Everyone, this is what I mean by following for inspiration and following for learning. I just learned so much in this one article from a real person that my entire view of Pakistan has been changed or at least been altered to think more of the people there than the negativity we always see. Read this!
Author: Ronovan
A Father Leads You Through This World…not just brings you into it.
A Father Leads You Through This World…not just brings you into it.
by: Ronovan
I met my father in the second grade. No, it wasn’t that he had been away for so many years or anything like that. My father is what you would call a step-father. Too me, he’s the real thing.
The person that brings you into this world isn’t always a parent. It’s the person that raises you and helps you become what you are that is your parent. That could even be a grandparent really. For some that is who raises them. My grandmother, who I wrote about in Maw Maw’s Lovin’ raised two of my cousins.
But my father showed up in the second grade. He never tried to push any of his own thoughts onto me. In fact years later when I became heavily involved in church he said he didn’t know how it ended up happening because I didn’t get it from him. It’s not that he wasn’t a Christian it’s just that we didn’t go to church. My mother wasn’t a Christian so my father didn’t want to force anything on anyone. I never stepped foot inside a church until my 20s and that was on my own. He had been a Deacon and Sunday School Director and all of that. Oddly I ended up doing the same.
People have seen him, my step-brother and me together and say how much my father and I look alike and that my step-brother, his actual son, doesn’t favor him at all. I think it’s the mannerisms mostly that show a resemblance. Well that and we both can cook anything. I get my adventurous foodie from him.
I’m proof that it’s not just your DNA that makes you what you are, but your environment as well.
One of the stories I like best that he tells is about his time in the military. He doesn’t talk about it much though. But he and some men were flying into someplace. It was a smaller plane and the front landing gear wouldn’t lower. The pilot made them all move to the very back of the plane so as they landed the weight would keep the plane on the back wheels and slowly lower the front of the plane down as they slowed.
Another thing about him, and this isn’t really a flattering story but it does show something about him, is that every time he was promoted in the military, he would go out and ‘celebrate’ and be busted back down the next day. He didn’t want positions and promotions. That’s not why he was in the military.
He’s in his 80s now, but you would swear it’s his 60s. I know someday it’ll be a last Father’s Day. He’s been through some heart problems and now has diabetes, but he’s actually one of the healthiest people I know. He stays active and is in church.
Years ago he came close to dying…again…because of some medications he was given in a hospital. I called my pastor after having visited him because he had wondered why no preachers had been by his room. Back in the days a preacher would have come around to visit, but there are rules and laws now.
It was a Wednesday and my church has services on Wednesday nights and youth activities. Well, I called my pastor and told him what was going on and asked if maybe he could visit him the next morning because he was going into surgery and was asking about a preacher.
I came back the next day and my pastor had dropped everything on Wednesday, driven an hour away, sat with my father and talked, and then made it back for church. As soon as my father was able to drive again he was back in church for the first time in over 30 years. Sometimes people think that God does bad things for good reasons. But that’s not it. God takes bad things and turns them around to make good things happen.
On this Father’s Day I just wanted to say that it’s not who brought you into this world, it’s who helped lead you through it. If you only have a mother, wish her a Happy Father’s Day today…from me as well as from you.
Much Respect and Much Love
Ronovan
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 15, 2014.
Free The Nipple? Hmm…
Free The Nipple? Hmm…
by: Ronovan
There is a movement to free the nipple everywhere in the US? Dude, aight!
You would think that men would be jumping through hoops for this one. It’s already okay in New York, I mean anyone can walk around topless…legally. So what’s the big deal? Why is there so much flack about it? I mean really, everyone’s got them. Well maybe some people don’t. There is probably some DNA thing that happens or something. Okay not getting sidetracked into a book idea here.
I have to admit when I first heard of this idea I really had no idea what I thought about it. Miley Cyrus was the first one I think may have made a big deal about it that crossed the radar for me. But in all honesty I think she just does things to be in the public eye.
She’s very talented but is just trying to break that Hannah Montana thing a bit too hard. I saw some award show of her and Robin Thicke and the girl needs a few cheeseburgers and an idea of little kids are watching her perform. I know maybe that’s the parent’s fault but when it’s a televised award show then kids are going to be watching.
