Three Word Wednesday- Essence and Ode to Three Word Wednesday

Three Word Wednesday- Essence

Prompts :Goodbye, exclamation: farewell, adieu, au revoir, ciao, adios; bye, bye-bye, so long, see you later, see you, sayonara; bon voyage; cheers; noun: parting, leave-taking, send-off.

Memorize, verb: commit to memory, remember, learn by heart, get off by heart, learn, learn by rote, become word-perfect in, get something down pat.

Haphazard, adjective: random, unplanned, unsystematic, unmethodical, disorganized, disorderly, irregular, indiscriminate, chaotic, hit-and-miss, arbitrary, aimless, careless, casual, slapdash, slipshod; chance, accidental.

I memorized your face

Every line every nuance 

That you made is etched 

In my mind

The way you lifted your eyebrow

The way your eyes tilted

To echo your smile

The way you 

Placed your hands on your hips

When you questioned something

Someone did

Your voice husky, yet musical

Echoes with things you said

No haphazard remembrance     

Will do 

You kindness to others 

Always my guide

People insisted I said goodbye

That I should forget

But how do you forget

The mother who nurtured you

Loved you spurred you on

You don't 

You just use the things she taught you

Memories always keep her close 

So her essence can go on

©Sheilagh Lee June 28, 2017

           Ode to Three Word Wednesday&Thom

Thom gave us haphazard words

To play with, write our hearts with

Every week we wrote

Poetry or stories

Feeling our way

To feeling good 

About our offerings

Thinking we might

Be able to please

Someone with our imaginations

But now it's come the time 

To say goodbye

All I can say is thank -you

My fellow writers and Thom

For all you've done

To make me feel

A part of Three Word Wednesday

And how you're encouragement 

And comments have improved my writings

Thank- you

For Dad

Dad

A word never empty

Always full of memories

Of you and how much you loved me

and all of your children

You weren't perfect no parent is

But your lopsided grin

Always made me smile

And know I was loved

Happy Father's Day Dad

We miss you

©Sheilagh Lee June 18, 2017

Roses

Roses fighting nature's worst

Wind snow and rain

To come up again

Growing tall

They need support

Before they'll blossom

And bloom

Showing off their colours
 Anew




Pretty roses
The smell so fragrant 
It's carried on the wind
Bringing smiles to faces
Every June

©Sheilagh Lee June 12, 2017

Remembering D-Day 73 Years Later

Remembering D-Day 73 Years Later

Men some young, some old

Some in between

Scared, shaking in their skins

They find the inner courage

The stamina and the bravery

To go to war    

On distance shore

They battle waves

The wicked weather

To face tanks, big guns and men

Trying to take land

To end the war

To save their families

For tyranny and strife

To find peace

Who gave their all

So we could end the war

To have peace again

And enjoy the fruits of life

So on this day 73 years later

We remember their sacrifice

And every day

For their love of country

And home they forfeited

Peace of mind, fear and life

Some gave their lives

Others their peace of mind

There are now words to thank them

We shall never forget

Their sacrifice 

And remember them forever

American, British and Canadian

Londoners from Ontario, Canada

One and all remembered

Forever more
 ©Sheilagh Lee June 6, 2017

Courage

Courage

Courage, bravery, defiance

Strange words

When it comes to battling

The results of terrorism

People with bizarre ideologies

But if life goes on

What have the terrorists achieved?

Nothing senseless deaths

Bring out people to the good fight

Helping others their priority

Showing the rest of the world

How to overcome

Adversity, strife and mayhem

With generosity, love and light

They shall overcome

Showing people society can be good

As long as they filter out

The demons who seek to harm

Turning them in so they can’t strike

Before they use religion
Distorting it and turning inside out

To harm those who would demolish

For the sake of destroying
Spreading their evil ideology

These must be stopped

When they start to falter

Becoming ready to be prey

For the evil minds who then

Convert them to minions

Who care not for life

Just to destroy

It takes a village to raise a child

Let’s raise good people

With love and acceptance

And step in when we see wrong

Let's stand together strong

And brave
Don't let hate win

Love can lead the way

©Sheilagh Lee June 6, 2017

Chrissy Archibald a Canadian woman from British Columbia,was one of the first murdered in the London Bridge attack. Her family in Castlegar, B.C. released a statement through the federal government saying Archibald had been working at a homeless shelter until she moved to Europe to be with her fiance.Her family in her honour and those harmed is asking people to “Volunteer your time and labour or donate to a homeless shelter. Tell them Chrissy sent you.”

R.I.P. Christine Archibald, Kristy Boden, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard. Sara Zelenak, 

 Missing:  

• Xavier Thomas, 
•  Ignacio Echeverria, 
• Sebastien Belanger,