Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 20 (SMILE) This week, it’s the C 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 (Day & Flaw 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 SMILE, click HERE for all the links in one post.

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 SMILE must be one of the C line words. Then the other C line(s) word(s) must rhyme with SMILE.

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.

Décima Challenge 19 Poets Collected

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge Decima Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Community, Poetry Links, Rhyming Poetry, Ronovan Writes Decima Challenge Poets, Try a new poetry style, Writing Prompt Results

10 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of RIDE and their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Charmed Chaos: Three Feathers Charmed Chaos

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: A Distinctive Local Personage – eastelmhurst.a.go.go

http://www.engleson.ca

The Lady (Person! Woman! Man! Camera! TV!) From The East

The sun darkened, the day was done,
Cold night arrived, an escaping bride,
approached by horse, a fearful ride
and rider routed by the sun.
“I am lost,” she said. “The last one
of my tribe. We dwelt in the east,
lived well, each day a blessed feast.
Then, the Orange Man bought my soul.
Alas, I could not pay that toll.”
I took her in. Her and her beast.

Frank Hubeny: Ride – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

The Hidden Edge: Ride It Out Ch#53 – (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/enchanted-a-decima/

MMA Storytime: Place Your Bets

My Fresh Pages: The Fall Décima – My Fresh Pages

revivedwriter: A Rocket-Ship Ride | revivedwriter

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 19 (RIDE) This week, it’s the B rhyme line. | willowdot21

A poetry challenge housekeeping post.

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge, Haiku Prompt Challenge Poetry Challenge Infromation, Poetry Community, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

Hello everyone. I just need to mention a few things to make the poetry challenges provide each of you with the best chances of receiving some extra visitors each week. There are a few things I wanted to tell you.

Make certain to either do a PINGBACK or place a COMMENT LINK to your poem in the Comments Section of the challenge you are doing. It makes it easier for other participants to visit you, and for me to gather the links for the collected poets’ posts.
The PINGBACK helps the challenge receive notice by your followers/friends/readers on your blog. This is one way our challenges have seen increases in poets the past several weeks. If you have been doing PINGBACKS for quite a while, see if something as simple as a text color change catches a visitor’s eye. I’m not asking for it to be intrusive. I’m also not asking that you do a PINGBACK AT ALL. Doing the challenge is the only thing that matters. I’m confident in saying there are people out there using the prompts we don’t know about, and that’s WONDERFUL. I never expected to do a challenge when I started a blog, nor have 50 participants per week back before I burned out on blogging, writing, and life itself.
Why do I do the challenges?
1. To give writers something to write about.
2. So each of those who take part has a community of friends if they want one. They can make one by visiting the other poets’ poems, comment at times, and interact on other posts. You don’t know how many long-lasting friendships on WordPress started through the haiku challenge.
3. So each of you gets extra visitors each week, and maybe some regulars who start checking out your other posts.
I don’t always comment on poem posts; it doesn’t mean I’m not reading them. I am or the poets collected posts wouldn’t exist. Sometimes I have the energy to comment and even write a haiku responding to your haiku. More often than not, I don’t. I’m working on the first book in a new series I’m writing and editing books multiple books for others, and it’s using up more energy than I could’ve imagined.
For those of you who do both PINGBACKS and COMMENT LINKS, you may notice the PINGBACK disappears. I remove one so people who visit the challenge and click the links to read the poems don’t visit the same page they just left. Sometimes I correct the links when links provided give error messages.

A SPECKLED CROWN – a poem

August 24, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Poetry Haiku Poetry, humanity's failings, Humor, Japanese poetry form, metaphor haiku poem, Poetry, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Haiku Prompt Challenge, societal poetry

As bird gifts to man

a crowning day of white specks

so Man gifts the Earth.

