Find the hidden message in this odd bit of poetry.

Seduction, the lost art, springs from your own lust. A tamer ploy won't sprout a fire and lightly blaze a new address to unlocked, coy desires. Indeed, what hope is so couched, thus has love to every eye open. Unaided love's not seen, despite the depth of its colors. -- Anon

(In reply to I'm curious by Bob Smith)

Yeah Bob, I saw "start" and "end" built from word fragments on my first reading of the poem, and again multiple times in your not-so-subtle creatively worded post a few days later.  ("apples tart"?  LOL.) 

However, that doesn't solve the cryptogram per se.  I don't see many other words composed of adjoining word fragments within the text.  I mean, there are "snot", "nun", "toe", "vet", "veto", "sin", "resin", "row", "rout", "afire", and "wad".  But it's hard for me to make a phrase (even a secret one) out of those words.  Clearly adjoining word fragments is only a small portion of the solution.

Beyond that, I'm looking at word beginnings and endings (SFYOLATPWSAF...) and (SMRNRARY...) and word lengths (7-4-4-3-4-1-5-4-4-6-1...) but none of those seem likely to bear any fruit.

So what is the secret, beyond spying the words "start" and "end"?

Posted by John on 2005-11-10 13:49:15