Welcome to Three Word Wednesday. Each week, I will post three (or more) words. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write something using all of those words. It can be a few lines, a story, a poem, anything. I'll also attempt to write something using the same words.
Leave a comment if you participate. Many fun and interesting people might visit your blog.
This week's words are:
Initial
Knock
Weather
at last, autumn
it's initial attempts
repressed by stubborn summer
announces it's arrival
not with thunderous fanfare
or even a loud knock
but instead a familiar breeze
harvest moon, new weather
majestic colored leaves surrender
lazy hammock invites slumber
ere i drift away in dreams
my newly contented heart
whispers with much relief
at last, autumn
"Can't explain, there's something strange about the early fall. Its comfort leaving me without a care..."
Rick Springfield: Live in Tacoma
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ReplyDeleteI goofed up!
ReplyDeleteHere goes:
internalised
or
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2007/10/internalised-3ww.html
I did a haiku and a cute follow up story here
ReplyDeleteI have been browsing this blog for a few weeks now and have done a few of the 3ww challenges. I have finally got brave enough to post my response here. This is the link to my try at this week's 3ww
ReplyDeletehttp://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2007/10/storm-warning-3ww.html
Hello and Happy Wednesday. Very interesting words this week.
ReplyDeleteMy poem is called "Scratching That Itch".
Rose
xo
good wednesday, all ... i am here early for me anyway......
ReplyDelete"drowning…"
Here is mine:
ReplyDeleteRandom Thoughts
Another short one here!
ReplyDeleteafter my initial shock.
about no mention of rooted
on your blog,
I walked around
in cool weather
thinking to give
you a knock!
Gusty
ReplyDeleteMy haiku posted here.
ReplyDelete-Charles.
HA!
ReplyDeleteNot late this time,
Here's my little vignette:
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and it's all true LOL.
Hi folks, life in a foreign country can sometimes be a battle for survival. Find out today how Simon gets on. And how about helping out with some suggestions for the future. He's open to almost anything.
ReplyDeleteHi! Pleased to meet you. Having read Jo's blog I thought I'd give this a go. Thanks for the words.
ReplyDeleteIt's here
http://afraidofwhatisee.blogspot.com/
I haven't learnt how to do the clever links thing yet! Perhaps someone could tell me how its done! Thanks.
Justin
Hi Justin! To learn the linky thing, go to this site
ReplyDeletehttp://onebreathpoetry.blogspot.com/
and look at the right hand sidebar under how to's (about 5 paras down on the right) and you'll find a blow by blow account of how to permalink.
Short prose this week. :)
ReplyDeleteCLICK HERE
I posted. It's darker than I thought but short--for me
ReplyDeleteHappy Wednesday!
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I think I smiled the entire time I wrote this one. Thanks for the fun, Bone.
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Hope everyone is well. I almost made it into the top 20 today with my entry, Calligraphy.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day.
Michelle
Bone, what a fabulous challenge you provide us every week! I always end up with something I never would have thought to write without the gentle nudge your prompt words give me. :)
ReplyDeleteHere's my contribution using this week's words: Riding Out the Storm
Mine is up. As usual, it's another Norbert and Smedley. You played right into my hands today, Bone, since the episode was already written. The only word that didn't fit right in and required any effort at all was "initial" and even that didn't take much. THANKS. :wink:
ReplyDeleteGotta run now, crazy day. If I don't visit everyone today, I'll be stopping by tomorrow.
--Gay
Hi everyone! Here's mine:
ReplyDeletea bit of prose
I'm sorry. I comment when I participate but today would have been the anniversary of my mother's birthday--and Sunday of her death so I'm a bit not able to focus. Tried :)
ReplyDeleteI almost forgot.... yikes!
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Here's my entry:
ReplyDelete3WW or
http://walktotheleft.blogspot.com/2007/10/three-word-wednesday-11.html
Ok- Waiting for your entry...
ReplyDeleteHere's mine.
Tribute to Leane Wildermuth, Artist by Nature
sorry...link is
ReplyDeleteTribute to Leane Wildermuth, Artist by Nature
oh hey, this one...yeah, this one works.
ReplyDeleteI've been up since 4 am the 3rd day in a row... does that get me any sympathy?
Leane Wildermuth, Artist by Nature
I've been meaning to try this and finally remembered to look at the words on Wednesday. Here's what I came up with:
ReplyDeletehttp://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/10/tanka-plus-two-more.html
hey its me again...it's up, a continuation of last weeks...enjoy and Ill be back this weekend to read others...
ReplyDeleteHere's mine -
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This is the first time I've posted here, so this is my first contribution:
ReplyDeleteA new job
Thanks, gang! A good number of participants this week. As usual, I'll do my best to make it around to read everyone's.
ReplyDeleteYou know I can't write poetry, but know what I like
ReplyDeletenot with thunderous fanfare
or even a loud knock
but instead a familiar breeze
This isn't my favorite stanza but you took a cliche and turned it around and I like that
I love the hammock line--that whole stanza was incredible--original and imaginative as your poems tend to be. That stanza reminded me of calypso
I will be commenting this weekend. Thanks to the people who commented on mine--just need to get myself a bit together
Oh, golly. I hear and see the relief summer's end brings to you. And I love the way you explained the how and what it left for you! It's a great poem, imho!
ReplyDeletebtw - Thank you for the prompts and for the page!!