Now back to the program. Free the Nipple.
Here go my opinions on what people’s opinions are:
1) Some women don’t want it because it would make them feel uncomfortable
2) Some men don’t want it because they would feel like pervs
3) Some women want it because they really do want equality
4) Some men want it for the same reason
5) Some men want it because…well they’re men
6) Some men and women don’t want it because it’s just not what is the normal they’ve grown up with
Scout Willis recently walked around New York City topless, legally, to show how Instagram is basically full of it and full of censorship over something legal that’s actually legal to do. Okay so there is the issue of crossing various state and national lines, I get that when you are dealing with the internet. Scout’s reasons were legit, I have to give her credit for that and for just going for it.
Now here is my take on the whole thing:
We were meant to be naked when we were created and then we went and screwed that up. When I get to Heaven I’m going to have a sit down with Adam about that whole Eve and the fruit thing…seriously.
The reason women can’t walk around topless is because men ARE pervs. Okay so it’s also been a tradition for thousands of years to be clothed. I get that, but men ARE pervs about these things. No, no I know not all men are but a vast majority are…deep down in there…hearts.
A woman of reasonable attractiveness walks by topless and a man is going to wreck a car or slip on his drool. He’s basically going to be an idiot. Would I be like that? I want to say no. But no one knows what they would do about something until faced with it…for the most part.
Would I look? Of course there would be that first notice of…”Whoa that is so not really real, right?” going on. Then I would probably stare at the ground or stop and look in another direction. Why? Because I don’t want to be one of those guys.
Of course some men would be like “Well if she didn’t want us to look then she should cover ‘em up.” Umm…that’s like saying women shouldn’t notice you have a toupee askew just because you chose to be vain. Yes, more crude things came to mind, but I’m just not THAT man to say those things.
Now here is something I am wondering about; would topless women desensitize men to the sexual aspect of that part of the woman? After a certain amount of time society would grow accustomed to topless women and it wouldn’t be a thing. In a way it might be good in that it makes boys grow up not thinking of women’s breasts as sexual objects.
Maybe this is sort of like the bathing suits of old. They went from those full one piece head to toe things for both men and women basically down to more revealing and now dental floss and breath mints. People will thus argue what is the next thing, full nudity?
I pray not. I really don’t want to go into a restaurant and see all of everybody hanging out. And there would be the whole Niles Crane from Frasier thing going on with the wiping down everything we ever touched. Talk about some possible sanitary issues. Big EWWW.
Sorry ladies, but I like a bit of mystery. I’m not for the FTN thing. Am I being sexist? I’m not sure, but I think there are some things that are meant for certain people only. I don’t think men should be allowed to go around shirtless either, but then that may be because I would never be able to do it.
I don’t think men should be allowed to use the ladies room anywhere. Am I being sexist or against alternative life styles or choices? Nope.
I don’t think Gorillas should be allowed to swim in the shark tanks at a zoo just because they want to. Am I being anti Gorilla? Nope.
I don’t think women should be allowed to go into a men’s locker rooms. Sexist? Nope.
Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned or just a bit more of a prude when it comes to some things. I understand when statements are being made. If a law is a law then okay. But until then…I’ll keep my shirt on if you’ll keep yours on. Trust me…you don’t want to see all this happenin’.
And I know that women who breast feed have to do it. So it’s not that issue I am speaking of.
In closing I want to mention a comedian named Ron White. He has a joke where he talks about seeing a woman naked. He basically says that once you’ve seen one naked you pretty much want to see all of them naked. I have to say…NOPE!
Much Respect and Much Paleness
RonovanWrites
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 14, 2014.
Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Luccia Gray…I cannot believe such a classy and amazingly talented lady would think I was inspiring, but she somehow ended up putting my name on her list. Wow. Definitely go to her site and look around…and learn. Thank you very much Luccia, Ma’am.
And here are the things to know:
1. Thank and link the amazing person(s) who nominated you.
2. List the rules and display the award.
3. Share seven facts about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 other amazing blogs and comment on their posts to let them know they have been nominated.
