992.Taking the cake. Or not.

Haiku Horizons prompt : waste

Taking the cake.  Or not.

"But you must eat it,

It will only go to waste."

—Yes, but not to mine.

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991 - The Pack

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: 

High-pitched, languid, impish.

The Pack

Do you hear them?

Dog whistles.

Hight pitched

Well pitched

With languid distain

For the ensuing pain

For the flock,

The anxious flock.

Just an eye

For the effect.

Rally the mob.

Bring out the dogs.

Herd them in, 

Round them up

Bring them in

In for the slaughter.

The dogs do their work.

Not innocent

And yet unaware

Naive in their way,

Working dogs.

Just responsive

To the note as pitched.

A note of malevolence

Behind a feigned innocence.

Look!  I have clean hands!

Nothing impish here,

Not just mischief.

Nastier.

Much nastier.

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990 - Embrace

Embrace

Skin on skin embrace.

We are animals at heart—

A primal pleasure.

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989 - Mental Turns

Poet’s United Midweek Motif : Nostalgia

Mental Turns

Nostalgia plays 

Its siren song;

We fall 

Beneath its spell.

We reconstruct 

The past and smile

At stories it can tell.

It’s false,

This bright and mental waltz.

Futile

And quite pointless because

Wistfully hopeful, we long

For something 

That never was.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2017

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988 - Faultlines

Sunday Scribblings 2 prompt : Broken

Faultlines

Once it is broken

It is irreparable—

Repaired is not new.

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987 - Break it up.

Haiku Horizons prompt: break


Break it up.

Need a rest?  Kit Kat!
Chocolate is a cure-all?
Oh, give me a break!
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986 - Listing

Mad Kane poses a regular limerick challenge.

The key word this week is ‘list’.

Listing

A bloke who was regularly pissed

Developed an unfortunate list.

It so lead him astray,

In a circular way,

That when he fell to the ground, he missed.

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985 - Choose wisely

Sunday Scribblings 2 prompt: pinch.

Choose wisely

Life can be risky—

There are some things you can pinch,

Some things you shouldn’t.

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984 - No bunnies here

Mad Kane poses a regular limerick challenge.

The key word this week is ‘meat’.

No bunnies here.

No BBQ can be complete

Without a pile of well-grilled meat.

There’s plenty of sauce

And some beers, of course,

And salads for the rabbits to eat.

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983 - Transference

Transference

The patterns are there

But meanings are elusive:

You find what you want.

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982 - The Closing of the Day

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: 

Decaying, Ember, Fragrant.

The Closing of the Day

Fragrant.

Aromatic.

Earthy.

Drifting low 

In the dew laden air

Smoke carries 

Its own peace.

The fire,

Once alive,

Is now decaying.

Dying.

Slowly

But dying.

Fading with the night,

Into the night,

Until the last ember 

Ceases to glow

And the ashes turn cold

And grey.

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981 - Venus

Midweek Motif : love

Haiku Horizons : shell

Venus

When Venus arose from her shell

The men all fell for her spell.

They claimed the attraction

Was a fine mind in action,

But being naked was a bonus, as well.

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980 - The Hunter Gatherer

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

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

The words this week are: 

asymmetrical, bare and crave.

The Hunter Gatherer

What do you crave?

I mean, what do you really want?

Keeps you up at night,

Gets you up early in the morning,

Captures and teases your imagination? (1)

What if you stop for a moment,

Strip your desire bare (2)

For a close but critical inspection? 

But the desire to have

And the pleasure of having

Are asymmetric.

You long, lust even, (3)

For as long as you take 

To achieve your kill;

The consummate 

And consuming hunter.

But next day?

A trophy

And a new hunt.

Could you be hunting

The wrong thing?

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1.  I hope you are not coveting the neighbour’s wife. 

They can be unreasonably touchy about this.

2.  See 1.

3.  See 1.

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979 - Showers

Haiku Horizons : Rain

Showers

Pain. Anguish. Regret.

In the garden of sorrow

Tears fall as petals.

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978 - Faith

Midweek motif: Faith

I’m a scientist.

Faith is not something I do.

But I do have hope.

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977 - The Committee Man

For Neil, who gave me line 4

The Committee Man

In a room, I know not where

There sat a man who wasn’t there.

He’d come along when told to meet

Just a warm body in a another cold seat.

While debates drove others to despair

His mind was in a pool somewhere,

Or sipping champagne by the sea,

Or just off frolicking, wild and free.

Until the chairman, the rotten swine

With wicked eyes and teeth, canine,

Asked the man who wasn’t there

A question about some crook affair.

Reluctantly his mind returned

And move the meeting be adjourned.

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