Three Word Wednesday-Share

Three Word Wednesday-Share

Prompts: Thoughtless, adjective: (of a person or their behavior) not showing consideration for the needs of other people, without consideration of the possible consequences.

Uptight, adjective: anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way.

Woozy, adjective: unsteady, dizzy, or dazed.

Thoughtless uptight people

Who wander through life

Grabbing everything

And anything

They want without a care

For others needs

Selfish and obnoxious

Not willing to share

Land, crops, or wealth

They make me woozy

That they cannot see

We are all part

Of the bigger picture

All of us connected

To mother earth

If we are fortunate

Let us truly share

One planet, one earth

For all

©Sheilagh Lee September 30, 2015

Three Word Wednesday-Tree Killer

Prompts: Pathetic, adjective: pitiful, pitiable, piteous, moving, touching, poignant, plaintive, distressing, upsetting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, harrowing, wretched, forlorn, feeble, woeful, sorry, poor, pitiful, lamentable, deplorable, contemptible, inadequate, paltry, insufficient, unsatisfactory.

Righteous (LIVING), adjective: good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent; ethical, principled, moral, high-minded, law-abiding, honest, honorable, blameless, irreproachable, noble; saintly, angelic, pure; (RIGHTEOUS ANGER) justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, rightful; admissible, allowable, understandable, excusable, acceptable, reasonable.

Sedate, verb: tranquilize, put under sedation, drug; adjective: slow, steady, dignified, unhurried, relaxed, measured, leisurely, slow-moving, easy, easygoing, gentle, calm, placid, tranquil, quiet, uneventful; boring, 

dull.

                                                                  Tree Killer        

I am a tree killer

Do I feel righteous?

Or pathetic?

That I didn’t cut down the tree

The neighbour did

I cry and defend myself

Even though

I hated this tree

For following natures edict

And growing on its own

Too close to the fence

Sedate it was not

It spread and grew

So that the fence

Began to give way

I hate myself more for

Letting it grow

Too long

Strong and tall

Letting it imagine

It could live

When I should have

Pulled as a sapling

Had I noticed it

At all

Now I am complicit

In its demise

And I must do penance

By planting trees

That shall grow and grow.

©Sheilagh Lee September 23, 2015

Three Word Wednesday-The Holy Roller

The Holy Roller

The haphazard way

The tank seems placed

Behind the hedge

Is actually protection

From the elements

This great grand old lady

Nicknamed The Holy Roller

Believed to be

The only tank

That survived D-Day

 A tribute to the Canadian war effort

To 700 men of the First Hussars regiment

A place where children now come

To climb and where scores of adults

Once those children, tell their children

Of the sacrifices made

When soldiers laboured to the shore

Through noxious fumes, from bombs

Gunfire and dead bodies

To save their comrades

And begin

The turning of the tide

To end the war.

©Sheilagh Lee September 16, 2015

Listen to the People

Amusing, adjective: causing laughter or providing entertainment.

Deeply, adverb: far down or in; intensely (as a modifier).

Elastic, adjective: (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion; able to encompass variety and change; flexible and adaptable; noun: cord, tape, or fabric, typically woven with strips of rubber, that returns to its original length or shape after being stretched.

It is not amusing

Nor trendy to deflect

The blame to media

For mistakes made

Take the blame politicians

For it is deeply felt

Amongst  its citizens

That our government has failed us

Not only us 

But others who need them

To live and thrive

I cry tears of shame

That in making decisions that exclude

Refugees from our country

People have died

When that is how these officials families

Arrived somewhere in their ancestral line

It's simply

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

The government’s elasticity is gone

If it ever truly existed

They are letting fewer people arrive

I cry tears and I’m shouting loudly

Let those people in

Share the wealth

Don’t let one more child die

Let them come and let them thrive

Canada is for multiculturalism

But sometimes it feels like

They’ve turned a deaf ear

Maybe it’s time

To turn a deaf ear to them?

And elect a government who listens

To the people.

©Sheilagh Lee September 3, 2015