| || final, rough, rookie, wisdom, word of honor.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
9 comments:
The rough draft is the first effort.
Unpolished, incomplete, unended.
A rookie story, still to learn its way,
Words of pathos, bathos unintended.
The beta draft, adding flesh to bone,
Giving it honorable words and tone.
Cutting out all extraneous gab-bage,
And tag on an ending, sweet or savage.
Then the final story, draft no more.
This is the form to go out the door.
Infused with wisdom, a plot in store.
At last, it's what the readers look for!
A description of a standard three-part development. And yet, like so very many of my poems, not mine at all. I write all in a single effort. Oh, I do go back over it and smooth out a phrase here or there, check for typos, add or delete a word to help the metric flow. But not enough to really call it a second draft, just a slight editing revision.
And yet, these three verses develop. XAYA, AABB, AAAA. Did you notice?
Thanks for this insight into process, Owen. There is so much craft and development behind your art, and a discipline on an order seldom seen, especially as you must include four to six random words in each of your works. We know their very strangeness can serve as inspiration, and yet they must also feel like a curse at times.
A timely jumble today. It deals with the dignity that should be awarded to all who serve their country. Sadly, it is not as widely understood these days as it used to be. In certain venues it has all but vanished--like the dodo, that poor, extinct bird, a goner.
~ OMK
Keith, you should try harder for those Spoonerisms. For instance, when dodo's were dying, they lost their coloration, so the last bunch of them were a herd of wanner.
And you could branch out to the other words. A rhinoceros plushie toy would have rhino fluff, and a Star Wars character turned comedian would exhibit Wookie risdom.
Yes, I did enjoy the poem, which I thought was very skillfully done. The jumble was very easy, as the clues seemed obvious and the solution sort of wrote itself.
Lovely Jumble to celebrate the day. Enjoyed your poem, Owen, and all the Spoonerisms, if that's what they are, generated by you and Ol'Man Keith. Very enjoyable.
Brilliant, Owen!
Your herd of wanner is a true spooner and gave me both an audible chuckle & a twinge of jealousy at your superior artistry!
I wish I had your way of milking words for their full worth. I can't quite see my way to the neologisms that can really make a zinger. I plug away in my late night hour, happy to settle for whatever echo I can find. I think I'll stick to the solution rhymes--as they're all I can handle for now.
~ OMK
Owen ~ Oops!
I was so impressed by your herd of wanner, I overlooked the phonetic problem. We are so used to visual postings that we let the written word take precedence over the true sound of language. The "h" of the solution word is silent, and so isn't it only fitting that a spoonerism should be mute as well?
Let me see if I can help:
He was an announcer who prided himself on always enunciating clearly. By eliding “want to,” however, he erred* of “wanna.”
~ OMK
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*Merriam-Webster's second pronunciation
Oops. I thought I posted. I needed solution to get one of the J's.
WC
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