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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(IRL I used to dance the contest limbo. Today’s haiku is inspired by one of the songs to which we moved: “Wish that I could shimmy like my sister Kate.”
Yes, it was important for us to limbo “low as you can go,” but also…)
“From Side to Side”
Wish I could limbo
with rift & rafter… Shimmy
fleet as my pal, Pete!
~ OMK
Misty ~ Your acquisition of English was a truly delightful experience. A two-week voyage with playmates!
By contrast, my early years were land locked, and when I got around to learning German, it took me three years of school study, plus a summer at the Universitaet Wien.
Even so, I doubt I would’ve been able to skip a grade!
As it is, I count myself lucky that, for our time at least, English has become the world’s lingua franca.
~ OMK
“Best Before” shelf dates indicate freshness and flavour. Can this be applied to aging?
From Prime (to Old) Time
Would I could limbo
Or even shimmy;
Perhaps be fleet of foot.
But I’m still thrifty!
OMK- oh, those memories of the days when our bodies would actually allow us to limbo! The T J-word was my outlier, and I see you cleverly disguised it. Our first lines are almost identical, but I used the W.
"Busy Street"
One of Tom's virtues was his thrift,
which his wife considered a wonderful gift.
They lived on a busy street,
with cars driving by in a fleet.
This made them feel in limbo,
as if they had no place to go.
Retired Tom did shimmy from time to time,
and did sometimes on his rooftop climb.
But the couple were still a happy man and wife
at this quiet time on a busy street in their life.
Ol' Man Keith, how cool that you got to spend a summer at the University of Vienna.
And, yes, we're so lucky to have English as our language these days! Enjoyed your haiku--thanks for that too.
Loved your verse on aging, CanadianEh!. Not a bad time in life, I'd say.
Smart of you, CanadianEh, to turn to the kind of virtue in which we can still excel. Yes, Thrift was the outlier, and you chose to hit it head on. My choice required me to find a use for the kind of shimmying that belongs to river rafting.
And so we grow...
Misty's poem started off with Thrift. That way, she could leave it behind instead of having to find a spot for it after her main theme.
Smart gal!
But I take it that his thrift was at least partly responsible for their comfortable retirement, so it became part of her main topic: love & marriage.
~ OMK
Misty- Tom has the gift of thrift, but I fear for him climbing on the roof in his retirement. But if he can still shimmy, he may still be agile enough to avoid an accident. May he and his wife continue to enjoy their quiet time on their busy street. Lovely ending.
Thank you both for your lovely verses and your incredibly kind comments!
Have a good rest of the evening.
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