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11 comments:
Todayโs Jumble haiku:
(If colorized grades were given for drinking contests, my guy would score a lovely blue [azure?], and everyone else would be dull โฆ)
โBrown Gradingโ
My gaming bonnet
on, I can be out-drinking
any blurbing* foe!
~ OMK
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* My Daddy always said to avoid obscenities, to use blurb or bleep instead.
PS. Misty ~ There are four 5-letter words in my footnote.
Which do you suppose will serve as todayโs sweet W?
~ OMK
Round Greek King?
The newspaper blurb centered
On his gaming, drinking record.
He acted as if Alexander was his daddy,
But really he was a Scottish laddie,
A tam his bonnet of no renown,
Not a laurel wreath crown.
OMK- I love your title (better than my own attempt at the Spooner). And your haiku brought a smile imagining the โgaming bonnetโ.
Plus the great W clue for Misty in your *
And I gave her the W in my poem too.
Thank you, CEh! for your response to my little piece.
In turn, I appreciate the extreme societal aspiration of your Scottish laddie. From wee Geordie to princeling in one EZ step oโ the imagination!
Iโm pretty sure my guyโs gaming bonnet looks exactly like his tam.
~ OMK
"Liquids"
One day on her curb
Bess found a blurb
which did her disturb.
It claimed alcohol drink
would help you to think,
and gambling gaming
deserved no shaming.
Bess wanted to vomit,
but she put on her bonnet
and decided to stop quaking
at this news-- so ground-breaking.
Ten years later
Bess had a new career,
and every evening,
she drank a glass of beer.
OMK- we can make that bonnet anything we can imagine.
Just look at Mistyโs Bess, who uses her bonnet as a shock absorber.
Misty- I chuckled merrily at poor Bess (a temperance lady I suspect) and her extreme reaction to that blurb. (I especially laughed at the rhyming of โvomitโ and โbonnetโ.) Bravo!
But I see that age and new experiences have moderated Bessโs opinions, and she now enjoys a daily beer.
Owen- lovely acrostic about todayโs W. Iโm sorry that you did not know yourโs better. (and I thought โwysh โ was a typo at first) (but Iโm still wondering about . see? - just added to give the rhyme?)
Misty ~ So, Bess allows herself to be converted by the blurb that she reads? She is a remarkably open-minded lady--to be so willing to try what she initially finds disturbing.
We don't get to know what her "new career" is. (Nor what her old one was, for that matter...)
We know she becomes a beer drinker.
Perhaps a gambler...?
~ OMK
CEh!, "see" was a typo I didn't notice until after posting.
I knew my Dad somewhat, but there is so much more i wish i knew, and now never can. But I was an adult when my Dad passed. That plaintive last line is especially for those who lost their dads early. And yet probably also speaks to every one whose dad is gone, no matter what the age.
Ol' Man Keith, would love to see you wearing a bonnet.
Tried one of your 5 letter words but W result was 0.
Miss your earlier, much easier rhyming W cluing system.
CanadianEh!, loved your Scottish laddie wearing a tam.
Bess thanks both you, and OMK, for your kind comments.
Owen, sorry you lost your Dad. I think he would have loved your verse.
Have a nice evening, everybody.
Misty ~ I know the rhyme hints are easier for you. But theyโve been drawing attention away from the haiku, where I put my main focus.
I will continue to offer what help I can folded into the haiku.
I am sorry you didnโt get the Wordle right away today, but you have only four possibilities in that footnote. Also, there are more hintsโhints galore!โ for you in the posts of Owen & CEh!. Itโs really a pushover.
~ OMK
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