Moving forward… creeping actually

Before I get into this week’s Three Word Wednesday I wanted to inform everyone that I am posting daily chapters from my book “Knickers Abroad; a multiple journey”. These excerpts are the travel narrative part from our trip to London and Paris in October of 2007. So far today’s chapter is number three of twenty [...]

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Words are random letters

Three Word Wednesday

Avenge
Genuine
Ramble

avenge |əˈvenj|
verb [ trans. ]
inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another) : his determination to avenge the murder of his brother | they are eager to avenge last year’s Super Bowl defeat.
• inflict such harm on behalf of (oneself or someone else previously wronged or harmed) [...]

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So far away dwells my love

Intimate
River
Waiting

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grown quiescent
in waiting
the amber
rays sweep
ever from
left to right
an intimate
knowing of
time’s river
when darkness
precedes light
in opposition
and struggle
memory’s grip
fearsome snare
welcoming thrusts
his intimate
hard power
wet river
spread open
willing waiting
so far away
dwells my love
By Rose Dewy Knickers, August 13th, 2008

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Slip of the tongue

Million
Time
Unnoticed

There was a time when the theft of a million would go unnoticed.
Unnoticed in time the swarm of a million bees covered the house.
A million smiles unnoticed but time enough to change.
By Rose Dewy Knickers, August 6th, 2008

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Squalor of the camps

“Do I have to?”
an anywhere place
an any when time
with rocks and spears
or guns and bombs
a soldier’s pay
often includes rape
refugees
displaced persons
fleeing death
rotting corpses
burning homes
looted crops
collected into camps
women, girls and boys
victims of conflict
conflict within
to survive
will do anything
blue helmets and white flag
peacekeepers they are not
predators and thieves
blind eyes from afar
press conferences and studies
while millions die in shame
in the [...]

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