samhradh’s sweet first day,
is time of birth and searching,
yields to cloak and death
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Year: 2020
My Silence to not be a Hypocrite Racist.
To Those Of You Who Visit,
(So far today, no one has clicked on the Juneteenth links to discover the history of the day. I am a bit disappointed.)
In the USA yesterday, which was June 19, 2020, there were celebrations, known as Juneteenth, across the country in honor of slavery being abolished in the US.
“Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. ” – Juneteenth.com
Do visit the site and learn interesting details. I studied Reconstruction history at university and was never made aware of the date or the delay in Texas. But, it was mostly focused on the political and social reconstruction in states the government of the time directed their attention to.
Some of my regular visitors to the blog may have noticed I did not post anything special in honor of this day. This might seem odd, considering my various poetry challenges’ prompt words for the past several weeks have been specifically geared toward the current protest and #BlackLivesMatter movement. My blog is pretty much my only way to physically support any kind of movement. Well, here and my Social Media, from which I do occasionally Tweet African American authors free kindle books I come across AND get myself. I’m not going to promote unless the book has good reviews, otherwise, I think I am, in some ways, being racist.
All of that to say the following. The reason I didn’t post yesterday was that I felt it somewhat hypocritical of me, as a White man, or a person of any skin color than black, to post my support when I have done nothing until recently in support of the cause of equality for all. To post would, to me, feel as though I were being racist somehow. Almost taking advantage of something that was not mine to bring visitors to my blog.
None of the above paragraph would have been my intent. However, until I have been consistent and intentional in my support of equality for all, I have no right to jump on a wagon that I am not pulling.
Respectfully,
Ronovan – An Awakening White Man
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Amaze Me – A Poem
How you amaze me
Every day
I think of ways
You give me life and meaning
No one who
Could be like you
And not change me
How you amaze me
How you amaze me
How you amaze me
I travel through
a black blue sea
until I can be
just one of your days
Finding words
Like pulling nerves
Too many and all painful
Just let me be pain free
Once in my life
How you amaze me
How you amaze me
How you amaze me
Just once in my life
Make me pain free.
I used to call these my lyrical poems. I suppose all poems are lyrical…with the right accompaniment. What you see is what came out as it came out.
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A Racist Confessed – A Décima Poem
A Racist Confessed
I confess that I’m a racist.
Looking away from bigotry.
Angry at one man’s bended knee.
Knowing that blue on black exists.
Hoping proof shows the black resists.
Loving the colors of all skin?
Bet on who I’ll blame the break-in.
Time all these lies become past tense.
Pray man comes to a common sense.
Confess we’ve held down our own kin
This Décima was inspired by this week’s Décima by Vocabularical (Is that not the best name for a wordsmith?)- Décima Challenge: Sense. That’s the name of his entry post. Click it and you will not be disappointed. I reblogged it here on my blog, but he deserves to have it read where it lives. Please do go and read it. It will hit some of you right between the eyes.
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 10 SENSE. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
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A Poem of Challenges…
a voice from on high
raining down over blind hearts
the shared truth triumphs
The mind plus the heart makes for change.
A whisper of placation will do,
as will just praying from your pew.
Groupthink who buys that…will derange.
Those aware are bound to outrange.
Fools who hate, fear, and deny,
why degenerate, prove your why?
He’s in his fortress, while you fight?
Him or the blood, you know which’s right.
For him, no grace, a nation’s cry.
for my Haiku Challenge this week: Share & Voice, and my Décima Poetry Challenge No. 10 SENSE. and Pensitivity’s Three Things Challeng #270 Grace, Fortress, and Whisper.
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Décima Challenge: Sense
Read this second. It’s the second part of the haiku-decima offering by Vocabularical.
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 10 (SENSE). This week, it’s the D rhyme spot.
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.
