Category Archive:trifecta

Wash behind your ears
Clean between your toes

Don’t chew your fingernails
Don’t pick your nose

Don’t cross your eyes
Your face will surely freeze

Remember, cover your mouth
Whenever you must sneeze

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Trifecta’s weekend challenge asked for some advice. I haven’t read anyone else’s advice, but I wouldn’t be TOO surprised if someone doesn’t say something along this line. Edited to add another couplet to rhyme “freeze”. It is said that a poem is never finished, just abandoned.

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Not part of the original 33, but added because I don’t want to miss an opportunity to do so – esp. after the full month I have had with training and Alaska Governor Sean Parnell’s 4th annual Choose Respect event, I give you the following advice I would offer a son, if I had one – and what I say to my grandsons.
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My Son

If you ask for the cherry
from her sundae and
she says No
honor that No
Someday she may offer it
Treat the offer with respect
Always respect
Always love
Always, my son
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Pops, can I borrow $10?

Sweetie, we need milk.

Honey, the washer broke and we need tires.

Susie needs braces and Will needs running shoes.

Do these people think I’m made of money?
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above pic from stock images.

Trifextra’s challenge is to write 33 words utilizing an idiom somewhere in those words. I chose Made of Money.

Remember our spring? How we kids loved to strip to our undies, dance in the puddles left by rain.

How as teens we’d walk and talk and love. Our rebellion of our parents complete. We loved.

Fountain_Head / Water Photos / CC BY

Trifextra challenge week sixty – take their proffered 3 words (remember, rain, rebellion), add our own 33 to those – in any order – to make 36. Then post. These are mine. Where are yours? This weekend’s words will be community judged. Please read and select your top 3 as soon as submissions end and voting begins.

Bérenger ZYLA / Water Photos / CC BY-NC-ND

It was
The day after
Kingdom
Come

The mists
Cleared

We raised

Stretched
Our hands
To the sky

Stooped
slowly
To the
Ground

We sought
What was
Lost

Wondered

If we
Were found

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The Trifecta weekend challenge was to write 33 words with the above picture as the catalyst. These are mine . . . where are yours?

ohhhbetty / Foter.com / CC BY


One last mirror check. Hair: perfectly coiffed. Makeup: no blotches, no coloring outside the lines on lips or eyes. Cheryl dabbed at an invisible (to all but Cheryl) blotch on the lipstick.

Stepping back from the vanity, another check of the outfit so painstakingly chosen for this debut. The gown was robin’s egg blue with swaths of sequins and pearls. The back proffered an alluring split to the thigh. The front low enough for cleavage to peek through enticingly.

Gems sparkled from Cheryl’s ears and throat and rings adorned fingers red-tipped with polish.

At the bottom of seamed, silk encased legs . . . sparkling silver pumps – size 10E.

The stage manager hurried to Cheryl’s side, trying to hurry things along. “It’s time, Max, come on.”

“There is no Max here, you dolt. Only Cheryl. Cheryl will come when Cheryl is ready.”

“Well, CHERYL had best get ready soon, or I’m going to the next act. Just because this is your first time, honey, that don’t mean the crowd won’t get restless and boo you off the stage. Now, you coming or not?”

A flip, a twirl, and a sigh preceded Cheryl’s walk onto the stage. There were no boos that night. Cheryl entranced the crowd and loved every minute of it.
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This is dedicated to those in my family who walk the walk as they talk the talk. More power to you!

The trifecta challenge this week is TIME used in the third definition:

1a : the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration
b : a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future
c : leisure [time for reading]
2: the point or period when something occurs : occasion
3a : an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end [arrived ahead of time]
b : an opportune or suitable moment —often used in the phrase about time [about time for a change]