Thursday, March 24, 2016

855 - The First Law of Gardening


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: brutal, clammy and dense.


First Law of Gardening

A man with remarkable hair,
Ran for president, just for a dare.
While apparently dense,
In the cognitive sense,
His success made liberals despair.

Candidates take a risk when they stand—
No questions, it seems, will be banned:
Could appendages, clammy,
Beneath his pajammy,
Reflect the size of his hands?

While media and pundits all groan,
There’s a truism garden’s have known:
While it seems to be brutal,
The only seeds that will fruit’ll
Be the ones that you’ve previously sown.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016
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854 - Excuses


Mad Kane has a weekly limerick challenge.
She provides the rhyme word, the rest is up to us.
This week the word is ‘mislaid’.


Excuses

A user of the red-lighted trade
Was asked why he’d been so delayed.
Not wishing to admit
That he’s slipped in for a bit,
Replied, obliquely, “Not lost, only mislaid”.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

853 - St Patrick's Day 2016


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: uncovered, abrupt, vacant.


St Patrick’s Day 2016 

A green grass carpet
Blankets Ireland, coast to coast—
No part uncovered.

A brief hissy fit—
Snakes abruptly departed
Feeling unwanted.

Was Ireland vacant?
Snakes gone.  Potato famine.
Early refugees.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016
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