sweltering heat
suffocating tender skin
relieved in cool shade
I’m actually allergic to heat. Weird? Yep.
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Month: August 2020
Naughty Bulbs – a Dodoitsu Poem
Dodoitsu form of Japanese poetry came into being toward the end of the Edo Period which ended in 1868. Its themes are love, work, and usually comical.
It’s a syllabic constraint poetic form.
7/7/7/5
Daffodils do their bulb dance
in springtime to be naughty.
Scintillating complexions,
stupefy oglers.
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A Boy’s Folly – a poem.
A Boy’s Folly
It’s that happy time of the day
When crickets crick and froggies frog
And pirates sing after their grog
On paradise beach huge waves spray.
Then from the dunes comes a girl’s, “HEY!”
Up pops a boy not beyond eight,
Running from a fine lass’ fast gait.
She wasn’t happy not at all.
Her top parts hid by a beach ball.
When Sis nabs him, he won’t see straight.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 18 STAY. here on Ronovan Writes.
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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 18 (STAY) This week, it’s the A rhyme line.
Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.
If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on How to Write an Espinela or Décima Poem.
Or…
Keep reading and find out, with an example included.
One last thing before we jump in the creativity pool, check out my weekly Haiku Challenge prompts (Meet and Part this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.
- To read last week’s Décima Poetry written for the prompt for PRIZE, click HERE for all the links in one post.
Back to our schedule Décima Poetry Challenge how to and whatnot.
If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.
Sites to help:
RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc
The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.
Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.
The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc.
For example, if I say, “(NAME) This week it’s the A rhyme line” in the post heading, my Décima might be:
You took time, with a deadeye aim,
because you saw me scratch an itch,
this wound to my head needs a stitch.
Feel so bad, don’t know my own name.
Not hiding, because there’s no shame.
Get ready for when I get healed,
for your ending will be revealed.
It’s too late when you hear the crack.
That’s when it’s time for some payback.
Then I’ll be carried far afield.
Notice the example prompt word ‘name’ is in the fourth line A spot, and its rhymes are in lines one and five, matching the rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc.
For today’s challenge, the word STAYmust be one of the A line words. Then the other A line(s) word(s) must rhyme with STAY.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
Once you complete your poem and post it on your blog, copy the link and place it in the comments in this post. That way other people can visit your post and check out your poem. You can also put the link of this challenge in your post to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate. This is called a Pingback. This is not mandatory to join in or to put your post link in the comments. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback.
Reblogging is great as well.
Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
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Décima Challenge 17 Poets Collected
13 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of PRIZE and their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: An Important Tea Party – eastelmhurst.a.go.go
Donald at Six, Sixteen, Sixty-Six…Always
You would think there would be more thought,
You know the way second thoughts are,
They sneak up on you from afar,
Or near, and suddenly, there you are: caught!
You can struggle. So many have fought
their better nature; set in their ways,
they will be the same all their days.
For Trump, there is only one prize:
to win by hook or crook or lies
and sycophants voicing cheap praise.
The Hidden Edge: The Prize Ch#39 – (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Frank Hubeny: Prize – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
imanikingblog: Prize | imanikingblog
like mercury colliding: little piggies at the market – a rant | like mercury colliding…
My Fresh Pages: Second Prize Décima – My Fresh Pages
Prairie Chat: Décima Challenge #17 – PrairieChat
MMA Storytime: Some Prize In Prizefighting
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/06/once-upon/
revivedwriter: A Greater Prize | revivedwriter
RonovanWrites: https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/05/to-have-love-a-decima-poem/
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 17 (PRIZE) This week, it’s the D rhyme line. | willowdot21
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vigor and magic – a poem
part with your stale thoughts
breathe in new inspiration
meet the future here
meet the future here
dip into dawn’s bracing dew
morning’s part of joy
morning’s part of joy
skill joins creative vigor
to reveal magic
to reveal magic
greet life’s every moment
with measure of heart
To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-317-Meet and Part click HERE.© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
unity through community – a poem
hope comes with meeting
the opposite of yourself,
once met never parts
Yes, it’s a man bun.
