| || image, empty, sonata, bamboo, so be it.
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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.
9 comments:
C'mon now, amen.
FLN Misty ~
Seems like good news then regarding your father. Glad to know he wants to come home now, and I hope that also means he was not too seriously injured in his fall.
Your tone is upbeat; we're happy you're sharing the good news with us!
~ OMK
Nice lil' hint, Sandy!
Beau's image was that of a quirky composer.
He tried empty gimmicks, none of them kosher.
He wrote a sonata for a flute of bamboo,
entitled "Beau, Squeal It!" This one is for you!
Selah...
~ OMK
Thanks, OMK. It's an interesting song, too.
"Playing Tag"
Those kids were having a scrimmage,
But it made for a very cute image.
Cheating for them is "tempty"
But in tag, it's pretty empty.
So the kids decided they gotta
Go with a sonata
Of cheers, with a loud "Woohoo"!
Like bears feasting on bamboo.
Wow, two poems already. I had a bear of a time with #3. And I needed more than four letters to get the riddle-solution.
I've been having trouble with the five letter J's.
After shoving the concept of love deep down inside, seeing Rebecca on the parapet set Sir Brian's heart afever.
WC
Excellent, Misty! Good to see you dipping your oar in now with some frequency.
A re-write of my line #3:
"Wrote himself a sonata for a flute of bamboo,"
makes the self-referential semi-Spoonerism in the final line pop a bit better.
Wilbur ~ The romantic in me goes along with your description of Sir Brian's reaction, while the cynic questions whether it is in fact his "heart" that heats up.
Or...
~ OMK
Btw, William Makepeace Thackeray wrote "Rebecca and Rowena" a sequel to Ivanhoe. FYI. It's free to read but tough reading. eg boring.
I like character redemption. Sir Brian the philandering Templar has a pure love for Rebecca. Ivanhoe is a bit of a cad in comparison, with the mediaval disdain for the Jew.
WC
The scene in LOTR that I liked best was when Boromir, freed from the spell of the Ring of power crashes through the woods to defend two hobbits and dies from orc arrows like the famous king Isuldur.
eg REDEMPTION.
I'm with you, Wilbur, favoring redemption. It's what turns melodrama into something of grandeur.
My favorite may be A Tale of Two Cities.
It needs to be earned, though, not formulaic.
I do wonder why authors focused on the daughters of Jews to save their souls. I guess they reckoned the old timers were too "lost" to be converted. And a rescue could only happen through love, romantic love overlapping with Christian agape.
In my first professional season, I played Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice. My main task was to charm Jessica to run off with me--and a chest of her money-grubbing father's ducats.
Not much redemption there...
~ OMK
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