3WW LXIII
December 5, 2007 at 10:07 am 59 comments
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.
Leave a comment if you participate. Many fun and interesting people might visit your blog.
This week’s words are:
Absent
Notebook
Persuade
jealousies persuade
temptation persists
privacy ignored
notebook opened
secrets read
heart laments
guilt engulfs
notebook closed
betrayal confessed
trust fractured
love unravels
eyes absent
notebook opened
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If You Read Only One Blog This Year 
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gautami tripathy | December 5, 2007 at 11:13 am
This I call is perfect timimg. These words fit right into a rant I posted.
Here goes:
tutorial and rant
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Truefaith1963 | December 5, 2007 at 11:19 am
Silly little ABC thing today!!
please click here (if you dare)
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pia | December 5, 2007 at 11:47 am
I posted! Actually posted the next chapter first as I have no idea what I’m doing
my link wasn’t accepted–will try to my blog only
/courtingdestiny.com/
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Tiel Aisha Ansari | December 5, 2007 at 11:55 am
Traffic Tickets
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Lightheaded | December 5, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Just a short piece today, no time to write much.
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Rose Dewy Knickers | December 5, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Hello everyone, this is Rose and as Gautami has said in her post, if you are at Blogger, please check your comment options and consider changing to allow OpenId. Thanks.
My short story is called “The Teacher’s Pet”.
Rose
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Sandy | December 5, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I’m glad I have a blog called Mock Haiku, that way no one will ever mistake my poem(?) for a haiku.
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OK Chick | December 5, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Are you going to post??? I need something to read.
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pia | December 5, 2007 at 1:05 pm
open Id doesn’t work for my blog. Think it has to be hosted by one of the hosts listed, not by a “private” host
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Gay | December 5, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I’m having one of my crazy months. I managed to fit the words in and played today, and I will try to get by and visit everyone later. I’ve missed you all!
Norbert and Smedley Episode 58
–Gay
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Kate | December 5, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I have it posted! Have a great day!!
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Christy | December 5, 2007 at 1:14 pm
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2007/12/home-is-where-heart-is.html
My offering for this 3ww
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Mike Mc | December 5, 2007 at 1:30 pm
A short poem on Scattered Rivulets
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This Girl Remembers | December 5, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Fabulous words today – they lifted me right out of my post-nablopomo fatigue!
Infidelity
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charlotta-love | December 5, 2007 at 2:39 pm
If one more person tries to persuade me to watch ‘The Notebook’, I’m out…count me absent.
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Karen | December 5, 2007 at 2:44 pm
What holiday would be complete without a little scrooge thrown in somewhere?
Thanks for checking on my NaNo progress, Bone. It was another awesome lesson I needed to learn.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Absence Makes the Heart Rebel
Write From Karen
writefromkaren.com
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Herb Urban | December 5, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Madonna Saves Hanukkah!
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susan | December 5, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Mine is here:
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tumblewords | December 5, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’m not absent but maybe I should be. :)
Mine:
Haiku
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Mariacristina | December 5, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Here’s a poem for 3WW. Thanks for the prompt,Bones.
Mirror Me in Dreams
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paisley | December 5, 2007 at 5:39 pm
dang… i had to fight with every word this week… thanks bone!!!!
“absence”
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TC | December 5, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I worked on this for hours today. Hours. It’s done though, for which I am beyond grateful.
I’ll be around to read everyone else’s later :)
Chapter 22
(If that doesn’t work, which there is about a 98% chance it won’t, you can just follow my profile. It’s the first post.)
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TC | December 5, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Sweet! I can’t believe it worked! :)
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actonbell | December 5, 2007 at 8:25 pm
My boring 3WW is here–http://greenteapot.blogspot.com/
I look forward to reading the rest of these:)
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lissa | December 5, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Here’s my entry
700 daisies
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A Tag Along Traveler | December 5, 2007 at 9:37 pm
ok its posted, i have to say school is getting the best of me…I hate the last 3 weeks of the semester!!
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Michelle Johnson | December 5, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hello everyone! Here’s mine “Freedom pt1” I hope to continue this piece later. I didn’t want to be real late posting this week. Thanks Bone, for the words.
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Heather B. | December 5, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Pal, where is yours?
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UL | December 5, 2007 at 11:55 pm
A lazy note from my end…
A note
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Paul | December 6, 2007 at 12:49 am
Hi everyone, Simon’s been taking a short break but he’s back this week – a little late due to pressure of work. You can find him here.
http://writersnoteobook.blogspot.com/2007/12/happiness-freedom-and-courage.html
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"SunShine" | December 6, 2007 at 1:42 am
here are my two cents
http://raysofthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/12/smiling-through-tears.html
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Jujee | December 7, 2007 at 12:22 am
Friday afternoon, bored silly at work composed:
untitled
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rwellsrwells | December 7, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Hey Friends, don’t have a 3WW this week (don’t ask,) but would like to share a new poem with the community. Bone, if this is illegal, feel free to delete (if you can,) if you can’t, my apologies.
IF ALL OF US WHO ARE SICK OF WAR
Peace, Richard
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sage | December 7, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I feel good, mine is up before Bone’s–actually I let Nevada jack do a little ranting today. here it is:
http://sagecoveredhills.blogspot.com/2007/12/3-word-wednesday-nevada-jack-rant.html
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Bun Bun | December 7, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I enjoyed this one.
TEXT GOES HERE
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Bone | December 7, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Sorry, it took me awhile to get something posted this week. It’s been hard to find time to write.
Thank you all for participating. I’ll try to be around sometime this weekend to read everyone’s.