To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 318 Meet & Part click HERE.
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 318 Meet&Part
Please Read. I do this challenge for a few reasons two of them are:
- To give prompts for all types of writers that make it easy for them to have a go-to place each week in addition to their other spots.
- To give those honoring my challenge with their efforts a few extra visitors each week to find their blogs and read their poems. I’ve seen the increase in the likes on their poems increase to amazing numbers over the 6+ years this weekly challenge has been running without interruption.
- To create friendships between people from all over the world. And that has happened and I am so happy to see those bongs grow strong.
But, some don’t receive the visits I would like for them to have. I think it’s mostly due to when the poems are written. As we all know, the beginning of the week is the hot time for blogging. So, if you can keep it in mind to come back and visit some of those poets, I would appreciate it. You can click like, if you like it, leave a comment if you’re inspired to. I sometimes just comment with a reaction, a haiku of my on in response to there, or a simple “Nice. I like it.” but I only say that if I think it’s “nice” and “I like it”. But if I don’t say anything, that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s nice. 🙂 Sometimes I’m at a low ebb of energy with all this Chronic Fatigue along with the allergic to heat… and I live near Atlanta, GA. Just imagine… CF+HeatAllergy+Atlanta=MeltingRonovan
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Click HERE for last week’s Haiku links using the prompt words Eye&Light.
Click HERE. To learn about the new style I’ve created called Shi Rensa Haiku and how to write one, maybe even for the challenges.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Meet, Part
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
- Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
- The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help, visit HowManySyllables.com. (You would be surprised at how many syllables some words actually have.)
- Words have different definitions and you use the definitions that work for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
- You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
- Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
- If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
The Challenge Words!
Meet&Part
Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to posts for other forms of Haiku.
Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
wisdom in patience – a poem
If you get caught up in an offense someone does against you, you will never complete a mission you have set for yourself. Movements pitter out, fade away. Then nothing is accomplished. Offenses are used as misdirection to distract you and then the foe wins.
e’er your zeal should be
free from others wrongdoing
is patient wisdom
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Haiku Challenge 317 Poets Collected.
Links to the 27 Poets 32 Poems from last week’s challenge of Destruct & Self and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Annette Rochelle Aben: A Turn On | Annette Rochelle Aben
sand
Each orb brings darkness,
Shadows of night that alight
On the eye of death.
A Shi Rensa Haiku
Each orb brings darkness,
Shadows of night that alight
On the eye of death.
On the eye of death,
The pupil shifts its contour
As the light turns out.
As the light turns out,
The darkness envelopes me
And I weep alone.
And I weep alone
For the earth which I depart
To a sweeter sleep.
Anisha|Crazy Nerds: Eye & Light – Haiku – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs (6 Haiku)
Endless Rivers: Night Sky – Endless Rivers
Goutam’s Writings: https://straightfromtheheartgd.com/2020/08/07/shirensahaiku-dawn/ (A Shi Rensa Haiku)
The Hidden Edge: An Extra Mile – Ch#36 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
isaiah46ministries : Home at Last! – Help from Heaven
J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Eye & Light – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
Lakshmi Bhat: https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-317-eye-light/
Lillie-Put: RONOVAN WRITES WEEKLY HAIKU CHALLENGE EYE AND LIGHT | Lillie-Put
LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Ronovan Writes Haiku – #317 – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/black-light/
MMA Storytime: The Fight Is Over
My Fresh Pages: https://myfreshpages.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/remind-shi-rensa-haiku/ (A Shi Rensa Haiku)
Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (8/3/20) – PrairieChat (5 Haiku)
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the Words Eye and Light | queennandini
Quilted Poetry: Aurora’s Light | RonovanWrites Haiku Weekly Challenge, Prompt 317 – Quilted Poetry
Anticipating autumn | RonovanWrites Haiku Weekly Challenge, Prompt 317 Eye+Light – Quilted Poetry
Revived Writer: https://revivedwriter.wordpress.com/2020/08/06/pupil/
Ronovan Writes: Tree Hanger – a poem | ronovanwrites
To Know Love – a poem | ronovanwrites (A Shi Rensa Haiku)
Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/08/03/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-317/
teleportingweena: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Eye/Sight/Light | teleportingweena
Thoughts and Entanglements: Eerie Quiet | thoughts and entanglements
Summer Storms | thoughts and entanglements (A Shi Rensa Haiku)
Tina Stewart Brakebill: Monday’s Child – Tina Stewart Brakebill
To Catch A Rainbow: light or dark
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 317 Eye&Light | willowdot21
Whippet Wisdom: Haiku: Fringe of the Forest – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A Wise Woman’s Journey: The Way Home | awisewomansjourney
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My Love Always – a Rondelet poem
My Love Always
my love always
sends my mind to a higher plane
my love always
sends me into a drunken daze
simply by saying the word Spain
it’s more than my joy can contain
My love always
This is Volume Three, of the love 2020 series. Three volumes, three poems, three styles, one story. And none of it planned. Where will it end?
