to storm the chaste
we slowly prepare the plots,
for thirsty readers
hearts yearn for their passion tales
then break in hushed loneliness
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/.
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gulf storms and sea swells
waves ravage innocent sands
calm beauty returns
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/.
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Thanks to all for making this a good week for the challenge. Great poetry. Go check out the ones you haven’t already.
Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: https://arthurrichardson.org/2020/09/25/the-stream/
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/23/ronovan-writes-decima-challenge-prompt-24/
Charmed Chaos: Shades of Blue Charmed Chaos
EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: The Mantle – eastelmhurst.a.go.go
Directions of A Truly Concerned Literate Citizen
The storm skirts in from the far west,
the east to some, to some the same,
but no matter the gale, the name,
I huddle, wait for nature’s test.
In most things, I am a person blessed,
pleasure found in my cozy nook,
the odd glance, a slight probing look
at the gloomier side of life,
hardship, war, hunger, so much strife,
glad for the bliss of a good book.
Frank Hubeny: Look – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Six Months (Weekly Decima Challenge #24 – Look) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Like Mercury Colliding: dark days | like mercury colliding…
Meanings and Musings: Truth will emerge – MEANINGS AND MUSINGS
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/look-a-decima/
MMA Storytime: The Journey
Mystical Strings: Looking for Love #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Quest – PrairieChat
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 24 (LOOK) This week, it’s the C rhyme line. | willowdot21
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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 collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets.
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.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Calm, Storm
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
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
Thank you to all those who participated this week. The more the that write the more I know I offer the right prompt words for the week. It isn’t always easy to come up with original ones I haven’t used before, at least not after 300 of these. I have been forced to use a few twice. As long as y’all write and enjoy, I’ll keep doing them.
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-prompt-324/
Breathing Shallow Poetry: Take a Slow Bell | Breathing Shallow Poetry
Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog – Isis Tratum: https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/all-rage-now-vanquished/ 10 Haiku
Help from Heaven: Don’t Make Angry Decisions – Help from Heaven
The Hidden Edge: Ouch – (Weekly Haiku Prompt) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Fury & Slow ~ 9/21/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
Like Mercury Colliding: dark days | like mercury colliding…
Lillie-Put: SLOW BURN | Lillie-Put
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/outside-the-inside/ 3 Haiku
Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 FURY&SLOW – Mukhamani
Mystical Strings: Awakening #Haiku #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (9/21/20) – PrairieChat
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Fury and Slow | queennandini
Quilted Poetry: Family | Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 – Quilted Poetry
Ronovan Writes:
Bonfire – a poem | ronovanwrites
tempered – a poem. | ronovanwrites
Throned – a poem | ronovanwrites A Shi Rensa
Scraps From Life: https://scraps-from-life.blogspot.com/2020/09/oped.html
scribblans: Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes: Fury and Slow – Scribblans
Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-324/
Straight From My Heart: Nature’s Fury – Straight From My Heart
The Bag Lady: Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – The Bag Lady
Tina Stewart Brakebill: the equinox – Tina Stewart Brakebill
Thoughts and Entanglements: Slow Burn | thoughts and entanglements
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 FURY&SLOW. | willowdot21
Word Florilegium:How Now, Ronovan… – Word Florilegium
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fall’s fragile fragrance
a reward to devour
and temper madness
A haiku for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-324-furyslow/.
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queen’s reign abated
her anguished swarm’s fury hunts
in the bonfire’s flame
*
in the bonfire’s flame
frenzied life is fed and born
a limited drones’ race
*
a limited drones’ race
an heir appears slaying foes
by force of nature
*
by force of nature
with dead foes’ her steps to climb
the new queen is crowned
This is a Shi Rensa poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-324-furyslow/. To learn more about the Shi Rensa and How To Write One, click HERE.
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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 prompt words (FURY & SLOW this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.
Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.
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 with a choice of a break between line 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.
Example, if I say in the subject line of the post:
“…(FALL) This week it’s the B rhyme line.”
my Décima might be…
NO!
As the end wept upon the land,
we could hear the approaching fall.
Justice answered the trumpet’s call,
trusting the fight to her troop’s hand.
Fate trembles with haste to expand,
through misdeeds by her shameless foe.
Past foolish decisions now crow,
“Wait—no—this was not meant to be.”
They beg the nation, “Hear our plea.
Heal honor, shout, no…no… NO!”
Notice the example prompt word ‘FALL’ is in line 2, the first B line, and its rhyme in is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.
For today’s challenge, the word LOOK must be one of the C line words. Then the other C line(s) word(s) must rhyme with LOOK.
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.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
queen’s reign abated
her anguished swarm’s fury hunts
in the bonfire’s flame
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-324-furyslow/.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: The Nature Of Evil – eastelmhurst.a.go.go
Wither the Weather
Nature seems in a foul mood,
Fires, hurricanes, floods, and all,
the smoky skies: we enter Fall
anxious …but what should we conclude?
Fatalists state that we are screwed,
the end is near or fairly close.
Optimists won’t say adios
just yet, suggesting we amend
our harmful ways, forestall the end
with green tech plans quite grandiose.
