Saturday, September 19, 2015

825 - Alien Battleground.


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week were: Haphazard, labored, noxious.


Alien Battleground

Dawn.
Beyond the drapes,
The morning chorus
Of the worm tormentors.
Magpies chortle,
Impatiently.
Doves,
Dumb as bricks,
Coo-coo,
Mindlessly.

Inside,
Beneath the covers,
There is slow acceptance
Of the truth:
Dawn.

But all is not well:
Breathing is labored.
Thought patterns,
Are irregular,
Haphazard.
Something thick,
Slimey,
Noxious,
Has invaded the airways.

Alien forces battle for dominance:
Slime vs pharmacy.
I wait to see who wins.

So do the birds.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015
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17 comments:

  1. All too familiar. I hope that the slime can be dispelled. Quickly.
    And I think that bricks are more alert than doves.

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  2. get well soon! it's a war out there - aliens always trying to get in and those worm tormentors ( I shall always think of this line now when I hear the dawn) Marvellous the way the poem went from outside to in, from the relatively harmless to the more serious.

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  3. Wow..fantastic take on the prompt..effortless!

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  4. I'd say pharmacy - but then I'd say that whatever the dawn dilemma ;)

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  5. made me smile, so many stories we can write, what may seem like children stories, hide real meaning behind them.

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  6. Let's hope you are up and about soon like a spring chicken.

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  7. Oh, yuck, that awful feeling at the start of a cold!

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  8. Never thought cold can be expressed in such beautiful words :)

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  9. What a comparison of the two battlefields--with a little "pathetic fallacy" thrown in for good measure: The birds' dawn food hunt need not be mindless because illness renders us so--and yet, truly, instinct would take over humans, too, were not the pharmacy involved. I like that the battle/paradox is not resolved by poem's end. Bravo!

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  10. Oy! Are you under the weather? You have described the invasion so clearly it makes me uncomfortable, LOL. A sign of skillful writing! Get well soon.

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  11. There obviously are lots of conflicts in contending elements vying for the crumbs. The stronger ones get there first!

    Hank

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  12. Yup! ...i got the picture and you are right :-)
    ZQ

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  13. Sometimes we are brought to another dimension when we are sick. Hope you feel better soon

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  14. The good guy will win of course. But it may take a little time. Nice that you can write with such good humor though you don't feel well.

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  15. A cold is a perfect reason to stay in bed if you can.

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