an opened heart – a haiku a poem

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with a gentle grace

her fingers flow across keys

chains slip from his heart

~*~

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~*~

 

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A poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of GRACE and Slip.

IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED ALL OF OUR POETS SO FAR THIS WEEK, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK OUT THE ONES THAT HAVE COME IN RECENTLY. SO MANY GET OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ABLE TO GET TO THE PROMPT AND FREE TO WRITE AS QUICKLY AS, SAY, THE GUY THAT COMES UP WITH HE WORDS AND CAN WRITE HIS POEMS LAST WEEEK FOR THIS WEEK IF HE WANTED TO.

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Haiku Challenge 333 Poets Collected.

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Links to the 30 Poets with 3 NEW BLOGS from last week’s challenge of LIFE and View and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

 

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Ritu Bathal | But I Smile Anyway…:  Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View | But I Smile Anyway…

The Zeisy Geist | Deviating Vibes: https://deviatingvibes.wordpress.com/challenges/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge/333-life-and-view/

Don’t Forget the Half: Let’s Be Better Humans – Don’t Forget the Half

Ear to the Ground:   https://eartotheground.blog/2020/11/24/life-view-haiku/   NEW BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

William Thomas Engleson:

Wise Words

I hear, in dark times,
her wise words, “Take the long view.
Life will be simpler.”

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield:   http://bobfairfield.org/RonovanwritesHaikuchallenge333

Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog:  https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/the-way-of-the-breath/

Denis | Haiku Hound:   life cycle – Haiku hound

Regina | Help from Heaven:     The Joy of Nature’s Beauty – Help from Heaven

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:   Awesome – (Weekly Haiku Prompt #333) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge   

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:    Haiku – Life & View ~ 11/23/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It   

Alice | Malham Magna:   The past is present in the future | Malham Magna

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding:   off the edge | like mercury colliding…

MMA Storytime:   A New Perspective

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}:    Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View. – Mukhamani

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:       Hoarfrost #Haiku #Poem | Mystical Strings

Night Owl Poetry | Dorinda Duclos :      On man’s inhumanity to man ~ #senryu #poetry | Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclo     NEW BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

Lizl Bennefeld | Quilted Poetry:     https://thewrittenword.net/journal/2020/11/23/signs-of-life-poem-a-day-23-november-2020/

Ronovan Writes:  Growing Pains – a haiku a poem | ronovanwrites 

Sketching Words:   https://sketchingwords.com/2020/11/24/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-333/

Straight From My Heart:    Shaping of Viewpoints – Straight From My Heart

Tessa Dean | Author:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View – Tessa Dean – Author

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

Lisa | The Verse Smith:  https://theversesmith.blogspot.com/2020/11/disappearances.html

KatB | The Woman with Wheels | K-POPAWHEELY: Has 2020 Changed…? – K-popawheely      NEW BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

Tina Stewart Brakebill”  true life revealed (a haiku) – Tina Stewart Brakebill

To Wear a Rainbow:  wide angle shot | To Wear A Rainbow

Xenia | Whippet Wisdom:   Haiku: Golden Glen – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

WillWillowDot21:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View. | willowdot21

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The first reported case of deviled ham.

Ronovan Writing

I thought I would share something from my first year of blogging. My thankful things on here are pretty much the same. I have a couple of newer ones I’ve come to appreciate and give me inspiration for living life and for continuing to live. Those to may sound the same but they are completely different. Have a Happy Thanksgiving. Give thanks for those and what you are thankful for, and what this day has come to represent in the hearts of those across the nation.

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It’s early here. Especially early considering it is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I have a blanket wrapped around my legs, the warmth makes the joints and bones feel decent. Who would have thought at my age I would need to be doing that? But then no one would have ever thought Mr. Human Heater would ever need a blanket.

So what am I thankful for today,

on this National Holiday?

I suppose I need to start with God,

and continue with that I at least still have a bod.

Family must be in the picture,

I hope that cranberry salad is of the right mixture.

Loved ones and smiling faces galore,

or the thoughts that I most adore.

Creativity and my imagination,

are two things needing appreciation.

Of course my friends here and there,

and those most loved everywhere.

You come upon a holiday and wonder what to…

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Décima Challenge 32 Poets Collected

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

Sleep led to many different interpretations this time. I know poetry should be that way, but often with such polarizing times in the world thoughts run along the same paths. This week we branched out from politics to slumber, to some complete nonsense (waving my hand on that last one).

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CSNelson | Don’t Forget the Half:  Let’s Be Better Humans

Larry Trasciatti | EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO:  Apple Tea

http://www.engleson.ca

Vaccine Love

The dark snakes in, the dusk is frost,
The wind is fierce, the snow is deep.
My heart pumps slow, a restless sleep,
The covers creased, dreams nightmare-tossed.