5. Optional: Proudly display the award logo on your blog and follow the blogger who nominated you.
Seven Facts About Myself:
1) I’m a Gemini. I had to include that because Luccia’s first fact was that she also was a Gemini. If you have ever read any of my offerings you can tell that I am definitely two minds about my writing. I’m polite, courteous and encouraging to others and then destructive to myself and my own writing at the same time.
2) I am a former History teacher who was mainly a World History specialist or so I was told. I took courses in Nazi and Facism as well as two courses on African History and a French Revolution class. Yes I know that Marie Antoinette’s brothers got Louis drunk and had him circumcised. And oddly I took a Bosnian and Serbian class?
3) I have a method of writing that I don’t employ often myself and I really should. I have tried it. I write a scene in detail as far as feel and everything about something I know and then change aspects of it to turn it into fantasy or science fiction or paranormal. I just change the names of things, and a few details, but leave language and how people speak and act toward each other. I’m writing an article on it now.
4) I am fascinated by other cultures. Especially very old cultures. Obviously this is the Historian in me.
5) I love beautiful colors. One of the things I enjoy is watching the birds outside my window at the bird feeders. There all kinds and colors. When that darkness starts creeping into my writing those birds can take it away at times.
6) I am a recent cat lover, or I should say certain cats lover. I love Kitty and Spunky especially. If you snoop around my site you will see them there. Spunky has two siblings but they will be going to other homes eventually so I am trying not to get attached. Although Fluffy, the dark one, is difficult not to want to hold.
7) I had a fall in my home within the past year. I ended up with amnesia, long and short term. I don’t remember 99% of my past but through things I have typed over the past 20 years on my computer I have a lot of notes to read through. I am light and sound sensitive and cannot watch TV, listen to music, or read books. I just write all the time.
Here are my nominees for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.
I would like to say this. I know there are plenty of other people that should receive this as well and I would put them here, cheating like Luccia did, but if you read number 7 above you know there is a problem sometimes.
MareEastern Great photographs of more than just scenery. I often write a poem inspired by the photograph of the day. She also writes about her love of Scotland and her cats.
Long And Luxe A very positive and always encouraging person. Always has something upbeat to say. She’s groovy. J
Be Led By Reason New to our WordPress community but with a lot of deep feelings to share and some great photography and history of Hawaii as well.
Sober Is The New Black Another new member of the community. This young man is doing something unique here in the WordPress family. He is chronicling his life and a battle. You need to go check it out to see what I’m talking about. Give him a LOT of support. Seriously.
Suzie81Speaks A lot of you know Suzie. She blogs like a mad hatter and has a very professional style. She’s someone you want to check out to see how things are done for the type of blog she does. You’ll enjoy it. Speaks about life and makes it relevant.
Inside The Life Of Moi If you haven’t already visited then the first thing you are going to do is smile. Her header photo is excellent and unique and it is a perfect reflection of her blog style. A slice of life blog in a relevant way. A very, very fun and enjoyable time to be had.
Freebird A very honest blog about very topics but some you get a peek into the life of India. I love the phrasing of the articles which adds authenticity to it all and the culture discovered is something you don’t get just anywhere.
Serins Sphere Very honest reader of your blogs. Writes about life and a lot more. Namibia. I would be shot if I didn’t mention that.
Forgotten Meadows One of the most prolific poets around. An encourager and also one that pulls other poets in to unite a community.
Chapter TK/ A very honest blog. A slice of life blog that expresses opinions but also wants the other side of the story. Wants feed back and wants to really know.
The Fickle Heartbeat Irasia at the site is great to read. Enjoyable and the layouts and photo choices make it an easy for me to look at. This is about relationships. So why do I follow? Writers need to know a lot of things. If you’ve read some of my things every now and then I mention following for inspiration. Sometimes you just need to hear what you know in a different way or hear something new entirely you can play off of.
The Showcase A slice of life from India. Yes, I love the blogs from India. I’ve found there are a more similarities than differences. The style is different than that of thafreebird site.
Lesie’s World The first thing I noticed about this site was the strength of the photo of the owner. I just knew that whatever came out of this person would be something I wanted to read and I was right. Learn a bit of Jamaica from the real thing, but also about everyday things. I just hope you’re ready to read the accent. It’s a blast.
