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The opening poem should contain all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble and/or Wordle and/or Orijinz.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
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Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Todayโs Jumble haiku:
ReplyDeleteโNorm(-alizing) Featureโ
Up early, sitting
on the front patio. All
blurry. Till coffee!
~ OMK
Nature has a healing and energizing effect. It could be called the
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Who would ever think
That sitting on the front patio,
Enjoying a coffee to drink,
Would give you pep to go
From blurry-eyed to โin the pinkโ.
OMK- LOL, we had the same idea today (not surprisingly given those J words).
ReplyDeleteOnly our titles differed.
You give the โnormalizingโ credit to coffee, while I credit nature (with the help of coffee).
"Peaceful Plan"
ReplyDeleteThe brothers were a happy trio
who spent time on their patio in Rio.
Drinking coffee they made plans to hunt
and looked forward a bear to confront.
But their plan for such a hunt was blurry,
and they really were in no hurry.
It was not in their nature to use force,
which would give them a lot of remorse.
So in the end protecting nature was their goal
because all three had a very kind soul.
Your โPeaceful Plan,โ Misty, causes the reader to think.
ReplyDeleteHow are these non-forceful hunters to proceed? They expect to confront the bear but, wishing it no harm, what are they to do? Invite it to tea?
Even โcatch and releaseโ involves a degree of trapping, which is forceful for a time.
Ah, meโโtis a puzzlement!
Their blurry plan may come into focus with a camera!
I was reading yesterday of the new Big Apple Circus in New York. In order to avoid exploiting animals, they now have a center ring act in which a โtrainerโ puts three polar bears through their paces.
Only the โbearsโ are guys dressed as bears!
Apparently, it is all well choreographed & amusing.
Maybe this is how your trio of brothers plan to work. Perhaps theyโll hire someone to pretend to be the bear. And if they donโt catch himโharmlesslyโwithin a set period of time, he will just give himself up.
He can step out of the forest, hands (paws) up! No harm, no foul!
~ OMK
Great minds, CanadianEh!, thinking etc. โฆ
ReplyDeleteI hafta say, coffee doesnโt really do it for me. But, given these words, it was simply convenient to fall back on popular wisdom.
Of the two โnormalizersโ on offer this morning, Iโll go with nature, understanding of course that it includes the internal processing of our own bodies.
In other words, give us time, and weโll come around.
Not very instructive or amusing, but there you have it.
Hey, I like your rhyme scheme.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, enjoyed your haiku, but it was the cool and complicated story you derived from my silly verse that really delighted me. You should write short stories--you'd be great! Have you ever done so, or published any creative writing? You should think about it.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!, your verse was also a total delight. If I had a front patio, I might even go out there to have my morning cup of coffee! And you've once again inspired me to try a Wordle. Will let you know how it goes.
Your hint should have helped me get today's Wordle in just one try, CEh!. Guess I'm just not the smartest brain working this morning.
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Glad you enjoyed my riff on your poem, Misty. No, I have no plans to publish stories. My current effort (and hope!) is that I can finish my combination memoir/how-to book for aspiring directors.
ReplyDeleteOver the years, my most regular publications were the essays I wrote as program notes for shows I staged. These were fairly extensive when I was writing for my professional productions, then more sporadic when I was directing university shows.
Among my course load in my five or six years before retiring, I taught playwriting--even though I never attempted to write a play myself.
I wasn't entirely without experience. I premiered several shows, and I worked closely with the playwrights as we developed their work for staging.
~ OMK
Great stories today. Misty, I enjoyed your poem, and then OMKโs variation on it.
ReplyDeleteYour varied experiences in life would make a good book, OMK!
Enjoy your day off.
Misty- I may not make it here tomorrow, but Iโll try.
What an interesting career you've had, Ol' Man Keith, thanks for giving us some of the details of your experiences over the years. Hope you add even more as we go along.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely Sunday tomorrow, CanadianEh!--whether you can check in with us or not.
And then have a great week ahead.