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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Three Word Wednesday

Written for Three Word Wednesday
and posted to The NaiSaiKu Challenge?
and The American Sandwich game.
The words at 3WW this week are:

Folly, hostile, ordinary.


Hostile gargoyles on the otherwise ordinary looking folly.

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The hostile gargoyles

Defenders of the folly

Ordinary day

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The hostile gargoyles

Defenders of the folly

ORDINARY DAY

Defenders of the folly

The hostile gargoyles

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CLEAN SWEEP

Built in the nineteenth century, the folly had stood the test of

time. However, the new owners didn’t like the hostile looking

gargoyles. Demolishing it, they replaced it, with something

quite ordinary.

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BIG (before I go) here's the link to the song lyric I wrote for Cliff: Never No no

20 comments:

  1. Andy,

    I quite like these, as always.

    Nice American sentence, nice haiku, naisaiku.

    A clean sweep of the forms, and forms are what bring them together, for you, this week.

    Nice work.

    I will admit that in "Clean Sweep" I pause at the comma after "they replaced it", though I am not sure that I ought to, though obviously you intend that I do. That is the one thing I stop at. I will consider your intentions further.

    Anyway, I love the gargoyles and thanks for offering these to us all.

    Chris

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  2. I never thought of gargoyles in this context.

    Liked all three.

    mirror cracked from side to side

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  3. i love gargoyles and hope this is just fiction and no one tore them down and replaced them with ordinary architecture....

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  4. Wow, Andy, a tour de force of poetry and the written word. Really liked the piece about the gargoyles.

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  5. Excellently done. So much creativity around ancient guttering.

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  6. i like your multiple styles...soon I will be brave enough to post several entries.

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  7. see comment on your other post---grin.

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  8. Well worked to fit all those prompts.

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  9. Good work - enjoyed the gargoyles. I think the Naisaku was my favorite.

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  10. I enjoyed them all and I think I learned something from your gargoyles. I had to look up alternative meanings to folly. :)

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  11. Always, you excel at these forms. I was happy to see that you used the word folly in the architectural sense - made the scene fine and finer!

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  12. i'd thought of using 'folly' in the building sense... now, i wish i had.

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  13. Gargoyles, Hostile ? but still liked "hostile gargoyles Defenders of the folly"

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  14. Just the word "gargoyles" alone is a feast for the artistic senses! Great sound and sense effects in this piece!

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  15. Absolutely awesome! My favorites are the second and the last one!

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  16. Your use of the word 'folly' in that context was brilliant.

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  17. Hiya Andy!
    I like both, but especially "clean sweep." Will return to read your song lyric. Almost missed seeing that in the tiny print. :D You know I love music. Must go to sleep.

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  18. Sorry to say I had never heard of naisaiku before. :/ But I like your crafting of the words in different combinations. Very thoughtful. Thanks for visiting my "bluegrassgal" blog. :)

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