The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - A series of poetic puzzles. - 3
Clues - Mysteries Plays Musicals Poetry Matriculation Property Museums Philosophy
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1.
From Polemics to Pygmalion
From Portobello to London
From outcast to salvation
From Barbara Undershaft
From critic of the craft
to one’s craft well done
He spun many a playful act
With the least of tact.
Extra clues - Fabian Society, Charlotte Payne-Townshend
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2.
From Coxhoe to Florence
From The Battle of Marathon to Aurora Leigh
From the Portuguese to the Greeks
From Slavery’s abhorrence
to Child Labor’s illegality
and Women’s Rights that she seeked
she fought her bodily woes
but lost to death’s shadows.
Extra clues - Pen, John Kenyon
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3.
From Malden to Temecula
From student to fighter
From the Velvet Claws to the Postponed Murder, in ‘73
From the T.V. to the watercooler
From lawyer to writer
From a rocky start to profitable masonry
He founded The Court of Last Resort
Freely helping those who’s Justice fell short.
Extra clues - Della Street, Cool and Lam
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- 4.
From Joseph, to Jesus, to Jeeves
From The Likes of Us To a Lost Shoe
From Peron to Daae
Ah, the stories he weaves, the glory he receives
From London to Sydmonton, he’s not through
From Cricket to Love Never Dies
From Variations to Symphonic Suites
He filled the seats and reaped the receipts.
Extra clues - Lon Chaney, Gaston Leroux
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5.
From Burlington to Cooperstown
From Bumppo to Chingachgook
From Precaution to The Ways of the Hour
From Indian lore to Upside Down
From The History of the Navy of the United States of America, a long book
To Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, a short book
He wrote of Leatherstockings and sea power.
His Deerslayer and Pathfinder are close to Hall of Fame.
Extra clues - The Brig, Somers, Otsego Hall
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Choose from here if you must:
Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Earle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Penn Warren, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Graham Bell, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Carlos Williams, William Henry Harrison, Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin Luther King, James Fenimore Cooper, William Howard Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Francis Scott Key, George Bernard Shaw, John Jacob Astor.
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Author:
MendedFences27 (
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- Comment from author about the poem: From the clues given try to identify the five persons hidden within, There are general clues given below the title that apply generally to all 5, and specific clues within each of the 5 rhymes, also a coup[le extra clues at the bottom of each segment, If all else fails there is a grab bag list of names that contains the five in the puzzle. Good Luck and let me know what you think, - Phil A.
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These are great poetic puzzles that are beyond my reach at the moment but loved the form and intricacy involved in this work a fave
I am loving the concept but this is above my station, I have no doubt someone will have the answers, enjoyed the read and the work put into this
The first one is George Orwell?
Second perhaps Caroline Curteis?
The third is it Erle Stanley Gardner?
Bingo! Teddy.
You got ESG. On the first two you got one of the first names correct. I hope you had some fun with it. I appreciate you giving it a go.
I did have fun, you made me work though, 🤣 I shall come back to see what others have 🌹
I'm posting the answers tonight. Here they are. !. The playwright ( Major Barbara ) George Bernard Shaw. 2. Sonnets from the Portuguese poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3. Perry Mason ( Books and T.V ) created By Erle Stanley Gardner 4. Phantom of the Opera a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber 5. Last of the Mohicans a novel by James Fenimore Cooper See they weren't so difficult after all. Hope you all enjoyed them
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