| || quest, spoil, disown, stereo, posed questions.
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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:
Thing is, I had an idea of puns where if a whole expression was used, the whole expression would have two meanings. In the jumbles, it seems to me, one word in an expression having two meanings is sufficient. I
Okay, it bothers me, but I can go with it. I guess.
But you don't have to enjoy them, Sandy, if they don't meet your expectations.
Some of them are successful--whether on one or on multiple levels. Some flat-out fail.
I didn't like this one either.
~ OMK
I could dub this poem O Pioneers. But in the wake of our recent election, allow me instead to pose a question in the title:
"Whither the Left?"
I used to like Pioneer stereo speakers.
They spoiled me! As a kid, they were all I preferred.
Man! They had range, tone, all the best features!
But in later, newer models I thought I heard
a flattening on the left. Sadly, I disowned
my childhood brand. That set me on a quest
to find the quality to replace those dethroned
Pioneers, speakers to pass a serious audio test.
Seeking balance on the left--at least--
I went through store after store back east,
and out to showplace malls in the west,
listening,
hearing ,
hoping to find the brand I could dub "Keith's Best"!
[Sigh]
But I hadn't factored the effects of age--till I learned with a twist
the verdict of my Otolaryngologist.
~ OMK
This brilliant verse is definitely one of "Keith's Best," in my opinion!
Sadly, all I can come up with is romance once again.
"A Successful Quest"
Amanda went on a quest:
a partner to find, the best,
so each boyfriend was given a test.
Some guys had to till the soil,
others had to fence with a foil,
all tried not their chances to spoil.
Dozens of questions were posed
that their best intentions exposed,
but on this some of the guys just dozed.
Soon many their chances had blown,
which made them cringe and moan,
as Amanda did them disown.
But a clever fellow named Leo
decided to buy her a stereo
to enjoy on their trip to Rio.
All were excellent suggestions
which answered all her questions.
And so she wrote some prose
to let Leo know she him chose,
and then marriage she did propose.
Misty, you downplay your skills as a matter of habit, but you put more on the page than you may realize.
Thanks for your compliment on my poem. It was a struggle. Actually, it came pretty easily in the first hour, but I mistakenly zapped it just as I was preparing to post.
Arrrgh!
What you see now is what I painfully re-constructed.
In some places, memory served up a decent, or better version than the original.
Ah, but there are/were some exquisite phrases that are lost forever
Your verse progresses nicely. I usually object strenuously to the old fashioned trick of Victorian poets who regularly placed their verbs at the ends of phrases--defying common English word order just to get their rhymes to work.
But in your poem today, you make such a thing out of it that it becomes delightfully wry!
Fun- nee.
I love how you end by returning to your favorite marriage theme, expressed as letting "Leo know she him chose"!
~ OMK
Yes, Leo was very clever letting Amanda think that.
OMK, I'll have to re-read your most excellent verse which I'm guessing was not about Pioneer Speakers. To paraphrase Mark Twain*, East is easy and West is West and never the twain shall meet. Or...Whatever he's for, I'm agin.
Or, re late "wisdom" from the CC world... I'm now hearing that the vitamin D provided by the sun is the best antidote to Covid. And in florida, mid-south and mid-north, lots of cars and busy stores.
WC
Ok. Was it Kipling?
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