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Todayโs Jumble haiku:
Unmotorized drones (metallic frisbees) can be launched by large elastic bows from a smooth jetty, a docking platform made slippery by a coating of grease or oil.
But if the lubricant is of more than 50% animal origin, and/or unless the surface is cleaned regularly, there may be unintended consequences.
As in this reportโฆ
โPercent Blend?โ
Or, โEwwโฆ!โ
The rarer oils sprung,
to make the jetty slicker,
have all turned rancid.
~ OMK
A twist was supplied by
Wordle 433 6/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐ฉ
๐จโฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ
โฌโฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
I got the "Phew" , phew
WC
WC- Iโm only one ahead of you. Yes, there was a twist. I thought the opposite of ebony was going to get me the Tada at guess four.
Wordle 433 5/6*
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จ๐จโฌ
๐จ๐จโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
The Irony of It All
Keeping the current at bay
Is the job of a jetty.
A leak sprung,
Rancid marine life buildup,
Downdrift damage,
Can be the trend.
But rarely are they removed
To try to mend.
"Courtship"
John met Betty at a jetty
and soon they were going steady.
He had never seen anyone fairer,
with a personality kinder or rarer.
Their romance did not go rancid
and after five years he still her fancied.
And so a verse to her he sung
that a marriage proposal to her sprung.
This was not at all a current trend
and so loving thanks and a "Yes" she did send.
And now John and Betty are wed
and spend each night together in bed.
CanadianEh! ~ You & I together write of the futility of human endeavors. Whether to hold back the ocean or send objects into space, we expect immediate results, but in the end, all is in vainโis it not?
ืืืืจืืช ืฉื ืืืืจืืช
Perhaps the ultimate irony is the production of obituaries, elegiac poems.
Your words in particular underscore this phenomenon: arranging an octet to deliver a single rhyme, โto mend.โ
From the jetty to bed in 12 easy lines from our Misty.
Now weโre on the sunnier side of experience, so much so that I had to resist deconstructing all the happy signs: had John never ever seen fairer? Did romance not face a day of even slightest rancidity?
But the testament is clear, true love conquers all.
Irony, avaunt!
~ OMK
Yes, you're right, Ol' Man Keith--I should really give my romances more complexity. But, hey, I had such a perfect courtship and the sweetest marriage with my wonderful Rowland with 23 1/2 years together, that it just doesn't occur to me when I write a love poem. But I'll try to remember the next time.
So sorry your rare oils turned rancid, OMK, and sorry your marine life suffered the same fate, CanadianEh!. But am excited about seeing your and Wilbur's Wordles. Any chance you can give me a Wordle hint, OMK? (even though I clearly don't deserve it).
Wordle 433 Hint: A literary device first employed in Greek tragedy, when readers or audience can know the full meaning of a characterโs words or actions, while heโor other charactersโdo not.
Par = 3
Wordle 433 1/6
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
~ OMK
Many thanks for the complicated hint, Ol' Man Keith. I thought about it and my first try didn't work, but then the light went off and I got it on my second try. Many thanks:
Wordle 433 2/6
๐ฉ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
(I liked the way your used your theatrical experience for devising your clue).
Misty, if you heck my 539am wordle post you'd see I used the word: TWIST.
And there may have been some prescience in my using the word paradigm in my C&L
WC
Yes, that should have helped, Wilbur, but I needed a bit more information. Still, I should have paid more attention and given it a bit more thought. Will try to do better tomorrow.
Once again we have a lovely group of offerings, all different, but springing from the same word base.
Funny how our minds dredge up these verses, perhaps based on our personal experience, but many times not.
I must try to create some sunny, romantic versions like Misty!
And OMK, I marvel at how you get all those words into your haikus. Todayโs was a particularly odouriferous (Donโt you love my word with all the Uโs!).
Heheh, Misty, I automatically thought of the Greeks. I find much to relish in Sophoclean IRONY, although, strange to say, I never directed a classical tragedy.
Nor did I act in any. Excluding modern adaptations.
I did teach dramatic structure. We still pay homage to Aristotle and the ancient authors. I get a shudder every time I read Oedpus cursing the murderer of Laius, not knowing he is cursing himself.
~ OMK
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