| bower, harem, dredge, facade, "forged" a head. |
| weasel, flaunt, crunch, eyelid, menace, classy, as the "crew" flies.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The rallying hashtag of MeToo
ReplyDeleteCertainly is nothing new.
Should we dredge in history
Examples everywhere we see!
King David, peeping in a bower
Saw a beauty, set to wow her.
David used his place as king
To intimidate the pretty thing.
Added Bathsheba to his harem --
If you can't seduce, then scare 'em!
His pratting as a man of God
Was just a toxic male facade!
Forged credentials as enlightened,
In his head, they could just bite 'im.
Women then were just cattle,
Good for naught but sex and prattle!
One wonders if all men are weasels
ReplyDeleteTo be avoided like the measles!
By women's standards of today
It would surely seem that way!
In days past, all men would flaunt
Their prowess at any sexual jaunt.
Men gathered round, told ladies lies,
Like a crew of noxious flies.
Even classy gents would pose
A menace for a woman's woes.
The merest flutter of an eyelid
He'd take as a flirtatious bid.
Should a woman dare resist,
He'd crunch her spirit (with a kiss?).
He'd take no heed of anxious "no's" --
That's just the way the old world goes!
Hear, hear, Owen! I can talk about both these evocative poems together, as they both treat the same dismal subject. While I don't know if, in all times and places, things have been as described, I do know that in the here and now much change in perspectives and assumptions is needed. Thanks for writing about it.
ReplyDeleteThe clues in both jumbles came pretty easily (except for the pesky fourth clue in J6, which I had to write out and stare at for a bit before the d'oh moment).
And in both cases, once I had all the letters the punny funny solutions leapt out at me. I thought them both very clever, especially the J6.
Although the double pun in the J4 seemed very clever too.
DeleteWhere is everybody??
ReplyDeleteI don't usually do the Sunday jumbles, but found time on my hands today. Enjoyed the neat punny (& semi-pun) solutions.
ReplyDeleteTwo very fine poems, Owen!
Too bad the second couldn't end on a couplet rhyming with "went" instead of "goes"--as the "old world" no longer prevails, thank goodness.
~ OMK