The open roads are great, until they’re no longer open. Barriers, walls, fences block paths to where and who we want to be. But gates? They can keep you out but it’s really just a big hole in the wall of the fortress that is peace, creativity, and love.
Useful Links for Synonyms at Thesaurus.com:
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com.
How to Write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
The Guidelines:
- Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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.
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- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
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[…] This senryū is my response to Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge #465: gate & road. […]
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The Highway Across The Sound
The island highway
heads south, north, side roads snaking
past a million gates.
http://www.engleson.ca
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The Highway Across the Sound-The Shi Rensa
The island highway
heads south, north, side roads snaking
past a million gates.
Past a million gates
fences, short paths, long driveways,
secret lives, shrouded.
Secret lives, shrouded
in their private mysteries,
rich, poor, uncharted.
Rich, poor, uncharted,
the man who drives forever
sees nothing of them.
http://www.engleson.ca
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This has always intrigued me, thousands of gates behind which lives are led and of which we neither know nor understand? 💜
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A few days ago we took a drive along a long country road and my mind wandered into this very thought…and thanks to Ronovan, I was able to string a few words together to speak to the mystery of those lives lived beyond the gates that I saw, that we often all see…if we get out in the country though I suppose the same could be said for lives lived in the city behind so many doors….
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I often look out of the car or bus or train looking at endless streets and roads I will never walk down, yet life goes on behind those walls and doors and each life is individually progressing…. It’s mind boggling 💜💜
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Nicely done story. 🙂
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[…] Written for Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 456 GATE and Road. […]
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[…] part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge. […]
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For Ronovan writes weekly prompt, https://bobfairfield.wordpress.com/?p=8624
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This is a great prompt Ron and so far we have all seen it differently.
I can’t seem to find Bobby Fairfield’s poem though 😆💜
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I went to his blog and don’t see it there either. I’m thinking it didn’t publish. That ?p=8624 extension is often a sign it’s a preview link.
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Thank you Ron I assumed that might be it . Thank you for checking 💜
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[…] Writes, Haiku Challenge #456 – gate and […]
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[…] https://ronovanwrites.com/2023/04/03/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-456-gate-an… […]
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[…] Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 456 GATE and Road. […]
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[…] Writes, Haiku Challenge #457 – pause and […]
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[…] including 2 with audio. I responded to various other prompts, including those from Ronovan Writes (Weekly Haiku & Weekly Sijo Challenges), The Sunday Whirl, Misky’s The Twiglet (here, here, here, & […]
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