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TC | December 7, 2007 at 4:47 pm
You know, every single time you write poetry, I don’t think it can top the time before it. And every single time, I’m wrong.
Who hasn’t been there? Who hasn’t had that temptation? And who do you feel worse for – the one who read something that hurt them, or the one whose trust was betrayed?
I’m one of the most impatient people I know, but I will say this: your work is always worth the wait.
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pia | December 7, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Love the notebook opened refrain–and the temptation of the open
notebook–so hard not to look–so bad when you do–and the guilt
taking over–but the sins confessed anyway. Do I have it right?
Think so as I have been there. Never gave in but confessed anyway–I’m great at that, or used to be. Getting better.
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Clockworkchris | December 7, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Haiku for you
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pia | December 7, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I’m exhausted and not sure I’m making sense today–possible paint thinner, mineral spirits, doorman overload I meant:
possibly the temptation can be sin enough, and he who sins in his head, like Jimmy Carter–philosopher peanut farmer Nobel Prize winner president will confess anyway–know he said “lusted in his heart” but close enough
Poem struck me like that
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pia | December 7, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Though it was explicit about notebook opened–secrets read, I felt it more guilt than true secrets and the betrayal could have been more the readers but I breathed in too much paint thinner today–and did I mention breathing in bleach trying to clean something that was the building’s responsiblity and they were supposed to fix for a long time? Grew tired of cleaning the area around the kitchen plastic pipe–and closed it off
Let me stop before I confess more things I didn’t force the building to fix–in the interest of being the world’s biggest wimp–and am literally paying for now
The poem made me uneasy as I felt it too much
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UL | December 8, 2007 at 1:26 am
That was well worth the wait indeed, very nice – guilt and pleasure at reading a notebook…very beautifully potrayed, loved it. Thanks Bone.
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Herb Urban | December 8, 2007 at 2:03 am
Truly excellent work, Bone. A guilt conscience would weigh more heavily on my mind than any guilty pleasure I could derive from stealing a glimpse at a friend or partner’s secret thoughts. I would feel like I was straddling an emotional tightrope. Your poem conveys that daredevil feat extremely well.
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lissa | December 8, 2007 at 11:41 am
Bone, great poem. I like the use of two words for each line. I don’t know if that’s a writing style or not but very well done.
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gautami tripathy | December 8, 2007 at 12:08 pm
As lissa said the two words work very well.
notebook closed
.
.
.
.
Notebook opened
Contain a visual in a nutshell.
rooted
reading room
PS: Till blogger fixes itself, I am leaving live links of my blogs. OpenID is not an option. Each Blogger user has to get an open idt account for it be really effective.
That is not practically feasible.
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rwellsrwells | December 8, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Bone, great poem. Reminded me of a time when I thought journals left in the open were all fair game because mine was. Silly me.
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Bone | December 8, 2007 at 9:40 pm
TC: Why, thanks. That’s very kind of you to say. Yeah, I think I liked the story that was told better than the poetry part of it.
Pia: No, I agree. A trust has already been betrayed by the reader, regardless of what the book may or may not contain. And once that line is crossed, there’s no turning back.
UL: Thank you much :)
Herb: Thanks. I would feel exactly the same way. The guilty conscience would outweigh everything else.
Lissa: Haha. That’s probably not a writing style :) But thank you.
Gautami: Thank you. I’m very much a novice at poetry. Hopefully, Blogger gets its stuff straightened out very soon.
RWells: Thank you. It’s oh so tempting to take a peek sometimes.
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actonbell | December 9, 2007 at 1:01 pm
That’s a fantastic piece, Bone. I agree that the two-word lines and the notebook opened-refrain are part of the intriguing style.
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boneman | December 9, 2007 at 1:33 pm
been absent so long I looked in my notebook to try to write a persuade to come back.
I liked the one sittin’ there. The twist felt right….
“eyes absent.
notebook opened”
Been there way too much in m’lifetime.
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Blondie | December 9, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I forgot how much I miss your 3WW’s.
Beautiful, friend.
So, what ever happened to you creating a blog for me?
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Blondie | December 10, 2007 at 12:30 am
p.s. I’ve returned.
:]
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girlfpsgamer | December 10, 2007 at 4:06 am
You are pretty darn good writer, with few words you’ve made a little story with lots of feelings that come across well.
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girlfpsgamer | December 10, 2007 at 4:15 am
(Hmmm, I hope the above makes some sense).
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Lillith~Tenille | December 10, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I’m surprised, particularly being this late to the game, that there aren’t more comments exclaiming your brilliance with this post. You’ve managed to capture the nature of relationships and one’s painful demise in only 26 words. Astounding.
Mine’s up. ~Lillith-Tenille
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A Tag Along Traveler | December 11, 2007 at 10:01 am
Short but potent. Nice work Bone!!!
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LittleWing | December 11, 2007 at 2:55 pm
geez, these are great words to work with..thank you for the opportunity to stretch the limits of my daily world…
is this a test
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Mariacristina | December 11, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Bone,
With precision you tell a whole tale of misery and woe. I’ve seen my son’s journal lying around, and I refuse to open it. I think it would hurt too much knowing I betrayed him that way.
I have read someone’s diary, and just like you describe, it was an open and shut case. I felt like I had burned my eyes!
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Avery Laine | December 11, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I love the slight e.e. cummings-esque feel of this. Your lack of punctuation or capitalization strengthens the words that much more.
You’ve done it again.
Mine, titled Not Today, has been up since Thursday. My apologies that it’s taken me so long to get here.
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Michelle Johnson | December 14, 2007 at 11:20 am
Sorry, I forgot to come back and comment on your post. You said all that needed to be said in such a short space. Keep up the good work.