Décima Challenge 44 Poets Collected

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15 Poets from last week’s challenge of STEAL and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

NEW TO US THIS WEEK:

Laura Eliza Haynes: Regret Décima

Ruth Blogs Here: Capitol Offence

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

 

Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson:   The Devil Is Defeated

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:    Happy Valentine’s Day

http://www.engleson.ca

How T—-‘s Mob Believed All His Lies and Fomented His Insurrection

From where I sit, my sinecure,
my respect for the Public Weal,
the rabid call to stop the steal,
was a sad coward’s last-ditch lure.

The antithesis of mature,
he stood before his acolytes,
accused foes of egregious slights,
and, indifferent to their fate,
counseled his mob to storm the gate
and overthrow fair voting rights.

Laura Eliza Haynes: Regret Décima

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Steal – Décima – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:   Positive Seeds

Mindfills:  Deeper

MMA Storytime:   The Robbery

Mystical Strings |  Dr. Crystal Grimes:    Wishful Thinking

Revived Writer:     Joy Not Stolen

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  Stolen

Ronovan Writes:  Media Gold

Ruth Blogs Here: Capitol Offence

The Indie She:    https://indishe.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-44-steal-in-the-b-rhyme-line/

willowdot21:   Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 44: (STEAL) in the B rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Where the Wind Blows – a poem.

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Where the Wind Blows

the bird feathers on

a journey set by the wind’s blow,

is the simplest path

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BIRD and Blow.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 345 BIRD AND Blow.

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A WINTER Badge below.

Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.

Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.

Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (BITE and Teeth)

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.

An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: BIRD, Blow
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

  1. Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
    • The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help,
    • For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

BIRD and Blow

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Haiku Challenge 344 Poets Collected.

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Links to the 27 Poets with ? New Poets from last week’s challenge of BITE and Teeth and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

New to Us:

Laura Eliza Haynes:   Age

Proof of My Existence | Robin: Loc’d

Ronovan Writes Haiku Poets Collected Winter badge 2021

Annette Rochelle Aben (Amazon):  winter worries

But I Smile Anyway… | Rita Bhathal (Amazon):    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth. | But I Smile Anyway…

Tessa Dean | Author:    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth. – Tessa Dean – Author

Ear to the Ground:    https://eartotheground.blog/2021/02/11/polar-vortex-haiku/

William Thomas Engleson: (Book purchasing sites on Author’s site Book Page)

Dental Health Memories

There, by their bedside,
they sat, false teeth in a jar,
ready to bite me.

Dental Health and Other Memories- A reflective Shi Rensa

There, by their bedside,
they sat, false teeth in a jar,
ready to bite me.

Ready to bite me,
Though I never mentioned it,
It did cross my mind.

It did cross my mind,
My thoughtless juvenile mind,
A swamp of sorrow.

A swamp of sorrow,
Their hard lives, and mine, so soft-
I did love them so.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield:   https://bobfairfield.org/2021/02/09/ronovan-writes-haiku-344/

Farrago Express | Michael Williams:   Furball Fury

Haiku Hound | Denis:   pups

Laura Eliza Haynes:   Age

Help from Heaven | Regina:    Finding Joy Daily

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:     Armed to the Teeth a Tanka 

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:  Haiku – Bite & Teeth ~ 2/8/21 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It    

Malham Magna | Alice:   The Subtweet

LSS Attitude of Gratitude  | Lauren:    Ronovan Writes Haiku – Challenge 344 – Poker Game – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀

Mindfills:     https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/tufts-a-tanka/

MMA Storytime:   Talk A Big Game          

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes (Music Artist):   Teething

Proof of My Existence | Robin: Loc’d

Quilted Poetry | Lizl Bennefeld:      Remember Spring

Ronovan Writes (Amazon):  

Honing with Pain

Apathetic Anarchy

Scribblans:    Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes: Ronovan Writes – Bite and Teeth – Scribblans

Sketching Words | Diane Puterbaugh:   Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt # 344 – sketchingwords.com

Straight From My Heart:     Tiger

The Bag Lady:    Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt 2-8-21 – The Bag Lady 

The Verse Smith | Lisa:   https://theversesmith.blogspot.com/2021/02/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-344-ronovan.html

Thoughts and Entanglements | Pat:  thoughts and entanglements

WillowDot21:  Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth. | willowdot21 

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Media Gold – A poem.

