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23 comments:
FLN, Yes, Misty, it’s called a limerick.
You probably didn’t recognize it because I broke it in the middle—
for visual appeal, and to cause a slight pause in the rhythm.
It is a true limerick because it is not only the rhyme scheme,
but two lines of trimeter, two of dimeter, and a last line in three or four beats.
FLN, WC ~ Yours is a popular scheme. I just call it ABC, for obvious reasons.
There are more formal names, of course, but they are reserved for when you use that scheme together with particular meters and line counts.
OK, here’s today’s Jumble haiku:
(I believe this refers to Vhagar.
Who’s to say him Nay?)
“Grounded ‘D’ Force”
Our clever dragon:
won’t fly when it’s snowy… nor
when kinda humid.
~ OMK
Wordle 513 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This Canadian is ashamed of the time and thought it took me to get from guess three to guess four.
Really! Just look at my avatar.
It Goes with the Territory
Maple leaves colour the ground,
Gone are the humid days and heat,
A hint of snowy flakes is in the air.
No time for dragging of feet!
Clever Canadians are aware
That autumn cannot be divorced from raking.
"Saved"
The weather was humid this summer
when we played games with a dragon,
and snowy winter wasn't a bummer,
letting us slide down the hill in a wagon.
These new pleasures had a lucky source
when last year we at last found new grounds
for avoiding a dreaded divorce
and giving our romance rebounds.
Working out our big problems was clever,
and we now hope to stay married forever.
Censored again. Good thing I am copying!
I’ll split up smaller and try again.
Ah, Misty, you have given us another poem with romance and a happy ending. I do love your positive outlook every day. Your offering is never a “bummer”! And any couple that can play games with a dragon and slide down a hill in a wagon should surely enjoy life together.
Okay, the offending word is in my comments to OMK.
OMK- once again, your title is a Tour de Force. I went totally AWOL with my title (but I did manage some rhyme). Your dragon is very choosy about flying conditions. But I believe that Vhagar is a she-dragon.
So . . . When split in two, the posts remain. Hmm?
FLN- WC- thanks for the update on Chet and Lois.
Many thanks for your helpful limerick explanation. And it always amazes me how you work all four Jumble words and solution into your haiku, Ol' Man Keith. A delightful Monday treat!
Loved your autumnal verse too, CanadianEh!, and figured you didn't bother about Jumbling this one. But, wait, looked at it again and there they all were, with you even dragging that dragon in there! Woohoo!
Would love to try a Wordle today. Any hints, Wilbur and CEh?
CanadianEh!, I've been thinking and trying to figure out where my "positive" outlook comes from and I think I may have found a possible source in my life.
My teens came to a sad ending when I turned 20, married a man only three months after I met him, got pregnant right away and had a child, and got divorced two years later when I discovered him having an affair with another woman. That totally turned me off on the prospect of marriage and for the next three decades I backed away from every relationship as soon as it got serious and stayed single. And then just before I turned 50 I met this lovely colleague named Rowland on a committee and we worked so well together that we became friends and the friendship slowly deepened until it was time to make a decision and we each took a deep breath and got married--me for the second time, he for the third time. And then miraculously the love of our lives just blossomed on and on for 24 years until I lost Rowland when he was 81. But that miraculous experience triggered my positivity again, I think, and I just can't seem to shake it anymore.
Misty, great story. Rowland had good taste.
And...
We both left hints especially if you put us together
If desperate OMK will give you an obvious one
WC
Ps, be sure to check out my late C&L. It will have Monday and Tuesday J's and you can try to guess the Tuesdays
Well, I tried to use all your possible hints to help me get Wordle, but as usual it didn't work. Got it only on the fourth try:
Wordle 513 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
After I got it, I saw the clear clue right there in your verse, CanadianEh!, but it just didn't hit me as the solution. Hey, games are to be played and enjoyed, not just won--right! That's my principle at this time, anyhow.
Have a good week coming up, everybody.
CEh! ~ A very pleasant fall-based poem, with gentle (or is it genteel?) rhyming, and with imagery I can appreciate from my years living in New England.
Yes, I remember raking--and also the sweet-smelling burning of leaves (no longer permitted).
