891 - A Run for your Money

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: sadistic, tentative, scour.

A Run for your Money

The bug E.coli.

You can’t call it sadistic—

Opportunistic.

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Bad diarrhoea,

(What the farmers call ‘scour’),

Leaves you exhausted.

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Recovery phase.

A sign of improvement:

A tentative fart.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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890 - Roast Lemmings

Haiku Horizons has a prompt: jump.

Roast Lemmings

They all love to jump,

They don’t care what is out there,

Jump from the frypan!

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Is there fire out there?

Oh, who gives a brass razoo!

Jump out anyway!

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Cognitive misfire.

Jumping to a conclusion,

From any angle.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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One of the delightful and topical
cartoons of Judy Horacek.

889 - Life's Upsides and down.

Life’s Upsides and down.

On Barker’s Road, on a Friday morn,

The drive to work’s largely a yawn,

It's just a routine trip into the town.

So what I saw was very queer

And still to me not very clear

Just whywas that car upside down?

The thing was also rather dented

(I sure new words had been invented)

And, all around, was broken glass.

Of course, the fire brigade was there

And police stood around everywhere

Thankfully, they waved us past.

So as I slipped on past a

Weirdly inverted car disaster

I reflected, that if I had my druthers,

Safety and upright would stay a pair,

And for all the folk who lived out there
Some days start out worse than others.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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888 - Less than Radiant

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: radiant, painstaking, queasy.

Less than Radiant

Late night souvlaki

An easy meal, going home,

Nothing painstaking.

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Three in the morning,

That queasy feeling inside—

A sense of unease.

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A white toilet bowl

Being closely examined.

Odd brand: Radiant.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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887 - Pore Communication

Mad Kane has a regular limerick challenge.

The prompt this week: poor, pore or pour.

Pore Communications

A guy who ate garlics by the scores,

Exuded it out through his pores.

The neighbours would talk,

Saying, when he went for a walk

The paint would peel off their doors.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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Disclaimer:  I love garlic.

886 - The Card

The Card

It’s your birthday.

I wonder where you are.

It’s your birthday,

Think of this as a card,

It was not to be, of course,

It all turned out for the best, 

As they say,

As we went our separate ways,

Perhaps it was a test, 

Who would know?

Drifted rather than expelled,

Shifted rather than repelled

We went our separate ways

Slipping silently into the mists 

Turning sadly, not dismissed

Same old story, same old twist,

Slipping silently into the mists

Of time.

Time.

Time that numbs,

Time that overcomes

As they say,

But…

It’s your birthday.

I wonder where you are.

It’s your birthday,

Think of this as a card,

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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885 - A Sign

Haiku Horizons has a prompt: sign.

A Sign.

Life is full of signs.

Most of them say the same thing:

The wrong way.  Go back.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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884 - The Yes-But Lady

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: minor, nebulous and oily.

The Yes-But Lady

I want to tell you of a minor gripe

About a lady of a particular type.

This lady rebuts every word I say,

Sort of agrees, then takes it away

[Yes, but I’m sure I don’t do it every day.]

She’s always adamant and quite forthright,

Nothing nebulous, she loves a fight.

[Yes, but that’s because I know I’m right!]

Everything I say has an alternate view.

Is nothing I say good enough for you?

[Yes, but everything I say is true!]

Here, let’s see if some examples will do:

I like bacon and eggs, usually two.

[Yes, but they are so oily and bad for you.]

I think I’ll drive into the city.

[Yes, but the countryside is really pretty.]

I bought a shirt, it’s blue, quite pale.

[Yes, but I would have waited for the sale.]

One day when she attacks, oblique,

I’ll chuck the wretch into the creek!

[Yes, but it hasn’t rained in over a week!]

No friend or relative, alive or dead,

Should see themselves in what I’ve said!

[Yes, but it’s OK; what you write is never read.]

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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883 - A Few Key Points

Haiku Horizon has the prompt: key

A Few Key Points

The key to the lock.

What treasures lie behind it?

Do we want to know?

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A happy marriage—

Just love them for who they are,

Don’t try to change them.

A double edged sword

That cuts in both directions;

Acceptance is key.

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The key to the door

The 21 year old's gift.

Not any longer.

21 year old

Already has ev’ry thing

From the age of 10.

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A chastity belt.

A Crusader’s parting gift.

But don’t lose the key.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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