[wot, don't see a lot of text Broadcast Minds, do you? swirling up from the bottom of the forge screen in wispy dribs and drabs, words coalescing and reconfiguring, fitting together in shifts, until perhaps some of these stanzas briefly stabilise together.]A is for Liam who caught the wrong eyes
(
Read more... )
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
all poems focus on a theme.
Reply
Reply
my second is self, my third is the fifth.
my fourth is the first of a word meaning shine.
my fifth takes us back to the start of this rhyme.
Reply
[sounds of him scribbling elsewhere.
Not usually one for the thinking or the problem-solving, but syntax: that he can do.
First, second, third what?
In "strife" but not "sift". That's how letter riddles go. Answer is "R" or "E".
Second is "Self". Answer: "I".
Third is the fifth. Sol? E? The hell? [A shame Lupin can't help…]
Word meaning shine? For pete's sake. Narrow it down a bit, love… [not realising she had by knowing her audience]
Start of the rhyme. Same letter as the first. …Or the same letter as the beginning of "rhyme". So First and Fifth are both "R".
…Hang on, fifth, numbers like that look like letters, grandfather clocks-"V"]
R-I-V-something-R.
Something must be an "e" mustn't it.
What means "shine" that starts with-?
huh.
[Nah. She must be thinking of something else.]
…River, is it?
Reply
It is! Now it's your turn again.
Reply
An incongruously long-lived smile and he shakes his head.] Nah. You're too good for me, kid.
Reply
Leave a comment