Volume One: To Know Love – How To Write a Shi Rensa Haiku
Volume Two: To Have Love – How To Write a Décima
Volume Three: My Love Always – How To Write a Rondelet—See below.
This is a poetry form of French origin using a syllable pattern, rhyme pattern, and refrains.
Sounds complicated and confusing? Nope.
It’s kind of like combining the Shi Rensa Haiku with the Décima.
How did that coincidentally happen on my blog of all blogs?
Honestly, I have no idea, because it was not intentional.
So how do you write one? I’ll put the quick version here and maybe have a full post later.
And no, this will not be a new poetry challenge.
TIP: Once you got it, stop reading. I will probably confuse you if you read too much. I have a bad happen of going overboard when I first explain a new poetry form, or anything else new.
There are seven lines.
One line appears three times. In lines 1, 3, and 7. Keep that in mind, because those lines need to make sense throughout the poem. It’s easier than you think. These are what are called refrains (repeats).
RHYME PATTERN:AbAabbA
SYLLABLE PATTERN: 4/8/4/8/8/8/4
Line 1: A—four syllables A rhyme
Line 2: b—eight syllables B rhyme
Line 3: A—repeat of line one A rhyme
Line 4: a—eight syllables a rhyme (small a, but still must rhyme with A.)
Line 5: b—eight syllables B rhyme
Line 6: b—eight syllables B rhyme
Line 7: A—repeat of line one A rhyme
TIP: Of course write line A first, but then go ahead and put it down two more times. space them out. Put a space between lines 1 and 3. Then skip three lines between 3 and 7. Sounds weird, but it helps. You practically have half the poem done with one line.
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To Have Love – a poem.
To Have Love
With the last sun’s set, I now know,
through passion and prayer, I willed,
my mind, my heart, my soul be filled
with your love, bright like the sun’s glow.
Now the light in my world will grow.
Each moment is like a new day,
with a brand new story to say.
For inspiration to be wise,
being given the finest prize,
I’ll pen for you a rondelet*.
*coming Thursday.
The Love 2020 Series
Volume One: To Know Love – Shi Rensa Haiku
Volume Two: To Have Love – Décima
Volume Three: My Love Always – Rondelet poem (Link is active at 08:00 EDT, Thursday, 08/06/2020)
Vbe considered Part 2 of my To Know Love written for my Haiku Challenge (Eye&Light). Both are standalone poems, but I continued the Shi Rensa message/story with today’s Décima.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 17 PRIZE. (A Newish Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 17 (PRIZE) This week, it’s the D rhyme line.
That’s right everybody. I went there. I gave you the D rhyme… and with this word of all the words in the world. Don’t hate me because you’ve been challenged. Hate me because I’m beautifully insignificant.
But I really chose the word because it went well with the theme of the challenges this week. You can do a part two of your haiku if you did one, and if you want to go in that direction.
Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.
If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on how to write one.
Or…
Keep reading and find out, with an example included.
One last thing before we jump in the creativity pool, check out my weekly Haiku Challenge prompts (Eye and Light this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.
- To read last week’s Décima Poetry written for the prompt for GROW, click HERE for all the links in one post.
Back to our schedule Décima Poetry Challenge how to and whatnot.
If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.