Nubian Waters Enthusiasm. That’s what I get from this site. We all want to blog but this one just puts it out there in real language and heart. Whenever you get that moment of why am I here you can go to this site and remember.
A Blog To Regret Poetry in motion. Variety in style. I look at the picture of the owner and the style of the content matches perfectly. I enjoy it here because it lets me know that my changes in style are okay. I’m nowhere near this level but I know it’s alright to experiment at times.
It would be nice to follow through with the rules above. It allows for connections and recognition for some blogs we might not ordinarily see. That’s up to you individually.
Much Respect
Ronovan
My poetry Tears at Me
My poetry Tears at Me
by: Ronovan
I’m sorry my words don’t speak in romantic filled embraces.
My language is built from elementary understanding of feelings.
I attempt to translate my true thoughts into a message to convey.
Above all my words are meant for my own wounds’ self healings.
My page opens with clear intent for a jovial sharing.
By the second word typed the mindlessness takes control.
It’s not that things don’t make me laugh or I find comical.
But in my world the only thing full of ideas is the crazy bowl.
Left to my own creative and undirected devices I stray.
What comes out of my fingertips are words that I never would share.
I wonder sometimes what the powers that be would do with them.
But I push the letters in their neat little rows and print them as if I didn’t care.
Therapy of the mind and heart is what some people call poetry.
For me it’s the feeling of razor blades over delicate skin tearing at me.
I lay here exposed and bleeding as the words and thoughts force their way free.
But whatever people may say of this they know I must be what I am to be.
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 14, 2014.
Without Sight
Without sight the world is beautiful
The colors are vivid and splendid
There are no scars or separations
Sounds dictate truths, not words or faces
Without sight the world is of equality
All are equal in shape and form
Talent is through more than aesthetic ability
Depth is worthy of the awards and accolades
Without sight the world is eternal
There is no horizon or stars
Words and inflections give tangibility
Limits are limited only by the imagination
Without sight the world is immediate
There is no looking back or ahead
One step in front of the other
One word spoken after another
Without sight the world is beautiful
(after a major accident I had to live with dark sunglasses from wake up to sleep and even then most of my hours were with my eyes closed, the world was beautiful but lonely)
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 02, 2014.
Without Sound-A Poem
Without Sound by: Ronovan
Without sound there are no shouts
The angry face is a twisted stain
Left impressed upon a catalogued mind
Filled with slavering jabbering paintings
Without sound there are no voices
Smiling lady with purple dress
Man with cheap cologne
Little girl with bashful eyes
Without sound there are no divides
Intelligence in action
Kindness in being
Nationality in humanity
Without sound there is music
Hearts beating against one another
Vibrations of a touch echoing
Pounding of blood with the rush of love
Without sound actions speak louder than words
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 02, 2014.
Questions
Questions
by: Ronovan
“So you’re a loner, huh?”
“I’m sitting in a dark room…by myself…and you ask me that?”
“This could just be a momentary thing, right?”
“Seriously?”
“Dude, what is your problem?”
“You’re the one intruding on my time and you are asking me what my problem is?”
“Yeah, what of it?”
“Are you mental or something?”
“If I were the one sitting alone in the dark all the time staring at a computer screen and making up stories that no one will read then you could say I was mental, okay?”
“You’re making fun of me now aren’t you?”
“Dude, don’t you realize you make fun of yourself every time you exist?”
“Why do you have a problem with me?”
“Don’t you think you should ask yourself that question?
“What are you talking about?
“Dude, how many people are in this room?”
“What?”
“Don’t you realize I am you?”
“And who else understands me enough to talk to?”
“Does anyone understand anybody enough really?”
“Am I going insane?”
“Are you already there?”
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 14, 2014.
Friday Night Video Flash Back-Suzanne Vega-Luka
For a Friday Night Videos Flash Back I present to you Suzanne Vega-Luka from 1987.
Writing Tips: Getting the First 50 Pages Right
Getting the First 50 Pages Right
by: Ronovan
“Include the first 50 pages of your manuscript with your query.”
Does that sound familiar? If you’ve queried your book to an agent or publisher then your answer should be yes. It might be even worse than 50 pages. How about that cringing first 10 pages only one?
