| drink, rodeo, jovial, medium, mind over "madder".
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Dionysus was never one known to brood.
ReplyDeleteThe god of wine owned the jovial mood!
But this day he was pensive and mused --
In some paintings of him, he was not amused.
"They are all so frivolous, so "Rodeo Drive"!
I have a sharp mind, I'm not over just jive!
They paint me with wine, red from the grape,
Then use the red madder on my nose and face!"
"Painting's a medium because it's rarely well done.
But I want a portrait of me, glorious as the sun!
If I have a drink, it must be champagne, not ale!
Me buff and athletic, not shaped like a whale!"
Many thanks, as always, Owen. I was happy to get the third interesting word in the Jumble, but had trouble with the fourth one. Came to your poem, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and then looking through it I got my fourth word. As soon as I re-read the comic, I knew what the quoted word was going to be, and that made it easy to get the first two words. Fun poem, fun cartoon, and fun solving. Found it silly that that cranky mother's coffee mug had a heart on it. But the worried kids were cute.
ReplyDeleteTried to post last night, but my iPad wasn't having it.
ReplyDeleteNeat poem, Owen! Your Dionysus reminded me of the experimental drama I saw in NY many years ago, Dionysus in '69, based on Euripides' The Bacchae. It brought to such vivid life the way in which Dionysus lured King Pentheus into dressing as a woman. Dionysus masks his secret revenge motive until it is too late.
Even now the memory gives me gooseflesh.
As I worked today's solution, I wanted "Matter," but when I saw there were only two "D"s available, the problem solved itself. Typical of anagrams.
~ OMK
I didn't get the riddle and came here anyway . I hit the mythology link yesterday and became a little acquainted with Dionysus.
ReplyDeleteI thought MORE was the middle word but was actually trying to fit MADDER .
#4 was a little tricky .
WC