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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(Over the years, I’ve tried many things, to see if physical submersions might induce meditative or zen states. At best, some caused me to elide syllables, while some were merely agitating.
Few helped me to approach the monkish patriarchic of Tao…)
“Da Yin, Da Yang”
I actually
tried a mud bath. It made me
orn’ry, tizzy-like!
~ OMK
"Good Job"
ReplyDeleteSusan would rather work in her study
than out in the yard, getting muddy.
Her job kept her very busy,
and sometimes in a tizzy
which actually made her ornery,
something she was not born to be.
But she liked both the work,
and needed the pay,
So she did it happily,
day by day.
Susan again!
ReplyDeleteShe is getting to be a regular character in your series, Misty. I feel I’m getting to know her better with each installment—and I find myself happy with her ability to adapt to life’s little pickles.
Your 2nd stanza is really quite sweet.
~ OMK
It took me a lot of thinking to move from being irked to becoming a master of Japanese martial arts
ReplyDeleteWordle 872 4/6
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Don’t worry. I am not really thinking about leaving you all.
ReplyDeleteIn Doubt Today
My brain is muddy -
Am I an old fuddy-duddy?
I find myself in a tizzy,
Overwhelmed and dizzy.
I seem to be in a quandary
Which can make me feel ornery.
Must I actually be a poet ninja
Every day here, huh?
OMK- fabulous title! And with the backstory, your haiku made perfect sense. I like the spa idea, but mud baths are not for me either.
ReplyDeleteAnd obviously not for Misty’s Susan (yes, my favourite character!) who doesn’t care to be muddy either. I loved the rhyme of “ordinary”and “born to be”. And if you like the work and need the pay, then your job can be happy. Nice work.
In trying to incorporate the Wordle today (and my Spooner title attempt), I was sent in a negative direction, doubting my poetic proficiency. But perhaps I should write a second verse that outlines all the joy I have reaped from our conversations here and my improved ability. Thanks all.
Thank you, CEh!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked my title, story, etc.
And no, you’re hardly a fuddy-duddy.
I see you & Misty’s Susan are aligned with me in resisting the mud treatment.
I’m not sure who or what conspired to use actual mud to effect its opposite in the human condition (mud baths to “remove impurities,” mud packs to beautify!), but our little bloc all seem to call foul!
As for your concern about your “negative direction,” we all take turns doubting our darker themes—& questioning our poetic chops. That just comes with the territory, sometimes as real doubt (& sometimes as an endearing modesty).
Your skills are quite obvious to your readers.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I would hate a mud bath too. Do mud baths have anything to do with Tao? I looked it up and it sounds as though it's a tendency to seek peace and contentment or something like that. Ick! A mud bath sure wouldn't do that, would it?
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!, I liked your poet's willingness to express dis-satisfaction. Wish I could do that to keep my verses from being so gooey with cheer and happiness. And I also loved your final rhyming of 'ninja' and 'here, huh.'
Also, I'd love to try the Wordle every now and then, but have no idea how to start. OMK do your dots (of Tao ...) provide any sort of a clue? CE, do you have any idea on how to start?
Anyway, fun Jumble day--thanks, everybody
Misty- this link should take you to the Wordle site. If you can bookmark it, then you can just go back every day.
ReplyDeleteToday’s Wordle was a little different word. I used it in my poem - in fact you complimented my rhyming it with “here huh” ( I was rather pleased with that rhyme also!).
Wordle
OMK- thanks for your kind comments.
Misty- I anticipate your sunny poems.
I decided to try my hand at a haiku for my second verse today. Did I succeed?
ReplyDeletePut those doubts to rest
November blahs are to blame
I am a ninja!
Yes, CEh! That is a properhaiku.
ReplyDeleteBut there is a certain mystique to keep in mind, a step that I rarely succeed in taking. Yours is probably successful, but an absolute judgment is always in the eye of the reader/beholder.
Why?
Because the third line ought to provide some kind of twist. But not a heavy-handed one: maybe a different perspective, or (very often) a step from observing nature in the first two lines to offering a connection to human behavior in the last line. You offer a reference to "November blahs" in line 2, then surprise us with how you--a ninja--rise above the natural autumnal depression.
Or just the reverse. Some will write about human activity in lines 1 & 2, then bring in nature in the 3rd.
MOST of what I scribble can't take time to follow these thematic rules. I only claim to get the syllabic count right: 5-7-5. Yours is correct as well.
Ironically, the syllables that I rely on are of lesser importance. Many Japanese masters don't even bother with them. They usually just stick with three short lines. And English translations can't be relied on, anyway.
Here is a favorite of mine,"O Snail," by Kobayashi Issa:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
Here is one with a "proper" count by Ravi Shankar:
Life's little, our heads
sad. Redeemed and wasting clay
this chance. Be of use.
This one, by K. Hokusai, may have had the 5-7-5 count in the original. It is a good example of the switch from human activity to nature.
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
So, you are off to a good start!
Let's keep looking for ways to make our 3rd lines "flip," but maybe all we can be sure of is to--like bookkeepers--make a correct count.
~ OMK
OMK- thank you for tutoring me on haikus, and your kind appraisal of my first attempt (plus those wonderful examples). I do think that my third line did not have quite enough of a twist. Something to aspire to.
ReplyDeleteI still do not know how you manage to make a (usually) understandable haiku out of J words.