| || pixel, river, fewest, non-fat, fit (the) profile.
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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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Sadie was so thin that she vanished when not in profile.
Just a few pixels wide, she could slip thru a turnstile!
To say she was non-fat would be an understatement,
She was a freak, but with that she was content.
She could wade a shallow river with the greatest of ease.
The current couldn't take her, she had no width to seize!
She had fewer problems than was maybe the norm,
Except to find a dress that would fit her slender form!
"Profile in Nourish(ment)"
I used to enjoy absorbing the print
on cartons of milk as I munched Oreos.
It was a mindless stint; I would squint
at anything put in front of my nose,
from scenic photos to wiki-prose.
But lately I've noted a serious decline
in my gastronomic meditations.
Nonfat's replaced Whole and, worse, I find
sophomoric celebrations
& lower res in the illustrations.
A picture of the mighty Delaware
shows the river all smudged and displays
it with the fewest pixels. The water's glare
blurs blue and green, and there's a haze
that makes the mess a crazy maze.
Indeed my habit of years has sunk so low
I should bid it farewell, just let it go--
were it not for the truth... of the noble Oreo.
~ OMK
Erratum.
2nd stanza, line 4. For "celebrations" read "cerebrations."
Delightful Jumble this morning. I liked the cartoon and got the solution even before finishing the words. Had a little trouble with the fourth one, but got it. Lots of fun.
But no poem from me this morning. Busy day, and I couldn't come up with a rhyme for 'pixel' and so just gave up. But totally enjoyed both Owen's and Ol'Man Keith's wonderful offerings--many thanks! And looking forward to Wilbur's.
Misty ~
Sometimes in seasons of drought,
when rivers appear no more than cricks, I'll
give in to my doubt
and abandon the effort to rhyme the word "pixel."
~ OMK
Brilliant, Ol'Man Keith--brilliant!
I appreciated the pixelated poetry today.
For whatever reason I had the most trouble in today with clue four. I just wouldn't come for the longest time. The solution, by contrast, came very easily. I wonder how often a witness can only provide a silhouette.
Misty: There are several good rhyming dictionaries on line, but my favorite is RhymeZone. I have two copies of it pinned in my browser, one set to find rhymes, and the other usually set on the thesaurus, tho I often use on of the other setting, like finding a word that sounded like winter = winder yesterday.
Owwn, what an incredibly helpful suggestion. I've never heard of RhymeZone and will certainly try it out. If I could find more helpful rhymes, I'd probably produce a poem more often, so I really appreciate this.
It's a pretty good bet that Shakespeare owned a well-thumbed copy of Peter Levins' first English rhyming dictionary, the Manipulus Vocabulorum. Published in 1570, just a few years after Will was born, it was a handy tool for all the established poets (those who could afford their own copies).
The Vocabulorum organized popular Latin and English words according to their final syllables.
But I'll bet Ol' Will kept his own lists of words as well.
~ OMK
Wow! Ol'Man Keith! Is that where you find all your fabulous rhymes--in the "Vocabulorum"? Amazing!
LOL, Misty ~ I'm afraid Levins' volume leans more toward older pronunciations, Latin and even Middle English words. It is a fine source for Elizabethan pronunciations, but not exactly UTD.
I use RhymeZone, especially the "near rhymes" setting. It doesn't always give me the word to use, but it inspires me to think fresh up possibilities.
~ OMK
I must confess that per Owen's suggestion back in the Bilbo days I've snuck a peak at RhymeZone.
fe, "Svelte" on my dojo poem. My friend's son is a wannabe black belt and she liked that poem.
WC
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