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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.
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Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Today’s J-words lead me to reflect on the likes of Evel Knievel. He sensibly gave up leaping his motorcycle over great distances & dangers, such as over bodies of water, after his disaster at Wembley.
Despite pop fame, such thrill specialists don’t always survive. Their hospital stays sometimes end in the morgue…)
“(Take a) Stab (at leaping) a Bight”
Some exact traumas
as a hobby, mingling re-
hab & I. C. Us.
~ OMK
Impressive, not dreary or miserable today.
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Which to choose? A saccharine romance or
ReplyDeleteBleak House?
If reading is your hobby,
You know well the dilemma
Of deciding exactly which book to grab.
Some folks might strongly lobby
For plots full of trauma.
Others think it best to nab
Stories that mingle pathos and pain,
With sunnier bites of unrivalled gain.
OMK- great title (I had to look up Bight). And “mingling rehab and I. C. Us” was brilliant. I have always wondered about those daredevils as I have a risk-adverse.
ReplyDeleteI gave up on a Spooner title and was influenced by the W. it is interesting that the same words lead us all in slightly different directions as we create our offerings. (I was not familiar with the O phrase today, and only used part of it.)
Let me predict that Misty will brighten our day and give us a sunny poem where the hero(ine) mingles with people who may have or cause trauma, but some hobby (maybe knitting) will help them overcome and find (wedded) happiness. It will certainly not be Bleak House.
"Hotel Visits"
ReplyDeleteHelen's favorite hotel hobby
was to mingle with folks in the lobby.
She would information exact,
and jot down any interesting fact.
Her visits created no trauma,
and she enjoyed using the sauna.
At lunch she would grab a bite,
and then go out and fly a kite.
The hotel found her visits a treasure
and for Helen the place was a pleasure.
Misty- your poem was not exactly what I had predicted. I loved the change of pace with Helen having a hotel hobby. (Was Helen going to write a book with all those interesting facts she jotted down?)
ReplyDeleteI was correct about her mingling with people, but there was no trauma, but rather a sauna, food, kite flying. Wow, it certainly wasn’t Bleak House, as Helen found that hotel a treasure. Bravo!
CanadianEh! ~ You show wisdom in your discussion regarding how the given words lead us in our varied directions. I went all-out on the pro-risk folk, the daredevils who don't seem to care how much damage they do to themselves (and families, truth be told).
ReplyDeleteYour poem takes the middle ground, an objective stance where you acknowledge plots that "mingle pathos and pain" as well as those "... bites of unrivaled gain."
And you predicted that Misty, true to form, would offer a "sunny poem," definitely "not... Bleak House."
Indeed, her Helen is presented as a welcome visitor to an otherwise normal hotel lobby where her visits elicit "no trauma" because she "information exact(s)"--thus presumably getting strangers to know one another as she mingles among them. She joins them in the sauna (!) and also lets them observe her kite-flying antics, etc.
Actually, Misty's piece is proof that we are NOT locked into a specific meaning for any of the given words. Why not? Because we need only use a simple word or two to negate a dark word like "trauma."
Her example is simply "no trauma."
Perfect.
~ OMK
OMK, the things you learn on this blog! Never heard of "bight" and had no idea what it was. Looked it up just now, and it appears to be a curve or recess on a coastline. Never thought I'd learn the meaning of words like this in my late seventies. But thanks for the education!
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!, I enjoyed your verse and wonder what are your favorite books? Which of your options would you choose? I bet you read them both, because you clearly are open to lots of differences, and it would make sense that that would also influence your reading. Would love to get your response.
And thank you both for your very kind comments about my verse, which was not totally easy, given the differences in the J words. But I loved your responses--you've made my day!
Misty- I like a variety of reading material. I like to keep up on the news, both local and international with my newspaper and Macleans (our Canadian news magazine). I like to read biographies, historical fiction, mysteries, action/adventure but not science fiction.or fantasy. I am currently reading the new Grisham novel, The Exchange. The plot currently is full of trauma, but I hope for sunnier bites to prevail.
ReplyDeleteThe scope of your reading is absolutely amazing, CanadianEh!! Thank you so much for letting me know. I'll try to keep your scope in mind and maybe try to improve my own reading field in the future.
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