The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - A Series of Poetic Puzzles - 4
Clues - History, Entertainment, Music, Movies & T.V.
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1.
It was live a little, love a little
when I was having fun in Acapulco
but it became such a night
when the spinout on the speedway
brought me double trouble.
At the jailhouse they took away my shoes.
I say easy come, easy go
but now I’m on the loose
and I can’t follow that dream
‘cause my blue moon turned to gray
and I’m running wild in the country every day.
Extra clues - old shep, wooden heart
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2.
When her mitigation of the light no longer prevailed
The mountains spewed their blistering ashes skyward
The great continents shook and began to crumble
When darkness enshrouded the early morning clouds
Thereafter the hot ovens of man split asunder
The reawakened and insatiable power grew
The seven oceans and all lakes began to seethe
The fire of the devil was set free upon the land
Fire widened to embrace all of the known and peoples.
Like the Sun, the world will then burn and glow forever
The time of Man will have reached its natural end
Extra clues - Catherine de’ Medici, astrology
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3.
Frankly, the coronation of Charles was no big deal.
Sure, Pope Leo was there, and there was Caroling.
Named after his grandfather, he inherited his kingdom.
and expanded it upon the deaths of siblings.
The Lombards, the Saxons, but no Basques.
“The Father of Europe” was a great politician as well.
With four official wives, four concubines
and 18+ children, he had to be.
Extra clues - Pippin or Pepin, Missi dominici
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4.
“Mon Homme” Maurice, neither alive.
Casino de Paris 1895.
Risque routines, yet self- assured.
$1,000,000 Legs insured.
1908 Apache’ dance, her and Max.
Shocking, but huge crowds it attracts.
Wearing self-made towering chapeaus.
Highest paid woman, but never a trousseau.
Extra - Moulin Rouge, l’ile d’amour
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5.
He was playing the Lyre while singing by the fire.
His Mother’s death was a case of ‘murder-for-hire’.
Emperor too soon. Destined for doom.
He died on the 9th of June. A mausoleum for a tomb.
His name was erased. His statues defaced.
Otho restored some to please the populace.
Extra clues - The year of the 4 Emperors, Agrippina the Younger
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Choose from here if you must:
Plato, Attila, Helen, Socrates, Muhammad, Alexander, Aristotle, Buddha, Charlemagne,
Tutankhamun, Jesus, Virgil, Hannibal, Pocahontas, Sappho, Geronimo, Oprah, Pele,
Homer, Elvis, Achilles, Liberace, Confucius, Nero, Nostradamus, Capucine, Sting,
Twiggy, Halston, Donovan, Mistinguett, Moliere, Mantovani, Colette, Voltaire, Prince
Cantinflas, Madonna, Bjork, Topol.