| || yeast, flirt, unpack, velvet, faulty serve.
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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.
6 comments:
"The Spirited Flirt"
-or-
"Her Salty Verve"
She hoped she brought enough yeast
to bake her favorite bread.
She was famous west and east
as the bakeress who always led
the rest when it came to winning
the heart of a man through his appetite.
If this could be thought of as sinning,
she was the devil's acolyte.
But if her bread should miss,
she brought her trunk from town.
She'd unpack her flirtiest dress,
the low-cut velvet gown.
Oh, she meant to be spectacular
on ABC's The Bachelor.
~ OMK
Nice one OMK. This was a straightforward solve.
WC
"Finding Love"
Jack was finally back,
his suitcase to unpack.
He had traveled to the east
to sell yeast at a baker's feast.
Dressed in a handsome shirt
with a girl he began to flirt,
She had skin as smooth as velvet
But she didn't respond very well yet.
His approach may have been faulty
since his romance struck her as paltry.
In the end he lost his nerve
and decided he'd best try to serve
his girlfriend back at home,
who was sweet, and deserved a poem.
And so, without having tarried,
A year later they were married.
Thanks for another bit of romance, Misty--a breezy flirtation for your "Jack," followed by his wising up and sticking with the gal he left behind.
I bet her name was "Jill."
I like "velvet" linked to "well yet."
In our poetry, we both went the bakery route. I felt YEAST to be one of the most confining clue words we've had.
There didn't seem to be many options for it, and I didn't really want to delve into "infections."
~ OMK
You're right, Ol'Man Keith--the words are sometimes difficult to rhyme. For YEAST I came up with BEAST, FEAST, LEAST, and EAST--and ended up using both EAST and FEAST to kind of distract attention from that troublesome YEAST. We can only do what we can do.
I meant the topic more than the rhyme.
YEAST offers several sound-alike words, but I couldn't think of another usable subject than baking.
I know I wanted to stay clear of doctors' offices.
I suppose I could learn more about how yeast works in the beer-brewing process, but that would entail more research than I was willing to undertake--esp. in the wee hours.
~ OMK
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