Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit

Saturday, October 7, 2023

7 OCT 2023

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for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it!
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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.

9 comments:

  1. Today’s Jumble haiku:
    (Music is funny. The different instruments at different times can sound sweet or rough, and one instrument [or orchestral section] can “comment” on another, sometimes ironically.
    Today’s melody offers an example with its…)

    Wry Notes

    The viola hums
    smoothly, as harsh reeds vanish
    from purged memory.
    ~ OMK

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  2. Violins on the stage begin to tune up.
    In the chamber, seating starts filling up.
    Overhead, in clamps
    Lights ignite in lamps,
    And soon the audience will be lifted up!

    Wordle 840 6/6

    🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
    🤫🪻🪻🤫🤫
    🪻🤫🤫🪻🪻
    🪻🪻🤫🤫🪻
    🪻🤫🎻🤫🎻
    🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

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  3. Orijinz:
    Is there any doubt that on this day
    Tea Party lunatics are holding sway?
    Congress hasn't seen such fringe
    Since Davy Crockett walked in
    In his deerskin outfit cut that way!

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  4. "Editorial Problems"

    The editor was harsh
    and did articles often purge.
    This made the writers upset,
    and they decided to merge.

    They asked the company
    the editor to banish,
    and within a month,
    he was fired and did vanish.

    The new editor found
    their writing smooth,
    and this did their spirits
    greatly soothe.

    They now visualize new scopes
    and, as writers, have high hopes.

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  5. Very clever, Misty!
    I believe this is the first time you have used an ABCB rhyme scheme. It gives you freedom (rhyming only the 2nd & 4th lines) and the variety that comes with loose quatrains followed by a tight closing couplet.
    Just as your writers see greater opportunities with a new editor, your own talents can stretch further!
    Brava!
    ~ OMK
    ____________
    PS.
    Today’s W number is 3. But you knew that!

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  6. Woohoo! Once again I got it, Ol Man Keith--but thanks to your haiku rather than your clue.
    Wordle 840 1/6

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    Still, many many thanks. I could never, ever get these without your help!

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  7. Owen, your delightful verse makes me want to go to a concert and hear the lovely music. Would love to hear those violins, and also OMK's viola.

    We miss you, CanadianEh!. Hope you're enjoying a wonderful weekend with family.

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  8. Ol' Man Keith, I forgot to thank you for your incredibly kind comment about my verse today. I can't remember anyone ever commenting on the structure of one of my poems (unless you've probably already done so in the past). But your comment today makes me feel wonderful, and makes me realize I should start paying a lot more attention to my poetic structure. On this blog I'm totally preoccupied with how to fit the Jumble words and solution into a verse, and it's the story plot, not the poetic elements, that have all my attention. But, as I say, I'll start keeping your comments in mind from now on. Thank you, thank you, again.

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  9. You are more than welcome, Misty!
    You know we old professors love it when a comment of ours hits home, when a recipient finds it of value and feels all the stronger for it!
    And I am happy to know my haiku bore W-fruit. Of course, my clue & haiku were one and the same.
    In future, I won’t bother counting off the number of 5-letter words for you.
    Just know, I will attempt to post the Wordle as one of the poem’s 5-letter words. If you only see one, that will be it!
    ~ OMK

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