615 : The Power of Three

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #127) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

claws, peering, spirits, stories, apples, secret

cradle, pile, clues, exile, three, rash

The Power of Three

Superstitious stories abound

And make our life a tease;

Never more so than when they say

That bad things come in threes.

The origins are an old, dark secret,

Few clues point to the facts.

What evil spirits once declared 

That misfortune hunts in packs?

But misfortune is a two edged sword

Not everybody shares;

Are we, by a rash assumption,

Comparing apples to our pears?

We’re in the claws of mad folderol:

From the cradle ‘til depart

Believing that the universe

Is disharmony, in three parts.

Peering through the perceived clouds

We miss the silver lining,

And exile our hopes to despair,

With superstitious whining.

But what if groups of three pile up

And then sneakily combine?

What if groups of threes, come in threes?

And misfortune comes in nines?

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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