708 : Friends

Poets United had the prompt ‘Best Friend’.

Friends

Friends are like condoms; 

they protect you when things get hard.

 – Anon.

I have never 

Understood

Why diamonds 

Are a girl’s

Best friend

Yet we are told

That a man’s 

Best friend 

Is a dog.

Curiously,

Hedging my bets,

I did once 

Have a dog

Called 

Gem.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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707 : Wonder Women

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: stab, meddlesome, and feisty.

Just a writing exercise .

Not all women are like this, thankfully.

Wonder Women

Meddlesome women 

Are the pits—

Interfering so and so’s;

With hands on hips

And feisty displays

They tell you

That they just know

The hows

The whys—

They tell you now

The ways

Your life fails

To meet their mark.

Could they be

Hormonal misfits?

(It’s just a stab in the dark.)

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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706 : The Roulette Player

It is easier for the mare when a woman gets off the cart. 

– Russian Proverb.

The Roulette Player

The job is yours, you said.

Make it work!

And make it work I did,

An auditor was impressed,

Best he’d seen, he said.

Anywhere, he said.

That felt really good.

But then, 

When I was away,

Why did you have to play with it?

Why does it no longer work?

Do you realize how 

Your embarrassed smile

And obscuring excuses 

Irritate?

Click.  Click. Click.

Are you a gambler?

How many chambers 

Of my temper

Are empty?

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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705 : No pillow here.

For a northern Wren

Jonquils—nice to watch.

While distance lends enchantment,

They are quite bitter.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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704 : A Massive Mistake

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: massive, ruin and strain.

A Massive Mistake

The television chefs of today

Struggle to reach the light,

The strain of producing something new

Ruins many a sleepless night.

Seeking new flavours

To win the favours

Of those who will judge their cake—

But sardines

Combined
With marmalade?

That was a massive mistake.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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703 : The Skin Mine

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #161) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

altitude, disaster, force, chaos, why, people,

plastic, alabaster, bread, mine, any, graphic.

The Skin Mine

What do people see in the porn

That fills the internet?

Watched from a discrete altitude,

To see but not to get?

Alabaster skin, with little worn,

Brazilians, t-shirts wet,

And plastic breasts that protrude

Unlike any natural set.

The actors do it for their bread,

Their willingness is sold.

But why do others interact 

With something they can’t hold?

They’re not forced to put this in their head,

No disasters will unfold,

Just graphic images of a chaotic act.

Or so I have been told. 

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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702 : Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

My eyes are sore,

I cannot taste,

My nose is full of mucoid waste,

I pop some pills

I sip some tea

A hammer beats where my brain should be

I pass the time,

And, on request,

Make dirty phone calls, as a jest.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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(I have a "Paul Robeson" sort of voice.  Pity I can't sing.)

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701 : A Bleak Future

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: absurd, groan and weak.

A Bleak Future

It’s madness.

A policy absurd.

A fascist dream.

One pretty dumb;

To think the poor

Can live on less,

And less,

And less,

Infinitum.

Most bleak—

The old,

The poor,

The sick

The weak,

Transgress

The party purist’s view;

Are chastised 

If a groan is heard;

Knuckle down,

Just make do,

Get by,

Struggle,

And survive,

Or try,

While blessed

With leaders who are,

Inter alia,

Fools

And cruel

And lowly bred

Genitalia.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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700 : Quarantined

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: acrid, dramatic and quarantine.

A porn star, dramatic in the cot,

Was alarmed when he developed a rot.

It was so acrid and red

The medics all fled

And quarantined the dill on the spot.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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699 : The Black Bird

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #159) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

blackbird, night, broken, wings, life, moment, 


arise, eyes, free, light, see, dead

The Black Bird

Black,

Sombre,

Cadaverous;

The grim keeper

Of malice and bile

Sits

Silently,

Perched up high,

Watching in sullen grey tones

The moments

Of life

As they pass by her eyes,

Broken only by the light and dark

Of a flickering timeline.

Her cold black, gimlet eyes,

Sharp eyes,

Piercing eyes,

Dead and lifeless

Judging eyes,

All seeing hate-filled eyes,

Watch

As she sits

Wings folded behind her,

Like a mortician

Watching the mourners arrive.

Nights come and go

But the darkness remains

She sees all

But says nothing

Free to arise and go

Yet not to.

Black,

Sombre,

Cadaverous,

Watching.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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