Tree Word Wednesady #415

Today's Words:

content
evolve
sober

In my view, all of human history displays two overarching themes:
1) warfare,
2) the desire of a small privileged elite group of leeches to dominate the rest of the population.

These both result from greed.  To the greedy, no amount is ever enough.  Whatever you have, they want, and they are coming to get it.

sober assessment

when will we evolve enough

to be content

Carpe Diem # 666 and Three Word Wednesday No 414

CD -- Poppy Field Impressions

Credits: Landscape with Poppies - Claude Monet (1873)

my first impression

in the poppy field
burning with a russet glow
no need for sunset

a more light hearted impression

down the poppy slope
that girl catching my eye
she impresses me

For 3WW

today's words:

devious

frown

venemous

i took the challenge of forcing these works into a quasi-ku, 

which drove a dark turn into the opium trade

devious ladies
[each smile an inverted frown]
pick venomous buds

Three Word Wednesday

No. 413

Desire
Shiver
Wilt

those nights of desire

your fingers made me shudder

why then did it wilt

3WW CCCXLVII

The three words:

Easygoing

Fact

Handsome

Three three-word entries in the form of haiku-shaped word clusters

~ 1 ~

the sad fact is that

easygoing handsome man

smells like a sewer

~ 2 ~

easygoing holms

not especially handsome

has a nose for facts

~ 3 ~

a sly handsome man

easygoing with facts

spins seductive tales

~~~ 

3WW CCCXLVII

3WW CCCXLV

Our words:
Disgust
Pout
Wad

Image Found Here

watch her feign disgust
pretending to pout as she
snaps her wad of gum

3WW CCCXLV

3WW CCCXLIV

The Words:

Anticipate

Fearless

Serene

~~~

Something I wrote:

i so eagerly

anticipate her coming
even changed the sheets

~~~

never fearless though
what if she changes her mind
or loves someone else

~~~

later much later
she sleeps serene in my arms
between twisted sheets

~~~

3WW CCCXLIV

3WW CCCXLIII

Reading Mystic's Blog put me in a desert frame of mind.

Image source

in the desert
that distinct image you see
is just a mirage

~~~

in the desert
my thoughts aren't irrational
i hallucinate

~~~

in the desert
i'm as sullen and prickly
as a saguaro

~~~

3WW CCCXLIII

3WW CCCXLII

Today's words:

Distraught

Habitual

Regulate

I was going to let this go, then I saw Mystic's wonderful White Egrets post.  

That prodded me into action.

old man looks around
distraught in his solitude
where's the old woman

~~::~~

moose and goose finding
comfort in meadow and stream
habitual playgrounds

~~::~~

orb weaver's work
a sticky trapping net
to regulate flies

 ~~::~~

3WW CCCXLII

Three Word + Sensational Haiku Wednesday

The three Wednesday words:
Careful
Hug
Mistake

Plus from Sensational Haiku Wednesday
Sensational (of all things)

Mixing memes, I offer this vignette in senryu form.

she was so careful

with her affection always

sleeping alone

~ : ~

nobody to hug

nobody to break down

her wall of ice

~ : ~

was it her mistake

to be so resolute

or finally give in

~ : ~

being less careful

be it mistake or not

accepting a hug

~ : ~

she discovered

the sensations were indeed

sensational

~(!)~

3WW CCCXIX

Our three words:
brutal
grope
transfer

Dark. An invitation to the dance macabre.   It's beyond my capacity to make anything nice out of these words.  So - let's get it over quick.

an unwanted grope
a brutal fluid transfer
another conquest

Now I must go scrub my brain with a Brillo pad.

3WW CCCXVII and Sensational Haiku Wednesday

This weeks words for 3WW:

Heave
Ponder
Valid

This week's haiku theme:
Alternatives

The Love Song of Phil Anders

First adultery
Jalapeños in raw sugar
Deep breaths heave between sighs

Time to ponder
The grip of other thighs
Memory and strange scent carried home

New adventures  
Sense to hide the evidence
That makes each succeeding conquest valid

~ : ~ : ~

Alternatives

Adulterer's quest

Variety in partners
Evidence to hide

Carpe Diem #121 -- Greed; Plus 3WW CCCXVI

Our three words are
Cumbersome
Morbid
Rampage

Our Carpe Diem prompt is Greed - one of the 7 deadly sins

Image found here

 Cumbersome this load
I acquired in my rampage
Morbid I still yearn

 $$  :  $$

Root of all evil
Acquisitive by nature
Moral dilemma

$$  :  $$

STUFF - what's mine is mine
I love THINGS like Smaug loves GOLD
[What's yours is mine too]

$$  :  $$

How much do I need?
A question for the ages
How much stuff is there?

$$  :  $$

Money and power
Fungible if you have them
While most go hungry

$$  :  $$

I'll have another
More - I'm still not satisfied
So I'm taking yours

$$  :  $$

Greed for chocolate
There's only one morsel left
Would I share with you?

$$  :  $$

Some say greed is good
As Moose ponders his next move
Goose lays Golden Egg

$$  :  $$

Carpe Diem #121 

Greedy for even more greed?   Click here.