We have paid a ferocious cost,
This Covid war, lost dividends,
of joy, of breath, my foes, my friends,
as ‘cross the globe the virus spreads.
Sweet vaccine thoughts invade our heads;
seeking innoculated ends.

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Nightmares on the Gentlest Tier of Hell

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding:   dare to hope

Mindfills:  https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/fizz-a-decina/

MMA Storytime:  Knockout!

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:    Mystical Strings

Revived Writer:  Lullaby To Open Eyes

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  Penitence

Ronovan Writes:   Only One Mutton

willowdot21:   Tides of Madness

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 33: (BLIND) in the C rhyme line.

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You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (LIFE and View). and BLIND.

The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.

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.

  • To last week’s links Décima Poets’ poems written for the prompt for SLEEP, click HERE for all the links in one post. A good opportunity to check out some examples of Décima.

THE CHALLENGE

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
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.

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 lines 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.

For 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 is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.

For today’s challenge, the word BLIND must be one of the C line words. Then the other C line(s) word(s) must rhyme with BLIND.

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.

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Upside Down – a poem.

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Upside Down

 

Been in disguise since I was twenty-five,

never knowing if I should live or die.

Always thinking this world left me alone,

feeling it deeply through blood and bone.

Needing answers with these decades of doubt,

reaching for a handhold before I shout.

Then I met a small Carolina town,

flipping this Southern boy’s world upside down.

So close it hurts can touch but not feel it,

thrown up obstacles I fight to not quit.

This mask is slipping, years I’m passing through,

with no doubts I’ll live now that I found you.

 

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Growing Pains – a haiku a poem

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life view’s ebb and flow

with time’s changes and stages,

our hope grows and grows

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A poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of LIFE and View.

IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED ALL OF OUR POETS SO FAR THIS WEEK, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK OUT THE ONES THAT HAVE COME IN RECENTLY. SO MANY GET OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ABLE TO GET TO THE PROMPT AND FREE TO WRITE AS QUICKLY AS, SAY, THE GUY THAT COMES UP WITH HE WORDS AND CAN WRITE HIS POEMS LAST WEEEK FOR THIS WEEK IF HE WANTED TO.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View.

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A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it. Some of you may have noticed in the reader the badge has returned to the usual one. This is because our poets are accustomed to seeing that one, so I set it as my featured image. We’ve been missing a few of our regulars for the past couple of weeks since I changed the image, and I’m worried the new image might have lost them. I hope they come back soon.

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. (EBB & Flow)

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: LIFE, View
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!

LIFE and View

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Haiku Challenge 332 Poets Collected.

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Links to the 29 Poets with 3 NEW POETS for last week’s challenge of EBB and Flow and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

 

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Bend Branches:   On a Distant Shore: Pull Up a Seat.   NEW POET THIS WEEK!

The Zesty Geist | Deviating Vibes:  https://deviatingvibes.wordpress.com/challenges/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge/332-ebb-and-flow/   6 This week. Visit and get a vocabulary lesson. He did.

William Thomas Engleson:

Tsunami Dreams

Pandemic tide, we
chart your ebb, your deadly flow,
your tsunami dreams.

 

Tsunami Dreams-shi rensa

Pandemic tide, we
chart your ebb, your deadly flow,
your tsunami dreams.

Your tsunami dreams,
your virus soars, crests in rage,
poised to spread your curse.

Poised to spread your curse,
amoral, effervescent,
thoughtless to a fault.

Thoughtless to a fault,
Covid-19’s deadly surge
shrouds the waiting earth.

http://www.engleson.ca

Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog:   Goodbye to Royalty    Her 6 this week.

Regina | Help from Heaven:    How I Miss the Ocean!   

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:   Fashion    

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:  Haiku – Ebb & Flow ~ 11/16/20

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding:   dare to hope

Let’s read our words:   Weekly Haiku Prompt | Let’s read our words  NEW POET THIS WEEK!

Lauren | LSS Attitude of Gratitude:   https://lssattitudeofgratitude.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/ronovan-writes-haiku-ebb-flow/

Alice | Malham Magna:  The Tide | Malham Magna

Mindfills:  Petunia   

MMA Storytime:  Rise & Fall

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}:     Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 332 EBB & Flow – Mukhamani 

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:   Lifetime 3TC 

Lizl Bennefeld | Quilted Poetry:     The Tides of Love

Ronovan Writes:

Balancing – haiku

Life’s Ebb and Flow – a Shi Rensa

a haiku a poem

Sketching Words:   https://sketchingwords.com/2020/11/16/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-332/

Sound Mind Journey:    the tide is singing

Straight From My Heart:   Sunset On A Wintry Day  

Oneta Hays | Sweet Aroma:   WELCOME, WEE ONE

Tessa Dean | Author:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 332 EBB & Flow – Tessa Dean – Author

The Bag Lady:  Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt 11-16-20 – The Bag Lady

Kenneth | The Lotus:   ebb and flow – The Lotus     NEW POET THIS WEEK

Lisa | The Verse Smith:   https://theversesmith.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge.html

The Tenth Zodiac:  Ronovan Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #332 – The_tenth_zodiac

Pat | Thoughts and Entanglements:  Ebb & Flow | thoughts and entanglements

Xenia | Whippet Wisdom:   tidal secrets

WillWillowDot21:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 332 EBB & Flow | willowdot21

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my pleas…please. – a poem.