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 320 Day & Flaw

To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly Haiku Challenge, click HERE.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 320 Day&Flaw

August 24, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku, Short Story Form

I looked up FLAW in the thesaurus and liked the world FOIBLE. I clicked it and the definition had an example (an all-too-human foible.). I’ve always liked the word foible. I just like the way it sounds. That’s a big part of why I like poetry, the way you can use the sounds of words to help create or convey a step above what the words themselves alone mean.

It’s the painting pictures with words you’ve heard about so often.

It’s not just “The blue sky spreads her shawl over her twin, the ocean, protecting her from death by the Sun’s kiss.”

It’s “The vault of heaven lowers its cerulean veil with each day’s end, to reveal treasures beyond.”

It’s “The celestial sphere shimmers like sapphires with each passing moment.”

Why didn’t I use foible in these examples? That would be helping. Me? Help? Never… MUahahahahhaahaha. (That’s my maniacal laugh.)

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. 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: Day, Flaw
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!

Day&Flaw

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

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Haiku Challenge 319 Poets Collected.

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Poetry Challenge Reviews Culture Haiku, Epic Haiku, Haiku Challenge Poets, Haiku Collection, Haku Challenge Links, Humorous Haiku, Nature Haiku, Poetry Collection, Romantic Haiku

Links to the 22 Poets 31 Poems from last week’s challenge of Trip&Whip and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Missed some of my regulars. Hope all is well during this crazy time. Be safe. Do the safe things.

Annette Rochelle Aben: Distractions

Bobby Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/08/17/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-319/ Make sure to check his Decima Poem. It uses the Haiku challenge words/synonyms as well.

http://www.engleson.ca:

The Fall of You Know Who- A Speculative Haiku

Though smart as a whip,
He lashed out at friend and foe
And tripped on his tongue

Anisha|Crazy Nerds: Whips that Trip – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs

Endless Rivers: Blow Me Down – Endless Rivers A Haibun in reverse.

The Hidden Edge: Maintain Your Aim – Ch#51 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

isaiah46ministries: We Can Beat This Thing

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Trip & Whip – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

Mindfills: trippin’ ~ a tanka – Mindfills A Tanka

MMA Storytime: Cage Hopper

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 319 Trip &Whip – Mukhamani

My Fresh Pages: Don’t Trip Haiku – My Fresh Pages

Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (8/17/20) – PrairieChat A Tanka

Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Trip and Whip | queennandini 4 Haiku

Quilted Poetry: Unreasonable Weather | #RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt 319 – Quilted Poetry A Tanka

Ronovan Writes: priceless – a poem | ronovanwrites

Scribblans: https://scribblans.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/sometimes-i-dont-rhymes-trip-and-whip/ 2 Haiku

Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/08/17/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-319/ 2 Haiku and 1 Tanka

Straight From My Heart: #Haiku Sudden recollection – Straight From My Heart

teleportingweena: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Trip/Whip | teleportingweena

The Tenth Zodiac: Weekly Haiku Challenge #319 by Ronovan – The_tenth_zodiac 4 Haiku

WillowDot21: https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-319-trip-and-whip/

6 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.

polluted veins – a poem

August 20, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Christian Poem, free verse poetry, Poetry, poetry to appear in a novel

Polluted Veins – by Ronovan Hester

~*~

The problems of man are just so, the problems of man.

Man fell from the gift of God’s creation to the gift of its own.

He gives us centuries of warning of disaster to come.

From the lowest of lands to the driest of earth,

from the wind-torn paths to the fruitless sands.

Knowledge, God’s greatest gift tells us the patterns of our fate.

He provides new histories to add to that of our lives.

We heed them or stay with our stubborn and troubled paths.

Some can go. Some cannot.

Those with none, need those with abundance.

To move from the barren, the heartache must travel.

Life is for living our ancestors know. Forgiveness is granted.

Blaming the heavens for what we as Man have done,

is our peril and denial of the twisted blood

through centuries Man has spun.

I leap into a life as one of God’s open-eyed man,

With a hope to right the wrongs in our ancestries’ polluted veins…

brought through its greedy sins.

To find the solutions to the decaying of our inner being.

My prayer is this, to keep the path, The Way.