Frank Hubeny: Fall – Décima – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Fall – (Weekly decima challenge #23) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
The Indie She: https://indishe.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-23-fall-this-week-its-the-b-rhyme-line/
Like Mercury Colliding: alternative mentality | like mercury colliding…
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/soul-food-a-decima/
My Fresh Pages: Life’s Pearls Décima – My Fresh Pages
Mystical Strings: Autumn Dream #Poem | Mystical Strings
Ronovan Writes: NO!
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 23 (FALL) This week, it’s the B rhyme line. | willowdot21
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As the end wept upon the land,
we could hear the approaching fall.
Justice answered the trumpet’s call,
trusting the fight to her troop’s hand.
Fate trembles with haste to expand,
through misdeeds by her shameless foe.
Past foolish decisions now crow,
“Wait—no—this was not meant to be.”
They beg the nation, “Hear our plea.
Heal honor, shout, no…no… NO!”
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 23 FALL. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
© 2020- Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
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 collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets.
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.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Fury, Slow
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
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
I know this is supposed to be a challenge, but I seriously gave myself a headache with these words when it came to writing my own offerings. I finally got the creative juices rolling at 2 AM when I was dozing off to sleep and one line came to me. Thankfully, I remembered it the next morning.
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/14/ronovan-writes-haiku-challenge-323/
Breathing Shallow Poetry: No Wings to Clip | Breathing Shallow Poetry
CRazY NeRds: Time Video – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs
Fire Virus x 2
Smoke wings feather lungs,
breath less, less breathing, life clipped
of air, of time, of…
The weight of wings, the
choke of air, the flight warped, the
snip of smoke, clip-crushed.
Our Times
Smoke wings feather lungs,
Breath less, less breathing, life clipped
Of air, of time, of…
Of air, of time, of
Coronavirus sirens,
Screaming out our days
Screaming out our days,
The blind wander the wasteland,
Led by a fool,
Led by a fool,
Drowning in gold-leafed teardrops:
our salty regret.
Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog – Isis Tratum: https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/multiverse-exhales/ 3 Haiku
Help from Heaven: Let Children’s Imaginations Be Free – Help from Heaven
The Hidden Edge: Swoosh! (Weekly Haiku Challenge #323) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Clip & Wings ~ 9/14/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Clip & Wings – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀
MMA Storytime: A Needed Change
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/shinryoo-a-haiku/
Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 323 Clip&Wings – Mukhamani
Mystical Strings: “Clipping Changes” Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Challenge #Poem | Mystical Strings A Shi Rensa
Prairie Chat: Penalty Flag – PrairieChat
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Clip and Wings | queennandini 4 Haiku
Quilted Poetry: Opening Night | #RonovanWrites #Haiku #Challenge 323 – Quilted Poetry
Ronovan Writes:
To Fly – a poem | ronovanwrites
The mind – a poem | ronovanwrites
Carving a Masterpiece- a poem | ronovanwrites A Shi Rensa
Scraps From Life: https://scraps-from-life.blogspot.com/2020/09/flying-with-faith.html?m=1 2 Haiku or half a Shi Rensa (I’ll take it.)
scribblans: Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes: Clip and Wings – Scribblans 2 Haiku
Straight From My Heart: Our Cities – Straight From My Heart
teleportingweena: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Clip/Wings | teleportingweena
To Wear A Rainbow: nature | To Wear A Rainbow
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 323 Clip&Wings | willowdot21
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My favorite Instacat. Love the breed with its small ears. And those gold eyes. Follow him on Instagram and his big brother mrbentley_thedog, a somewhat famous dog to the stars. Not really but the celebrities that fill in Vancouver seem to like him.
clip these broken wings to find a new way of flight put your mind to work
put your mind to work bringing art from cobwebbed wings we carve through despair
we carve through despair to discover a masterpiece fly beyond limits
fly beyond limits to create your own meanings form fierce confidence
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.
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/14/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-323-clipwings/.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
clip these broken wings
to find a new way of flight
put your mind to work
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/14/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-323-clipwings/.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
This week’s prompt works perfectly with the Haiku Challenge prompt of (CLIP & WINGS), so you could do a haiku with those words for one post and continue your poetry message/story with the Décima prompt of FALL.
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 (CLIP & WINGS this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.
Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.
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 FALL must be one of the B line words. Then the other B line(s) word(s) must rhyme with FALL.
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.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
fly high on loosed wings
away from the nation’s noise,
clip traditions’ hold
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/14/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-323-clipwings/.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: Satan’s Ball, Or Kneel For the Right Reason – eastelmhurst.a.go.go
The Poet When Asked
When asked when he most likely penned
the poem that ensnared the sun,
not unlike a Babe Ruth home run,
he said, that ode’s my sweetest friend.
It’s my heart, my mind, a rich blend
of verse, of dreams, that still of night
when the eye sees beyond the light,
that place outside this earthly plane,
past love, past death, past grief and pain,
a journey where the muse takes flight,
heaven bound to an untold height.
Frank Hubeny: Blend – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Let’s Dance – (Decima Poetry Challenge #22) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Like Mercury Colliding: I Don’t Get It – A Décima | like mercury colliding…
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/in-the-end-a-decima/
MMA Storytime: A Blending of the Arts
Mystical Strings: A Simple Gift #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Bell Ringer – PrairieChat
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 22 (BLEND) This week, it’s the A rhyme line. | willowdot21
© 2020- Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
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 collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets.
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.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Clip, Wings
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
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
ronovanwrites 