| || kiosk, topaz, fumble, tycoon, out of pocket.
Image from the Internet.
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.
8 comments:
I kinda like that pun. It makes sense both ways.
Can't tell you how dumb I feel when I have to puzzle over one or more clue words,and then when I do see them they seem so obvious.
That cartoon seems to imply that the woman is not only attractive, but also a great pool player and possibly an actual hustler. Ya think? She certainly seems accustomed to this guy fumbling his shots.
At his kiosk in the mall, Henry sold jewelry,
And dreamed of some day being rich.
His father had told him he just sold foolery,
That he'd make as much digging a ditch.
The bracelets he sold were topaz and turquoise,
Not ones of diamonds or gold.
But he had a variety, some designs were quite choice,
Ladies would stop and behold.
Then their men would fumble their pocketbooks out,
To buy them the prettiest things.
In time, Henry prospered, and gained so much clout
He was a tycoon of baubles and rings!
"Worst and Ten"
The tycoon's son wore his blue topaz jersey
bearing the number 20 as he raced down the field.
The defenders tackled him without any mercy
hoping he'd fumble, but he would not yield--
No! Not for the alien guards who disembarked from the rocket
and did their very best to stuff him in their pocket
even as they smashed into the kiosk selling words
just as nutty as this lot, which are really most absurd.
~ OMK
I find it interesting to see what similarities emerge in the verses of different poets, as inspired by the same grouping of random words. Here Owen's rich poem and my nonsense come together only in touching on the father-son relationship.
I confess mine is a bit of a sellout, as I've been waiting several months to just throw my hands up when I came across clue words that I thought impossible to reconcile in a natural way. And yet it still made a bit of sense--and connected in a family kinship after all.
~ OMK
Sandy, I know exactly what you mean. I was just fumbled by that fourth word and couldn't get it no matter how hard I tried. Then I looked it up and felt like an idiot. Well, at least it's what keeps me humble. And I agree, that guy looks pretty embarrassed by the lady's comment.
Owen and Ol' Man Keith, brilliant poetry this morning--simply superb. I loved Henry's success story. And Keith, wow, that poem sure took off into the wild blue yonder--wow! Great diversity and fun all around.
"Katy's Good Fortune"
Katy's mom took her to a kiosk
but poor little Katy got lost.
So all through her childhood she'd stumble
and when she played games, she'd fumble.
But then she grew up and soon
she married a rich tycoon.
He bought her a locket
that she kept in her pocket.
He adorned her with topaz,
made her dance to cool jazz.
That kiosk is now a ghost
as Katy and husband drink toasts.
Yet she tries to stay simple and humble
and spends time just solving Jumble.
Misty, I think you made more sense out of those words than I did. I thought topaz and kiosk were weird enough, but when I reached tycoon I couldn't decide whether to laugh my head off or just keep yelling at my screen.
You caught my attention with some of those rhymes.
I am still trying to puzzle out how a kiosk rates a ghost! But I congratulate you on deciding to bury kiosk in the middle of your line. The only true rhyme offered by Rhymezone is mosque, and we are not encouraging cultural appropriation these days.
Of course there are always near-rhymes like "ask" and "tusk"...
-- or multiple word tricks like "I'd love to ride on A SCooter" or "What did you do with thE SKi?"
~ OMK
I actually thought of just writing a whole rhyme based on tycoon----dune, goon, June, balloon, moon, noon, soon, spoon, rune, tune, toon, and, oh yes, boon. But your verse was as elegant as always, Ol' Man Keith, and I couldn't believe that blue topaz jersey the boy wore, running down the field. Superb!
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