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my pleas…please

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Dreams obscene,

thoughts so wrong.

Things your wearing.

turn me on.

What do you think I, feel when I see ya?

I’ve been stupid shy, this I can’t deny.

What is this cold fear, waitin’ for the all-clear?

Praying for a leap year, so I can see…you…dear…

That sinful grin,

jeans so tight.

I love it when,

you walk just right.

 

Skin so smooth

hair feels nice,.

Those fingertips,

I’ll pay the price.

This fire inside of me, is fighting to be free.

It needs hotter degrees., please hear my pleas.

Fire deep inside…

of me.

I’m on my…

knees.

I’m begging…

please.

Please hear my pleas.

Please hear my pleas.

Please hear my pleas.

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Sometimes I just have to let it go.

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brave your colors – a poem.

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brave your colors

Separate roads spread, from shore to shore,

passing through towns, locked door after door.

Where once a neighborhood, or a community park,

now you will find are places filled with dark.

 

All shades, all hues, divide people from another,

but now they separate a sister from a brother.

Where once it was skin, and so it still is,

now it includes what politics is hers or his.

 

Red, blue, green, and more around the world.

In divisive times we must brave our flags unfurled.

 

No matter your age your religion or family,

in this great land, your thoughts are yours and they’re free.

What I fear most is we will fall to our enemy

where once there was democracy, there will be anarchy.

 

If you must battle through the generations,

fight right now for our nation’s foundations.

For tomorrow is not tomorrow, it’s in five, ten, or thirty years,

by standing up now the future will have fewer tears.

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Only One Mutton – A poem.

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Only One Mutton

My mind is a turbine of plots,

to the point, it is hard to sleep.

I count blessings, instead of sheep,

But Shaun slays them, with dreaded baaaahhhhhts.
They return, Shaun must lance alots,

or be he served to a glutton,

for he’s nothin’…but mutton,

Fear not, Lamb Chop comes unafraid,

wielding her magic sheering blade.

She shouts, “There can be only one.”

 

I bet you never thought stop animation and sock puppets could star in a slasher story, huh?

Some explaining to do, for those young folk out there. This didn’t start out as a pop culture, walk down memory lane thing, but with my first line and the word sleep as the prompt? It got away from me. I put links in for the various things that people might need a reference to. Another link is for Shari Lewis. You can watch Highlander: The Movie in the US  here, on Tubitv.com for free with ads. Or here on Vudu.com for free with ads. It’s one of my favorites. I use both sites regularly. They are safe. No problems. You just set up a free account. Vudu used to be attached to Walmart.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

Whether you enjoyed my poem or not, please click the link below to head to this week’s challenge page and visit some of the loyal in the comments who keep coming back to write using this style of poetry that is so accomodating to different ideas and more difficult than you may think to write. And it’s a great feeling to know you’re writing in a style created hundreds of years ago in Spain.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 32 SLEEP.

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a haiku a poem

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~*~

life flows with our doubt

regardless in joy or woe,

love can ebb the ache

~*~

*

~*~

 

A poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of EBB and Flow.

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One Man’s Words, another Man’s Politics – a poem

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I recently, as in the same day I wrote this post and Haiku, shared a quote from a book a social media platform. And individual there that is a Friend there responded. My initial quote and supporting comments were not politically charged, at least I didn’t think so. In fact, they were about the planet, the environment, and the role humans have played in the slow destruction of all of it. Nothing was untrue. It was simply my saying that God gave us the earth and all things upon it to be good stewards of and have dominion over. Dominion meaning to reign over. To reign over something means you must take care of it, not to abuse it. Apparently, that part of what I said either wasn’t agreed on, was skipped, or the quote from the book set the person off so much that nothing else was considered. I was quite surprised to see a comment at least twice as long as my original update. But, it gave me this post, this haiku, this haibun. God uses the oddest things to make good from. I should point out this person as well as others have taken some of my recent updates as meaning I am a Liberal, at least that’s the message I’m receiving. I’m not. I am conservative in most of my political leanings but as I believe all people do, I agree with some ideas on the other side of the political line. If anyone is 100% one thing…I get worried. No one party has the right answers to everything. And I get the feeling some of those from my more distant past cannot see the truth of that.

