Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #99:

I knew him - his plays were the thing!

the world was his stage, he the king

Folk have lent him their ears

for hundreds of years

tales of p…

Does Lorick #99 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I knew him - his plays were the thing!

the world was his stage, he the king

Folk have lent him their ears

for hundreds of years

tales of power, …

Lorick #99:

I knew him - his plays were the thing!

the world was his stage, he the king

Folk have lent him their ears

for hundreds of years

tales of power, desire, and... betraying

But first, w…

Does Lorick #98 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I am found in and out of great prisons;

in my field I'm a man of great vision!

I'm a showman at heart,

often trapped by my art

I've gone to grea…

Lorick #97:

I am found in and out of great prisons;

in my field I'm a man of great vision!

I'm a showman at heart,

often trapped by my art

I've gone to great depths to be risen!

But first, we s…

Does Lorick #97 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A poet, a prophet, a charmer,

A lover, a seeker, a mourner;

This musical king

the Sirens outsings,

but in love's affairs--none is forlorner!

Hi…

Lorick #97, to confound and confusticate!

A poet, a prophet, a charmer,

A lover, a seeker, a mourner;

This musical king

the Sirens outsings,

but in love's affairs--none is forlorner!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #96:

In the woods I am king of the free!

A fine home for fine fellows - and me.

The green holds my heart,

my maid has her part,

and the King - …

Does Lorick #96 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

In the woods I am king of the free!

A fine home for fine fellows - and me.

The green holds my heart,

my maid has her part,

and the King - not the…

Lorick #95:

In the woods I am king of the free!

A fine home for fine fellows - and me.

The green holds my heart,

my maid has her part,

and the King - not the Prince - is my liege!

But first, we…

Does Lorick #95 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

The last of a long line of kings

(ignoring brief following flings!)

Scorned by rebel baristas;

judged for my Queen fashionista;

killed by libel,…

Lorick #94:

The last of a long line of kings

(ignoring brief following flings!)

Scorned by rebel baristas;

judged for my Queen fashionista;

killed by libel, and debt, and... new things

But firs…

Does Lorick #94 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A postulate: seeing's believing!

My faith is entirely Damascene!

once faithless, myself...

but still - count me twelfth!

A martyr, I died... for…

Lorick #94, to confound and confusticate!

A postulate: seeing's believing!

My faith is entirely Damascene!

once faithless, myself...

but still - count me twelfth!

A martyr, I died... for evangel…

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #93:

A high flier, don't tell me I'm not -

and why worry that things will get hot?

Fortunes wax and they wane;

what's that warning refrain?

Oo…

Does Lorick #93 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A high flier, don't tell me I'm not -

and why worry that things will get hot?

Fortunes wax and they wane;

what's that warning refrain?

Oops! I'…

Lorick #92:

A high flier, don't tell me I'm not -

and why worry that things will get hot?

Fortunes wax and they wane;

what's that warning refrain?

Oops! I'm dropping, falling into the wat-

But…

Does Lorick #92 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

A life unexamined? A waste!

To question all things is my taste

For my feared elocution

you prescribe execution??

Fine. Western thinking, on mine…

Lorick #91:

A life unexamined? A waste!

To question all things is my taste

For my feared elocution

you prescribe execution??

Fine. Western thinking, on mine, will be based!

But first, we solve …

Does Lorick #91 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way!

Not forgotten: I'm known by my day.

I'm as strong as can be

(my dad's wiser than me);

in a fight, I'…