You don’t have long to hook an agent or publisher and to be absolutely truthful this is if you get past the query letter. Sometimes if your letter doesn’t speak to them they won’t even bother. But I’ve read of several agents who read regardless because it’s not the letter that they are going to sell to a publisher or the public.
What do you need in those first pages to make the person you have queried say send me more?
You need three things, regardless of genre:
- I want to know what is the important goal in this book that makes me want to read it
- I want to know what will happen if the protagonist doesn’t succeed, what’s on the line
- I need to know there a time limit to the situation
Goal
In a novel the goal might be an internal issue but is usually something outside beyond the control of the protagonist.
One of my novels has a goal of saving someone from being murdered. He knows when it will happen, and he knows a handful of people that it could happen to. So what’s the problem, getting people to believe him. The difficult part of it is, since he knows all of the victims so far things are a bit tough on him to get people to listen.
What if?
Now you have the what if the protagonist doesn’t succeed aspect. For my novel it means someone will die. In this case it will be someone he knows. Here we have two what if’s; 1) someone dies, 2) the protagonist will be one step closer to jail because he knew the person and even told people the person might be murdered.
Time’s Up
If there is no sense of urgency then a reader may get bored. In the case of my novel, if a murder could just happen any time then a reader wouldn’t be looking for it. Each murder happens at a full moon or a new moon. This gives the reader and the protagonist time to sweat it out trying to find the killer before that reminder in the sky goes off.
Can you fit all of that in 50 pages, or even 10? Yes you can. You have to do the tough things though.
- Cut the scenes that don’t advance the story
- Don’t spend a lot of time on a character that won’t be relevant to the story
- Don’t give a lot of character analysis or overly describe a setting, let the story and dialogue SHOW the reader who the people are
These are tried and true tips. But they are also more difficult than you think. If it were easy everyone would get signed. Great stories, great novels are sitting in stacks of paper in desk drawers all over the world. This isn’t a new concept. People like to say that the modern age of ease of instant gratification has changed how readers pick books to read, but the truth is that if a person is looking at a book to read they are knowingly planning on investing time to it.
Goal-What If-Time’s Up
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 12, 2014.
Blogging Tips: Why Isn’t Anyone Reading My Articles?
Why Isn’t Anyone Reading My Articles?
by: Ronovan
“I must stink as a writer! NO one is reading what I wrote.”
Admit it, you’ve felt that way. You may have even actually used stronger language. Go ahead and think about it while I close my eyes and ears…their sensitive you know.
You have a following for your site and you usually receive a decent amount of traffic and people who like what you write. Then BOOM! Nothing happens for one of your articles. What happened?
- They didn’t feel your article title
- The article blurb they saw in the preview didn’t grab them
- The image associated with the article turned them off
- The subject wasn’t what they were looking for
- You posted at the wrong time
- Your writing/content layout needed work
Step 1-Bait ‘Em (Grab their Attention)
Just like with a novel at a store or online that first impression is what counts. You need a grabber title along with an appropriate image that is inviting to the reader that matches the title and subject matter if you use an image at all. My advice is to use an image if possible.
Step 2-Hook ‘Em (Make them Click More)
You have their attention to read your first few sentences in the preview. Make those first lines count. I have my ways of doing it, and keep working on improving them all the time. Remember it changes depending on the type of article you are writing as well. But you have less time to set that hook and make them click more than someone with a novel in a bookstore does.
Step 3-Be Aware/Relevant
I wrote an article called ‘10 Forgotten Male Solo Artists of the 1980s’. Barely any views or likes came of it. I knew I was pushing it with it. I knew it wouldn’t go over well. Why did I know it? Because my readership is interested in writing both how to and reading things I come up with in this crazy mind of mine. I spent a lot of time on the article but I did so because it was fun for me and was just one of the pieces I was putting out for the day. Yes, you can put out material just for fun. Was it informative? Yes, there were bits of trivia, and the video for each year.
Just know that when you put something out there that is out of your normal content that you may not receive much success, but don’t be afraid to try it. They’ll come back as long as you don’t keep putting out what your site has been traditionally about.
