A clue from John?

[Mellow Yellow]

An Alphabet
A is for Parrot which we can plainly see
B is for glasses which we can plainly see
C is for plastic which we can plainly see
D is for Doris
E is for binoculars I'll get in five
F is for Ethel who lives next door
G is for orange because we love to eat when we can get them because they come from abroad
H is for England and (Heather)
I is for monkey we see in the tree
J is for parrot which we can plainly see
K is for shoetop we wear to the ball
L is for Land because brown
K is for Venezula where the oranges come from
N is for Brazil near Venezuela (very near)
O is for football which we kick about a bit
T is for Tommy who won the war
Q is a garden which we can plainly see
R is for intestines which hurt when we dance
S is for pancake or whole-wheat bread
U is for Ethel who lives on the hill
P is arab and her sister will
V is for me
W is for lighter which never lights
X is for easter--have one yourself
Y is a crooked letter and you can't straighten it
Z is for Apple which we can plainly see

This is my story both humble and true
Take it to pieces and mend it with glue


Taken from Skywriting by Word of Mouth, note that some of the letters are out of order and missing

I was wondering if anyone who was good at anagrams and the like could find a clue?

[beatlies]

I've been reading and re-reading this piece for over a year. It is in the book "Skywriting By Word of Mouth," which I've brought up before in this forum. Written in 1969. Note "D is for Doris" ---anagram D foris Doris. In another Skywriting piece, Lennon writes about "Boris Day." Most of the "Alphabet" piece is very obscure and hard to figure out. "Ethel next door on the hill" is (I Love) Lucy (in the Sky)'s neighbor?

"E is for Easter have one yourself" suggests the Sgt. Pepper cover, the "death" and "resurrection" of JPM and Faul, Fylvie. Foris, Fia, Finatra, maybe Tara Browne etc.

[il ras]

First thing I noticed: "Z for Apple"
Zapple was the label for a couple of LPs

[lili]

I noticed that alot of the letters have nothing to do with their description. Mello is right. We have to see if we can figure out what John was trying to say. [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"]

[LOVELYRITA]

Maybe the numerical values of the letters....or the words like Parrot...glasses...linked together could be something.

Could someone just do a list for what each letter was supposed to mean and their ideas on what those words supposedly mean? Like parrot...because they repeat whatever someone says to them....something like that? I'm not that clever to think like John Lennon, maybe someone else has that kind of humor.

[fourthousandholes]

For those of us like myself who never even heard of
"Skywriting by Word of Mouth":

geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8498/skywriting.html

www.amazon.com/Skywriting-Word-Mouth-Writings-Including/dp/0060914440

www.instantkarma.com/johnbooks2.html

" Skywriting by Word of Mouth -
Published 1986 by Harper & Row

Skywriting was written by John Lennon during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with their son, Sean. John had planned to publish the work, but was killed before that plan came to fruition.

This collection includes "The Ballad of John and Yoko" which begins "I'd always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist (a la Juliette Greco). My soul mate."

Skywriting By Word of Mouth -
Published 1986 by Harper & Row

Swedish edition of John Lennon's own story with text in both Swedish and English. Also includes an interview given by John just hours before his death produced with permission of Yoko Ono. 256 pages. Interview CD is just over 3 minutes. "

[LOVELYRITA]

I wonder who "Ethel" is? Just a peculiar thing in his writing mentioned a few posts back.

[Paul Bearer]

Perhaps there is a coded message somewhere and the translation is exchanging the letters according to the poem.

For instance:

A is for Parrot which we can plainly see

may mean that wherever you see an "A", you replace it with a "P".

So, where would the coded message be?

[LOVELYRITA]

A parrot with plastic glasses...a John impersonator?

Venezuelan oranges? Funny we get them for Florida or California....(LOL)

South America.....

Monkey in tree

football.....soccer....

shoetop...ball...intestines hurt when dance...

South American Ball

Tropical

Rainforest

Amazon

Perhaps South America holds the clues something like a Lennonesque buried treasure.....Somewhere down there is the whole story, but buried ...everything that happened to him, the Beatles, to JPM and Bill.....the whole story.....

Or.....he's just messin' with our minds...

[The Duke of Spiders]

A parrot of Paul that everyone can plainly see... Faul.

[il ras]

skirmisher said:

Perhaps there is a coded message somewhere and the translation is exchanging the letters according to the poem.

For instance:

A is for Parrot which we can plainly see

may mean that wherever you see an "A", you replace it with a "P".

So, where would the coded message be?

that's really interesting...
when did John write it?

[beatlies]

beatlies said:

I've been reading and re-reading this piece for over a year. It is in the book "Skywriting By Word of Mouth," which I've brought up before in this forum. Written in 1969. Note "D is for Doris" ---anagram D foris Doris. In another Skywriting piece, Lennon writes about "Boris Day." Most of the "Alphabet" piece is very obscure and hard to figure out. "Ethel next door on the hill" is (I Love) Lucy (in the Sky)'s neighbor?

"E is for Easter have one yourself" suggests the Sgt. Pepper cover, the "death" and "resurreection" of JPM and Faul, Fylvie. Foris, Fia, Finatra, maybe Tara Browne etc.

Ilras --it was written in February 1969.

The "parrot" parroting line is one of the more obvious Faul imposter references in the piece, and it's repeated twice, like a parrot.

[lili]

P.B wrote: Perhaps there is a coded message somewhere and the translation is exchanging the letters according to the poem.

For instance:

A is for Parrot which we can plainly see

may mean that wherever you see an "A", you replace it with a "P".

So, where would the coded message be?

I think that he might be onto something. Is anyone good at decoding this kind of thing ?

[il ras]

BTW; parrot is associated with two letters (A and J); once starting in uppercase once in lowercase.

then:
F for Ethel
H for England
U for Ethel
X for easter

So it cannot be just an exchange-the-letter game..

[il ras]

plus: P, T and U are not in the correct order.

[JoJo]

Don't if this qualifies as a clue exactly, this was something John gave to Yoko, The inscription reads:

The complete Yoko Ono word poem game. (for Yoko's with heads full of problems)

To Yoko with love from John

Tuesday, July 28, 1970 L.A.

He cut up a picture like this:



and then wrote words on each of the pieces like this:

[lili]

It would be great if we knew which word was behind which piece of the puzzle. I'm sure that it spelled out a message for Miss Yoko.

[That Latvian Guy]

Maybe to solve what John wanted to say, we should solve the puzzle with the picture first, and then solve IDENTICALLY the puzzle with the words

[lili]

That's a good idea ! ;D