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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.
9 comments:
Clever wordplay. But as a pun, I see no logical meaning to the second (metaphorical?) sense of the word. Unless you assume that the cat is audibly happy looking at the birdhouse. Cute idea, but a big stretch!
Deep on the Amazon
Natives are going on!
They use envenomed arrows
On jungle paths so narrow!
Their jungle is going fast!
After ages, will it last?
Environmentally truant farms
Are burning it, and do harm!
Mining also impacts the land.
Bulldozers purr on command!
Destroying it hurts me and you!
The Earth is ecology's purview!
BRAVE meets ALADDIN.
”Merida’s Purview”
A truant arrow
impacts Jafar’s saccule and
makes his venom flow.
~ OMK
"Regret"
The truant killed a sparrow with an arrow
and now his reputation was ruined.
The impact of his act produced much venom
which made him feel glum and treated like scum.
His deed he now did rue,
so he put himself on curfew
to relent and develop a new purview.
Owen is mindful this morning, using his well-honed poetic skill to keep us from environmental complacency.
(I can remember when I was an asst. prof. at Williams, back in the '60s, and a new professor moved next door. I asked what his field was, and I did not understand his response. He had to patiently explain it to me--"Ecology.")
Misty ~ Hitting a sparrow with an arrow probably wouldn't have generated so much venom in the old days. If anything, people might have complimented your "truant" on his aim, noting that a sparrow is a very small target.
Your poem shows how people have wised up over the decades. Now many more are standing up for creatures than cannot defend themselves.
There are even projects that seek legal "personhood" for many species.
~ OMK
Interesting Friday poems this morning.
Owen, the Jumble words also made me think a bit about nature and the environment. So it was very interesting to read your poem this morning, with its ominous and quite meaningful ending at this moment of the earth's history. Thank you for that.
Ol' Man Keith, thank you, too, for your helpful comment. As you know, my poems express less my own views on things since they are motivated mainly with how to rhyme Jumble words and put them together into a narrative or a statement of some sort. Otherwise I too might have stressed the positive side of environmentalism more.
But now I have to ask you to please explain your morning verse to me. I looked up Merida and it appears to be a vibrant city in Mexico? But 'saccule' has something to do with the inner ear, is that right? How horrible that someone would shoot an arrow into a person's ear--but why would that make venom flow? Very intriguing--and I'd love to be able to understand it!
I, too, must follow where the words take me, Misty, but we naturally have associations that take us in different directions. I usually find two or three possible directions occurring to me, so I must still exercise discretion regarding which way to go.
One of my first associations with VENOM was with poisonous snakes. So I googled to find the name of a well-known rattlesnake or cobra. Right away, the Disney Cobra in Aladdin popped up. This is Jafar!
I have spent time in Merida, a main city in the Yucatán. But this is a different Merida, a famous (fictional) female archer and the lead role in Disney’s Brave.
As to the saccule, I wanted her erring arrow to pierce Jafar’s venomous sac. But I needed an extra syllable in that line. I simply searched the thesaurus and found that “saccule” would fit.
Simple as pie!
~ OMK
Oh, and I left a clue in the first line of my post!
Many thanks for your helpful explanation, OMKM--I appreciated and enjoyed it and think it's a great brief verse.
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