872 - Happy-Go-Lucky

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: Happy-go-lucky, ignorant and joyous.

Happy-Go-Lucky

We travel not for trafficking alone:

By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned:

For lust of knowing what should not be known

We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.

- James Elroy Flecker.

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Holidays?  Where are you going?

Uzbekistan.

[pause] Do you mean Pakistan?

No.  Uzbekistan.  

Oh.  Why?

It's time.

Alexander the Great went there,

Genghis Khan went there,

Marco Polo went there,

They have no excuses

If they are not prepared 

For a visit from me.

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People are ignorant

Sheltered from the outside world,

Ignorance is fear.

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An inner conflict:

Climate change is very real

But travel is too.

In a heating world

Flying is a moral question

But camels are slow.

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Taste other cuisines

Rub against ancient cultures

Spread understanding

See joyous people

From all corners of the world

One large family.

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And so we go.

Bags packed.  Taxi booked.

A long way from the caravans of old.

But close, too.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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