Three Word Wednesday.- Emperor has no clothes

Three Word Wednesday.- Emperor has no clothes

Dazzle, verb: blind temporarily, deprive of sight, overwhelm, overcome, impress, move, stir, affect, touch, awe, overawe, leave speechless, take someone's breath away, spellbind, hypnotize; noun: glare, brightness, brilliance, shimmer, radiance, shine, sparkle, glitter, brilliance, glory, splendor, magnificence, glamour; attraction, lure, allure, draw, appeal.

Erupt, verb: emit lava, become active, flare up; explode, break out, flare up, start suddenly; ensue, arise, happen, appear, break out, flare up, come to a head, suppurate, emerge.

Flimsy, adjective: insubstantial, fragile, breakable, frail, shaky, unstable, wobbly, tottery, rickety, ramshackle, makeshift; jerry-built, badly built, shoddy, chintzy, gimcrack, thin, light, fine, filmy, floaty, diaphanous, sheer, delicate, insubstantial, wispy, gossamer, gauzy, weak, feeble, poor, inadequate, insufficient, thin, unsubstantial, unconvincing, implausible, unsatisfactory.

You dazzle me

With gifts

Meant to wow

You dictate every word

I am to think and print

But your flimsy attempts

Just make me sad

Then your nature

Gets the best of you

And you erupt

In anger

Condemning me with

Broad strokes of your brush

Fake news you shout

As the truth is printed

Painting your true intentions

But when you fail

The first person you call

Is me

Pleading your case

Painting your world

Erupting when I do my job

And tell the world

The complete story

You yell ‘Fake news!!’

Yet again

The emperor has no clothes

©Sheilagh Lee March 29 ,2017
Ps there is fake news that does not come from news sources but when you hear it over and over again question the source and why they claim fake news.

Books

Books

I read their pages

My heart races

My brain follows

The adventure

Begins and I follow

Each page leading to

New situations

New places

New experiences

Enfolding for me

I am taken away

For a few hours

Or a few days

I live in books

©Sheilagh Lee March 24 ,2017

Three Word Wednesday- The Ides of March

Taut, adjective: tight, stretched, rigid, flexed, tense, hard, solid, firm, rigid, stiff, fraught, strained, stressed, tense, uptight.

Underestimate: verb: underrate, undervalue, underappreciate, lowball, do an injustice to, be wrong about, sell short, play down, understate; minimize, de-emphasize, underemphasize, diminish, gloss over, trivialize; miscalculate, misjudge, misconstrue, misread.

Vigorous, adjective: robust, healthy, hale and hearty, strong, sturdy, fit; hardy, tough, athletic; bouncing, thriving, flourishing, blooming; energetic, lively, active, perky, spirited, vibrant, vital, zestful, strenuous, powerful, forceful, spirited, mettlesome, determined, aggressive, two-fisted, driving, eager, zealous, ardent, fervent, vehement, passionate; tough, robust, thorough, blunt, hard-hitting.

The Ides of March

With vigorous scrolling

Of newspaper articles

We conclude

The Ides of March

Are upon us

Should we be taut

With worry and fret

That the world

Is coming to an end

Or should we put our trust

In moral, noble people

Who seek to fix

What’s wrong

Through protest and voice

Never underestimate

The goodness in the world

For someone with virtue

Can rule the world

If they choose the right time

But it seems it’s a waiting game.

©Sheilagh Lee March 15 ,2017

Three Word Wednesday- Wind

Wind

Painful, adjective: sore, hurting, tender, aching, throbbing, angry, disagreeable, unpleasant, nasty, bitter, distressing, upsetting, traumatic, miserable, sad, heartbreaking, agonizing, harrowing.

Raspy, adjective: hoarse or harsh-sounding.

Shifty, adjective: devious, evasive, slippery, duplicitous, false, deceitful, underhanded, untrustworthy, dishonest, shady, wily, crafty, tricky, sneaky, treacherous, artful, sly, scheming, snide.

The wind whips

Leaves hidden

Below the melted snow

The evergreen sways

Its branches flowing

Sounds unidentifiable

Raspy and shifty in nature

Maybe the sounds

Of metal and cement

Lifting in the wind

My hair is full of leaves and dirt

Painful to the scalp

I scurry to the house

Entering my home

I sit in my chair

The lights blink

As I listen to the wind

I feel safe

Surrounded by four walls.

 ©Sheilagh Lee March 8,2017