I am taking a University for Seniors at UMD called “Words Just Want to Have Fun”.
The instructor passed out cards with a word or a phrase. We were supposed to make a poem using that word. Mine was “buffalo” and I thought of a haiku and a pair of rhymes.
Buffalo, the town,
Gets lots and lots of deep snow.
It’s the lake effect.
Where the buffalo roam
Is the subject of a poem.
But there are no buffalo on the range
And the bison are penned to cook on your range.
We were also supposed to work in pairs on a cryptogram. It is from the Oct-Dec. SPELL/Binder. No pair finished it in class. I kept making copying errors, putting the letter of the clue in the grid rather than the letter in the clue. I also had to look three clues, one online (author of “The Razor’s Edge”, one in the dictionary that began with “syn”, and one in “Hamlet” about what the ghost had to say about Gertrude.
This last was misleading because the clue included “Hamlet’s ghost”, not the ghost in “Hamlet”.
