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

Likkle Rhymin' Fingy

Posted to readwritepoem
Monday Poetry Train Revisited
and Only The Good Friday
and at Carry On Tuesday #3
What seems is not always as it seems
and the following likkle rhymin' fingy
is a case in point. It is in fact the song
lyrics I wrote for Sir Cliff Richard, who
still needs a number one hit in the UK
charts this year, to continue his record
of a number one hit in every decade, for
six decades.

GOODBYE NO NO

Goodbye no no, goodbye

I don’t think so

My love affair with you

ain’t over yet

It seems like yesterday

when we first said hello,

Goodbye no no, goodbye

I don’t think so

I sing this song for you

to let you know

that you are my number one

I won’t let you go

Goodbye no no, goodbye

I don’t think so

Never never, say

never ever, though

Cos who knows what tomorrow

may bring don’t you know

Repeat

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Sunday Scribblings - Covert

Written for the Sunday Scribblings prompt: Covert

COVERT FRIEND OF MINE

Sandy eye candy, she’s virtually mine

She’s cool as can be I met her Online

Sandy eye candy covert friend of mine

She writes the rhythm and I do the rhyme

Sandy eye candy, her words taste like wine

Urdu or Haiku her language sublime

Sandy eye candy we chat all the time

She knows I love her, I think she’s divine

Sandy eye candy when will she be mine

She reads my letters, one line at a time

Sandy eye candy, is love such a crime

Each time I 'see' her, she makes me feel fine

Sandy eye candy, I met her Online

She’s cool as can be she’s virtually mine!

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It's time for you to taste the American Sandwich game

Your Future Looks Bleak..

Written for 3WW the words this week are:
timid, dreary and embrace
Posted to MondayPoetryTrainRevisited
and The NaisaiKu Challenge?

Here's mines:

timid looks
handshake no embrace
dreary you

timid looks
handshake no embrace
dreary you
YOUR FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK
dreary you
handshake no embrace
timid looks
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Carry On Tuesday #2 & Totally Optional Prompts

Written for Carry On Tuesday #2
prompted at and posted to Totally Optional Prompts

DER DER DERLANG

everyone suddenly burst out singing

and I was filled with such delight,

oh yeah, oh what

a joyful song,

it was to bring

to the table,

who would have dreamed to dare it was only

last night that I saw you in my sleep,

walking towards me naked

I heard your scream,

I felt your nightmare too

I relived your dream, yeah

and yet, now here you are,

as bold as brass

and uplifting everyone

who knows you

with this new song

der

der

derlang

der der

der der

derlang

you sang, and I was filled with the new light

my cup is overflowing now, with glee

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Carry On Tuesday #1

This week the prompt at Carry on Tuesday is the
opening lines of A Walk After Dark by W. H. Auden

Here's mine:

THE SMORNING

a

cloudless night

like this can set the

spirit soaring, up up up to

the man in the moon, they call

him loony tuney, he’s pushing up daisies

and we’ll all be joining him soon.

I saw him ‘the smorning’ poking

the ground with a twig.

I said, what are you

smokin’ man?

strokin’ the

deck

like

that?

and he replied, I’m searching for

moon dust, it falls before

morning, and I’m hoping

it’ll stick to this ‘ere

honey dipper and

sparkle like gold

to ward off

the cold.

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Mirror mirror on the wall...

CYCLIKU
As many of you know, I've been experimenting with a little poetry form that I first dubbed the Cycliku, (the way I described it at the time, because of its cyclical nature). The Cycliku, soon became known as the NaiSaiKu, and I now run a little weekly challenge site, where people can post their own NaiSaiKu style poems.
SANDWICH
Another project that I have started is called The American Sandwich game, which is flash fiction in 51 syllables. The idea is for you to write a piece of flash fiction, using just three Allen Ginsberg style American sentences.
FOLDING MIRROR
Coincidentally, I have just found out about Marc Lathom's site, Folding Mirror Poetry. He has some good poems for you to check out. Marc's version of this mirror image poetry uses an exact word count as opposed to a syllable count in the NaiSaiKu.
THE MIRROR LOOP
Many of you will be familiar with Paul McCann's Mirror Loop Poetry he truly is the master of this form and the palindromic structure he uses, is in my mind unbeatable.
COMPACT MIRROR
Here's one that I wrote earlier, as they say. The only thing I've changed is that I have now inserted THE TITLE in the centre, as opposed to the top where it originally was.
You can also find the original version of this poem on my pub poetry archive blog: StraightTalkingStreetTalkingSweetTalkingGuy..

No accident of fate or chance
We planned our dreams we chose romance
I planned to meet you in my mind
You chose to be there too
I wear denims you wore jeans
I like to disco you love to dance
ROMANCE THAT’S ROMANCE
You like to disco I love to dance
I wore denims you wear jeans
You chose to be there too
You planned to meet me in your mind
We planned our dreams and that's romance
No accident of fate or chance
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Posted to TotallyOptionalPrompts
The prompt this week is: Opposites

Three Word Wednesday CVXXXIII

Written out of the top of my head for 3WW
the given words this week were:
efficient, optimize and treacherous.

Here's mine:

THEY CAN ONLY DREAM

concave plastic notel open both ends

the honeymoon suite for my poetry friends

efficient as a mobile home that rolls

rocks when the drunk kicks it on his way past

hums when some bum sicks up all over it

and this is home to the best poet I know

and he has holes in the soles of his shoes

and wears musty and old hand me down clothes

and he lives in a plastic pipe that rolls

he and his princess the poetess goddess

they scrawl their poetry on the concave walls

in a shared red and blue blood mixed with love

propped up against the square peg plywood door

they optimise their day writing poetry

newsprint curtains blankets street sheets scream same

the best poet in the world and his princess

the treacherous candle burning both ends

they can only dream about a hot bath

the only shower they get is the rain

out there alone but not lonely white cold

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The American Sandwich game is waiting for you to take a little bite...

