| grove, berth, spiral, inward, bridge partners.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Ship was leaving, Tom was in his berth.
That was the last he'd see of Earth.
Off to a star their trek was aimed.
They were excited, who could be blamed!
The crew would sleep thru several years,
Auto systems operating the "gears".
Tom would have his turn on the bridge,
They were all partners on this far-out gig.
Tom's duty came as they neared a planet.
Spiraling inward to land as they plan it,
The ship skids to a stop in an alien grove,
Leaving a groove of trees it has mowed.
(To be continued?)
I like the poem, especially the first verse, for its flow and because it uses "trek". I'm envisioning the continuation with great anticipation.
The jumble wasn't a big problem, though I did have to rearrange the letters for the third and fourth clues before they became obvious. For the solution, I was, as always, tempted to go with "ing", but as soon as that was rejected the answer was very clear. Funny omission of the "g" on the cartoon almost led me to think it was meant.
Wonderful poem, Owen! I wondered how you would combine such disparate words and as usual you did so brilliantly. I can't wait for the rest of the story.
The Jumble provided a bit of a challenge for the final solve. The descrambling was easy enough and once I looked hard at the picture the first word of the solve emerged and like Sandyanon I thought -ing might figure but I had already used the G then the answer became obvious.
I had a little trouble only with the third word of the Jumble, but was able to get the solution without any problem at all, thanks to the fun cartoon with its unusual setting, which made the first word pretty obvious to me. That made me see my mistake in the third word, and I was able to fix it easily at that point. Then came to Owen's delightful poem, and there they were, all four words, and the two words of the solution. Great Jumble to start our morning--many thanks!
As a native San Franciscan, I immediately trace the trajectory of the players.
The green beneath them suggests that they are in a patch of lawn within the boundaries of the Presidio. But I don't see the silhouette of Fort Point which, given the short distance indicated by the "grass," should be present.
Where's the Sand?
Another examination makes me see the distance as greater than I first thought.
They are closer to my home, I think, and close enough to the bay that they should be in that little sandy beach just to the west of Yacht Harbor.
I used to write poetry on that beach (just beatnik stuff, Owen, pre-hippie free-form) and watch the sun go down beyond the bridge.
(Who's homesick...?)
~ OMK
Lucina ~
Obviously the cartoon could have used your "G"--just to complete the missing word in its caption.
Quick, everybody: Why is the bridge called the "Golden Gate"?
Ans. - Not because of its reddish-gold paint.
And no, not, as some would have it, because Sir Francis Drake anchored his ship the Golden Hind nearby in 1577.
No, the strait it spans was first called the Golden Gate by then-Captain John C. Fremont when he first saw it in 1846. (Note: this was before the gold rush of '49.) As he explains in his report of 1848, "To this Gate I gave the name of 'Chrysopylae' or 'Golden Gate' for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.”
~ OMK
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