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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.
Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(We cannot often escape our destiny—even when we feel it unsuitable for our natural gifts or endowments…)
“(Native) Fate-ing”
However heavy,
a giant must dance & prance—
if he’s a mascot.
~ OMK
If I want to go and swing,
ReplyDeleteI can't 'cause I'm adulting.
And my work
I may not shirk,
That's the bane of adulting.
Wordle 850 3/6
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Orijinz:
ReplyDeleteDenny is in dire straits,
A repo man for her awaits.
Her robot beau
Will have to go!
Now her narrow sched has open dates!
Thanks for linking us to Orijinz, Owen. I have only dropped in on it a few times, when I’ve had the time, but I see how it fills a void that Wordle misses.
ReplyDeleteIt hasn’t been a secret that I never thought much of Wordle, with its hints plastered all over the internet. Orijinz’ hints are in its backstory or prologue, a legit part of the game. And Orijinz requires some cogitation—beyond the hit or miss gambles of Wordle’s 6 bets.
Thanks again—much appreciated!
~ OMK
I was going batty until I grew up
ReplyDeleteWordle 850 4/6*
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Adults pay a heavy price
ReplyDeleteFor vacating childhood joys,
Giving up the prancing toys,
Giant mascots and leaping mice.
Gone are the dancing boys,
The straight and narrow is now their tryst.
Owen- thanks from this corner too for the introduction to Orijinz. I did it in 1:15 today, but required one red letter correction from Are to AND to give me the first word. I noted your alternate for the S word. Bravo!
ReplyDeleteOMK- I did not go with a title today, but yours is fitting. Again I marvel at you4 ability to get all the J words into a haiku.
I have taken to adding the W and O to the J words. It gave me an added dimension today (but some days it just makes things harder).
Just in case Misty makes it here today, I’ll give her a W poem.
ReplyDeleteWhen with others I consult,
Avoid the sarcasm and insult,
I can see a better result,
And consider myself to be an _ _ _ _ _.
"Favorite Film"
ReplyDeleteGeorge had been a movie giant
never defiant, always compliant.
His favorite film was a romance
about a couple in France
who loved to prance and dance,
and had a little tot,
they treated like a mascot.
At the end of the film they were vacating,
and the movie ended up with a heavy high rating.
Nice poem today, Misty! Glad you could find the time, despite dealing with a dental date...
ReplyDeleteI am sure your French film's duo do a more appealing "prance and dance" than my heavyweight giant can manage.
~ OMK
Adulthood is rarely attractive when set against the pleasures of childhood. Your poem, CEh, itemizes several of the toys we abandon, our "heavy price" for sticking it out beyond 12, or 16, or maybe 18 years--depending on one's regional count.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you got it right on your first attempt, but today's Orijinz taught me the hard way that the Biblical spelling, "Strait," was not intended as a body of water between land masses on the narrow path to heaven.
~ OMK
Misty- glad you made it today. I enjoyed your poem. The couple in George’s movie still loved to dance and prance, and thus in view of my poem, had managed to keep some of their more childish activities going. Perhaps that tot who was treated like a mascot will be able to avoid “adulting” too. Perhaps that is why the movie rated so high - don’t we all secretly want to remain childish?
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh, I believe the preferred term is “childlike.”
ReplyDelete“Childish” is generally used to signify the less desirable traits of immaturity—impulsivity, silliness, inconsistency, &c.
By “childlike,” we mean curious, trusting, sweet-natured, and so on.
Go figure.
I don’t know who decides these things.
~ OMK