Sites to help:
RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc
The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.
Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.
The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc.
For example, if I say, “(NAME) This week it’s the A rhyme line” in the post heading, my Décima might be:
You took time, with a deadeye aim,
because you saw me scratch an itch,
this wound to my head needs a stitch.
Feel so bad, don’t know my own name.
Not hiding, because there’s no shame.
Get ready for when I get healed,
for your ending will be revealed.
It’s too late when you hear the crack.
That’s when it’s time for some payback.
Then I’ll be carried far afield.
Notice the example prompt word ‘name’ is in the fourth line A spot, and its rhymes are in lines one and five, matching the rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc.
For today’s challenge, the word PRIZE must be one of the D line words. Then the other D line(s) word(s) must rhyme with PRIZE.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
Once you complete your poem and post it on your blog, copy the link and place it in the comments in this post. That way other people can visit your post and check out your poem. You can also put the link of this challenge in your post to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate. This is called a Pingback. This is not mandatory to join in or to put your post link in the comments. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback.
Reblogging is great as well.
Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
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To Know Love – a poem
the flames in your eyes
cast a shadow o’er the moon
to cage my hunger
to cage my hunger
sights are set upon my heart
to bring to light fear
to bring to light fear
look into my weakened soul
for me to know love
for me to know love
I’ll worship your every breath
till the last sun sets
Volume One: To Know Love – This haiku structure uses the form I’ve created and call Shi Rensa Haiku. Volume Two: To Have Love – Décima Volume Three: My Love Always – Rondelet poem (Link is active at 08:00 EDT, Thursday, 08/06/2020. Also, the poem includes a How to Write a Rondelet at the bottom of the post.) To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-316-Eye and Light click HERE.© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Décima Challenge 16 Poets Collected
13 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of GROW and their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Visit
Haiku Challenge 316 Poets Collected
For Haiku Poetry links from the past week’s challenge.
My Fresh Pages: Shrinking Décima – My Fresh Pages
Bobby Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/07/30/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-prompt-no-16/
Prairie Chat: Nobody Knows! – PrairieChat
MMA Storytime: A Black Belt In Patience
Frank Hubeny: Grow – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Keep Control – Ch#30 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Kat Myman: In Too Deep – A Décima | like mercury colliding…
Revived Writer: To Grow and Outgrow | revivedwriter
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/shoes-a-decima/
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 16 (GROW) This week, it’s the C rhyme line. | willowdot21
RonovanWrites: Now Democracy – a poem. | ronovanwrites
Stine Writing: Grow – A Decima – Stine Writing
A Later Vow
I woke that morning quite aware
crust had formed on my mortal soul.
It wore me down, taken its toll:
My dreams, my heart, my lover fair.
One might well ask what did I care,
For there was one fact I did know
Age has not left me time to grow
Beyond the man I am right now
Still, I thought, I will make this vow:
Laugh, be true, and go with the flow.
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Four Chain Haiku | Shi Rensa Haiku
Some of you may have noticed I created my own form of haiku recently. It’s not that I changed the number of syllables.
I simply made the ending verse, the third, of one haiku required to be the first verse of the following haiku in a poem containing four haiku.
(You can also do this with more than four haiku if you like as a basic Rensa Haiku, or Chain Haiku. I simply put it at four because that’s long enough for a story, but short enough for a challenge.)
This may sound like a haiku quartet, which I just discovered was an actual form, existed at 01:50 Tuesday, 7/28/2020. I’ve been using my style for a while now, created randomly with the first one I posted.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on haiku and other forms of poetry recently and I thought I would give this one a name I just don’t want people thinking I sought to pass one style off as another.
I first wrote, what I call Shi Rensa Haiku, one day when I thought it would be challenging to take a verse and make two Haiku that are unique but stay within the same message.
Here I give you the name I’m giving this style as it appears here on my blog, and among my poetic friends. The name is primarily to distinguish in case I have a reason to mention the name in our poetic circle.
Shi Rensa Haiku
Shi=Four
Rensa=Chain, connection
Haiku=Poem
From my understanding, you place the adjective of most emphasis next to the subject.