Thank you for your words about my poem--and especially for catching onto its title (un piece de resistance.
As for the dragon's gender, I confess the poem came first, and I went shopping for the name later. I was never certain it was Vhagar, as he/she wouldn't let me get near--and certainly not close enough for sexing!
Ah, Misty ~ Your poem is a winner--particularly in how you could find your way from playing dragon games all the way to a happy married-life. Most poets would treat them as separate worlds, but you re a great amalgamator.
Your personal history explains your devotion to marriage! Thank you for that.
--Ω--
I guess I won't be posting Wordle today. I was hoping to see a hint from you, Misty, but in searching your words I could not find one.
Did I miss something?
~ OMK
Misty, combined with C-eh's embedded "clue" you had this from me
"What a sap"...
OMK, feel free etc etc
Contest later who can guess the most Tue J-words from my combined poem
Bonus is guessing the riddle-solution
Now I'll have get my poem together
WC
And, OMK, that Wordle "sap" Wilbur was talking about can be found in the first line of CEh's Territory poem. Hope that helps.
I'd already seen their hints, Misty.
I solved it in three.
But I was waiting to post, & to offer YOU a hint, when you surged ahead & posted w/o leaving one.
No hint from you for me or anyone to come.
You don't seem to be picking up on my rather clumsy hints--that it's time for you to join the gang in leaving hints yourself.
I realize I am the only one suggesting this. But you may recall I used to leave a LOT of them for you.
~ OMK
Misty- my Wordle post @10:18 had a visual hint, by pointing to my avatar.
What a wonderful true-life romance you had with Rowland. I can see how that would influence your outlook on marriage, even after your initial unhappy first experience. But even bad experiences can have some redeeming value, and I think you have spoken of your son’s presence in your life.
OMK- I am glad that my poem brought back those New England fall memories. But you are probably happy to not have to deal with raking and then snow at this time.
Re that dragon,: certainly not like sexing kittens!
"Those desk dragon4s think they're so clever" said Chet with a sigh
"Their glibness is ungovernable" Lois added by and by"
"It'll be a snowy day in hell before they'll govern my serenity
I keep connected to the Spirit while I trudge the road of happy destiny"*
"Let's get away and imagine sweet notes from a gentle flute
Trapped in the verbal office humidity is like being in a wet suit
That babbling badinage swirling about has run it's course"
"If I was married to one of those boobs that would be grounds for divorce."
"The worst feeling is that a program like ours could be of avail"
"But first they'd need open mindedness else they'd surely fail"
WC
* That's right out of the Big Book
C-eh, remind me: Just when did the MAPLE Leafs last win a Stanley Cup? I'm actually old enough to remember it. They had to beat out the perennial Montreal juggernauts
And ..
I want everyone to parse out the above C&L for the Tuesday Js and remember, if you spot the riddle-solution that's extra points and a tie breaker
Misty, you're good at spotting J's. I know you can spot the Monday J's
C-eh got Yarboroughed on last try try except for the words: Spoiler alert
WC
WC-1967 was the last Stanley Cups for the Maple Leafs. Sigh! DH hopes every year that this may be the year!
OK, I will try again. I do see all the Monday Js (but not the Wordle).
Solution is “ they’d need open-mindedness”.
J words are trudge, flute, swirl, govern.
Spoiler alert? No card under nine??
My goodness, Chet and Lois sure are very critical today, aren't they, Wilbur? No problem as long as they agree.
I'm too tired by now to try any more solving, so I just wish you all a warm and happy and good night's sleep! See you--well, visit with you--tomorrow.
WC ~ I am not sure which one was speaking, whether Chet or Lois, but they offered good advice when suggesting they get away to a place, a calmer place, where they can imagine a gentle flute playing.
That is a much better way to override the influence of “desk dragons” and the like—a far better way than taking some harsh or even violent direct action.
Their essential goodness of spirits should be sufficient to keep their moods in check.
As for spotting the J-words, I am sure I got ‘em all. But I can’t prove it to you by stating them here, nakedly.
That would defeat the purpose of the site, wouldn’t it? I will embed them in my haiku in the morning.
As usual.
~ OMK
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