Monday Poetry Train Revisited #28

Written for MPTR - You can post here too!

HANG OUT

She loves me, she loves me not, so I must be barking

up the wrong tree. Where did I go wrong, I wrestle

with love, I whistle into the wind? I hang out in the

poetry garden, alone with my thoughts once again.

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An American Sandwich, it's time for you to take a bite...

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Hot spice with no rice

noughty as a round number

thick as cucumber

AS COOL AS A SUMMERS DAY

thick as cucumber

naughty as a wrong number

hot spice is so nice

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It's never too late to take The NaiSaiKu Challenge?

Read Write Poem #74 Hyperlink your poetry

Written for the readwritepoem prompt

Hyperlink your poetry RWP #74

PLAIN JANE

You click your fingers

One two three geronimo

Don’t you know,

Then like this you blow a kiss

Love me till the bubble bursts

When you clink~my~links

You think that I’m a Genie

How I know you know

I can make your dreams come true

For your wish is my command

Love seems like a game

Then one day I ask your name

You say just plain Jane

You can read between the lines

You can always read my mind

You’re my princess Jane

I’m like putty in your hands

Meeting of the minds

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Three Word Wednesday CXXXVII

Written for and inspired by 3WW
and posted to The American Sandwich
and The NaiSaiKu Challenge?

The words this week at Three Word Wednesday
are: bicker, nervous, and trajectory.

Here's mine:

THINKS THAT

The impervious biker looks in his directory and thinks that. ‘Forty Second Street and Broadway is no place to hang out, I don’t doubt.’ More ‘nervous bicker’, than ‘the trajectory of a speeding bullet.’

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Bicker, shoe licker

the Trajectory street clown

goes down nervous town

UPTOWN GIRL TURNS

DOWNTOWN GUY

Town nervous down goes

Clown street shoe trajectory

Liquor the bicker

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Tuesday Something

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Three Word Wednesday CXXXVI

Written for and inspired by 3WW
the three words this week are:
cryptic
flash
malign

Here's mine:

An American Sentence:

Don't malign flash fiction, cryptic as a crossword, it's not half Sci-fi.

The American Sandwich game:

CLUELESS
Locking the cell door, the Desk Sargeant had a flash of inspiration.
'It wasn't buried in the crypt, it was in the cryptic crossword clues'.
"The Joker is trying to malign us," he told the Chief of Police.
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The NaiSaiKu Challenge?

Cryptic tryst
flash the dead monkey
DON'T MALIGN
the dead monkey tryst
cryptic flash
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited
and posted to The American Sandwich game

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's mine:


MUMMY’S
YUMMIES
Mummy makes us, strawberry jelly, and, chocolate peanut butter. Toasts saffron cake with banana, clotted cream, and chocolate sprinkles. But, Mummy goes to Diet Deli, for the all day, Salad De-lite. 040509

Vinda Vindaloo
Little hot spice how I love you
Lancashire Hotpot
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The Traffic Haters

Written for The NaiSaiKu Challenge?
and the readwritepoem prompt 'red'

Red amber green go
green amber flashing red stop
DON'T WALK DON'T WALK DON'T
stop red flashing amber green
go green amber red
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Go on, take a bite!
THE AMERICAN SANDWICH
Have you tried it yet?

Back Yard Blues

THE AMERICAN SANDWICH

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's mine:

THE SLOTTED FURNITURE MAN
With his imagination he creates beautiful things in his yard.
Slotted furniture, made with slats taken from discarded old pallets.
Meticulously sawn, sanded, sealed and painted to perfection.
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Okay, it's your turn to have a go at the American Sandwich.
Simply write a piece of poetic flash fiction in three sentences.
Each with seventeen syllables and in as few words as possible.

Tuesday

TUESDAY
Don't you just love Tuesday? For some reason Tuesday has become the busiest day of my week and today was no exception. I had loads of paperwork to sort out for the tax man (perish the thought) and one of Nicola's helpers phoned in sick. So, 'me who is the master of being in two places at once' set about about the task of doing both jobs. Then of course there was Jack... Yes, it's the school holidays and Jack (big boy, as he is) needs my attention too. So there I am, happy Tuesday!!! trying to be in four places at once. Yes four, because all my bloggage needs updating on a Tuesday too! Oh well, all's well that ends well!!! WHO SAID THAt?
SATURDAY SCRIBES
There's a cool prompt site over at: Saturday Scribes
Have you tried it yet?
NAISAIKU

Mug (dot) con
Virtual Dating!
Wanna dance?
DO~THE~
TAMLA~WALK !
Wanna dance?
Virtual Dating!
Mug (dot) con
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Balderdashery

FORMULA
I was thinking about forms and formulas just now and how some people seem to have a formula for everything. Take cooking for instance, they have a recipe book and they stick to the recipe and bingo, no balderdashery they get a perfect plated meal. But surely life in general isn't that simple, is it? I mean you can't have a formula for everything, can you?
CAMPING
I was looking at side awnings again for our van, I'm itching to get away camping, but I don't want to take the big trailer tent, I just want a side awning to give us a bit of extra space. But try as I might I just can't seem to find anything suitable in this neck of the woods. I found one on the Internet last year and then couldn't get it 'cos they were out of stock for weeks. I'll have to take another 'butcher's' as the camping season is approaching fast!!!
NaisaiKu
Here's mine:

Five points
pentagram
ONE STAR
pentagram
points five
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