Make certain to look up those definitions this week.
Challenge 49
I created this challenge to have a place for people to share creativity and gain a little exposure to other readers they might not have otherwise AND of course to enjoy Haiku. We all have different people who visit our blogs, so this way we get to meet new people. Just so you know, this is a community. You will get to know the people here and make several new friends along the way.
First one to submit an entry gets reblogged here on Ronovan Writes. But go for quality, that’s the important part.
First of all, if you don’t know how to write a Haiku in English format, don’t worry, there are links below to articles I’ve written to show you how. Or you can click that link there. They are easier than you think. And to be honest, as for the challenge, I don’t really have rules for people sticking to formats unless it comes down to having to decide between two people for one of the Choices of the week. Choices are the winners, my selections, for one Serious and one Humorous Haiku each week that just gets me. But staying to formats does make you a better writer of Haiku. And with practice, it becomes second nature.
So you write a Haiku, what do you do with it?
- You have the Haiku as a post on your blog.
- Within that post you can put one of the two links you will find below under “Use One Of These Links in Your Blog”. Just copy and paste and make sure they are active/live. That’s called a pingback for one of them, but not the other. What’s a Pingback? How do you do it? Click here to find out how if you don’t know how.
- If you don’t do the real pingback link, which will be called “Pingback Link” below, then make sure to put a link to your post in the comments of this Challenge post so we can all go read your Haiku. Either way is cool with me. Or you can do both.
- The Challenge Post is published each Monday at 9 AM Eastern Time, or New York Time for those like me who get confused with all those easterns and stuff. Don’t know what your time zone is compared to New York Time? Click here for a Time Zone Map showing times as of right this moment.
- You have until Noon Eastern New York Time Sunday to submit your Haiku. You may submit as many as you like, even multiple ones within the same post if you like. There is no limit.
- Why submit? We have several members of the challenge family and they visit other members, also people visit the challenge specifically to see what people write, and I do a weekly review of each and every Haiku written and put that out Sunday afternoon or Monday morning, depending on how much time it takes. That Review then gets shared on Twitter. I do at times keep tweeting the Review until I have included every Twitter Handle of every Poet who has participated, but I don’t always do that these days as the number is beginning to get big. But sometimes I do anyway.
Note: If you do both a Pingback and a Comment with a link, you will at some point notice the pingback on the Challenge Post here will disappear. I’ll be doing that to make it easier for people to visit each of you and not click on the same person twice not realizing the pingback and comment link are the same person. 🙂 I can tell the difference but when you are casually reading, who wants to bother with that, right? But don’t worry, the link is still active/live in your post.
One easy way to read the Haiku from the Challenge Post comments area is to right click and open the link in a new tab or window. That way you don’t lose your place in the list and you don’t have to keep revisiting my blog. Yes, it would give me a lot more visits but I know all those visits are all of you reading each others Haiku anyway.
People like to try different ways of doing Haiku and below are links to how to do some different kinds if you are interested.
Want to know How to write a Haiku Poem in English Form? Click here for the article. Also here you have an article that shows you a little about Haiku used in Haibun and Tanka as well. Haiku in English is the primary form for the challenge but you can use any of them. This is about being creative and pushing yourself to share a message or image in very few words.
The Prompt Words
Lock & Gab
My Example
A lock of your hair
Stays silent lips forever
Gab secrets no more
The following is how the sentences should read.
A lock of your hair stays silent lips forever.
Stays silent lips forever, gab secrets no more.
You do not have to include the sentences within your post, but it does help others understand how Haiku works if you do.
Use One of These Links in Your Blog
Pingback Link
https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-49-lock-gab/
Non Pingback Link (This link will take a person to the category page for the Haiku Challenges. That page shows the most recent challenge at the top. It will not show as a pingback in the challenge Post. If you use this make certain to also leave a link to your post in the comments of this Challenge post so we can visit you and I can include you in the review.)
https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/category/haiku-prompt-challenge/
Remember you also have to make certain the link is active/live by clicking on the add link button which is next to the right alignment button for WordPress. To me the add link button kind of looks like a diagonal paper clip. It’s the fifth from the right in the WordPress post editor.
For Tips and Guidelines refreshers click here.
DEADLINE: Noon on Sunday New York Time.
There are TWO “CHOICE!” recipients each week. One for Humor and one for something more Serious. The Haiku are quite good each week and I am having to turn to the structure guidelines of a Haiku at times to help determine my selection.
Really each Haiku is a choice of mine, and I’m not just saying that, so I feel a bit odd even having something called A RONOVAN’S CHOICE, but hey, it’s a thing, right? And it does make it kind of fun.
Much Respect
Ronovan
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Here is mine… http://wp.me/p4ayEo-Es thanks for the fun!
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Was it that easy? This was the challenging week. Every other week is going to be challenging words week. And here you are already posted. Grrrr.
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They are challenging me!!!!
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Dude, I actually wrote 2 but decided to only use this one. This is actually the 2nd one I wrote. My folks gave me a Chatty Cathy doll when I was a kid, so I guess gabbing is in my blood… lol
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Got mine done super quick this week.
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/haiku-challenge-lock-and-gab/
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This challenge made me go a little crazy and political this week. Thanks for making me think! 🙂
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Second attempt, less disturbed (i hOpE?)
https://amaviedecoeurentier.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/du-monde-2/
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https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/ronovan-writes-haiku-challenge-48-gablock/ Enjoyed the challenge, Ron!
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Thanks for letting me take part!
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That sure was a tough one! I nearly didn’t make it. But I got there in the end – Phew!
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This leaped out and smacked my computer screen, so I had to write: https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/gab-and-lock/
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Thanks Ronovan for letting me share my haiku for this week’s challenge: Lock and Gab..
http://mjbrodeck.com/2015/06/16/haiku-challenge-lock-and-gab/
My choice to lock up
Secrets I refuse to share
As gabbing won’t help.
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To be read as:
My choice to lock up secrets I refuse to share.
Secrets I refuse to share as gabbing won’t help.
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These are my efforts this week – I liked the prompts, and didn’t think they were challenging (different strokes for different folks, I guess – last week’s was much trickier for me!). The ole love theme crept into these too… https://altheauthor.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/haiku-challenge-lock-gab/
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Guess I will just have to try harder next week. 🙂
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Fun words Ronovan 🙂 http://thearanartisan.com/2015/06/17/blooming-bells/
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Thanks for this, really got me thinking about some things… https://jannistyles1.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/gablock-3/
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Hey all, herewith my entry for the week. 🙂 https://serinssphere.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-49-lockgab/
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Good evening! Here’s my entry for this week: https://projectprose.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/lock-gab/
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Where do those words come from?????Here’s what I did with them anyway.
https://fromhearttohead.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/ebb-tide/
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Another fun challenge this week. I found it easy;
I wrote about me! LOL
http://wp.me/p51loS-ay
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Hey 🙂 I just posted my haiku, check it out:
https://876lover.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/one-beat/
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Hi, Ron. How is your week going? Here I am for the week: http://silverthreading.com/2015/06/20/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-49-lock-gab/
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Whew, under the wire:
https://drkottaway.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/nice-advice/
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Mine for the week. Thanks. https://faithfuldevotionals.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/the-pitch-a-haiku-2/
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Sorry for two pingbacks. Having technical difficulties this week when I forgot to update my title.
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lock & gab, nice choice! 🙂
https://rawlse.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/haiku-unsilent/
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Very out of practice. Sorry for going AWOL Ron my friend
http://wp.me/p4eHj4-LG
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