three word inspiration 2

( more of mine from the endless challenge )
 
primrose / poison / pelican  
 
1: TRANS
Primrose garden tended
with such care,  
only to have it laced  
with poison.  
 
Doesn't seem fair,  
the way the gardener  
toils in dedication,  
adding brightly colored plastic  
flamingos, which  
queerly,  
have attracted a pelican.
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dusted, sounding, backwater  
 
2: SLOW
The backwater country  
Was always dark,  
Even on sunny days,  
The sounding of thunder  
In a cloudless sky.
 
The villages were  
Hard-pressed as the  
Meager population  
Slowly dwindled further;
 
The people, their dogs
The cars  
Dusted
With failure & despair.  
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linguistics,  weather, fasting
 
3: AIR
Back in the day,  
when Ted
paid more attention  
to what people said,
when he was more into
the linguistics of the  
audibles they made,
 
He could  
forecast the weather
by the spent air
he took into his lungs,  
then expelled  
when he'd soak in the tub.
 
But nowadays,  
the pickin's are slim,
and best left ignored.
So Ted's been fasting,  
and feels lighter for it.
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blithe / shanty/ periwinkle
 
4: REALITY
By the interstate just south
Of the city of glass towers
And graceful manicured parks,
 
Was the sprawl of a shanty town
Where neither grass nor trees grew,
Beaten down to packed dust
Like the shanty dwellers.
 
Except for a blithe young sheila
Who's days were always spent
On the fringe of the city dump,
Picking flowers of periwinkle.
 
There were no flowers of color,
Not daisy nor daffodil nor glads,
As her bare feet padded the ground.
No violets nor iris nor blue bell.
 
But you couldn't make her believe.
She knew what she saw,
Of the things that filled her world.  
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Matches / seaweed / bear  
 
5: MATCHBOX
The transient walked,  
barefoot and cold,  
along a coastline beach  
 
When came upon  
a tangled string  
of seaweed washed ashore.  
 
He shivered from  
the morning damp,  
gathered in a pile  
 
And tried to light it  
from six matches;  
proved to be a bear.  
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Somemore of my recent entries, covering a range of expressions based on just 3 words in one of DUP's "endless" competitions, "three word inspiration".  Drop by and join in!