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16 comments:
FLN, CEh!
Thank you for your response yesterday. It was very generous & deserves acknowledgment!
Your geese may have been more destructive, but they were well expressed in a fine bit of verse!
Today’s Jumble haiku:
(Canines can dream too. But while he wished for no difference in status between him and his K9 loves, he knew such fantasies were simply…)
“Lies, Slanders”
Fire dog “Butane” gets
crushes on cops, above his
rank—to much dismay.
~ OMK
Wordle 2 Feb ‘23
Par = 4
Wordle 593 3/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
When I won’t
work, I _____.
~ OMK
She had, in rouge-kissed smiles,
A plot to utilize her wiles!
Her target beau
Would never know
What started with initial guiles!
I started with an “outre” word with little success. But at least by guess four, I had eliminated more than half of the alphabet and all but one vowel, I never …… from a challenge.
Wordle 593 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"Shy Guy"
Bill was just a by-stander
who had never had a crush,
and so was not a partner-lander
who over girls would fuss and gush.
But one cold and rainy day
he saw a young lady in dismay
and was smitten by her charm,
and used butane to keep her room warm.
And so Bill was not above
finally falling in love.
Ah, Owen…
How dense he was.
Pity the guy.
No hint of her limerick
conveyed cunning
to her beau, taint of ploy
was there none.
~ OMK
Misty’s By-stander
had one asset,
and he used it well.
Setting shyness aside,
he ignited for a bride,
enough domicilic warmth
for her to dwell.
~ OMK
Retail Therapy
Above the entrance, from the mezzanine,
The crush of people could be seen,
On the sales focused and keen.
The timid bystanders in dismay
Would not obtain their desire that day,
While the more aggressive shoppers say,
“Sure can!”
Kudos for persistence, CEh!
As we ponder your W diagram, one thing stands out.
The leap from level 3 to 4 is …Amazing!
~ OMK
Very interesting poem, CEh!
Your department store/black Friday scene may be the most exotic locale of all suggested by today’s J-words.
Liberal use of coding seems to cover even the W, and in its opposite spirit.
Good show!
~ OMK
Oh, K…
Oops.
I should have made note of CanadianEh’s rhyming triplets-especially because she disclaims skill in that department.
These are pleasing, fairly smooth, unforced.
Aha!
They reveal an ability not to be so readily denied. While free verse is always welcome, we look forward to more such jaunty jingles in future!
~ OMK
Fire dog "Butane"-- brilliant, Ol' Man Keith! I couldn't figure out how on earth one could put "butane" into our verse this morning, but you came up with the best solution. And, as usual, I loved your title play with the solution! Great start to our blog.
Owen, you too dazzled me with "rouge-kissed smiles" this morning. Maybe wearing lip-stick is not such a bad idea when you're on a date!
Your rhyming was in great form too this morning, CanadianEh!, beginning with that mezzanine from which it was keen for people to be seen. But I kept waiting to see how you were going to work 'butane' into you verse, and I should have guessed that of course you sure can.
But, OMK, your pointing out that I turned my 'butane' into "domicilic warmth" is as good a response as my work gets--thank you for that gift too.
Finally, Wilbur, so glad Frodo helped you get your Wordle today.
OwenKL- I found the W well-hidden (as usual) in the first line of your wonderful poem. You have a gift!
Misty- Your fellow, Bill, sounds like a practical person, who was looking to help that young lady, and ended up being smitten. He will be a keeper, since I anticipate that he will spend his life looking after her in very tangible ways, even if he is not romantic (in the Valentine sense of the word). I know because a have a husband like that!
I love how you used “above” in a slightly different meaning.
WC- I had eliminated all the vowels except the I, or I might have visited Frodo with you.
OMK- I smiled at your fire dog and his name? And even a dog can be romantic it seems. Good job with that title, as the J answer did not lend itself to a Spoonerism. I gave up.
Re my Wordle- yes I worked for a while between guess three and four, but with only one vowel and few letter combinations, I came up with the correct word.
Thank you for your kind comments on both my offerings from yesterday and today. I was pleased to have some rhyming ability today, and rearranged and edited to get those triplets. Yet, I was not entirely happy with the rhythm. (Sometimes the J words limit the editing!). But I was pleased with the W coding.
Misty- yes, butane was the outlier today. OMK turned it into the dog’s name, you used it in its usual sense, while I resorted to modifying it. Interesting how we all create something different with the same J words.
You may have enough hints to try today’s Wordle. It only has one letter that is in my usual first choices.
I often "see" outlier words as the names of pets. I don't always follow through in my poems. But "Butane" seemed a natural for a fire house dog, one of those black and white Dalmatians stereotypically allied with fire fighters.
They seem lonely to me, usually one to a station, or, at most, one to a truck. Maybe that's why I imagine them mooning over police dogs, typically German Shepherds that get deployed in K9 teams, squads of dogs, each with a dedicated handler.
But these are separate breeds. As long as humans are running things, 'tis a love that can never be.
~ OMK
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