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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

3 Jan. 2023

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18 comments:

Ol' Man Keith said...

Today’s Jumble haiku:
(Nick thought diplomatic action might win her over. But she call’d his tactics “smoothie moves,” and they only turned her off.
She thought them signs of oiliness.)

”Tact? Forget Her!”

Nick courted her, though
she cared little for him. All
else was a fable.
~ OMK

Wilbur Charles said...

No histrionics just

Wordle 563 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My usual choice of starter

WC

Wilbur Charles said...

"Though I was glad you'd begun a program", said Nora at the table
"That it could result in such a marvelous change I deemed a fable
Then again, little did I think when you'd begun to court Chet
That you two would get your act together. I surely missed my bet"

WC

Wilbur Charles said...

I'm glad Chet had better luck with his antics re. Lois than poor Nick

Now Nora's comments are just an introduction I'm sure to a greater pronouncement

Methinks she's waiting for Charles

WC

OwenKL said...

At the karaoke bar, the mic
It naturally goes back each night,
To give each patron
A chance to weigh in,
And prove their singing is a fright!

Ol' Man Keith said...

Wordle 3 Jan. ‘23
Par = 4
Wordle 563 2/6

🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
It’s the kind of
disposition
Hamlet adopts.
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

WC ~ Looks like Nora had little in the way of positive expectations for Lois, on her own, or for Lois & Chet as a team.
And today’s installment makes me wonder how solid a pair Nora & Charles are. I thought they were a “given.”
But maybe not….
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

My W-starter was my usual.
My 2nd tier merely added 2 of the most popular consonants—and Bingo.
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

Tact - No Never!

Fabled throughout the realm
Were the court jesters’ antics.
Though there was no TikTalking
Little was beyond their mocking.
Privilege marked by cap, bells, and motley shirt,
They thrived as actors gathering the dirt.

CanadianEh! said...

OMK- we went in a similar direction with the title, but I took a different meaning than you and WC with the C word.
Poor Nick.
Good work on the W.

WC- promising update for Chet.

Owen- is that the W well-hidden in lines 1 and 2?

OwenKL said...

You got it - BACKwards!

Wilbur Charles said...

Ingenius

Wilbur Charles said...

Speaking of jesters and bells

Now the Saxon yeomen were a peculiar pair
Wamba the jester with bells on cap and nary a care
And Garth the swineherd of the surly mien
Hoping for Saxon seccession and a new King come again

(From my Ivanhoe saga)

WC

Misty said...

"Courtship"

Sam thought it would be a sport
the pretty waitress to court.

So when she came to his table
he started to tell her a fable.
Then when he wrote her a friendly letter,
she acted like she wanted to get together.

So one night, though in rainy weather,
he told her he wanted to wed her.
At first, a little she tarried,
but a year later they got married.

Ol' Man Keith said...

"These are but wild and whirling words, my lord!"

Ol' Man Keith said...

Sam sure lucked out, Misty.
He didn’t invest much in wooing his waitress.
A fable, a letter, then he waited for rain…

Oh—wait!
Maybe she was the lucky one.
Hard to tell.
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

We take the J-words and try to control them, to make “sense” of them. They narrow our options, controlling us in turn. In the end, after a few somersaults, it’s a compromise.
WooHoo!
We’re lucky if we don’t have regrets.
~ OMK

Misty said...

Thank you for your delightful verses, Ol' Man Keith and Wilbur and CanadianEh! and Owen--so much clever poetry today. Terrific--many thanks, again!