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Media Gold
Innocent but cast a villain
calls for resolve, and nerves of steal.
Make plans to bring truth to the deal,
slaying lies like penicillin,
or St Valentine’s Day killin’.
A hit piece out picking cherries,
below the belt bruising berries.
Once a favorite of the trigger,
now clickbait for the gravedigger.
And the massed mind swings and varies.

 

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 44 (STEAL).

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Apathetic Anarchy – a poem.

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Apathetic Anarchy

biting apathy

youth’s thoughts of their history,

give anarchy teeth

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BITE and Teeth.

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 44: (STEAL) in the B rhyme line.

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You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (BITE and Teeth). and this Décima Challenge of STEAL in the B rhyme line. This means you could write a haiku post using the prompt words. Then do a Décima post using this week’s prompt uniting the two with a common message.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
  • For last week’s Décima Poets’ poems written for the prompt for SPRING, click HERE for all their links in one post. A good opportunity to check out some examples of Décima.

****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

THE QUICK DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO WRITE A DÉCIMA:

  1. There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme.
  2. 8 syllables per line.
  3. There is a SET RHYMING PATTERN we must stick to. ABBAACCDDC OR  two stanzas of ABBA/ACCDDC.

THE CHALLENGE PART:

  1. The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines given (in the post heading), either A, B, C, or D. Let’s say for an EXAMPLE we use the word (STABLE) in the D line. ALWAYS DEFER TO THE WORD AND RHYME LINE IN THE POST HEADING. Sometimes I might miss changing those spots in the challenge post.
  2. The other rhyme line(s) should rhyme with the given word (STABLE). Then the other (D) line should rhyme. Words such as Able, Cable, and Fable.
  3. Once you complete your poem pingback and/or copy/paste your post link into the comments below.

Our Youth Need…

The young have not been so lucky,
their world defined by death and rage,
We had freedom, they have a cage,
locked up safe from the dying spree.

The fool and wisdom disagree,
on how to save democracy.
Our youth drown in hypocrisy,
as blue label fights red label.
They need foundations firm…stable,
with no games of bureaucracy.

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.

 

ONCE YOU COMPLETE YOUR POEM PINGBACK AND/OR COPY/PASTE YOUR LINK INTO THE COMMENTS BELOW.

  • 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.

Sites to help:

RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster.com  Use this site for syllables. I’ve used several online counters and too many have given different counts for the same word, so I use the dictionary now. Also, in some parts of the English speaking world, the syllables may come out in the spoken language a bit differently. And that’s okay. Write to enjoy, too learn, and yes, try to get the syllables right, but above all create and enjoy.

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Décima Challenge 43 Poets Collected

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10 Poets from last week’s challenge of SPRING and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

 

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson:  A Spring to Forget

http://www.engleson.ca

On the Passing of My Friend, Charan Gill

I think of that time as our spring,
some of us with a wealth of years,
others with knowledge in arrears,
yet each with compassion to bring.

A work unit on the upswing,
those too few days of comradeship,
shared goals, gone at too fast a clip,
and now with the passing of one
of us, that time again undone,
we watch another moment slip.

Bob Fairfield: The Rites of May in the Minds of Faerie Folk

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Spring – Décima – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

The Indie She:   https://indishe.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-43-spring-in-the-a-rhyme-line/

MMA Storytime:   Leave Emotion Out of It

Mystical Strings |  Dr. Crystal Grimes:    Universal Spring

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:   https://arthurrichardson.org/2021/02/04/spring/

Toward the Within: Poetry | RonovanWrites Decima #Poetry Challenge #43 Spring in the A line – Toward the within…

willowdot21:  Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 43: (SPRING) in the A rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Honing with Pain – a poem.

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Honing with Pain

the truth has sharp teeth,

biting through the deepest pain,

life heals what life kills

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BITE and Teeth.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth.

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A WINTER Badge below.

Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.

Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.

Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (BARE and Full)

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.

An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: BITE, Teeth
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

  1. Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
    • The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help,
    • For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

BITE and Teeth

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Haiku Challenge 343 Poets Collected.