Step 4-Check Your Content
You wrote a relevant piece keeping in line with your site’s theme and still nothing happens. Compare your article with others. Was it useful information? Was it overly long? Were the paragraphs bulky/too long? Did you have too many images?
Have a friend read it and give you feed back. Just don’t give up on the article. I’ve had articles where I’ve tried to be too funny in the beginning and that turned people off. I had one very nice article that increased in views once I took out all of these unnecessary images. I had put a lot of time into it but I realized that’s not what my readers wanted to see.
I’ve reworded paragraphs to make them flow better and cut other paragraphs into two separate paragraphs or even made bullet points out of the content.
Step 5-Know When to Publish
This should be the Step 1 but it is a little bit of an odd one. Some people just look at the times of day to publish. You’ll see different opinions. I like to publish when people have just settled in at work and have checked messages and have a few minutes of free read time.
Other things to keep in mind:
- Holidays
- Summer weather
- Sporting Events
- Popular TV shows
I know that on certain holidays, like this past Mother’s Day in the US that my traffic would drop. I didn’t freak out. I know that Father’s Day is coming up in the US so again, traffic will drop for that Sunday. Know your viewers, where they are from, and you will help your understanding of why things happen. There might be some religious reasons traffic drops off and not just on Christmas Day. I know I have readers who come from every walk of life.
These have been some tips to help you with your content but mainly to help you understand and not freak out when your traffic drops off every now and then. It’s going to happen sometimes. But if you maintain the trust of your readers you can trust them to come back and more to follow.
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 12, 2014.
Feline Friday: The Missing Kitten.
My pal Spunky is missing. He has been for a few days now. I’ve grown dependent on caring for him and having that affection. He makes life better. Kitty is still here sometimes, but Spunky was here always and all I had to do was call his name and he came running. So if I’ve not read your articles or been quite courteous in my comments I apologize and just know I’ll get better sooner or later. I just hope maybe the lessons Kitty taught him in Kat-fu will come in handy.
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 13, 2014.
My Follows For Inspiration Friday
My Follows For Inspiration Friday
by: Ronovan
http://maxreynolds.wordpress.com/ Great photography site. Has different shots you don’t always think of. Good for a writer wanting to get an idea of how things look.
http://kiwibeeblogger.wordpress.com/ Mixture of writing and nice photography. The Photography is of South Korea and things you don’t normally get to see. I really enjoy this one a lot. Can’t wait for more photos.
http://thafreebird.wordpress.com/ Aarya and Veda combine to bring two styles to one great site. Some of you already follow them but they give an inside look into the culture in India that I greatly enjoy. I find that there are more similarities than differences in the various societies by reading their articles. Well worth the reading. They really share emotions and are very honest in their writing.
http://beledbyreason.wordpress.com/ New to our WordPress family, this site brings beautiful photography of Hawaii with poetry to match. The lady behind it also opens up with feelings about various topics and gives us some history of the islands through her photos and her words. Always a nice visit.
http://serinssphere.wordpress.com/ I like this site a lot because I am always surprised at what I’ll see next but I always know it’ll be good. A great supporter and commenter for my blogs, with honest feedback which is always a plus in my book.
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 13, 2014.
Maw Maw’s Lovin’
Maw Maw’s Lovin’
by: Ronovan
“Down home Southern cooking can’t be beat.
It makes us well rounded from our head to our feet.”
That may not be an actual saying down here in the South. By the South I mean the losing side of the Civil War in the US. Although I consider that loss to be winning in the grand scheme of things, don’t you? But that saying fits because of grandmothers in kitchens across these Southern states.
For me a celebration was any meal my MawMaw cooked. MawMaw would be Southern for Grandmother for those trying to speak the language, Southern that is. I’m looking at my New York and Ohio friends out there.
As a kid you sat either at a card table or at the coffee table. Be slow and it was the coffee table in front of the TV. Quicker and you were closer to seconds of the good stuff. You picked your preference. I didn’t watch TV.
Superstitious of a Day
Superstitious of a Day
by: Ronovan
(I had pars of Superstition by Stevie Wonder going through my brain while writing this, if you want the beat.)
