Three Word Wednesday -Fight

Pluck, verb: remove, pick (off), pull (off/out), extract, take (off),  pull (at), tug (at), clutch (at), snatch (at), grab, catch (at), tweak, jerk, yank, deplume, remove the feathers from, strum, pick, plunk, thrum, twang; play pizzicato; noun: courage, bravery, nerve, backbone, spine, daring, spirit, intrepidity, fearlessness, mettle, grit, true grit, determination, fortitude, resolve, stout-heartedness, dauntlessness, valor, heroism, audacity; informal guts, spunk, gumption, moxie.

Rebel, noun: revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, guerrilla, terrorist, freedom fighter,  nonconformist, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, maverick; verb:  revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, take up arms, stage/mount a rebellion, be insubordinate,  recoil, show/feel repugnance,  defy, disobey, refuse to obey, kick against, challenge, oppose, resist; adjective:  insurgent, revolutionary, mutinous, rebellious, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, renegade,  rebellious, defiant, disobedient, insubordinate, subversive, resistant, recalcitrant; nonconformist, maverick, iconoclastic.

Shady, adjective: shaded, shadowy, dim, dark; sheltered, screened, shrouded; leafy, bosky, tenebrous,  suspicious, suspect, questionable, dubious, doubtful, disreputable, untrustworthy, dishonest, devious, dishonorable, underhanded, unscrupulous, irregular, unethical, fishy, murky.

Fight
They say she has pluck

Because she seeks to battle

Shady characters

Who seek for their own gains

Maybe she’s a rebel

But she wishes others would fight

For their fellow citizens

It would make this so much easier

If they all fought for each other’s

Ability to do good

In the world

Instead of fighting for the almighty dollar.

Trampling the weak and the poor.

 ©Sheilagh Lee April 26, 2017

Three Word Wednesday- Jungle Game

Prompts: Meander, verb: zigzag, wind, twist, turn, curve, curl, bend, snake, stroll, saunter, amble, wander, ramble, drift, maunder, mosey, tootle, toodle.

Nameless, adjective: unnamed, unidentified, anonymous, incognito, unspecified, unsourced, unacknowledged, uncredited; unknown, unsung, uncelebrated, unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible, indescribable; indefinable, vague, unspecified.

Oafish, adjective: stupid, foolish, idiotic, cretinous; ungainly, loutish, awkward, clumsy, lumbering, apelike, cloddish, Neanderthal, uncouth, uncultured, boorish, rough, coarse, brutish, ill-mannered, unrefined, rough-hewn; informal blockheaded, moronic, boneheaded, half-witted, lamebrained, thickheaded.

Jungle Game

                Smart little bird                   

Hiding in the grasses

Hiding from the oafish cat         

Next door who thinks my yard

The cat’s own

      Poor little bird             

It’s red plume however

A dead giveaway

Pray the meandering cat

That nameless fiend

Doesn’t come

Or the bird      

Can fly away

In time

To beat the kitty

At its jungle game

©Sheilagh Lee April 19, 2017

Three Word Wednesday- Osler’s Lake

Jabber, verb: prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, yap, gabble, rattle on, blather; yak, yammer, yabber, yatter, blab, blabber, bloviate; noun: prattle, babble, chatter, chattering, twitter, twittering, gabble, blather; informal yabbering, yatter, blabber.

Knowingly, adverb: deliberately, intentionally, consciously, wittingly, on purpose, by design, premeditatedly, willfully.

Lasting, adjective: enduring, long-lasting, long-lived, abiding, continuing, long-term, surviving, persisting, permanent; durable, constant, stable, established, secure, unchanging, irreversible, immutable, eternal, undying, everlasting, unending, never-ending, unfading, changeless, indestructible, unceasing, unwavering, unfaltering.

Osler’s Lake

Dad it seems like such

A short time ago

I was six and

Jabbered incessantly

You listened intently

Baiting my hook

I bagged my first fish

Up at Osler Lake

A tiny little sunfish

I was so proud

Until I realized

 It would be dead soon

I began to cry

You took me aside

Told me not to cry

Put the fish back in the water

And we watched it swim away

You explained

We don't knowingly harm them

We only take fish we eat

Not to torture them

I saw humanity in your eyes

How the creatures suffering

 Affected you too 

I admired my strong father

Who could carry me on his shoulders

And be so tender too

Who could fix anything

With his brilliant mind

Who could quote poetry

At the drop of a hat

Who could wax

About every subject under the sun

Who told me stories

Which made my imagination come alive

The lasting memories we made

Still live on

How I miss you so
But take comfort that you're with mom

©Sheilagh Lee April 12, 2017

Happy Birthday. Dad

Three Word Wednesday- Vimy Ridge-100 years

Gloomy, adjective: ark, shadowy, sunless, dim, somber, dingy, dismal, dreary, murky, unwelcoming, cheerless, comfortless, funereal, despondent, downcast, downhearted, dejected, dispirited, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, crestfallen; depressed, desolate, low, sad, unhappy, glum, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, forlorn, morose; informal blue, down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps, pessimistic, depressing, downbeat, disheartening, disappointing; unfavorable, bleak, bad, black, somber, grim, cheerless, hopeless.

Haunted, adjective: possessed, cursed; ghostly, eerie, scary, tormented, anguished, troubled, tortured, worried, disturbed.

Intense, adjective: extreme, great, acute, fierce, severe, high; exceptional, extraordinary; harsh, strong, powerful, potent, overpowering, vigorous, passionate, impassioned, ardent, fervent, zealous, vehement, fiery, emotional; earnest, eager, animated, spirited, vigorous, energetic, fanatical, committed. information on the

Information on the battle of Vimy Ridge April 9-12, 2017 see: http://www.warmuseum.ca/the-battle-of-vimy-ridge/

Vimy Ridge- 100 years 

Gloomy, haunted, and intense

Vimy Ridge protected with artillery

It’s view a gift to German troops

Their ability to see all

Kept the ridge from allied troops

The Canadians sent to take it back

Came in like a railroad train

A barrage of machine-gunners,

Rifle-men and grenade-throwers

Fought bravely to succeed

Pounding the enemy

Incredible bravery and discipline

Even when those in charge were killed

They battered on, weary and threadbare

Four days of hell and death

All four Canadian divisions attacked together

Win the battle to advance

To win the war

A decisive battle over hundred years ago

The sacrifice of our men

A country’s men united to take the ridge

Hill 145 the land

The Canadians lived and died for

Became a monument

To those brave men

A gravestone

A poignant reminder

Of 11,285 Canadian soldiers

Killed in France

No known graves

Forever remembered

In our hearts and minds

We thank them still.

©Sheilagh Lee March 29 ,2017