Ronovan Haiku Poetry Challenge Reviews , , , , , , , ,
Links to the 26 Poets with 1 New Poet from last week’s challenge of BARE and Full and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

New To Us This Week

Cobweb Whispers | Avia:  Winter Trees Fib

fall haiku challenge poets collected japanese maple with black and white background

Annette Rochelle Aben (Amazon):  spring thing

A Wise Woman’s Journey:  Nature’s Promise

But I Smile Anyway… | Rita Bhathal (Amazon):    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 Bare and Full | But I Smile Anyway…

Cobweb Whispers | Avia:  Winter Trees Fib

Tessa Dean | Author:  Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 BARE and Full – Tessa Dean – Author

Don’t Forget The Half:   The Forgotten

Endless Rivers:   Seaside Haiku

William Thomas Engleson: (Book purchasing sites on Author’s site Book Page)

AGE

I bear the full weight
of time, stripped down. The truth glows
in the bright bare light.

AGE-A Shi Rensa

I bear the full weight
of time, stripped down. The truth glows
in the bright bare light.

In the bright bare light,
my vision, clear as crystal,
captures each moment.

Captures each moment,
each sharp memory of life,
life to come, now, whence.

Life to come, now, whence,
a dazzling collage of time
which I bear with love.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield:  https://bobfairfield.org/2021/02/02/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-challenge-343/

Farrago Express | Michael Williams:   Red Memories

Haiku Hound | Denis:   Spiritual

Help from Heaven | Regina:    A Well-Fed Soul Prospers

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Wolf Moon    

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:  Haiku: Bare & Full ~ 2/1/21 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It     

Malham Magna | Alice:   Balu was right

LSS Attitude of Gratitude  | Lauren:    Ronovan Writes – #343 – Bare and Full – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀

Mindfills:  Spring a tanka

MMA Storytime:   There Are No Shadows

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes (Music Artist):   Bare

Quilted Poetry | Lizl Bennefeld:   Cold Moon Kiss 

RIVRLOGR | Ken: bare branches

Ronovan Writes (Amazon):   Changed

Sketching Words | Diane Puterbaugh:  Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #343 – sketchingwords.com

Straight From My Heart:     Up in the Hills

The Bag Lady:  Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – The Bag Lady   

WillowDot21:    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 BARE and Full | willowdot21

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Changed – a poem.

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Changed

rip, raw, torn, and bare

full of loathing and despair,

changed by loving care

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BARE and Full.

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 43: (SPRING) in the A rhyme line.

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You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (BARE and Full). and this Décima Challenge of SPRING in the A rhyme line. This means you could write a haiku post using the prompt words. Then do a Décima post using this week’s prompt uniting the two with a common message.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
  • For last week’s Décima Poets’ poems written for the prompt for CARE, click HERE for all their links in one post. A good opportunity to check out some examples of Décima.

****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

THE QUICK DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO WRITE A DÉCIMA:

  1. There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme.
  2. 8 syllables per line.
  3. There is a SET RHYMING PATTERN we must stick to. ABBAACCDDC OR  two stanzas of ABBA/ACCDDC.

THE CHALLENGE PART:

  1. The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines given (in the post heading), either A, B, C, or D. Let’s say for an EXAMPLE we use the word (STABLE) in the D line. ALWAYS DEFER TO THE WORD AND RHYME LINE IN THE POST HEADING. Sometimes I might miss changing those spots in the challenge post.
  2. The other rhyme line(s) should rhyme with the given word (STABLE). Then the other (D) line should rhyme. Words such as Able, Cable, and Fable.
  3. Once you complete your poem pingback and/or copy/paste your post link into the comments blow.

Our Youth Need…

The young have not been so lucky,
their world defined by death and rage,
We had freedom, they have a cage,
locked up safe from the dying spree.

The fool and wisdom disagree,
on how to save democracy.
Our youth drown in hypocrisy,
as blue label fights red label.
They need foundations firm…stable,
with no games of bureaucracy.

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.

 

ONCE YOU COMPLETE YOUR POEM PINGBACK AND/OR COPY/PASTE YOUR LINK INTO THE COMMENTS BELOW.

  • 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.

Sites to help:

RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster.com  Use this site for syllables. I’ve used several online counters and too many have given different counts for the same word, so I use the dictionary now. Also, in some parts of the English speaking world, the syllables may come out in the spoken language a bit differently. And that’s okay. Write to enjoy, too learn, and yes, try to get the syllables right, but above all create and enjoy.

