BLANK VERSE
Credit: GAMES Magazine - March, 2014
Nancy Stark

The short poems below contain blank spaces that are to be filled in with single words which are all anagrams of each other. The number of letters in these words will be indicated by the number of spaces shown. All words are familiar, and none are proper nouns.

STILL HUNGRY

The _ _ _ _ they serve at English _ _ _ _
Won't _ _ _ _ my hunger, I confess.
I take my _ _ _ _ and wonder at
The crustless bread  and watercress.
From _ _ _ _ of Kent to Somerset,
A lot of food you will not get!

GENIAL HOST

Let us take a stroll around the _ _ _ _ _ _
The sky is clear and bright and there's no
     _ _ _ _ _ _ of a storm.
Last month the weather _ _ _ _ _ _ from
     cold and blustery to wet,
Bur now the day is beautiful and warm.
Come and take a _ _ _ _ _ _ at my tulips,
After that we'll sit and have mint juleps.

DIABOLICAL

The _ _ _ _ _ today wasn't tricky enough,
The editor just made it tougher.
He wants all our _ _ _ _ _ to be dripping
     with sweat,
He wants all us solves to suffer.
Now you know the _ _ _ _ _ : It's a
     Saturday grid,
The clues will be weird and Shortz-sighted.
The answers as long as a passage of _ _ _ _ _ ,
Your every attempt will be blighted.
And just as a _ _ _ _ _ is a thing that will
     turn
From a seed to a bean to a bean dish,
A puzzle's a thing that will grow through the
     week,
From the guileless and sweet to the fiendish.

HINT:
DIABOLICAL: The first missing word starts with P.

Answers:

STILL HUNGRY
EATS
TEAS
SATE
SEAT
EAST

GENIAL HOST
GARDEN
DANGER
RANGED
GANDER

DIABOLICAL
POSER
PORES
ROPES
PROSE
SPORE