| || guess, drank, triple, squash, rest assured.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
16 comments:
Took me a bit to see the solution, and I still don't think that this common expression really applies to the cartoon. It seems incomplete for that, because I want to say, "... ... of ..." that is, of something or other.
But then, I do tend to pick nits, which a pretty disgusting idea, actually.
YMMWV.
But doesn't the "money-back guarantee" complete the application, by giving a rationale for the second solution word?
~ OMK
"Blest Liquored"
In England a squash is a fruit drink,
like an "ade" back in the States.
I guess I drank me share. You'd think
it a fine tot to share with one's mates.
Most of 'em have orange flavor,
some are lemon or lime.
I liked to mix, so's I might savor
two or more at a time.
It was a gag to fill a baby bottle
with 3 squashes & a cheap fizzy Ripple.
Then you could take delight--as did Aristotle!--
in a tipple o' triple-dipple, by nipple.
~ OMK
That was very clever Keith. I have a poem which I wrote but haven't transposed to my phone. Somewhat akin to OMK's opus.
I loved that last line.
WC
"Hank's Gift"
Hank had a gift to thank,
and so, a toast he drank
to a friend he wanted to bless
for relieving his distress.
Its cause friends could only guess
but they knew he was in a mess.
His debts had begun to triple
which his life style soon would cripple
and his family's wealth would squash,
once into his debt they'd slosh.
So his woes to a friend he confessed,
who gave him a loan of the best.
Feeling now safe and assured,
Hank his bankruptcy problem soon cured.
And so he drinks a toast
to his friend, who helped him the most.
At last he can get some rest
and go back to feeling so blessed.
"You'll never guess what you did last night"
Bunky's brain felt like a squash, his hair a fright.
"You must have drank a dozen tequila triple-secs.
Rest assured", she said, "Tonight there'll be no [dessert]"
WC
Seems a comfy lifestyle for Hank,
when debt forgiveness needs only a thank!
Where can I sign up for such largesse?
Have you got a web address?
Each of us, dear Misty,
should be on your generous List-y!
Your ditty, Wilbur, had me scratching my head--till I filled in your bracketed word.
Then I double-checked the pronoun in the last line & got my chuckle.
But why so puritanical?
~ OMK
Clever, delightful poems, Ol' Man Keith and Wilbur--many thanks for this Monday treat!
Ol' Man Keith, I had 'nipple' down as one of the words that would rhyme with the Jumble 'triple'--but shook my head and said 'No way.' Couldn't believe seeing that you went right ahead and got that baby bottle and did it! Wow!
Thanks, Misty. "Nipple" was the last word I found to extend the rhyme. I had "triple" as a given, then "tipple," which led to "triple-dipple." Once "nipple" came to me, it suggested the baby bottle theme for the final stanza.
Epic.
I take it back. "Ripple" was the very last word that came my way. I had the last line, but then I had to have another "-ipple" word, didn't I?
-- to end the 2nd line to set up the 4th line of course!
I never tasted Ripple, but I heard of it. They went out of business in the '80s, so that changed the tenses of my poem throughout.
~ OMK
You know, occasionally I wish I could join this small community of poem writing and commenting, but it's just not me. I can quote some lyrics from a well-known song, which goes to that point.
Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am
And I am not a poetizer or poetry commenter.
Wishing you all the best, and my comments on the jumbles will continue sometimes.
Good to read you again--& as always, Sandy!
Just so's ya know, you don't have to be a regular "poetry commenter" to occasionally register a thought--about where or when you might just sneak a peek. Nobody will hold you to it*.
Promise.
~ OMK
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* Remembering what Ralph Waldo Emerson said...
Googled. Is it,
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to change you is the greatest accomplishment."
True much of the time, but definitely not always, don't you think? Sometimes the opposite would be true, if you substituted "setback" for "accomplishment". I could certainly stand some sorts of changing, and I imagine we all could.
Sandy, feel free to quote bits of poetry you know and like any time you feel like it. We'll always enjoy it.
Sorry, Misty, that wasn't really my point. I was using some well-known song lyrics to illustrate my belief that it's just not me to participate in the poetry-related activities on the blog. Sure, song lyrics are poetry, I guess, but I was referring to the content, not the form.
I honestly don't plan on quoting poetry as such.
And here I was , silly fool, remembering Emerson for:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."
~ OMK
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