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They said that it was climate change that caused the hurricane.
ReplyDeleteAnd indeed the stormy weather was from changes in the climate.
But it wasn't industries, pollution, or car culture gone insane.
No, it was the monster from the depths, of the world a claimant!
Its been asleep ten-thousand years, now waking from its slumber,
To find its world infested by machines that man's invented.
From the bottom of the ocean, it sends up rain and thunder,
It's ironic that electronic noise is how its sleep was ended!
It cares not a whit for mankind, love or beauty, truth or duty.
It is avaricious and plain vicious, glories in the pain it finds.
Men can only hide from its predations, from its callous cruelty.
No compassion nor compunction can enter into its maniac mind!
Wow!
ReplyDeleteThis may be the bleakest view of our changing climate we've seen in a long, long time. Certainly the darkest on this blog. But then poetic license allows for any extreme one can imagine, so I'll just register my private wish that Owen's "monster" may be challenged in future installments.
~ OMK
Fertile imaginations sometimes bring up terrifying images. Hurricanes are naturally terrifying anyway, even without monsters.
ReplyDeleteI can see where this came from; wish Florence didn't exist, but she certainly provided poetic inspiration.
The jumble wasn't really difficult, but ironically, Owen, the clue word that did give me a little problem was, I'm sure, the one at the heart of your poem.
I first read Owen's poem just for the clue and solution items. But after Ol'Man Keith's and Sandyanon's comments went back and read it for the content, and it sure is very sobering in the context of Florence pounding the lower east coast. But it was still a fun Jumble this morning and I only had to struggle to invent a method for getting #4. After that the solution came into my brain and I was happy to have had a successful outcome to the Jumble.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is still trying for the solution, you may first consider what it is that may Exit Her Brain.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
After the science-fictiony ones recently, space travel, aliens, time travel, I thought I'd touch on the horror side of SF (which I don't read). Cthulhu/Godzilla style stuff. Actually wanted to stay away from the hurricane at first, too immediate a threat. But given the word selection, it wrote itself the way Erato wanted, not me. Doubt I'll come back to this tho. Horror's not my thing, so I really don't know the tropes that well.
ReplyDeleteVery glad that horror's not your thing.
DeletePerhaps this is the monster Link
ReplyDeleteBtw . I was stuck in NE on xword, came here, got the riddle* switched back and tada, Woohoo FIR.
WC
It's Misty's trick to do the J when stuck on the xword . Best idea ever.
Easy Jumble today and sobering poem about Florence but she isn't the only stormy one in the news lately. Sadly the depths of human imagination as well as nature can cause havoc in our world. The solve entered my mind quickly.
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