Your superstitious mind
Keeps trippin’ up your brain
Keep on believin’
It’ll slowly drive you insane
Things do happen
They happen all the time
Don’t you keep worrying
Or you’re going to lose your mind
You’re very contradictions
So intellectually inclined
But come a day with a number
Your reason I cannot find
You’re so superstitious
Keep trippin’ in your brain
Baby keep believin’
And you’ll end up insane
© Copyright-All rights reserved-RonovanWrites.wordpress.com-June 13, 2014.
The Howl of the Consonant Vowels-The Block of Writers
The Howl of the Consonant Vowels-The Block of Writers
By: Ronovan
It is said
If one continues to write each day
That eventually
One will have something to say
Here I am
To put death to that expression
Within these joined letters
You will hear my confession
The timelessness of a consonant vowel
Brings to mind the freakish nighttime mindless howl
Thinking of letters rhymes and reasons
Makes me shiver and sweat regardless of seasons
Look at a page of white blank expanses
They laughingly glare at you in pixelated glances
Write on the thoughts demand of the fingers
Digits deliver a message with meaning of one that lingers
The block it tackles the image to the ground
Blasting voiced anguish of creation in sound
Stomping bipedal movements don’t relieve
Movements of joints doesn’t bring one to conceive
Atmospheric changes dim to a glaring
No doubt these differences is meant for sharing
You pick up a nib to the flat pulp of the earth
Not a single scribbled jot denies you that’s of worth
Give up and don’t waste or delay
There really isn’t all that much you can say
Once the images have flittered away
Just kick back with a pint of ice cream and call it a day
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Tears Do Fall You Know
Tears Do Fall You Know
by: Ronovan
I can’t believe this, he thought. A father, I’m going to have a little princess. I’ll call her My Baby Girl and she’ll be my Angel. I hope no one notices the tears. I’m too big to cry, but I don’t care. Every man wants this. Every man needs to have that little bitty thing to hold in his hands and heart. And she will never date or get married. She’ll always be My Baby Girl. He stared ahead still stunned by it all, shell shocked in the glory of the news.
The woman squeezed his hand a little tighter. Her mind raced with what to do. I know he wanted a boy, all men do. They want to carry on the family name and do ball games and all of that. I just hope he’ll be happy and love her just as much anyway. She can play softball and tennis and things like that, but I’m not going to force her to. He’ll have to accept her as she is. He’ll just have to get over it. Her grip tightened slightly in anger. She felt his hand give, as if not even there. Caught up in his self pity, she thought.
Another death in the family I imagine or he lost his job, the woman thought as her needles worked without thought. So many men cry in this park. Perhaps there is a misery attached to it. I could get Maggie to do an exorcism and cleanse the place. But then that might get rid of John too. Me and my John need our time together. She looked at the seat beside her, not seeing the green slates but the image of an elderly man with a bag of breadcrumbs for the pigeons. Her needles flew and the couple walked on. Poor dear, she thought.
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Could of been Cut! one choice-my life
Could of been Cut! one choice-my Life
by: Ronovan
Testify to a travesty that happened from birth
You don’t even know it but you were given worth
All these hooplahs laying down their monkey laws
Let me tell you test tube lovers I ain’t got a tail in my draws
You say kill ‘em and let ‘em just die on the floor
But I say that life is worth the living and the dying for
Am I making a statement of opinion and of my facts
You betcha bottom dollar and I’m not holding any back
The big guy came down and he walked up that hill
He let them lay him down and drive spikes to kill
You think he did that so we could throw it all away
No, uh uh, not to my way of thinking no way
I was unintentional at 17 and a decision was made
Fruit picking in the groves near the everglades
I should of could of and would of been cut
But something spoke out and said no, that’s enough
Wait a minute, you ain’t got a right to say nothin’
Your body ain’t the one made for this discussion
I know what I know and I say what I love
And what I do know is…God gave life from above.
Respect for you and Your Choices
As I wish for you to have for Me and Mine
Much Love
Ronovan
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Nonsense and Such: Music Scales and Lakes Sub Par-Nonsensical Poetry?
