3WW (CXXVII) entries

Dear Gentle Reader,

I really like 3WWs.

They let us play Uri Geller and bend nouns.

Or, play Albert Einstein and bend ideas.

I have been busy this week, so I just jumped over to 3WW... a couple of days late.

This week the words are avenge, genuine, and ramble.

First, though, kudos to Thom for coming up with such interesting words this week, and every week.

I think ramble is a great word.

My Oxford Shorter (Two Volume) Dictionary gives, for one of the three base meanings of ramble, a probable 1620 etymology stemming from the Middle Dutch word rammelen (of cats, dogs, etc.).

Rammelen. To be excited by sexual desire and wander about, (to) frequent.

What a delightful word; it certainly conjures up images and connotations to stick to rambling...

Oh, and for the third haiku, as you will also recall, a ramble is also a thin bed of shale, lying above a coal-seam, which falls down (hopefully safely) as the coal is taken out, and then must be separated from the coal (as shale has no economic value to miners in a colliery).

Tschuess,

Chris

ISN'T EVERYTHING ABOUT SEX? (The advice you never received as a school-leaver...)

Ramble through life,

genuine adolescent;

avenge hormone hopes.

IN MEMORY OF THE WILD WEST

WHEN LIFE WAS SIMPLER AND THE TRUTH SEEMED EASIER TO ASCERTAIN

(a.k.a. WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND COWS WERE SCARED)

Avenge genuine

brands! (Buy no fakes!) Ramble to

stores; buy more! (Poor cows...)

POLITICAL PLACARD for Black-eyed Susan, who likes political poetry.

(a.k.a. WRITTEN BY A GHOST? OR GHOST-WRITTEN?)

Unsafe ramble yields

thunderous, genuine death.

Avenge mine life--strike!

A TOPICAL, POLITICAL PIECE ABOUT FRAUDULENT PRACTICES, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SUGGESTED PUNISHMENT (GO here TO UNDERSTAND.)

Avenge the real eggs

(Only genuine will do!);

(sc)ramble fraudsters now!

Finally, a naisaiku... (with a three line title...)

...avenge perceived slights.

Ramble through therapy, cause

genuine distress.

THIS BUSINESS OF PAIN...

THERAPISTS SUFFER (ALSO)

THIS BUSINESS OF PAIN...

genuine distress.

Ramble through therapy, cause

...avenge perceived slights.