This cache is not at the posted coordinates.
As you may have deduced, this is the third in my series of poetry-related caches. This time the puzzle is an Acrostic. Well, it is not an Acrostic Puzzle in the traditional sense of what an Acrostic Puzzle is (where the first letter of each of the words forms a phrase). That is ok since the person who penned the poem used for this was not really a poet.
At any rate, once you have solved the puzzle, you will have sufficient information to discover the year of the poem's original publication. This is what you need to enter in the Certitude Checker to get the coordinates for the cache.
Here is the puzzle:
There is an image in the gallery for printing. This link will also give you a more crisp and clear image to print. Acrostic Puzzle
The work that this "poem" came from is also quite enjoyable and worth reading, at least in my opinion.
If you get stuck or are having trouble, let me know and I will be glad to help. Otherwise, have fun!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Note: I updated the coordinates on Certitude on 22 November 2024. If you have entered the answer in before then and want to find it you will need to reenter the answer in Certitude to get the corrected coordinates. It is not too far from the original final location.