Nonsense and Such: Music Scales and Lakes Sub Par-Nonsensical Poetry?
by: Ronovan
You try to lick depression
But you depress the tongue
While the rise of a music scale is a step
To scale a ladder you climb a rung
You can be stabbed in the back
And take a shot in the arm
Both can occur
Without any harm
If you break your back
You go to a chiropractor for the aching
But then why do they say
Such a one’s work is back breaking
Why is there something
Called A Bridge Too Far
Was the river too short
Was the lake sub par
The thunder roars but has no voice
The mime doesn’t speak but that’s by choice
Perhaps it’s just by my own delusion
But all of these things seem to add to my confusion
You may wonder why my mind wanders so
Well perhaps you don’t really even want to know
But since the question is already out there
It’s because my mind was left…on the hallway stair
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10 Forgotten Male Solo Artists of the 1980s
10 Forgotten Male Solo Artists of the 1980s
by: Ronovan
Some of you are looking at this and thinking “He really has lost his mind” because this is not my normal type of article. Sometimes you need to just do something completely different to get the mind fresh and have fun doing it at the same time. What better way to do that than to go tripping through ’80s music?
• 1 Artist Per Year of the 1980s that you may have forgotten about
• Must have ended the year in the Top 100 on the Billboard Charts
• You must enjoy grooving to the videos included
First up, he’s written and produced songs for Barbra Streisand. She hand picked some of his songs for A Star is Born. Tony Award winner, Drama Desk Award winner and his second album, self titled, led Rolling Stone to compare him to Bob Dylan as being an artist of originality and someone to pay attention to.
You know him if you like…Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain.
1980 and the #11 Hit of the Year
Rupert Holmes-Escape
You heard him as a backup singer for Loretta Lynn, and his work included assisting record producer and composer Mike Post. Even after his hit he went on to record FlashBeagle for “It’s FlashBeagle, Charlie Brown”. But you know him as the voice of Believe it or Not, The Greatest American Hero.
1981 and the #11 Hit
Joey Scarbury-Theme from “The Greatest American Hero” Believe It Or Not
He was a 1960s backup singer who served four months in prison in 1995 for a DUI, and then eventually became a film producer with a Tom Sizemore film to his credit. But you’ll know him best if you are a Humphrey Bogart fan.
1982 and the #17 Hit
Bertie Higgins-Key Largo
At 17 he was a guitarist for Stevie Wonder. And let’s not forget working with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Chaka Khan. You’ve heard his soundtrack work in Cocoon and Independence Day but you’ll remember him best as a Maniac on the floor.
1983 and the #9 Hit
Michael Sembello-Maniac
Once a backup singer to Bette Midler, this eventual song writer and producer for No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom , Kelly Clarkson and even Christina Aguilera millions have heard him as the singing voice of Ling in Mulan, but you might know him better when when you Break his Stride.
1984 and the #27 Hit
Matthew Wilder-Break My Stride
This man worked on countless movie scores until taking a break to be a father. Foxes, American Gigolo, Top Gun, The Running Man, and Tango & Cash. But you know him for his part in making a Cop in Beverly Hills famous.
1985 and the #61 Hit
Harold Faltermeyer-Axel F
Perfect pitch? Volunteered for military service at 17? Jazz-Rock to Punk-Rock? Johann Hölzel was a man of many talents. But you might know him better by another name.
1986 and the #28 Hit
Falco-Rock Me Amadeus
He first wrote songs for the Pointer Sisters and Earth, Wind & Fire before ending up with a hit of his own. In recent times he has written songs for and produced for Babyface, Jessica Simpson and Destiny’s Child. But as for his own singing career? Well, that’s just the way it goes. C’est La Vie.
1987 and the #6 Hit
Robbie Nevil-C’est La Vie
Member of the Raspberries,70’s solo hit maker, then gone, until he got dirty and went dancing.
1988 and the #25 Hit
Eric Carmen-Hungry Eyes
Oh Danny, you went on to play Joseph and set box office records. You married Rosco P. Coltrane’s daughter and co-wrote films with Flicka. But we will always here you should, because you are always Young and Restless, Hey, Kids Rock and Roll.
1989 and the #45 Hit
Michael Damian-Rock On
Next time around it will be the 10 Ladies We’ve Forgotten About. Journey with me through the decades as I try to rediscover the music that made me.
Much Respect
Ronovan
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