Sensational Haiku Wednesday + 3WW CCCXIII

Only one day late.

The SHW theme is a traditional nature themed haiku.

Though the sun shines bright
The cold is biting today
Winter has arrived

It's unusal to see a haiku in upside down pyramid geometry.  Somehow, that shape pleases me.

And for 3WW

Icy and polite

Old lovers meet in Winter

And brag in silence

~  ~

In January

It is not polite to brag

Of icy feelings

3WW CCCXIII

Three Word Wednesday

3WW  CCCXII

DISMAL
LUSCIOUS
WAFFLE

Feeling if not dismal then at least minimalist, I do not waffle in offering you these luscious, though brief thoughts.  [Wow, was that lame!]

To waffle at the
sight of a luscious waffle
Is indeed dismal

~  ~  ~  ~  ~

Maple? Blueberry?
Dismal syrup waffling
Luscious treat grows cold

~  ~  ~  ~  ~

Pancake or waffle
I waffle. They're luscious.  I
Get dismal oatmeal

~  ~  ~  ~  ~

She is so luscious
So then why does he waffle
E. D. is dismal

 

Three Word Wednesday CCCXI

 Three words for TWW CCCXI:

FOCUSED
PAIR
VACANT

A Vignette [or is 

It a morality play?]

Told in Haiku Form

Into the vacant

House crept the pair so focused

On the physical

~  ~

Yes she drank too much

He was focused on her pair

Her eyes were vacant

 ~  ~

Focused on the wrong
Target this vacant pair missed
A chance to find - what

~  ~

A pair of strangers

Now they pass focused on the

Distant horizon

~  ~

Why have I focused

On this pair of vacant souls

What is their message

Three Word Wednesday - CCCX

This week's three words:

IDLE
NAGGING
PACE

Here they are in a perverse limerick.


A racy girl's pace was to sidle
Up to a jock lounging idle;
Mock him with nagging face
Till he went to her place
And had fun with a whip and a bridle.


[Sometimes I can't resist horsing around]

Three Word Wednesday CCCIX

Today's words:  Detonate, Limber, Tedious

Granddaughter Amanda as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nut Cracker

See also

Tedious to stretch
But keep those muscles limber
Detonate in dance

{Sensational Haiku, Three Word} Wednesday

These prompts make me a bit more somber than the silliness you might have come to expect.  My mother-in-law has been in an extended care facility for several months.  They are trying hard to help here there, but she does little to help herself, and is growing weaker physically and emotionally.

Mentally, she's an enigma, and seems to wander among various degrees of past and present reality.  She's always been very sharp, so this is really quite disturbing.

Plus, a dear friend of mine who was an educator and a wonderful musician, only in his early 70's, is deep in the grip of dementia.   He now lives with his daughter and can't remember how to find his way to the bathroom.

SHW prompt:  Family
TWW CCCVIII prompts:  Echo, Hardship, Softly

Family memories
Echo softly -- the hardship
Of dementia nears

~  ~  ~  ~  ~

A non-haiku on the 3 words
Inspired by Pigeon Diaries 


Always speak softly of lost love
The echo is a drumbeat in your heart
Memory marches on in hardship

~ ~ ~

Update 12/20: As a haiku

Lost love - speak softly
Your heart's drumbeat - echos of 
Memory's hardship

This one has 1st-3rd line interchangeability;
a feature I haven't previously considered.

Memory's hardship
Your heart's drumbeat - echos of 
Lost love - speak softly

I think the second version seems a bit more coherent.

I'll at least be thinking about interchangeably in the future.

Three Word Wednesday CCCVI

On Friday again.  Bear with me, it's a busy week.

This week's words:

BATTLE
FLUID
HARVEST

They fit together compactly like this.

Haiku I

I harvest the grain
Distill it into fluid
The Battle is yours

Haiku II

That generation
Called GREAT Battled with Fluid:
The Harvest of War.

Six word story

Battle
Your bottle:
The Fluid Harvest

 ~  ~  ~  ~ ~

My father's generation - those who fought in WW II were traumatized as only the battle-stricken can be.  PTSD was not recognized or understood back then, so they self-medicated.  With alcohol.

What become known as our greatest generation was a legion of drunks.

I am not making this up.

Three Word Wednesday . . .

.  .  .  on Friday.

GRAPES, with Gratitude

DANGLE on the vine;
By LABOR transformed; NEATLY
Bottled for my use.

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