Your poem perfectly describes how many of us feel. The relief from summer heat, the natural beauty in the turning of the leaves. Autumn is my favorite season. I was even married on 9/21, but that might have had more to do with the availability of the photographer.
ReplyDeleteWonderful poem.
A day late but here's mine.
ReplyDelete(I wrote this at the Seattle Art Museum while a terrific group called The Tiptons (www.tiptonssaxquartet.com) had me all awash in saxophones.)
ReplyDeleteposted at www.bundleofhiss.com click Resident Djinn in the nav bar, or below:
The Weather Affects Them
They may look solid,
and sometimes seem
murderous,
but I'll tell you,
initial impressions not withstanding,
the weather affects them,
and they don't transplant well,
Knock up against them
and you'll discover humans
are more tender than their shells,
and very gentle,
especially when dancing
with their children,
or balancing their parents
up the stairs.
(www.tiptonssaxquartet.com)
Lovely poem Bone, captures the transition to my favourite season so very well.
ReplyDeleteI did a novelty poem for 3WW LVI during my lunch break today (the dictators rearranged my seating so I can no longer use the internet discreetly!), it's a short scenario titled Estate
I wouldn't mind fall so much if winter wasn't right behind.
ReplyDeleteI like the hammock Bone, is there room for two?
Rose
xo
Oh brilliant Bone! You just expressed feelings I would never have been able to express beautifully..thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletemajestic colored leaves surrender
ReplyDeleteThat is a really gorgeous line. Love the subject matter of this poem.
Nice ode to autumn, Bone.
ReplyDelete"majestic colored leaves surrender" - great line
It's only Friday and mine is up!!!
ReplyDeletePia: I'm quite sure that's the first time anything I've written has ever been compared to calypso :) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteTumblewords: Thank you. I'll miss summer, but fall just feels right.
Herb Urban: Thank you. I've always wondered how people chose their wedding date.
Xinh: I'll check it out. Thanks for playing.
Richard Wells: I enjoyed that. A reminder that we're all human and have similarities because of it. Thanks for the contribution.
Jujee: Thanks. There's probably more I like about autumn than any other season, as well. Those pesky dictators. How dare they!
Rose: There are colder days to come, but they're still way off in the distance for now.
Ul: Thank you for the very kind words.
Romancewriter: Thank you. I didn't have a ton of time to write this week, and that's just what came out.
Lissa: Thanks. That's two votes for that line :)
Sage: I have an odd appreciation for those who post later than me.
If I could write poetry I would want it to come out like yours
ReplyDeleteJudging from this and the other poems you have posted you're really writing song lyrics
Each poem has a distinct musical genre attached to it
Hi Bone! There is a beautiful softness and warm light in your poem that is how autumn's arrival feels to me. I love "stubborn summer" and "harvest moon...lazy hammock". These are really lovely images.
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Hi, this is my virgin attempt, please be kind :) i love your blog:
ReplyDeleteMy mother and I are strangers.
In ways I could never fully describe or define.
She knows my name and where I live but she tells stories of me supposedly
that I don't recall
because they never happened or they might have happened or tragically, what she had wanted to happen
And on my birthday, while the weather raged outside
A knock woke us up and there she was
Recovering from my initial shock
that my alleged mother is in town
to greet her alleged daughter
Happy Birthday
I sat and waited
But the words of cheer never came out
and now, she sits across me
sipping her cup of coffee
along with the silence and the hurt she unknowingly caused me
I'm very late but here this week
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Nah Bone, we met at Interstellar Lass's way before the TT, but introduced you to Carmen.
ReplyDeletewednesday/saturday .... ok - so i'm late again
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Fall does have that effect on most of us.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you writing poetry more often.
Other than the lazy hammock inviting a nice slumber, your poem might as well be describing the way autunm is forming around here :)
ReplyDeletewow...I love that first morning you walk out and take a deep breath and go "It's Fall!" The trees can change color and the weather can get bad but it's that scent! One of my top 5 favorite scents!
ReplyDeletePia Savage: Thanks. I'd like to think I've written many hit songs that have never been recorded... or put to music.
ReplyDeleteClare: Thank you! Softness and warm light. I like that :)
Anabanana_c: That's one of those stories that make me think, "I hope it's not true."
Thanks for the kind words.
Romance Writer & Kathryn: Eh, the day of the week is really irrelevant. Glad you both made it by this week.
Sylvia: Ah yes, Interstellar's, meeting place for many a blogger.
Gautami: Thanks. For some reason, poetry has been coming out more often lately.
GirlFPS: Well, I don't have a hammock, either. But I have about three friends that do :)
Tagster: Yep. The air just seems cleaner or something. It's very refreshing.
Is it too late to play? I usually write humor and satire, but here's a heavy haiku using those three words:
ReplyDeleteHow do they weather
that initial door knock with
news: "Your loved one's dead."
Mad Kane
Fall has always been my favorite season, but lately I've found myself dreading fall because it means winter is coming too fast. Reading this, I want to savor every minute of fall... and hold off winter a bit longer in the process O:)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I have to say... you're the very first person who has ever connected a hammock with fall that I've known of: guess you get a very different kind of fall than I do!
P.P.S. Mine is finally done. Just in time for Wednesday to roll around again 8-)
Very touching haiku, Mad Kane.
ReplyDeleteBone your poem is very fine indeed. As a huge lover of Autumn it really took me there!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Romancewriter!
ReplyDeleteWanted to say your poem this week was really nice. Cooled things down a bit. Have a nice day.
ReplyDeleteMichelle