Here, the word Rensa means chain as in connection. and to me, that is the key adjective.
So, there is more behind the scenes in the development of this form than a row of numbers in red and black. But for the enjoyment of writing one, that row of numbers in black and red. is all you need. Some other day I’ll get into the rest of the story.
The way you write a Shi Rensa Haiku is with the following verse pattern with the like numbers being identical.
1
2
3
3
4
5
5
6
7
7
8
9
The goal is to have the entire poem deliver one message but with each haiku being a unique part/purpose within the poem and possibly having the story or message being told to progress with some purpose by the end.
Here is one I wrote recently as an example.
Loves anguish… thirst
I self-destruct when
your words are lost from my life
dread pervades this void
dread pervades this void
as my ego begs for hope
life devastates me
life devastates me
when your eyes embrace with mine
own these thoughts hunger
own these thoughts hunger
and thirst to demolish walls
for identities
The additional spaces you see between some off the words are the pauses I feel occur between them, giving that moment emphasis and meaning. This is a tool used in haiku when you don’t want to use punctuation or perhaps when punctuation doesn’t really fulfill what you want. It has also been used because haiku in the original form was written in one continuous line, not three stacked lines. With the stacked lines, there is a built-in hesitation/pause.
I hope you give it a try. It’s challenging to get one just right.
Another way to view the pattern that may be easier for some as not everyone thinks the same, especially when it comes to such restrictive poetry forms.
1
2
3 same as next line
3 same as the previous line
4
5 same as next line
5 same as the previous line
6
7 same as next line
7 same as the previous line
8
9
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Tree Hanger – a poem
Monday‘s captioned truth,
I see the first light ending,
gasp, “Mom’s fringed bottom!”
Seven in One
daily-jibberjabber-word-prompts-july-28th-august-4th
TRUTH
ending caption bottom
FRINGE
FIRST
Image credit- Lewis Roberts- Unsplash
#41
haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-317-Eye and Light
EYE and LIGHT
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 317 Eye&Light
Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge. I sometimes have the prompt related to the Haiku words. It’s kind of fun to have the two work together in your own poetry.
If you would like to try my new form of Haiku, please do. To learn about Shi Rensa Haiku and how to write one, click HERE.
Click HERE for last week’s Haiku links using the prompt words Destruct and Self.
Check out the responses below in the comments for links to our Poets haiku this week.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Eye, Sight
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
- Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
- The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help, visit HowManySyllables.com. (You would be surprised at how many syllables some words actually have.)
- Words have different definitions and you use the definitions that work for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
- You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
- Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
- If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
The Challenge Words!
Eye&Light
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Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
Haiku Challenge 316 Poets Collected. – Updated.
Updated with new additions.
Links to the 20 Poets from last week’s challenge of Destruct & Self and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Annette Rochelle Aben: life cycle | Annette Rochelle Aben
Cobbled Contemplations: Self Destructs – COBBLED CONTEMPLATIONS ~ Poetry, Etc
The COVID Code
Care is the by-word.
Distance! mask up! Think! Or, friend,
you will self destruct.
Anisha|Crazy Nerds: Destruct & Self – Haiku – Set #1 – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs & Destruct & Self – Haiku – Set #2 – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs
Becoming Unstuck: times change – Becoming Unstuck
Endless Rivers: Dangerous Lies – Endless Rivers
The Hidden Edge: Self as Agent – Ch#29 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
JilyWily (J-Dubs): Haiku -Destruct & Self – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Please Vote
Mindfills: Smart
MMA Storytime: MMA’s Understanding
My Fresh Pages: Self-destruct Haiku
Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (7/27/20) – PrairieChat
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Destruct & Self | queennandini
Quilted Poetry: Confidentially yours
Ronovan Writes: loves anguish… thirst – a open poem letter | ronovanwrites
Scribblans: https://scribblans.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/sometimes-i-dont-rhymes-self-and-destruct/
The Tenth Zodiac: Haiku – Ronovan Writes- Destruct/Self – The_tenth_zodiac
To Wear A Rainbow: …no to depression
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 316 Destruct&Self | willowdot21
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