Power of Three

The power of three

appears many ways

a sequence that

is impossible to

go unnoticed, its

glaring  glowing

strikingly or softly

salient in sight

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It is immortalised

by historical icons,

the trailblazing minds

that canonised this

sequence of three;

but is felt 

by the everyday

ever present people

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There is a

fictional mastery of

the three witches

casting a curse

on the antihero

the unlucky Macbeth

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Beware the bewitching

temptress of the

feminised number three,

walking wombs who

can cast a

spell to bewitch

or grant triple

strokes of luck

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Interlinked by mysticism,

that supernatural is

Rooted female three.

Don’t forget the

Salem witches villains

indelible, formidable in

the crucial crucible

a poetic mastery

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But three goes

Deeper than that:

proving the power

of the numerical

motifs and codes

that colours our

our subjective perception

of relative reality

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Watch out people,

Men and women

can be hit by

this threesome tragedy

or metaphysical miracle

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Still it’s been

interpreted to be

So inherently female;

a feminine mystique.

It is indiscriminate

of gendered duality

no identified gender

is exempt, safe

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The number three

treats men and

women the same.

If metaphorical patterns

respects gendered equality

Why can’t we?

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By Emma G