| || cross, pinch, sunken, poetry, one "truck" pony.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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Some days a crossword will help to enlighten,
Keep the gears rolling and wing-nuts tighten!
Other days, when solutions don't fit, and pinch,
The brain seems to fog, concentration's a jinx!
If I'm sunken in spirits, a spirit comes to rescue!
Erato or Thalia, one or the other come as if on cue!
They don't truck with my being depressed for long,
They press me to write them a humorous song!
Lyrics and laughter are the Muses they be,
And they pony up their inspirations to me.
Puzzles may be in the realm of the Sphinx
But Jumbles and jigsaws are poetry, I think!
I must not have been feeling well. Slept for ~22 hours from Wed evening to Thursday, and then was groggy for several hours after that! But feeling fine now. All I had for yesterday's poem before I fell asleep was
Big Nate was in a snit, I fears.
He's been in sixth grade for 28 years!
His Sunday strips are in my local paper, but not the daily ones.
Very glad to know that you are ok, Owen. Although 22 hours is a really long time.
Also glad to see a poem today; you have made lemonade out of lemons, it seems and turned your personal experience into poetry. Entertaining, clever poetry.
The jumble wasn't difficult. It even related to your muse!
So glad that you're back and feeling okay, Owen. And what a delightful, engaging poem you've given us. I got the first three Jumble words right away, but had trouble with the fourth--and then was embarrassed to discover what it was, since I'm a literary critic. And the solution eluded me, since I'm not into cars, I guess. But still a lot of fun.
I knocked off the J at my usual Winn Dixie hangout. There's a real old-timer there and he asked for help with the Riddle-Solution.
Btw, tsk, tsk Misty. What would TS Eliot etal say if they knew you missed that #4.
Anyway. I pointed at the "pickups" and said "What are those?". I never got to a horse synonym. And. . When I showed him the solution he still didn't get it.
Then I can tried to explain it, no way. Then I offered to bet him a coffee.* I even went to Owen's poem hoping the solution was apparent (and rightfully so it's not).
It's a complicated pun off a somewhat familiar expression for people who have one talent, and one only.
Btw, the JeffWesch was tricky today
WC
* The coffee is free at Winn Dixie anyway
You know, Misty, I don't think it needed knowledge of cars so much as memory of the idiom, "one-trick pony". Remember that phrase??
I'm not sure "one trick pony" ever crossed my knowledge of expressions, Sandyanon. And, Wilbur, I hope T.S. Eliot would forgive me, given my (not yet too great) seniority.
Really glad to see you back, Owen, and refreshed from your long slumber.
I think you are onto something with your concluding Xwd/Jumble/Poetry observation.
For some obscure reason, today's solution reminded me of an old Speech Class note--that when the following sentence was broadcast by the BBC back in the 1940s, in what we call British RP speech ("Received Pronunciation," sometimes jokingly referred to as the Royal Family handicap), listeners would not be able to tell whether the young recipient received an equine pet... or a flower.
Say it aloud in your best snooty accent, and see (hear) for yourself:
"For her birthday, Princess Margaret was given a pony."
Not a good rhyme today, but irresistible anyway: ah, the puny plucky peony...
Language! It's a virus! :/:
~ OMK
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