| || spell, tasty, subdue, winery, "wetted" bliss.
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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.
12 comments:
That is truly a groaner of a pun!
No problem with the clues, and once I had all the letters, no problem with the solution either. I actually did groan when I saw it, though.
Just got my internet and cable back; Spectrum had been out from mid afternoon on!!!
Glad you got back on line, Sandy! It's remarkable how dependent we've become on our internet.
"Wet Your Whistle?"
-or-
"One Wetted Miss"
She knew that alcohol induced a spell
in which she'd flush bright red & flail away
& scream like a banshee!--knew it all too well.
And yet this winery produced a Chardonnay
so tasty, crisp, and to the point she found
it irresistible. The vintner, caught
off guard, was shocked at first but, sound
of heart & mindful of the first aid taught
to him in 4H years ago, pursued
her with a 2-by-4 until she was subdued.
~ OMK
"Mermaid Love"
The mermaid was under a spell,
her new boyfriend treated her well,
with food she found tasty,
especially the pastry.
She ate, and she chewed,
full of joy, all subdued.
Then, to add to the finery,
a trip to a winery.
They jumped into a vat
where he gave her a pat,
and a bedded kiss
for their wedding bliss.
Cool. You flipped the solution neatly, M., through the halves of your final couplet.
~ OMK
I enjoy the poetry, and applaud the creativity and energy of the poetizers.
But (you knew there'd be a "but", right?), I really like to read about others' experiences with the jumbles, their approaches, problems, etc. Of course, Owen's poems were an integral part of the blog from the beginning, but I do hope that comments will not be eclipsed by poetry.
You mean which words were easy, which harder to crack? And what we might think of the cleverness of the solution or lack thereof? Or maybe the aesthetics of the cartoon?
Sure. Well, this was easy throughout. I saw the noun pop out right away, and the adjective that usually goes with it followed right on. Not hard to change the double "d"s to "t"s. It was a good enough "groaner."
As for the cartoon, it was cute, although I wondered at the round brain" in the lower corner...
My main challenge wasn't the poem (proud of its propulsive rhythm though I am), but how to cue the solution. You know I usually go for a rhyme. But that didn't work exactly, except for one word. I didn't solve it to my satisfaction.
~ OMK
Yes, it was an easy jumble, though I needed all the clue letters to reorganize.
Don't you think, OMK, that the round thing in the cartoon is just a particularly ugly piece of coral?
I don't think there's a whole lot you can do with "bliss", except maybe "kiss"? Quite a feat underwater!
Sandy, many thanks for your kind question.
I always begin by drawing a chart for all the words that might rhyme with the Jumble words and solution:
spell tasty subdue[d] winery wetted bliss
bell hasty chewed finery betted miss
cell pasty wooed feted hiss
tell wast-y nude headed kiss
and many more--although not for 'winery,' as you can see.
These words then suggest the poem topic to me--in this case food and eating and romance and therefore a happy topic. And, of course, the underwater cartoon suggested making it about a mermaid. Hope this helps.
Sandy, in my draft I had all the across words separated by about 5 spaces but for reasons I don't understand, they were all presented with just a single space between them. Here they in across form:
spell, bell, cell, tell
tasty, hasty, pasty, wast-y
subdued, chewed, wooed, nude
winery, finery
wetted, betted, feted, headed
bliss, miss, hiss, kiss
I settled on "Miss" for the alternate title to my little decastich, "A Wetted Miss".
Awkward, I know.
I used to do SCUBA. Not much underwater kissing. We were trained to share air with our buddies, but that's as far as it went.
~ OMK
Misty ~ The online grammar correction also tightens up your spacing automatically.
I'm one of those old school types who likes to separate my sentences with two spaces, but the program doesn't allow it.
Sometimes you want to indent several spaces, as you do to line up your columns and when I want to separate stanzas but show that the meter should carry over by aligning the first line of the next stanza with the end of the preceding stanza.
The program doesn't allow for that.
That's why you'll sometimes see me using a series of colons to position a subsequent line, viz. : : : : : :
~ OMK
Ah, poetry on the computer. Ol'Man Keith, I can guarantee you I loved reading and writing about poetry, but had zero interest in ever writing any of it myself, until I came to this blog. And then, slowly, slowly, you guys got me started on it and now it feels like a regular morning activity to me.
But I understand Sandy's interest in maybe talking about Jumble's other offerings, of art, and ideas, and humor, without having to poeticize (is that a word) it. So I'll try to do that too. Wish we could get the Jumble cartoonists to check in--wouldn't that be fun!
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