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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
FLN Wilbur ~ Ah, yes, that lovely lady would be Eleanor of Aquitane. What a woman, what a busy, complicated, significant life!
ReplyDeleteHer marriage to Henry created the Angevin Empire. She was of course Richard's mum and, yes, she arranged his release through the Pope.
Kate Hepburn played her in The Lion in Winter.
In act IV of King Lear there is a curious scene calling for the actors to engage in a pantomimic suggestion of a fall from a peak in Dover to the beach below.
Because this action by the Duke of Gloucester symbolizes the delusional state of the King, it may be tagged as a...
"Rex Mime"
On the brink of an imaginary cliff, blind Gloucester knelt.
Wanting to kill himself, he took Edgar's word
he would fall forward to oblivion. And so he felt
the sudden flight thrusting him, free as a bird,
clear of his past, released from the tomb--
his tale an emblem of Lear's larger doom.
~ OMK
"Sweet Treat"
ReplyDeleteSteve was a little bit stiff
the day he proposed on the cliff.
With a boxed ring he knelt
and it made her heart melt.
The ring was a gem--
of his love, an emblem.
This was all so sudden
that her tears began flooding.
She responded with a rhyme
to celebrate the next time
when on the cliff they would tarry
on the day they would marry.
Misty ~ Hey, a sweet poem, moving from Steve's awkward proposal through an appreciation of his ring to "her" emotional rhyming response straight on to--what else?!--
ReplyDeletean anticipation of the consummation!
A neat build from start to finish.
~ OMK
I had a neat three stanza on Athelstane written out to be typed in. It's disappeared. Just like my license. I thought I left it at Winn Dixie as I was waiting at the desk I remembered I had taken it out for use as I was going to rent a car*
ReplyDeleteSo it's in the bed I thought. The next thing I know I'm on another trek with Juan who's drunk and needs a ride.
He wanted to use my phone and voila, there's the license. However...
I said to Betsy, could you look around the bed for my license? I fear she did some cleanup.
Maybe I'll find it.
I'm roughly familiar with the Lear saga of the sisters. Not the Duke though.
That's was a real cliffhanger for Steve's fiance to be, Misty. But the big question? How'd Edna go?
Was that Mr Brown's body?
WC
* Have you seen the prices of car rentals lately?
Many thanks, Ol' Man Keith, and it's great the way you work all the Jumble words into your compact, sophisticated verses, with the solution usually in the title. Especially delightful today.
ReplyDeleteWilbur, sorry to hear about your tough day, and I hope you'll find your license. Thanks for asking about Edna: I think the small class liked my lecture and they had a long, nice discussion, though I wasn't able to contribute too much to it. But I think it was a successful, if not a great, class. I'm satisfied with that.
Misty I had stuck the license into a pocket of my cell phone. All of a sudden I was staring at it in disbelief.
ReplyDeleteWhen one is absentminded as a youngster it gets much worse as a senior. You two seem pretty sharp though.
WC