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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.
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A phantom, they say, haunts the opera
ReplyDeleteDoing things that are not propa'!
He was a ham who died on the stage.
Now on thespians he vents his rage!
He's buried in the mound out back
For a shroud Had a scrim painted black.
They rounded up the cast for a wake,
But some didn't show, not even for cake!
Years later, his skull was exhumed,
To be Yorik for a play in costume.
As Hamlet crouched down to the dirt,
The phantom felt insulted by the jerk!
This haiku is the diary entry of a chorus extra describing the opening of Verdi’s adaptation of Macbeth…
ReplyDelete“The Opera, Act I ”
To sum it up, I
crouch behind an upstage mound
and wear a black shroud.
OMK
ReplyDelete"High Performance"
The cast of the opera was renowned
and to high achievements bound,
rounding up praise for its glorious sound
as its fame continued to mound.
Celebrated by a crowd
and with a shroud of compliments endowed,
their performance did their greatness vouch
and made their critics crouch.
And so the opera was a success
and the cast did its supporters bless.
I believe my narcissistic extra may have actually been the supplier of your Yorick skull, Owen.
ReplyDeleteHe was one to give his all for the show.
Your cast rec’d better reviews than my guy ever did, Misty.
He was infamously a Witch in the Verona Macbeth of ‘72, the one critics frowned the “burial mound of sound.”
He wouldn’t be caught dead in a show as strong as yours!
~ OMK
OMK, you make me wish I could start attending or at least watching TV operas again. Haven't seen or heard an opera in years. I'll think about exploring some possibilities.
ReplyDeleteWild, exotic poem, Owen, both imaginative and disconcerting (those skull references, etc.) Would be perfect for Halloween!
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ReplyDeleteOwen ~ I was going to post my March 11 piece, but I will wait till you make the date change.
ReplyDelete~ OMK