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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(Sometimes tourists find the prettiest views are the ones on the reception rooms’ walls.
Some can be truly breathtaking, as in…)
“What a Bombshell!”
How sleek the shiny
lagoon, seen publicly in
a sweet suite mural!
~ OMK
When we've got a steady beat,
ReplyDeleteThat's the time to move our feet!
Let us be merry,
If temporary,
Tomorrow's pace won't be so neat.
Wordle 856 3/6
⏱️⏱️⏱️🎶🎶
🎼🎼⏱️⏱️⏱️
🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
Had a disastrous phone crash yesterday. Recovery of OwenKL is proceeding slowly.
ReplyDeleteFLN—Friday CanadianEh! You may not get this for a while, according to your posting of a probable absence. Still, I want to thank you for remembering to remind me of my writing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I made a little improvement last week. (Emphasis on “little.”)
I dug up hundreds of pages that need review, editing, and rewriting. It seems I have been laboring for so long on my project, parts of it have grown outdated.
I revised the first chapter, and added some footnotes to explain that the theater I listed as temporarily closing may well be reopened by the time readers get their hands on the book.
But such is the nature of writing about theater, the most ephemeral of the arts…
~ OMK
Also FLN ~ Thanks, Misty, for your notes on John Donne yesterday.
ReplyDeleteTruth is, while I admire Donne’s work, I cannot rank him among my most favored poets or sermonizers.
I wrote him in because his surname rhymes with the 1st syllable of “Monday.”
(I am always searching for a rhyme that doesn’t repeat “Sunday” or “fun day”!)
When his name popped up, I thought him perfect because of his contrast—or polarization—of topics.
My favorite couplet:
“He was the nonpareil & sine qua non
of all that was either stern or fun”!
A neat legacy, eh?
~ OMK
I was dancing with too much foot noise until I got the beat.
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⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Glad to see you back Owen (even if Anonymous).
ReplyDeleteI recognized the W poem as being your work. And I see the W hidden in your fourth line. Interesting to see it in that word that I would not associate with it immediately.
I am ruminating on the word meaning/origin, as I do see a “ time” connection.
OK, I LIUed - same Latin word origin.
OMK- I’m glad to hear that you were able to do some work on your project. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to think of the work required, but a little progress every day/week can make the final outcome seem more manageable. I will keep asking periodically (sometimes we just need someone to hold our feet to the fire!).
ReplyDeleteWooHoo! I got the Orijinz all on my own in 21 seconds without any clue from Owen.
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Shinny is an informal game of hockey played on ice. But per the signage, it will not be happening here, as the words give a
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From his upscale hotel suite,
Shiny ice beckoned skaters to meet.
But the sign posted across the street
Slowed the tempo of his heartbeat.
“Public access to Lagoon restricted”!
Still, childhood memories left him conflicted.
But knowing he was grasping at straws,
He was forced to obey the laws.
"Sweet Suite"
ReplyDeleteSusan lived in a brand-new suite
she loved, and kept very neat.
The place was a little tiny,
but the windows and mirrors were shiny.
It was near a public park,
which for Susan was a lark,
and not far from a lagoon
which captured the light of the moon.
She considered this haven her nutshell,
a place she would never sell.
Ol' Man Keith, loved your sleek and shiny lagoon haiku, and also your sine qua non couplet. But I would love to hear more about the book you're working on. I gather it will deal with theater--and maybe your own experiences in theater over the years? Would be wonderful to learn more about that, and keep us posted on how it's going? I'll buy a copy as soon as it's out--or before, if possible.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I'll try to follow your advice to "let us be merry."
My goodness, CanadianEh!, you're certainly back in full swing, after you partial absence yesterday! Would you tell me again what a W word is? I still don't get it? Anyway, I loved how you worked all the Jumble words into your delightful verse. Except it took me a minute to find the solution, but when I found it in your title, it just cracked me up. A total pleasure, thank you so much.
I am sorry for your poem's shinny fan,CEh!
ReplyDeleteI guess even "upscale" friends of the sport are excluded from watching it.
Or does the sign mean that even players are forbidden?!
My thanks to you for supporting my on-and-off-again writing labor--and to Misty as well for the encouragement. I may have brought the topic up too soon, as I can't yet envision an actual publication.
I tend to place quotation marks around the very notion of my "book," as its shape is still unclear. When I began it, it was to be based on all the mistakes I made that gave way to corrections--on the working theory that the lessons we take to heart are the ones gained in that manner: "correcting for error."
Since then I have found that many of the lessons I taught over the years did NOT come from that source. I can't fit some of my best recollections into that model, so I need to find a fresh through-line or go with a scattershot bunch of essays.
Grrr.
Susan's suite brings her joy, no matter how small. Size is never the main factor; we can only see so far at a time.
Sometimes it all depends on where we place our favorite chair!
And how lovely to be near both a park and a lagoon!
~ OMK
Thank you so much for telling us about your project, Ol' Man Keith. We will keep our fingers crossed that the challenges it offers will gradually be worked out. Our thoughts and hearts will be with you.
ReplyDeleteMisty- I like your homonym title. Susan’s suite sounds ideal even though small. And it would definitely be easier to keep neat and shiny. I’m not sure about considering it her nutshell (cozy?), but as you said yesterday, we have to use the words we are given.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments. I am happy to bring a smile.
I use the first letter as short form for Jumble, Wordle and Orijinz. (The W word is the Wordle of the day)
My poem includes all the J words, plus the W and the O phrase.
Owen is the Anonymous @1:13am. Hope he gets his phone problem remedied.
OMK- sadly, the sign means that nobody is allowed on the ice. Probably due to safety and insurance issues - lawsuits if anyone fell through the ice.
Keep plugging at that book. Even a series of essays might eventually find a theme.
Oh dear, I missed going back to read OMK’s haiku. (I always wait until I have completed my own poem.) I see that Misty used his homonym. His Bombshell title is great. It is interesting that the beautiful murals may be more impressive than the real thing.
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