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Décima Challenge 342 Poets Collected

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14 Poets from last week’s challenge of CARE and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

 

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EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:  The Couple

http://www.engleson.ca

Deep Winter Despair

This may be where I take my stand,
this late January morning.
Sad thoughts rising, the transforming
virus spreading throughout the land.

Yes, Covid-19, you expand
your reach, our touch, your air, our breath,
your drilling into our soul’s depth.
We are masked pawns. You do not care
a whit for you are everywhere
and we are left with loss, with death

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:  Care – Décima – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:  Care – (Weekly Decima Prompt #42) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

Mindfills:   https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/to-believe-a-decima/

MMA Storytime:   No Care In the Cage

Mystical Strings |  Dr. Crystal Grimes:    Symphony of Love #Decima #Poem | Mystical Strings

Revived Writer:     Careful! | revivedwriter

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:   https://arthurrichardson.org/2021/01/28/leisure/

Ronovan Writes:  NEVER GIVE UP – A poem. | ronovanwrites

The Tenth Zodiac |  Nima:   Wild Love – The_tenth_zodiac

Toward the Within:   Poetry | Wantin’ Only (Yourself) – Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge – Toward the within…

Two On A Rant::

Décima
She had loved once, innocence lost,
betrayed by his civility,
a man with an agility,
to throw her away without cost.

Outside window covered by frost,
mirrored the emotions inside
a woman unable to hide
her rapidly growing despair…
his child, abandoned without care,
two lives destroyed to save his pride.

Haiku
Hardships test our love,
Through the chill autumn season
into winter’s arms.

willowdot21:   Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 42: (CARE) in the D rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 BARE and Full

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A WINTER Badge below.

Example Haiku with this week’s words.

stay, her teeth are bared

to protect the infants’ future

full action’s needed

Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.

Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.

Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (ROUGH and Season)

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.

An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: BARE, Full
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

  1. Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
    • The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help,
    • For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
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  2. 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.
  3. 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!

BARE and Full

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Haiku Challenge 342 Poets Collected.

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Links to the 27 Poets from last week’s challenge of ROUGH and Season and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

fall haiku challenge poets collected japanese maple with black and white background

Annette Rochelle Aben (Amazon):  90 days | Annette Rochelle Aben

A Wise Woman’s Journey:   Slow Coming | awisewomansjourney

But I Smile Anyway… | Rita Bhathal (Amazon):    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season. | But I Smile Anyway…

Tessa Dean | Author:  Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season. – Tessa Dean – Author

EMOTIONS | The Ex Introvert:  https://wp.me/p9hlnC-6a

William Thomas Engleson: (Book purchasing sites on Author’s site Book Page)

Blaw-se

‘Tis that dark season,
January, buried deep
In the cold wet rough.

Blaw-se-Shi Rensa-A Canadian Moment

‘Tis that dark season,
January, buried deep
In the cold wet rough.

In the cold wet rough,
Towhees and Dark-eyed Juncos
Scramble for the scraps.

Scramble for the scraps
as I muddle through the morn
seeking much the same.

Seeking much the same,
as we acknowledge Covid:
One year and counting.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield:   https://bobfairfield.org/2021/01/25/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-challenge-342/

Farrago Express | Michael Williams:

Alternation

Change Is Coming  A dual poem.

Free Mind Confessions:   https://freemindconfession.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/haiku-challenge-342-rough-and-season-reflection-of-a-lost-winter/

Haiku Hound | Denis:   Dogs at Play

Help from Heaven | Regina:   Never Alone   

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:     Spring – (Weekly Haiku Prompt) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge  

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:  Haiku ~ 1/25/21 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It    

Malham Magna | Alice:   Just a little longer!

Mindfills:  Tousled

MMA Storytime:   Always Fight Season

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}:    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season. – Mukhamani      

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes (Music Artist):   Transition

Prisoner of Hope:   Rough Season

Quilted Poetry | Lizl Bennefeld:   Rough Chopped Breakfast a Tanka  

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:   https://arthurrichardson.org/2021/01/27/haiku-challenge-342/

Ronovan Writes (Amazon):   The Question

Sketching Words | Diane Puterbaugh:   January Squares and Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt #342 – sketchingwords.com

The Bag Lady:  Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt 1-25-21 – The Bag Lady  

They, You and Me:  year after year

Toward the Within | Diedre:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season. – Toward the within…

WillowDot21:    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season. | willowdot21

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NEVER GIVE UP – A poem.

