777 - Modest Ambitions

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week were: modest, distracted, and genuine.

Modest Ambitions

A modest little man 

In a modest little house

Had a modest little job

And a modest little spouse.

Early every morning

He would tumble from his bed

Shave his prickly face

And leave to earn his bread.

The little modest man

Had a genuine desire

To move to Moonee Ponds

And comfortably retire.

Moonee Ponds was fabled

As a land of milk and honey,

Gladioli grew there abouts

Though the water tasted funny.

The little modest man

Toiled throughout the day

Never distracted by the thought

That his dream was far away.

The little modest man

Shuffled off his mortal coil

They had his ashes scattered

Upon his longed for soil.

But the little modest spouse

Of the little modest geezer

Banked the insurance cheque

And moved to Indonesia.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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776 - Much haiku about something.

Illustration by gipi.

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #195) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

capitulate, ennui, sense, end, condemn, list,

single, inky, smell, render, generate, channel

Much haiku about something.

A true God is love,

Or so the story is told.

Actions disagree.

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When a single God

Needs to be channeled through man

He’s rendered useless.

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Fundamentalists

Use guns to push old ideas.

Inky responses.

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Capitulation

Is not on the agenda

No sense of an end.

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While quick to condemn

The press smells a good story

And generates fear.

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“They envy our life”

Say our leaders, piously.

How wrong can they be.

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Feelings are aroused,

Anger replaces ennui,

But impotence too.

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All religions kill

And kill, time and time again,

The list is endless.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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775 - A Savage Awakening

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week were: savage, electric, and passionate.

A Savage Awakening.

The object of his passionate favours

Was a household labour-saver.

But the electric supply

Brought a tear to his eye

And a scream that woke all the neighbours.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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774 - Fragments

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week were: jovial, promise, and resolute.

Fragments

I

A pizza without any anchovy’ll

Be scorned by the cognoscenti;

The Maffia, never particularly jovial,

Will demand anchovies a-plenty.

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II

Everything has promise.

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III

New Year’s a time of reflection,

Seldom sober, often in sorrow.

Resolute, we chart the ‘better us’’—

But can we hold off until tomorrow?

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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