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FLN, Misty ~ Check last night. You didn’t return, so missed a chance to respond…
~ OMK
No haiku today.
(Using Google to seek some rhymes.
It helps to know that both my desktop & iPad are female.
Let me…)
“Boot the ‘Shes’”
On a hot day, a sizzler,
we pray for a drizzler
in the forecast—a little rain—
to quench our thirst and ease the strain.
A bit of a breeze won’t hurt at all;
don’t make us wait until the fall.
We’re not robots to withstand this heat,
we erupt in sweat skidding down the street.
If the heat gets worse, we’ll never end this verse
till we get our butts hauled out in a hearse.
~ OMK
Wordle 21 Jan. ‘23
Par = 5
Wordle 581 4/6
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A new starter.
Maybe leading
to a promo?
~ OMK
She’s the Brute
The newspaper blurb was brief:
“Etna erupts-
Molten rock sizzles,
Unquenchable lava flows.
Don’t be a hero -
Bottom dwellers must flee!”
OMK- what a change from your usual haiku; this had with an abundance of rhyme and a possibly dire ending. (I smiled at the direction you took the title.). Our sizzler days here are few, and the thought of one might even be welcome in the depths of our current January cool, short, dark days. Canadians are used to a variety of weather (and we love to talk and complain about it). But deep down, we live our four seasons!
Your WORDLE starter today ended in that letter?!
LOL, my typo may be true - we do live our four seasons, but we love them too!
I see (FLN) that WC matched OMK (and beat me) at the Wordle. I think he was speaking out impulsively before he got the win.
As soon as I saw your first posting, Ol' Man Keith, I checked your last message yesterday, and enjoyed your delightful poetic response to my couple poem. Many thanks for that.
"Robert's Robot"
Robert took a shot
to invent a new robot.
His device erupted a drizzle
of offers he had to quench,
but still Robert made them fizzle
to stop the publicity drench.
Now he and the robot are at ease,
and spend evenings alone,
just shooting the breeze.
Glad you caught my rhymes FLN, Misty; they sprang from the same impulse that led me to abandon haiku today.
Yes, sometimes, CEh! as you see, I do find rhyme beguiling.
The heat theme was suggested by the “S” J-word, not by recent experience. Here in SoCal, we rarely (never?) get so hot.
I can recall being so over-heated at times in NW Massachusetts and in Chicago. Chicago was worse, the calefaction beaming down, reflected from concrete buildings, then bouncing back up from sidewalks.
As for Wordle, yes I played with difference there too, & used a new starter. When I’m not chasing vowels, I test words that contain the most common consonants. Some of these are “N,” “T,” & “R.”
The repeated letter today is not in the list, but it came along for the ride—as I started with a word containing the latter 2 & meaning a heavy pulse.
~ OMK
I find seasons agreeable too, CEh! and happily lived them for several years in the Berkshires.
Still, in retirement, I am appreciative of the mellow, more temperate climate down here. I guess the adventurous spirit of my younger days is taking a rest—along with the rest of me.
Your poem today reminds us of another way heat can be an unwelcome visitor!
Your smart title gives fair warning. Etna is one of the most stimulating triggers of imagination via natural phenomena. I say imagination because I haven’t seen the “brute” IRL. But I love viewing movies of her erupting, especially in nighttime scenes!
Your verse points up the, er, inconvenience she can be to nearby folk.
Misty ~ “Robert’s Robot” echoes “R.U.R.,” the title of Karl Capek’s groundbreaking drama, a not-infrequent visitor in crosswords.
Your poem speaks to the value of companionship, and of the ever-popular theme of Man creating his own buddy.
With the new advances in A.I., it may not be all that long before your piece is fully realized.
~ OMK
Re-reading my own post to you, CanadianEh!, I see that, logically, I should have used THORN as my starter.
But I didn’t.
A good thing too.
I wonder what made me choose the word I did…?
~ OMK
Misty- I smiled at the alliteration of Robert’s Robot. Plus I am smiling as I imagine the “drizzle of offers” vs. “the publicity drench”. But “shooting the breeze” with a robot seems antisocial to me. But, to each his own!
OMK- now I see your starter word. And yes, the chosen letter was serendipitous.
Yes, I agree that as we mature (I won’t say “age”), the joys of outdoor seasonal activities decrease. Our January weather has been above the usual temperatures, damp, foggy, and dreary. Crisp cold and sun would be preferable to me. But we may have snow and a polar vortex on the horizon. I may change my opinion by next week!
I'm embarrassed. I so wanted to get today's Wordle and tried and tried and nothing worked. And in the end, in frustration, I looked it up. Here it is, but I get no credit:
Wordle 581 2/6
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OMK, I loved your non-haiku verse today, which was wonderful, containing all the J words and then offering a totally delightful play on the solution, which made me laugh. Many thanks for that gift. And I loved your and CanadianEh!'s Wordle. I should have worked harder trying to guess your helpful clue--than I might have gotten it.
CEh!, your play on OMK verse title is delightful. Interesting that you both invoked some rainy weather, but for some reason that never occurred to me. Instead I came up with a silly dry drizzle.
Here's my
Wordle 581 4/6
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Again. It looked bad after 2 with only one letter but I almost parred it.
The editors apparently don't want to make it easy as only one of OMK 's letters made it and they repeated the scrabble 3pter
Oops I guess two of the common letters made it
It helped that I'd eliminated 4 of the vowels. As I've said I like to start with a J but not with a word containing E
I like the variety
WC
Poems were all good today with Misty having a nice flow and offbeat story
Nice to see 10 lines from OMK and a verse that's poetic, sans rhyme, from C-eh
I'll have to check back with Chet and Lois to see how their parental amends worked out
If the J will cooperate. I don't think Chet plays the KAZOO
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