Jumentous Sense

Welcome to the Letter J, for the 10th day of the A to Z Blogging Challenge and National Poetry Month - and evidently the "see how many things you can juggle at once" month.

There are ssoooo many interesting words beginning with the letter J.  It’s easy to just make a poem artificially forcing their use.  I am going to only pick a couple or three to use in a poem, instead of filling it with jaw-jaw.  I have a ways to go on doing professional donkey illustrations...but it didn't take that long.  That's a plus.

Jumentous Sense

A jumentous jubate animal
Is a donkey or a mule
One jackanapes, one jolterhead
Only ridden by a fool

They jounce and jaunce around the field
Headstrong and juvenescent
Bucking, kicking, waving heads
Both act like adolescents

Give me a steady full grown mare
Or trustworthy gelding steed
Directives via hands or legs
Is just the jussive that they need.

A donkey or a mule can be
Quite adequate to mow lawns
But I prefer a full grown horse
to jauncing jumentous cons.

By Donna JT Smith © 2026

Here are the cheats from Phenology.com.  Go there for more great words.

Jackanapes - impudent child; conceited fellow
Jaunce - to prance; to cause a horse to prance
Jaw-jaw - empty, sterile chatter
Jolterhead - clumsy oaf; blockhead
Jounce - to bump or jolt
Jubate - maned; having or possessing a mane
Jumentous - like a horse
Juvenescent - becoming youthful
Jussive - expressing a command

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