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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.
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.
Todayโs Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Some there were who thought he,
and his Little Tramp,
were mental pushovers,
but in reality his intelligence was made ofโฆ)
โGang Stuffโ
Though he wore baggy
trou, his wit wounded hauteurs.
Hail, smarter ego!
~ OMK
"Puppy Love"
ReplyDeleteWendy found a silky rope on the ground
and wound it around the neck of the stray hound.
She kept it loose in order not to strain
that puppy's delicate artery vein.
The little dog was chubby and baggy,
and his fur was pretty shaggy.
Wendy brushed it carefully and slow
even though her new pet would not appear in a show.
Wendy treated the pup tenderly and never tough
because she loved the sweet guy more than enough.
Well, Ol Man Keith, I guess with the beginning of December and the holiday season now upon us, even our dear CanadianEh! is probably too busy to check in with us today--although we may still hear from her later. But once again your opening comment and your haiku were a delight. Your "baggy trou" made me laugh, and I'll have to look up "hauteurs." After all these years of being an English scholar I still sometimes feel that I haven't yet learned enough of the English language since arriving here in the U.S. when I was eleven years old. And at 79 (I have my 79th birthday coming up two days before Christmas) I don't have a lot of time left to get caught up on all the words I still don't know. Anyway, hope you're having a good day, and thanks again for your delightful opening message.
ReplyDeleteLooked up 'hauteur', OMK: haughtiness of manner, disdainful pride. Thankfully not any part of any of our personalities, but it's nice that your Little Tramp's wit wounded hauteurs.
ReplyDeleteLooks like itโs just the two of us, Misty.
ReplyDeleteBut letโs add Wendy & her new pal. Seems she lucked out, finding a true stray, apparently with no collar or tagโunusual in todayโs urban areas.
Hard to say who was the luckier, as a shaggy puppy can always use a human friend. As we say, โitโs in his genes.โ Dogs are truly predisposed to latch onto somebodyโanybody!
Domestic breeds are the descendants of those wolves who learned they could fare better by making friends with humans. Wendy knows they are our friendly parasites.
The match is a win-win. As you say, she โloved the sweet guy more than enough.โ
FLN, if CanadianEh should happen to read this: I am with you. I canโt imagine the kind of courage it takes to dive, and keep on diving down & down into the blackness and increasing pressure of deep water.
Or maybe itโs not courage, but a different outlook altogether, like swimming down into a full body โhug.โ
It takes over 4 minutes to dive down & back over 100 meters. They do it on one breath.
Their heart beats slow down. Many black out in the final few seconds and must be revived by a safety diver.
~ OMK
Just a note from a very infrequent poster.
ReplyDeleteOMK, CeH posted 3 times early today, while you had the blog listed as December 3. When you corrected to December 2, you reposted your own, but not hers. If she sees this, perhaps she'll repost.
Thanks, Sandy! I didnโt see her posts, so glad youโve pointed out my error.
ReplyDeleteIโll see if I can recover those.
~ OMK
Aargh, No.
ReplyDeleteMy BAD!
When I saw that I had posted the wrong date, I was in such a rush to correct it that I did not check for any posts in addition to mine.
My first step was to โtrashโ the โDec. 3โ date, and that deleted anything that was on the date.
I assumed incorrectly that my post would have been the only one at that hour, and I could replace that from my notes.
I should have checked for others, CanadianEh, especially because you have endured unfair deletions in the past by the โBot.โ But this was me, not the Bot, and I apologize most sincerely.
~ OMK
Hard solve today for this type of word.
ReplyDeleteWordle 896 5/6*
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Rough Gang
ReplyDeleteRap genre lyrics,
Though baggy pants are la mode,
Artery wounds bleed!
Iโm back , but so late. The Christmas parties have started!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you Sandy, even if it was to point out my missing posts. Join us more often.
OMK- you are forgiven! Fortunately I also post my W and comment on a friendโs Facebook comment. And I create my offering in Notes, and have reposted both of them. I had written a comment on your Charlie Chaplin haiku, and about searching and finding the hidden large blood vessel in your list line. I posted around 9:30am my EST and that would still be nighttime for you and Misty.
Misty- what a kind soul Wendy was, to take that stray and treat it so well. Iโm sure that it will return her live and care with its devotion.
I hope to make it here tomorrow, but may be a little late again.
CanadianEh!, so great to have you check in with us today after all, along with a very fun haiku--many thanks for that. And thank you so much for your very kind words about my Wendy.
ReplyDeleteHope we'll see you again tomorrow, although we understand what a busy season this is--especially on the weekends.
Sandyanon, so great to have you check in with us today. It would be lovely if you could check in with us more regularly! The three of us bloggers have a great time and enjoy our time together, but a fourth member would be wonderful too, and we'd welcome you any time you can make it.
ReplyDeleteI thank you, CEh, for your graciousness & understandingโand am glad to see your re-postings!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your W success, and thank you for your fine haiku on the hip-hop muse.
And, yes, Sandy, you are always welcome. Please come back to us as a respected, veteran Jumbler!
~ OMK