836 - Life is Chaos

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: habitual, illustrious, and jumbled.

Life is Chaos

Life is chaotic—

Jumbled by outer forces

Beyond our control.

Habitual traits—

Our own dumb contribution

To the current mess.

Leaders disappoint—

Creatures of straw and tin.

Illustrious?  No.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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835 - Sun-Stroke

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: enigmatic, grovel, and faulty.

Sun-Stroke

So enigmatic—

Serene, remote and aloof.

Is anybody home?

But they follow them:

A case of misplaced desire 

And faulty thinking.

They grovel, prostrate

Before their golden icons.

Such misguided souls.

But is there a soul
That can then be misguided?
We will never know.

They seek more recruits—
There is comfort in numbers.
A pyramid scheme.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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834 - Perceptions

Perceptions

He was old.  

Weathered.

With grey, curly hair.

And white stubble

That contrasted sharply

With his dark skin.

Sporting a blue polo shirt,

Shorts and sandals,

He was crossing the plaza.

Hard to guess his age,

It often is,

But he looked fit and healthy.

Our paths were about to cross:

“Good morning” I offered.

“Gidday, old fella!” he responded.

Oh.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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833 - Playing with Fire

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words a few weeks ago were: greasy, hellish, and ignite.

Playing with Fire.

He walked down Satan’s greasy path,

Doing mischievous things for a laugh.

Such as his hellish delight

In trying to ignite

Farts, while having a bath.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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832 - Ku De Ta

Ku De Ta, as it was but now isn't.

Ku De Ta

There are security guards, front and back.

There are barriers from the beach,

“Enter through the lobby, please.”

Bag searches are mandatory.

We sit, elevated; remote to the beach,

There but not there.

The menu is a gardener’s delight:

Phytochemicals in abundance:

Tastes like uncooked vegetable soup

Sold as rejuvenating juice.  

With kale, of course.

Chia seeds and goji berries extra.

The whole raw slurry

Has more antioxidants than you can poke

An extra wide slurpy straw at.

Glasses of grey-ish, orange-ish, pureed gloop.

More medicinal than refreshing.

There is a pool going in 

Where there were once red umbrellas.

Coup d'état.

Not only the head has been removed,

The heart has too.

But the liver! 

Oh, the liver is remarkably frisky.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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