To open the blind-eyed into those of the seeing.

To fill the world with hope and strength,

To see the truth in our life as Man.

To end my life… on the day that comes… with the, I Am.

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 19 (RIDE) This week, it’s the B rhyme line.

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge Creative Outlet, Decima Poetry, Espinela Poetry, Fun, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Prompt, Rhyme Poetry, Serious, Spanish Origin Poetry, Vicente Espinel, Weekly Challenge, Writing Inspiration, Writing Prompt

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 (Trip & Whip 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 STAY, click HERE for all the links in one post.

Back to our scheduleD Décima Poetry Challenge how to and what not.

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:

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 RIDE must be one of the B line words. Then the other B line(s) word(s) must rhyme with RIDE.

Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.

Reblogging is great as well.

Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.

Décima Challenge 18 Poets Collected

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge Decima Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Links, Rhyming Poetry, Ronovan Writes Decima Challenge Poets

12 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of STAYand their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: The Wrong Girl? – eastelmhurst.a.go.go

New Love in a Pandemic

This is it then, each breath, each way,
we stand apart, six feet or more,
To make the point, as death lists soar,
It is a fresh and fearful day.
I want you close. We cannot stay
apart, we cannot miss our time,
ardour turned on a viral dime.
Love should be wild and grandiose,
Yet intimate, held sweet and close,
Not seen as a public health crime.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bobby Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/08/12/ronovan-writes-decima-challenge-18-spectacle-in-seaworld/

The Hidden Edge: Stay Focussed – Ch#47 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

Frank Hubeny: Stay – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

imanikingblog: Stay | imanikingblog

Meanings and Musings: She knows – MEANINGS AND MUSINGS

Prairie Chat: Stay – A Décima Love Song – PrairieChat

MMA Storytime: Not Ready to Retire

revivedwriter: Wanting To Stay | revivedwriter

RonovanWrites: https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/12/a-boys-folly-a-poem/

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 18 (STAY) This week, it’s the A rhyme line. | willowdot21

priceless – a poem

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Poetry Haiku Poetry, iimage poetry, Japanese poetry form, Poetry, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Haiku Prompt Challenge, self confidence poetry, self image poetry, shaming poetry, societal poetry

declared as common

my ego stumbles, is subdued,

but remains priceless.

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 319 Trip & Whip

To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly Haiku Challenge, click HERE.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 319 Trip&Whip

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku, Short Story Form

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 Meet&Part.

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: Trip, Whip
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!

Trip&Whip

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

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hear me say – a poem – a letter – a message

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Agony, Depression, free verse poetry, honest poetry, Pain, Poetry, Poetry about Depression, poetry about needing help, poetry about torture

It’s okay
What I’m saying
What I’m playing
That I’m praying
You think you know me and can show me

Hear me Say

It’s okay
My mind’s relaying
It’s dismaying
It’s decaying
You think you know me, can control me

Here me Say

It’s okay
I’m testifying
And I’m lying
And denying

And
And
And

It’s okay
I’m conveying
I’m portraying
And I’m fraying

And

It’s

Okay
I’m implying
And denying
And I’m dying
You think you know me, can console me

And
And
And
And

Is it okay
It’s diverting
to be inserting
and not be hurting

and
and

is it okay
i’m justifying

what you’re supplying

so preoccupying

death defying

dissatisfying

is it okay
that i pray

that i pray

nature saves – a kouta poem

August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 Ronovan Poetry, Poetry Forms Animal, Japan, Japanes poetry style, Kouta Poetry, Kouta style poetry, Man, Nature, Poetry, Poetry about Conservation

care for life in all its forms

each with purpose and meaning

protecting one another

fail in this means death

The Japanese poetry form of kouta, meaning little song, was apparently created during the Muromachi Period (14th-16th centuries). It became popular again during the late 1800s as a Geisha song style.

There are two versions;

A four-line or quatrain poem with the syllable pattern of 7/5/7/5.
A four-line or quatrain poem with the syllable pattern of 7/7/7/5.

