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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(Some of the wealthier & mannerly citizens of our community understand “Ill-mannered” as a polite way to declare when those of their class are lacking in funds or…)
“Insolvent”
When income dried up,
each needy mortal in town
took to ladled meals.
~ OMK
"Silly Son"
ReplyDeleteNancy's little boy was very needy,
crying, demanding, and very greedy.
Even when he still slept in a cradle,
his mother had to feed him with a ladle.
He was a bit of a mortal pain,
both silly and dumb, and obnoxiously vain.
Taking care of him cost a pretty big sum
and took a chunk out of Nancy's income.
But in his teens he became less ill-mannered,
And on her birthday, gave his mother a thankful banner.
What a rascal, Nancy’s child!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, Misty, knowing your pattern, I was waiting for—anticipating!—his couplet of redemption by your 3rd line. Happily, the finale brought Nancy a degree of relief!
I’m sure she was determined to keep him—before he reached adulthood.
Interesting, how differently we interpreted “ladle.”
You saw its handle as a way to feed a kid who wouldn’t help himself.
For me, it was a sign of a Red Cross food line.
I wonder how CEh or, hopefully, Owen may go with it…?
~ OMK
I was full of deceitful cunning until my interest was aroused.
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I guessed today's Orijinz in just 02:17 and revealed 3 letters.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea about the background of this word.
Orijinz
Here’s a Wordle poem for Misty
ReplyDeleteYou may climb to the highest peak
Or into the forest sneak
Just watch where you take a leak
Or the ranger’s attention you will _ _ _ _ _
Some superstitions may have a grain of truth. Is malaria prevented by the netting or being
ReplyDeleteMill-inered?
My interest was piqued
By the ancient belief
That bad air from the marsh
Ladled up malaria harsh.
To prevent mortal illness in that setting,
A clever but needy seamstress
Began to make hats with netting.
She met with great success,
And she was not fretting.
Her income was soaring!
Yes, OMK, Ladle was the “odd word out” today. Mine was serving malaria out of the marsh. I must admit that this came from using the O word in my poem and backstory.
ReplyDeleteI see that you did not attempt a Spooner, but used the J reveal in your backstory. The imagery of the soup kitchen was strong in your haiku. Unfortunately the number of needy mortals whose income has dried up (or is not keeping up to inflation) seems to be increasing drastically.
Misty- I see that “sort of” happy ending - but Nancy’s boy was only “less ill-mannered” instead of polite all the time. But after all his terrible actions and cost from his infancy to teen years, I’m sure she is happy with even less than perfect improvement. She should hold that banner high as a sign of her survival.
And I smiled at the thought of feeding that cradle-sized infant with a ladle. Sounds messy to me!
Ach. I wrote comments to OMK and Misty, and they have disappeared into thin air. I did enjoy you both.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a while,CEh, because my memory of how to do it is unreliable. But I managed to recover your "censored" comments.
ReplyDeleteGood for you, trying to make a Spooner work...
Your poem was exceptionally creative, both in your use of "ladle" and in the notion of a seamstress concocting those netting hats that we see in the movies.
And although you are right (sadly) in lamenting the drying up of incomes, you also remind us that even in the worst of times, creative souls can prosper.
May we always be the makers of nettings to keep insects out (than the bugs clamoring to get in!).
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I enjoyed your haiku, and hope that your poor folks got a healthy dinner.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for your kind comment about Nancy and her boy.
CanadianEh!, so glad that your kind seamstress got well-rewarded for her helpful and clever invention.
I also liked your Wordle verse and thought that the right Wordle answer would be the word "freak." It worked poorly, with only the "e" being correct and not in that place. Should I have looked for a word that didn't rhyme with the others? I'd love to start doing better, so any suggestions will be a help.
Hi Owen, hope you're well, and that you'll visit again when you have a chance.
It does rhyme with the others, Misty. In fact, it is a perfect homophone of one of CEh's preceding words.
ReplyDeleteIt is not a common word, so you may have to work to get this one.
That should give you enough extra clues to ease your path. Otherwise, you might use trial & error in the normal wordle manner.
~ OMK
Thanks OMK, for getting me out of the Bot’s banishment. Hopefully, that Bot will keep lik8ng me for a while. I had gotten less careful about copying m6 posts “just in case”.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments on my poem.
Misty- the Wordle was a less familiar word today with a French origin. I actually used a homonym of it at the end of the first line of my Wordle hint poem. And I used the past tense of it at the end of the first line of my other poem. Hope that helps,