| rebel, gamut, beckon, asthma, talk (up a) storm. |
| spigot, expose, import, dredge, heaven, fierce, recipe for disaster.
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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.
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Ian would be a wizard, tho forbidden in his shire,
And much against the wishes of his guardian grand-sire.
But as a skinny stripling, asthmatic and myopic,
What else could he do was a daunting topic!
A rebel in his ways, though ill-equipped to fight,
Desire conquered reason, and he prepared for flight.
Thus he bid farewell to the companions of his youth,
To seek a mentor for his wizarding quest, forsooth!
His choices ran a gamut from hedge-witch to magus,
From evil to esthete, from puritanical to chaos!
One that beckoned was the weather-warlock, Norm,
Just by talking, he could raise or quell a storm!
Ian learned from Norm the how-to of witching water,
A drop from a spigot, to dredging sewers like an auger.
He learned spells both trivial, and of great import.
How to waft the wind, and sculpt how clouds contort.
He mastered recipes for weather potions and elixirs
That he could sell to others for usage as self-fixers.
For him, the fierce tornadoes frisked about like puppies.
If they tended to disaster, he'd tame them to fuzzies.
He graduated master of the heavens, clouds and sky
Then returned to the shire he left in years gone by.
There he did no wizardry to expose himself to flack --
Except a purifying wind to stave off his asthma attack!
Well, I got all the Jumble theme words except for the third one. So, thank you, Owen--your poem gave me that one too. But the solution stumped me except for the middle word. I just loved this cartoon drawing--the children watching television in the background, the husbands with different and the wives with different hair-dos and outfits, a Christmas wreath and a Christmas tree in the background, and the Christmas decorations including a little snowman on one of the women's tops. I just wish so much we could have gotten this Jumble cartoon in color--that would have been a total delight.
Owen, I love both the poems, or maybe I should call it one long poem story. You fitted in all those words into one coherent narrative, and I do admire Ian's persistence.
Thanks.
Ian is the subject again 8/12/21.
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