This week I decided to link the Haiku Challenge Prompt words with the Décima prompt. You don’t have to do so, but if you want to try, all you do is write one of them, and then stay along the same theme when writing the other. Just make sure to put the appropriate link in the appropriate challenge comments. Click HERE to go to the Haiku Challenge for this week.
You can now use the
Synonym
of the Prompt Word. This will make for variety and a bit more freedom to fully get your message across.
I’m not doing this just because this week’s Prompt word is a bit difficult. I intend to use it for my Décima. However, this freedom in the Haiku Challenges over the years has produced some great poetry.
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines (stanza) of poetry that rhyme but in this case, there is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to.
In addition, each line must only have 8 syllables.
The rhyme pattern is;
a
b
b
a
a
c
c
d
d
c
For this particular challenge, the word SENSE must be one of the D position words. Then the other D position(s) word(s) must rhyme with SENSE.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
This week is the
D rhyme spot.
This week’s inspiration is to use
SENSE
as one of your “D” words, and meaning you use SENSE in one spot, and its rhyme in the other.
If you are having a bit of trouble with this prompt, just write whatever you are inspired to do as long as it is a Décima.
Tools you might need to write the poem are:
RhymeZone.com,
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com.
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 a link, Pingback, of this challenge in your post, to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate., but this is not a must to join in.
If you choose to put the link in your post, this is a Ping Back. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback, if you have never done one before. Basically, any time you click on a link in an article or post, that’s a Ping Back.
Please share this post on your Social Media, such as Twitter or FB. As with the pingback, this is not a requirement. Reblogging is great as well.
Some people also like to copy the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
unrequited voice
Read this one first, it’s a connected to the Decima challenge poem.
a whispered symphony – a haiku poem
in the garden a voice
leads a whispered symphony
to share with the world
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Share & Voice.
Can you find Blue Bells four little friends?
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a good time – a haiku poem
voice frustrations while
picking up good pulsations
shares stimulations
Name that inspiration in the comments below.
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Share & Voice.
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Hello
Visit this blog and do a little introduction. Oh, and the Haiku is cool too.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt#Challenge 310 Share&Voice
If you read this Haiku let me know in the comments what the last movie is you watched or the last book you read so I can get to know you a little better 🙂
For me The King of Staten Island was the last movie I watched and I am currently reading Dare to Lead by Brené Brown selected for a book club at work!
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 310 Share&Voice
We already have some FUN Haiku this week. Visit the comments and check them all. Just click HERE to jump to THERE.
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.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Remember to come back and visit the comments section during the week for your fellow poets’ entries!
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Share, Voice
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.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
- The Challenge currently BEGINS at 8 AM EST (New York City time) on Mondays. And a DEADLINE is Noon EST (New York City time) on the Sunday following the Challenge Post release.
The Challenge Words!
Share&Voice
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
THE DC MEN- A Décima Poem
The DC Men
‘The powers that be’ say stay calm,
and wait till a little later.
But now’s the time that is greater.
Keep 119:60 a just Psalm,
carried out in your righteous palm.
Look at that divinely sent ten.
Are they kept bye those DC men?
If only they’d done as they should
we would be saying ‘all is good’,
But now….off to the lion’s den.
I used LATER as a Synonym for NEXT. I didn’t like the first poem I put out.
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 9 NEXT. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
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Forensic Goof- A Décima Poem
Forensic Goof
You thought your term was bulletproof.
Then there’re rumors of your sext text.
So what’re you going to do next.
You’re now a political goof,
turned into an SNL spoof.
But with a big enough check.
you’ll save this runaway trainwreck.
The New York Times puts it in print,
On no, here comes the New Your Post.
Now you’re thinking of that almost.
That check you wrote… has your thumbprint.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 9 NEXT. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
I did around four other poems but they were too serious. I wanted something light and maybe a bit funny this week. So after two hours, a night of sleep, and another 30 minutes, you get that.
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Décima Challenge: Next
An amazing first Décima. Check it out.
