Please go to
๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ - Mon. thru Sat. or
๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ - Sunday
for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it!
This ChiTrib site was available from 6:00 pm yesterday (Mountain Time).
Monday thru Saturday, but not Sunday, you will also find a Printable version at the A๐k๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ , from about ~11 pm (MT) yesterday.
A color Interactive version is available from 3 am (MT) today at the ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
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.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual Jumble or Wordle answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
9 comments:
Todayโs Jumble haiku:
(IRL I used to dance the contest limbo. Todayโs haiku is inspired by one of the songs to which we moved: โWish that I could shimmy like my sister Kate.โ
Yes, it was important for us to limbo โlow as you can go,โ but alsoโฆ)
โFrom Side to Sideโ
Wish I could limbo
with rift & rafterโฆ Shimmy
fleet as my pal, Pete!
~ OMK
Misty ~ Your acquisition of English was a truly delightful experience. A two-week voyage with playmates!
By contrast, my early years were land locked, and when I got around to learning German, it took me three years of school study, plus a summer at the Universitaet Wien.
Even so, I doubt I wouldโve been able to skip a grade!
As it is, I count myself lucky that, for our time at least, English has become the worldโs lingua franca.
~ OMK
โBest Beforeโ shelf dates indicate freshness and flavour. Can this be applied to aging?
From Prime (to Old) Time
Would I could limbo
Or even shimmy;
Perhaps be fleet of foot.
But Iโm still thrifty!
OMK- oh, those memories of the days when our bodies would actually allow us to limbo! The T J-word was my outlier, and I see you cleverly disguised it. Our first lines are almost identical, but I used the W.
"Busy Street"
One of Tom's virtues was his thrift,
which his wife considered a wonderful gift.
They lived on a busy street,
with cars driving by in a fleet.
This made them feel in limbo,
as if they had no place to go.
Retired Tom did shimmy from time to time,
and did sometimes on his rooftop climb.
But the couple were still a happy man and wife
at this quiet time on a busy street in their life.
Ol' Man Keith, how cool that you got to spend a summer at the University of Vienna.
And, yes, we're so lucky to have English as our language these days! Enjoyed your haiku--thanks for that too.
Loved your verse on aging, CanadianEh!. Not a bad time in life, I'd say.
Smart of you, CanadianEh, to turn to the kind of virtue in which we can still excel. Yes, Thrift was the outlier, and you chose to hit it head on. My choice required me to find a use for the kind of shimmying that belongs to river rafting.
And so we grow...
Misty's poem started off with Thrift. That way, she could leave it behind instead of having to find a spot for it after her main theme.
Smart gal!
But I take it that his thrift was at least partly responsible for their comfortable retirement, so it became part of her main topic: love & marriage.
~ OMK
Misty- Tom has the gift of thrift, but I fear for him climbing on the roof in his retirement. But if he can still shimmy, he may still be agile enough to avoid an accident. May he and his wife continue to enjoy their quiet time on their busy street. Lovely ending.
Thank you both for your lovely verses and your incredibly kind comments!
Have a good rest of the evening.
Post a Comment