There are no hard and fast theme elements to consider. Some kouta use colloquialisms and onomatopoeia. The thing to remember is, it’s all according to your imagination. I have seen sites mentioning a fifth line may be added

For added information:

One point to consider about the Geisha song style of Kouta is, the song may contain a 5/7/7 style. This is based on the first such Geisha song using this style in 1856. There may also be confusion in how the west interprets the style into English.

Haiku Challenge 318 Poets Collected.

August 16, 2020August 17, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Poetry Challenge Reviews Culture Haiku, Epic Haiku, Haiku Challenge Poets, Haiku Collection, Haku Challenge Links, Humorous Haiku, Nature Haiku, Poetry Collection, Romantic Haiku

Links to the 26 Poets 38 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: Go Greased Lightning | Annette Rochelle Aben

Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/08/10/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetryprompt-318/

http://www.engleson.ca: A Haiku which was then incorporated into a Shi Rensa Haiku entry. Very nice, dude, very nice. And a beautiful one at that.

Doubts

Did I play my part?

Were your expectations met?

Did I fall just short?

Did I fall just short,

Fail to meet the challenge:

your beautiful dream?

Your beautiful dream

was there, my fingers reached out

as the bubble burst.

As the bubble burst,

There was no time for sorrow,

No tears for lost love.

Anisha|Crazy Nerds: Hills to Oceans – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs (7 Poems.)

Dear Sun! – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs (3 Poems)

Endless Rivers: Fragments – Endless Rivers

Faith Unlocked: Eternity Bides

The Hidden Edge: Educate Ch#43 – (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge A Shi Rensa Haiku

isaiah46ministries: Still Missing You, My Black Knight – Help from Heaven

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Meet & Part – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

Lillie-Put: Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge: #318 Meet & Part | Lillie-Put

Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/parting/

MMA Storytime: You Defend Defend Everything

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 318 Meet& Part – Mukhamani

Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (8/10/20) – PrairieChat A Shi Rensa Haiku

Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Meet & Part | queennandini

Quilted Poetry: Remember | #RonovanWrites #Haiku #Challenge 318 Meet & Part – Quilted Poetry

Ronovan Writes: vigor and magic – a poem | ronovanwrites A Shi Rensa Haiku

rugby843.blog The Bag Lady: Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – The Bag Lady

Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/08/10/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-318/ (3 Poems)

Straight From My Heart: http://straightfromtheheartgd.com/2020/08/12/shirensahaiku-rendezvous-at-twilight/ A Shi Rensa Haiku

teleportingweena: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Meet/Part | teleportingweena

Tessa Dean author: https://tessadeanauthor.com/2020/08/10/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-318-meetpart/

Thoughts and Entanglements: A Parting | thoughts and entanglements

WillowDot21: Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge 318 Meet and Part. | willowdot21 A Shi Rensa Haiku

Whippet Wisdom: Haiku: Trust – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

A Wise Woman’s Journey: A Clouded Gift | awisewomansjourney

6 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.

burning – a poem

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Poetry Haiku Poetry, Heat allergy, Nature, Poetry, Ronovan Hester, Southern humidity

sweltering heat

suffocating tender skin

relieved in cool shade

I’m actually allergic to heat. Weird? Yep.

Naughty Bulbs – a Dodoitsu Poem

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Ronovan Dodoitsu, Poetry Dodsitsu Poetry, Edo period poetry, humor poem, Japanese poetry form, poems about flowers, Syllabic Poetry

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.

A Boy’s Folly – a poem.

August 12, 2020August 17, 2020 Ronovan Decima Poetry #AmWriting, ANgry Sister, Be Creative, Beach Poem, Foolish Boy, Humor, Poems that Rhyme, Poetry Challenge, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt

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.

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 18 (STAY) This week, it’s the A rhyme line.

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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 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.

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:

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.

Reblogging is great as well.

Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.

Décima Challenge 17 Poets Collected

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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.

http://www.engleson.ca

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