TO SOAR – a poem
I miss the beauty while in the pain.
I forget the truth while fighting the lies.
I lose confidence while filthy in self-pity.
I
I
I
jailed in the mind-itching madness of insanity
the heart atrophies one beat at a time.
for the lack of…
what
of
of one touch
one touch
is that it
is that all it takes
all it takes for the heart to burst
from my chest and to soar
to soar across the lands
to soar across seas
to soar
to
to soar to… sweet… whispers
to… healing
or is it to soar to beat faster
and faster
and faster…
with each touch of lips and fingertips
is that mending
or is that sweet beauty
is that sweet pain
sweet insanity
sweet madness
the madness of a love so strong it defies the world
defines what love is what love has never been
oh that day
that day is going down in the works of historians
is going down in the songs of mankind
is going down
and all the pain, the tragedy,
the endless seconds passing in a hell of denial
will be soothed and released by the whispers
of…
by…
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An Ode to you
Throwback Thursday. I haven’t shared a throwback before, at least I don’t remember one. This seemed appropriate considering my TO SOAR poem today.
There are moments of peace that spread through space and time as if the finger of destiny were in control.
Sounds swirl around in a chaotic symphony to create a web of melody to nest and harbor ones soul.
For some this eye of the storm may be a calm achieved in a place of choosing and alone.
Me, I, can only attain this much desired anomaly in time and space by looking outside me to a crone.
Alone in a dark room with the sounds echoing from one wall to another and another and yet another,
I find that my only hope for survival is to rely on someone so dear whom I fear I might smother.
My irrational mind asks questions of ruin and brings images of disaster and torment.
There is never a moment, even when in happiness, I do not realize I am a fragment.
Rather…
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Bedrock – A Tanka poem.
when breaking down walls
passion’s a key to success
when breaking glass ceilings
never aim up for the roof
but down to diseased bedrock
***Fight Through It Not To It!***
A Tanka related to the Haiku Challenge of Break and Glass this week.
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 9 (NEXT). This week, it’s the B rhyme spot.
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.
IMPORTANT UPDATE/CHANGE to the CHALLENGE!
You can now use the Synonym of the Prompt Word. This will make for variety and a bit more freedom to fully get your message across.
I’m not doing this just because this week’s Prompt word is a bit difficult. I intend to use it for my Décima. However, this freedom in the Haiku Challenges over the years has produced some great poetry.
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines (stanza) of poetry that rhyme but in this case, there is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to.
In addition, each line must only have 8 syllables.
The rhyme pattern is;
a
b
b
a
a
c
c
d
d
c
For this particular challenge, the word NEXT must be one of the B position words. Then the other B position(s) word(s) must rhyme with NEXT.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
This week is the
B rhyme spot.
This week’s inspiration is to use
NEXT
as one of your “B” words, and meaning you use NEXT in one spot, and its rhyme in the other.
If you are having a bit of trouble with this prompt, just write whatever you are inspired to do as long as it is a Décima.
Tools you might need to write the poem are:
RhymeZone.com,
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com.
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 a link, Pingback, of this challenge in your post, to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate., but this is not a must to join in.
If you choose to put the link in your post, this is a Ping Back. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback, if you have never done one before. Basically, any time you click on a link in an article or post, that’s a Ping Back.
Please share this post on your Social Media, such as Twitter or FB. As with the pingback, this is not a requirement. Reblogging is great as well.
Some people also like to copy the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
‘The Future’ a Haibun
I am looking to the future and am staying positive we will be a better place. There are many outcomes, but with a continued and determined effort the goal is in reach and the winning score is taken. Continued effort. Continued education of the masses, and not only for the Whites. Continued inspection of all contributions to racism and the influences ever how nuanced they are. I stay not hopeful, but positive that it will happen.
the future is bright
after the dark times have past
we all overcome
This is related Haibun to the NEXT Décima Poem Challenge that will Be out tomorrow.
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
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