembered that comic strip too, when the W appeared.
OMK- so tequila was your final choice.
The ‘fraidy-cat considers whether another aquatic maneuver might be more successful.
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Her effort to learn to swim
Was frankly just on a whim,
And hopes of succeeding grew dim.
Trying the gamut from breast stroke to crawl,
She concluded that safety should be above all.
She would never excel or even shine,
Since she was an aquaphobic feline.
OMK- you put that Cat into your title. And your haiku with the image of the “herded felines” made me smile.
ReplyDeleteI was almost stymied trying to Spooner that J reveal. But I was rather pleased with my result, and managed to get all the J words, plus the W and Orijinz words into my poem. That may not happen again for a while. The Muses were favourable today.
I’ll double-dare Owen to try to match it.
"Pet Present"
ReplyDeleteJohnny lived dimly alone,
and to depression was prone.
But he was lucky to have a chum
who lived on a fixed income.
This friend decided to make an effort
Johnny to a better life transport.
And so he bought his pal a sweet feline
that quickly made John's spirits shine.
This friendly gift did all others excel
and Johnny is now happy and well.
Thank you, thank you, Ol' Man Keith, you helped me get my Wordle in a single try:
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Thanks for being so honest with all of us--can't thANK you enough.
Misty- Poor depressed Johnny was fortunate to have a friend who knew that cats (and dogs) can cure depression. I too liked the feline/shine rhyme. Chum/fixed income was good too.
ReplyDeleteJohnny’s chum, Misty, he with the “fixed income,” is mighty fortunate. Most of those with actual fixed incomes, especially seniors living on retirement pensions, are in a bad way in these years of inflation. They would have little to spare to help a poor depressive like Johnny.
ReplyDeleteThat’s one of the reasons I was moved to change the “fixed” in my title to a more helpful meaning, dealing instead with kitties’ ovaries and a more manageable feline demographic.
Again, I was glad to be of service in the Wordle capacity. Now I can be Frank about it.
CanadianEh! ~ I admit, I had to look two or three times to appreciate your title. But in the end I got it—and enjoyed it, too!
Imagine trying to get cats to swim! About as weird as herding them, I do believe. I’d have loved to witness the attempts. I can visualize the breast stroke easily enough, and (excuse me) the dog paddle. The funniest must have been a side stroke.
And yes, you got the words all in—covered all your bases—excellent work!
Owen ~ Not to worry. Jack is Jack in the country and always Ernest (quite!) in town.
And in the final scene, it turns out (Spoiler Alert…)
Jack was actually baptized as Ernest!
~ OMK
CanadianEh!, I hope your sweet swimmer becomes more comfortable with her maneuvers, and maybe even joins an aquatic team down the road at some point. I was terrified of being in the water when I was young, and it was only in my teens that some friends finally got me to be more comfortable and even learn how to do very simple swimming. So your swimmer reminds me of myself.
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