mirth, light, unless, exhale, smash hit.|
| absorb, midair, oriole, mosaic, unpaid, turnip, "pail" in comparison.
Images from the Internet.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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It might be nice if I could be a clown,
Flow with the circus, town to town.
Spreading mirth to both young and old
With hi-jinx silly, nutty and bold!
No violence unless it's Punch and Judy,
When the slapstick gets to do its duty!
Judy punches with such a smash and a crack,
Punch does a somersault and can't hit back!
Keeping things light with comic relief
Between the acrobats straining belief.
Audiences holding breath at their flight,
Then all exhale with laughs and delight!
Ah, your poem evokes memories of circuses past.
Funny, though, I never saw an actual Punch and Judy show. They only existed in picture books and movies for me.
The only violence I ever saw was performed by the clowns--using slap sticks and firecrackers.
I recall being at one tent circus, a real big top, when I was very young. I think it was advertised as a Clyde Beatty wild animal show. All the rest were in big indoor arenas.
Oops, I take that back. I took my son once to the tent erected at Lincoln Center in NY: a fine one-ring circus.
~ OMK
Well, the LA Times has a different Jumble cartoon than the one you displayed and that inspired your poem, Owen. But no problem--the one in the newspaper was a toughie, but thank goodness the LA Times offers us an upside down solution, so I was able to look up the words and the punch line. I forgot to say I also really enjoyed your crossword poems, Owen, and always love your fun commentaries, Ol'Man Keith. Have a great Sunday, everybody.
Enjoyed the j4 poem you wrote, Owen. I vaguely remember a tented circus when I was very young, but mostly indoor ones. They were all fun and exciting, but I guess that they're mostly gone now. Except for Cirque du Soleil, which I've never seen.
The jumble was quite easy, and the solution was clear once all the letters were in place.
I did the Sunday, j6 puzzle on the Chicago Tribune site. Had trouble only with clue 2, which I finally had to look up. But with all the letters available, and after realizing that the first word of the solution was the pun and probably related to the word missing from the cartoon, the solution wasn't too difficult.
I do miss having a j6 poem, Owen, but I'm grateful you felt well enough to do the j4. Thank you so much for your continuing efforts.
Aeee! Today was 2-puzzle day!I TOTALLY forgot! I shall look up the j6 immediately!! BTW, the j4 cartoon is the one in the paper, but I did take the liberty of coloring it on my own.
Christopher, the master glazier, admired his masterpiece:
A stained glass mosaic of a world in total peace!
At top a gliding oriole, floating in midair.
At the bottom, in comparison, turnips ripen there.
And in between is Adam, with a pail collecting fruit
From orchard trees above him, with multicolored loot.
Christopher did it with love, unpaid, just to achieve
This absorbing tranquil scene entitled "Eve of Eve".
Lovely j6 poem, Owen. Tranquillity and total peace . . . Then, I assume, Eve came along. I think that the ones who wrote Genesis were pretty misogynistic, don't you?
Certainly the ones interpreting it. I just solved the J4 looking at it with no jots. Earlier I had mentally solved a few sixes but I can see from the poem that some jotting would've been necessary.
Let's look at that serene scene and see if I can grok the solution.
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Yep there it was as Sandy suggested, the word omitted from the illustration followed (or preceded) by the long word
I spent the weekend in the hospital having my "rushes" diagnosed. We're going to cut back on the beta blocker although my BP was consistently high and my pulse 47-50
Kidneys may not be processing the meds which are building up and slowing the heart.
WC
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