 

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I triggered a man,

with words of truth in kindness,

my soul will be free

~*~

*

~*~

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 32: (SLEEP) 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 (EBB & Flow). and SLEEP.

The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.

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.

  • To last week’s links Décima Poets’ poems written for the prompt for ONE, click HERE for all the links in one post. A good opportunity to check out some examples of Décima.

THE CHALLENGE

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
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.

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 lines 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.

For 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 is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.

For today’s challenge, the word SLEEP must be one of the B line words. Then the other B line(s) word(s) must rhyme with SLEEP.

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.

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Décima Challenge 31 Poets Collected

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

If you like quiet tequila nights, disastrous endings, and even some lovin’, you’ve come to the right place. Visit these 12 poets and find a style of poetry you may not have read before, even though you think you have. There are so many forms of poetry and this one is a cultural one for the Latin culture originating in Spain and continues to be important today in social, political messages and especially in Latin music.

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Larry Trasciatti | EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: True Love

http://www.engleson.ca

One…And Lost

The night has come, the day is done.
they sleep the sleep of nevermore.
The sleep of peace, the sleep of war:
Both are the same, an endless one.

Never again to feel the sun,
the song of love, the joy of tears,
no highs, no lows, no dreams, no fears.
consigned to cold and endless terms
of rain, of mud, of frost, of worms!
Sweet lives lost, in timeless arrears.

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: One Lap Too Many

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:     Children in Need

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding:  only one

Mindfills:  Dream Up

Christine Bialczak | Stine Writing: The Tequila Farmer

Mystical Strings:    Inner Voice

Revived Writer:  Décima

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  The Metaphysics of Love

Ronovan Writes:   Tanning Buns and Big Mac Runs  Yeah, I apologize to poets everywhere for this one.

willowdot21:   Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 31: (ONE) in the A rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Life’s Ebb and Flow – a poem

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Life’s Ebb and Flow

heat flows through new veins
to the ends of outstretched tips
moon’s hold starts to ebb

moon’s hold starts to ebb
the sun gives its warm embrace
the energy flows

the energy flows
slowly, life ebbs toward death
hope waits in the dark

hope waits in the dark
lifelines retire out of time,
still, latent, until…

What am I? Do you know? Comment below with your guess. The tags won’t help this time.

A Shi Rensa for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of EBB and Flow.

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Balancing – a poem

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emotions flow wild,

exaggerating events,

ebb with common sense

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My poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of EBB and Flow.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 332 EBB & Flow

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A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it.

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. (FIRST & Heal)

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: EBB, Flow
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!

EBB & Flow

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Haiku Challenge 331 Poets Collected.

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Links to the 25 Poets and 1 NEW poet to the group from last week’s challenge of FIRST and HEAL and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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Deviating Vibes:   https://deviatingvibes.wordpress.com/first-and-heal/

William Thomas Engleson:

Transitions

Old wounds, ancient scars,
open sores never healed.
First comes the tantrum.

Transitions x 4    (A Shi Rensa)

Old wounds, ancient scars,
open sores never healed.
First comes the tantrum.

First comes the tantrum.
a litigious dance of spite,
without any class.

Without any class,
he clubs the air, shakes his fist,
grasps for a lifeline.

Grasps for a lifeline,
one more self-glorified burp
before his exit.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield:   https://bobfairfield.org/2020/11/09/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-challenge-331/

Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog:   My Music Flooded Head

Regina | Help from Heaven:      Reclaim Your Power: Know Your Value

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:      The Scars

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It:   Haiku – First & Heal ~ 11/9/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

Alice | Malham Magna:   Madam Vice-President

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding:  only one

Lauren | LSS Attitude of Gratitude:   Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge # 331 – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀

Mindfills:    Dew Drop

MMA Storytime:  The Taste of Defeat

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}:     Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 331 FIRST & Heal – Mukhamani      

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:     Renewal

Clarence Holm | Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (11/09/20) – PrairieChat

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  Fracas

Ronovan Writes:  

a poem for the haiku challenge

Careless Whispers

Scribblans:    Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes: Ronovan Writes – First and Heal – Scribblans

Sound Mind Journey:  gender perspectives (one story three haikus)   A new one to our prompt challenge. You seriously need to check this one out the way the first line is used in the three haiku. as well as the first word in the second line of each and the final word of each haiku. And for a reason, not just a haiku.

Straight From My Heart:    Grudge Fight

Tessa Dean | Author:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 331 FIRST & Heal – Tessa Dean – Author

Lisa | The Verse Smith:   First Love

Pat | Thoughts and Entanglements:  Crippling Gray

Xenia | Whippet Wisdom:  Haiku: Aureate – Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey

Willow | WillowDot21:   Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 331 FIRST & Heal | willowdot21

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