| || fussy, creek, confer, unsure, refuse (the) refuse.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Checking in!
I had a problem with the third clue and had to figure out the solution to get its last three letters. But the solution was very clever, I thought, what you might call a truly pure pun.
And look at all those plastic bags!!
Right. I couldn't get it at first. I had all the right letters and no trouble getting the 2nd word of the solution, but then what was I to do with those leftover six letters? They looked so familiar...
And then--Doh!
~ OMK
"A Sad Sight"
I don't mean to be fussy,
and I'm unsure if I'm right...
But that creek looks awful slushy.
(Maybe it's a trick of the light.)
If I could get another opinion,
confer with a colleague or two
to supplement my own vision,
we'd know exactly what to do.
I fear it is chock full of refuse--
an innocent victim of eco-abuse--
the sort of trash all bubbly and floaty
to draw a tear from Iron Eyes Cody.
~ OMK
"Model Muse"
Miss Moor was in no way a hussy,
a smart lady precise and fussy.
She lived near a creek,
and had a pink cheek.
She was kind and, yes, meek
but not frightened or weak.
With her friends she'd confer
and be glad to defer
on what they might prefer.
She'd ask them to refer
if she was unsure
so she'd feel secure.
Any rifts she'd defuse--
she preferred to amuse.
Few requests she'd refuse.
Yes, she was our dear Muse.
Miss Moor is a very interesting creation, Misty. She seems to combine traits not often seen together. "Meek/ but not frightened or weak." Preferring to "amuse" and "defuse" and yet "precise and fussy."
This suggests either a wishywashy go-along-to-get-along character, or
a person of solid strength, real steel, who doesn't need to prove herself, but is confident enough to make room for others.
Because she's able to defuse rifts and serve as a Muse to others, I take it that she lands in the latter category. Definitely someone I'd like to know.
~ OMK
Well, Ol'Man Keith, your verses are always so much deeper and much more beautifully molded, that I'm always amazed. Beginning with a creek you move on to issues of natural contamination and ecology, and then give it a historical twist that required me to look up Iron Eyes Cody:
"Iron Eyes Cody, the actor who played an Indian shedding a tear at the sight of a littered American landscape in one of television's best-known and most-honored television commercials, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, the police said.Jan 5, 1999."
Did you ever meet him, by any chance? Did he share the ecological feeling of his commercial? What an interesting figure!
No, I knew nothing of him beyond the TV spot. But it made a strong impression on me--as it apparently did on millions of viewers, many of whom made a point of learning his name.
I saw him recently in his earlier movie role, in the Bob Hope comedy, The Paleface. He played a grim-faced warrior, a neat foil for Hope's antics.
He presented himself as an authentic Native American, and he seems to have made a career of portraying Indians. In fact he was the child of Italian immigrants, his family name DeCorti.
~ OMK
Interesting story--many thanks, Ol' Man Keith.
Eco-abuse. Amazing how much trash is tossed out of cars. A penal perk is cleaning up on side of roads. Amazingly, as a parent I supervised an 7th grade trash pickup on a road.
In retrospect, this was way to dangerous but perhaps in rural 90s...
Misty, very well done. No e on Ms Moor. Any relation to Iago? Do I have that right, Mr Shakespeare? Well done eco-poem.
I do these ahead so I quickly forget. I've been a little busy this week.
WC
Good to see you, Wilbur.
It is Othello the Moor of Venice. But no, there is no kinship connecting him with Iago.
~ OMK
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