| house, prove, modify, infirm, promise. |
| voyage, winner, exotic, viable, frugal, easily, seeing (is) believing.
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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:
I think we've abandoned puns. That's fine. This was a pretty cute play on words, and easy-peasy, both clues and solution.
I'd say a good strong B-.
I'm afraid I'm not so impressed. Seems awfully literal to me all around. Just. "C" for me.
~ OMK
This took me almost 3 hours to set up! Ouch. I'm sure I'll get it down to 20 minutes once I've got a pattern set up, but today was confusing because I had to change my methods. Sunday is mucho different from the rest of the week.
There is a color version of the J6, but trust me, the B&W is way-way better. He used a near-white skin tone, and deleted any outlines, so the men were just blobs. Ben looked like the cyclops from Ulysses, and his customer looked like Cyclops from the X-Men!
And now to write some poems - about 9 hours later than I used to start.
Thank you, thank you for all you do, Owen! I hope that new pattern comes through for you soon.
J6:
I believe vacation prize winners on "Wheel of Fortune" may be seeing bankruptcy--
if they don't win enough dollars to afford the journey:
"Paying Your Way"
The "Wheel" winner will voyage to the exotic isle of Aruba,
where she can sunbathe all day, or swim, or surf, or Scuba!
A trip like this is is not easily made without plenty of cash.
Tips & incidentals are steep. Luckily, she scored a stash,
enough to make travel viable--so long as she is frugal;
otherwise, winning a "Wheel" vacation can be financially brutal.
~ OMK
I want a house in orbit, is that so hard to understand?
I want to weigh, in zero-G, much less than I do on land!
I want to prove, in weightlessness, that I really am still spry!
That I could still do chin-ups, I'm an acrobatic kind of guy!
The concept is like a houseboat, but above Earth's atmosphere.
Just modify with caulking to make all the oxy stay in here!
Then launch it to a backwater in a bayou part of space.
(I wouldn't want to interferewith all the science taking place!)
It's a life alive with promise for the intrepid pioneer!
To deal with ennui and boredom with no live theater near.
Sex without gravitational help will need kinky stretchy straps
To make sure that it's in firm, and stays until collapse!
In my house-ship I could be a mobile-home in space!
I could voyage on to Mars at a leisure pace.
If I'm frugal with supplies, such a trip is viable;
Tho Grub Hub or Uber Eats may not be so reliable!
Yes, such a journey is a winner of a plan!
Retirement to an orbit o'er an exotic land!
I'd trace canals with ease in the Martian evening.
To whoever thinks they're fakes, seeing is believing!
Owen, I loved your second poem, which plays on the second Jumble, the one in the LA Times. A total delight.
J4:
Oath-Keeping
"O promise me
when we're old and infirm
you'll house me in style and won't squirm
from this vow or modify its terms,
but surely will prove true--you Germ!"
~ OMK
"Victor's Voyage"
Victor's youth was a wonderful voyage,
celebrating his boy and his toy age.
But adulthood was not nearly as viable
and his deeds made him often feel liable.
He began to enjoy the exotic,
which nearly made him psychotic.
He gambled and was often a winner,
but he tried not to be a sinner.
And so he began to be frugal
by shopping online, using Google.
His purchases were quite measly
so he saved lots of money, easily.
His life he was now happy, seeing
it produced a new phase of his being.
It was wonderfully relieving
seeing friends in him believing.
And so, he emerged from his mess
to a life that was now a success.
Ol' Man Keith, I think your Wheel winner and my Victor are a perfect match, don't you think? They should marry, and go back and have a marvelous honeymoon in Aruba.
Brilliant idea, Misty!
I was wondering when the marriage theme would show. These two may be joined in frugality.
But I hope they write their own vows--and steer clear of my J4 version!
~ OMK
Gosh,I missed the j6 altogether. Guess I went to bed before I saw it. I can't believe how simple this one was either. Looked at the cartoon and there was the solution, a literal application of the common saying. Didn't even need clues.
That's not much fun, when it's so obvious.
Pretty good caricature of Ben, though.
And I was responding to the J6, Sandy, so I see we are in synch after all.
"C" for the 6?
~ OMK
Ok, OMK!
C for the 6.
It feels wise to harmonize, Sandy. Yay!
I couldn't resist a little re-write, Y'all.
And No, I'm not proposing this for Melody's< "I Do."
(Unless of course she wants it...)
Oath-Keeping
"O promise me
when we're old and infirm
you'll still house me in style and won't try to squirm
from this vow down the aisle or modify its terms,
with a snake oil smile--you miserable Germ!"
~ OMK
I call this format "Redneck haiku."
Often in the 1st person, it consists of five lines
of 4-6-11-13-11 syllables.
Its theme must be raw.
It can be unrhymed,
or, if you commit, you must take your cue
from the name of the Grand Ole Opry's venerable auditorium,
add an exclamation point (!),
and go Whole Hog.
~ OMK
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