Tag Archives: Three Things Challenge

Three Things Challenge: Wild Oats

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Wild Oats

Pardon me if I refuse to honor your excuse
that your cold has made you into a recluse.
I won’t relieve your conscience for I know that it’s a lie.
I know because that day I just happened to come by.
I saw her car outside your door and saw her going in
with some kind of casserole and a fifth of gin.
So I know you missed my party because you had your own,
and by now your wild oats no doubt have been well sown.
So I’ll just say if there’s a chance you’d like to sow some more,
It’s best that you don’t lug your seed sack to my door!!!!!

 

The Three words for the Three Things Challenge are:PARDON EXCUSE RELIEVE

Picky Eater, For the Three Things Challenge, Mar 29, 2024

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Picky Eater

If you don’t want me in a tizzy,
French fries? Crisp, please. Soda? Fizzy.
And though I like my ice cream soft,
when I’m holding it aloft,
if I’m not constantly on guard,
better that it’s frozen hard.

 

RDP’s three words today are: CRISP, SOFT, FIZZY
Image by Matthew Moloney on Unsplash.

Quandry, for the Three Things Challenge

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Quandry

When your thinking is simplistic, it’s bound to be confusing.
And if you are not organized, the logic that you’re using
may lead you ’round in circles with the result that you’re not
successful in discovering the answers that you sought.

 

 

For the Three Things Challenge, the words are: SIMPLISTIC ORGANISED CONFUSING

Cheesecake: for the Three Things Challenge, Sept 10, 2023

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Cheesecake

When we choose to display ourselves
on runways, beaches, screens or shelves,
we should be careful that we don’t show
more than we want the world to know.

 

For Three Things Challenge the three words are: DISPLAY SHOW SHELVED
photo borrowed from the Internet.

 

Wallflower: Three Things Challenge #444

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Wallflower

You think I cannot see you behind your curtain blind,
hiding in the shadows. You are the cautious kind.
You drape yourself in darkness, thinking I will not see,
but still the colors of your soul come shining out at me.

Step forward to the lightness. There is no danger here.
There is at least one person who bids you to come near.
Whether bad or good will come from joining life’s mad dance,
you will never know until you choose to take the chance.

The three words for the Three Things Challenge  #444this week are: CURTAIN DRAPE BLIND
Image by Susan Flores on Unsplash.

The Zen of Fear

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The farther up the mountain we went, the smaller the road became. I was on the outside and for most of the way the drop was severe–with no siderails or walls or shoulders. Vertigo? Yes.

The Zen of Fear

I don’t know what’s in front of me,
can’t  recall what’s in the rear.
Don’t know if I should run full force
or if I should veer.

I guess I will just take what comes
and enjoy the ride.
Life is so much better spent
with fears all set aside.

The Pensivity Three Things Challenge prompt today is Front, Rear, Aside.

Postscript:

Forgottenman says I should include our Skype conversation that took place between my writing of this poem and its posting, so here goes:

Judy, 11:54 PM: what should I name the poem I’m about to post? Yeah I know yer drunk, but you do some of your best thinking in that condition!  ;o)
Forgottenman, 11:56 PM: Heh, yep. I’m thinking! My first drunken thought is The Zen of Fear.
Forgottenman: 12:01 AM: Wow – you actually titled it that!
Judy, 12:01 AM: Well I always do.  I used the title you suggested yesterday, too! It was a good title.  I could write poems all day long but I am usually stymied by the titles. I still don’t have a title for my Ethiopia book after twenty years!!!!! Can’t finish and publish it until I do.

Magic Circle for Three Things Challenge

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Magic Circle

Ring around a Rosie
safe within a hoop.
Mommy drew a circle
around the chicken coop.

When the fox jumped over it,
the hens began to squawk,
voicing their alarm
in raucous chicken talk.

Mommy grabbed a broom
to drive the rascal out,
punctuating every swing
with an angry shout.

Now the fox is sulking,
hungry little pest
while each hen is settled
securely in her nest.

The ring around this Rosie,
our most prolific hen,
means that we’ll have scrambled eggs
more than now and then!!!

For the Three Things Challenge

The three words today are:
RING
CIRCLE
HOOP

Delayed Warning

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Delayed Warning

A bout of indigestion can make a guy a grouch
and leave him prone to lying grumbling on the couch
while his wife stands listening, chuckling in the hall,
remembering how she had warned him not to eat it all.
Yet he had ingested it, as usual, in a hurry
before she could warn him that he was eating curry!

 

For the Three Things Challenge the words are: CHUCKLE GROUCH INDIGESTION
Image by towfiqu-barbhuiya- on Unsplash

No Stone Unturned: Three Things Challenge

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No Stone Unturned

Turning over stones can be overly unpleasant
due to all the denizens likely to be present.
Yet I profess it’s cowardly to just let them lie,
I’m sure you’ll prove your manliness and flip them by and by!

For Pensitivity’s Three Things Challenge, the words are: STONE UNPLEASANT COWARDLY.

Ineligible

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Ineligible

Your temper is an irritation
leading to much perturbation.
Solving every little trifle
with your fists or with a rifle,
in short, makes it debatable
whether you are dateable.
I fear your image has gone to pot
and eligible? You are not!

 

For Pensivity’s Three Things Challenge the words are: IRRITATION, TRIFLE and IMAGE