HONEY, I don’t mean to be a
CYNIC, and I don’t want to
DAUNT you, but you can’t just
CHIRP at the birds and expect them to obey you.
Month: May 2023
2023-05-12 words
HONEY, CYNIC, DAUNT, CHIRP
Crossword
The
CRYPTic crossword’s clues, enigmatic in form, too intricate for a
DUNCE like me who thinks he has to reinvent the
WHEEL at every turn, proved uncomplicated for my
NOBLE friend, who showed me where my cement brain went
wrong.
[This form of the Quordle poem is known as the Bumped Beginning and Hanging Stump style…]
Dunce
CRYPTic visions as he stands in corner,
DUNCE capped, and held of no account:
WHEEL will turn. One day. He will be known as
NOBLE. Except in this town, to these classmates.
2023-05-11 words
CRYPT, DUNCE, WHEEL, NOBLE
Divine Simplicity, the Wrong Kind
PRINT. What he said, the
VICAR, that God has laws, is portrayed as a
GAFFE. He had also said that God is loving. but laws do not s’il leur
PLAIT. God is only permitted to be one thing.
2023-05-10 words
PRINT, VICAR, GAFFE, PLAIT
Anodyne
My Pinot Noir is the very central PIVOT
of my evening slurp in my penthouse CONDO,
when I cease to chomp poetry and MUNCH
on the less tooth-wrenching pizza of PROSE.
2023-05-09 words
PROSE, MUNCH, PIVOT, CONDO
Too Much
PUSHY–I grow more so.
GRIPEs–I have more than before.
BLOAT–it besets me. The more my
ASSETs grow, the less content I am.