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NEVER GIVE UP

This simple man waits in worry,
through mind-fields of love notes not wrote,
in lakes of heartache where hopes float,
and life hangs back in a hurry.
Watching signs till eyes are blurry.
Each one reads to yield or to stop.
Time’s winning as grains of sand drop,
but dreams continue on with care.
I’ll keep loving this crone so rare,
and breathing till I reach her stop.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 42 CARE.

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 42: (CARE) in the D rhyme line.

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You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (ROUGH and Season). and this Décima Challenge of CARE in the D rhyme line. This means you could write a haiku post using the prompt words. Then do a Décima post using this week’s prompt uniting the two with a common message.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
  • For last week’s Décima Poets’ poems written for the prompt for SHIMMER, click HERE for all their links in one post. A good opportunity to check out some examples of Décima.

****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

THE QUICK DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO WRITE A DÉCIMA:

  1. There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme.
  2. 8 syllables per line.
  3. There is a SET RHYMING PATTERN we must stick to. ABBAACCDDC OR  two stanzas of ABBA/ACCDDC.

THE CHALLENGE PART:

  1. The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines given (in the post heading), either A, B, C, or D. Let’s say for an EXAMPLE we use the word (STABLE) in the D line. ALWAYS DEFER TO THE WORD AND RHYME LINE IN THE POST HEADING. Sometimes I might miss changing those spots in the challenge post.
  2. The other rhyme line(s) should rhyme with the given word (STABLE). Then the other (D) line should rhyme. Words such as Able, Cable, and Fable.
  3. Once you complete your poem pingback and/or copy/paste your post link into the comments blow.

Our Youth Need…

The young have not been so lucky,
their world defined by death and rage,
We had freedom, they have a cage,
locked up safe from the dying spree.

The fool and wisdom disagree,
on how to save democracy.
Our youth drown in hypocrisy,
as blue label fights red label.
They need foundations firm…stable,
with no games of bureaucracy.

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.

 

ONCE YOU COMPLETE YOUR POEM PINGBACK AND/OR COPY/PASTE YOUR LINK INTO THE COMMENTS BELOW.

  • 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.

Sites to help:

RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster.com  Use this site for syllables. I’ve used several online counters and too many have given different counts for the same word, so I use the dictionary now. Also, in some parts of the English speaking world, the syllables may come out in the spoken language a bit differently. And that’s okay. Write to enjoy, too learn, and yes, try to get the syllables right, but above all create and enjoy.

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Décima Challenge 41 Poets Collected

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13 Poets from last week’s challenge of SHIMMER and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

NEW POETS THIS WEEK

SHIFTNSHAKE | D. AVERY:  Sojurn

 

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EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:  A Sad Changing Of the Guard

EMOTIONS | The Ex Introvert:  Wake up – The child in you

http://www.engleson.ca

Inauguration Day-A Poem by a Middle Class, Elderly Canadian Socialist (or, Maybe, a Social Democrat in a Pinch)

Even here, in the cloud-gray dawn,
ferry bound, prawn boat scooting by,
Earth seems lighter, even the sky,
dark as it is, knows that he’s gone.

And, in his stead, we venture on,
Hopeful, in the new day’s glimmer,
New? Old? Safe! Not that flimflammer.
And though flawed, like sensible shoes,
footwear to trust, Joe’s paid his dues.
Our eyes shine in the sweet shimmer.

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Shimmer

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:  Shimmer

MMA Storytime:   It Factor

Mystical Strings |  Dr. Crystal Grimes:    Lighthouse

Revived Writer:     Desert Greenery

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  Seasonal

SHIFTNSHAKE | D. AVERY:  Sojurn

The Tenth Zodiac |  Nima: Suppressed Words

Two On A Rant: Cycle of Life

willowdot21:  Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 41: (SHIMMER) in the C rhyme line. | willowdot21

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The Question – a poem.

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The Question

a dark mind’s season

has never-ending self-doubt,

formed such rough visions

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of ROUGH and Season.

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