Haiku Challenge 330 Poets Collected.

Once deflating we know we stood,
now, meditating on the scale.
We played our part, we did it well,
braved to choose, whether right or err.
Down to the wire, a closing scare,
gasping for breath, breathe deep, exhale.

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 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. 30 EXHALE.

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new storms ahead – a poem

November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Shi Rensa Haiku Nature, Poetry, Poetry about Life, Poetry Blog, poetry of America, poetry of depression, poetry of hopes, poetry of love, poetry of nature, poetry of politics, poetry of reality, poetry of sadness

new storms ahead

with one cold shudder

life falls into the abyss,

never to return

never to return,

the frozen traumatized land,

the dirt now laid bare

the dirt now laid bare,

irresponsibility,

its cutting care spent

its cutting care spent,

abused lands once more tended,

new red flags ahead

I imagine those reading this one might think of a certain topic but it has many meanings. Did you know that when farmers, gardeners, and anyone who has to dig in a new area should get a person to come out and search for the utilities underground first? The person will place red flags where any existing areas of concern are which will remain areas of concern for the future unless the utility is rerouted, made obsolete, or the person needing to dig, finds another, equally or more fertile place to dig.

A Shi Rensa for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 30: (EXHALE) in the C rhyme line.

November 4, 2020November 4, 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

I chose the word EXHALE this week with the idea, well I can’t tell you the idea because I don’t want to taint your thinking process. Exhale, two syllables but you can use synonyms.

I checked for plenty of rhyme words, as I usually do. I dislike trying to create a poem with only 5 or 6 rhyme options when all of us are doing them.

RHYME TIP: Sometimes I will take a word and break it up into multiple sounds and come up with rhymes that aren’t normally thought of. This is a tip from rappers who have to be extremely creative. I picked this one up from the rapper Eminem. I know it sounds like what a rhyme site does but you dive down deeper and it’s a lot of fun to come up with something that people read and think, “Where did that come from, and why didn’t I think to do that?”

You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (COLD & Fall). and EXHALE. I think these might work together with the right story idea.

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 read last week’s Décima Poetry written for the prompt for FRIGHT, 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
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 EXHALE must be one of the C line words. Then the other C line(s) word(s) must rhyme with EXHALE.

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 29 Poets Collected

November 4, 2020November 4, 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

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

Well, what better number of poets than 13 for a Fright prompt during Halloween week? Some different than what you might be expecting. Also, some even record their poetry so you can actually hear what they sound like…the people, not necessarily the poems.

Please check out Challenge 30 posted at 08:00 EST or New York City time for people like me who sometimes gets the time zone things mixed up.

CSNelson | Don’t Forget the Half: Please, Define Great…Again – Don’t Forget the Half

Larry Trasciatti | EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: Woeful Fate

http://www.engleson.ca

Fright of Fancy

T’was that time of year, time of night,
time of season, darkness upon
the land, the soul, the jaded dawn,
when ghouls walk their gruesome rite.

Graveyard spirits, in ancient fright,
Rise from the earth and hover there,
to shock, to scream, and, yes, to scare
the living who will one day chance
to strut our own bone-rattling dance:
Ghosts we will be, in death-howled air.

Bob Fairfield: Crazy Rabbit

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Fright

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Fright

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding: in a fog

S.S. | Mindfills: I Picked

MMA Storytime: The Fright of a Fight

Mystical Strings: Seek First

Revived Writer: Creepy Candy

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: Between the Cracks

willowdot21: Fright

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the deep embrace – a poem

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Covid-19, Nature, Poetry, Poetry about Life, Poetry about love, Poetry Blog, poetry of death, poetry of depression, poetry of faraway love, poetry of loneliness, poetry of love, Poetry of Pain, poetry of sadness

the deep embrace

with one cold shudder

life falls into the abyss,

never to return

My poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 330 COLD & Fall

November 2, 2020November 2, 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 try to pick words I’ve never used before for the prompts. But, I did use Fall back on 10/15/2018 or from some 2018/10/15. Such an easy word to use this time of year and I’ve only used it once in over 6 years. (I did use it for the Décima Poetry Challenge once.)

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

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

Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets.

Click HERE. To learn about the new style I’ve created called Shi Rensa Haiku and how to write one, maybe even for the challenges.

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: Cold, Fall
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

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.

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!

COLD & Fall

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Haiku Challenge 329 Poets Collected.

November 2, 2020November 2, 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

The words for this one, for me, ended up being a huge challenge because I wanted to do a Shi Rensa. I did a few versions. A few meaning a lot, but I just wasn’t satisfied. I guess when I called this thing a challenge 6 years ago and not just a prompt I meant it. I just didn’t think I meant it for myself.

5 People were able to participate in my first RWThe13 Writing Challenge, a Halloween Poetry or Prose Challenge using specific word counts. Click HERE for those links.

Links to the 24 Poets with 33 Poems and 1 New Poet, from last week’s challenge of BLOOM & Wet and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Annette Rochelle Aben: Flower Power

William Thomas Engleson:

S.A.D. Commentary

A late autumn dawn:
Wet. Cold. My love will not laugh
nor bloom in the dark.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/10/16/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-challenge-327/

The Zesty Gianttt | Deviating Vibes: https://deviatingvibes.wordpress.com/challenges/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-329-bloom-wet/ NKOTB translation=New Kid On The Block. What? No one here an 80s kid?

Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog: Wet Grass Tickled Feet 6 Haiku

Goutam’s Writings: Carnivorous

Help from Heaven: The Beauty of Flowers is Good for the Soul!

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Squally

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Bloom & Wet ~ 10/26/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

Kat Myrman | Like Mercury Colliding: in a fog

Mindfills: raindrop

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 329 BLOOM & Wet – Mukhamani

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings: Love Takes Form

Prairie Chat: Frosted Ruby Lips I gave Clarence’s haiku a title this week. It just came to mind with the haiku and the image used.

Queen Nandini: https://queennandini.wordpress.com/ 4 Haiku This Week

Quilted Poetry: October’s cold Tanka

Revived Writer: Dry Petals

Ronovan Writes: morn’s first kiss

Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/10/26/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-329/ 2 Haiku

Tessa Dean | Author: https://tessadeanauthor.com/2020/10/26/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-329-bloom-wet/

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

Lisa | The Verse Smith: Morning Glory

Thoughts and Entanglements: Autumn Rain

WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 329 BLOOM & Wet | willowdot21

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#RWThe13WritingChallenge Collected.

October 31, 2020November 1, 2020 Ronovan Collected Poets Links for Challenges #RWThe13WritingChallenge, Halloween Flash Fiction Prompt, Halloween Poem, Halloween Poetry Challenge Prompt, Halloween prompt, Halloween Prose Writing Challenge, rw the 13 Writing Challenge, Spooky Writing Challenge

The first #RWThe13WritingChallenge has been completed. A spooky time and we had four participants. Not bad for a first-time event. And I have to say it was a rather poorly put together challenge. My challenges never go well the first time around. It usually takes a couple of times to get them smoothed out. So just think, two years from now, I might have put it out there the right way.

Thanks to those participating. Please visit and read their work. If you still want to give it a go now, just write something that has one of the following word counts:

13
113
213
313
413
513

It can be poetry or prose. Pingback or copy and paste a link in the comments below.

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: Choose Wisely Left, right, fragrant, or familiar?

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Draining the Swamp Not sure who voted for who but apparently the raucous rabble-rousers in this piece aren’t happy about it.

Arthur Richardson: Closing Time Dymond goes pubbing on All Hallow’s Eve. Pint or punt? He might need to think quickly.

Ronovan Writes: Dance Till Dawn A little poem about the devil and the myth that was told.

Late to the party but here nonetheless

Alice | Malham Magna: World Peace Not fiction, I hope, but 13 words of what should be relatable for everyone.

Ronovan Writes The13 Writing Challenge

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The War of the Worlds – World Audio Drama Day

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Ronovan Entertainment Columbia Broadcast Systems, Early Science Fiction, H. G. Wells, Invading Martians, Martians, Martians Attack, Martians Invade, Orson Welles, Science Fiction, The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast, Wordl Audio Drama Day

It’s World Audio Drama Day. It’s the day before Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Eve. I don’t participate in Halloween. For one, yes, it’s the Christian thing. But the other is that my son is sixteen and just isn’t into it, and children don’t come to the homes around here any longer. On Halloween in our town which has an old fashioned town square where businesses are located, is where the kids go these days. The businesses give out candy and there are other things to do so there is a safe and fun environment for the families to bring their children to. But back to my main reason for being here today.

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a science fiction series from Pearson’s Magazine in 1897 which was then released as a book in 1898. It was popular during its time. Readers and critics alike enjoyed the science ficition story with the Martians invading Woking, Surrey in England. In the the famous and infamous Orson Welles telling of the story on Columbia Broadcasting Systems radion one October 30, 1938, Welles modernized the story enough to be set in 1939. He tells at the beginning of the broadcast the story will be told, but some apparently didn’t get the message and thought Martians had invaded. I am not joking. The broadcast starts out like any other, but keep listening, it’s all part of the story.

Listen and enjoy, as I have several times.

Dance Till Dawn – a Poetry Story for the #RWThe13WritingChallenge.

October 28, 2020October 30, 2020 Ronovan Poetry #RWThe13WritingChallenge, Halloween Flash Fiction Prompt, Halloween Poem, Halloween Poetry Challenge Prompt, Halloween prompt, Halloween Prose Writing Challenge, Poetry story, rw the 13 Writing Challenge, Spooky Writing Challenge, The devil and you

Dance Till Dawn
by Ronovan

Are you old and decrepit

or aged and wise?

Are you young and foolish

or idiot in disguise?

No matter your answer,

you’ll be pleased to know,

The devil is in you,

way deep in your soul.

He travels your pathways,

sees through your eyes.

He kills your darlings

and thrills your lies.

Your betraying glances

are his to play and toy.

Making his days fun,

and his nights to enjoy.

In either day or night,

matters not to he.

He’ll help dig your grave,

dance on it with glee.

But this tale fear not,

a myth to be sure.

The devil doesn’t dance,

but your writhing and twisting? It holds an allure.

(The Badge)

My writing with 113 Word Count for the,

Ronovan Writes The13 Writing Challenge

Theme: Spooky. Challenge: Write your style/choice with a word count of 13/113/213/313/413 or 513. It can be more, but try to stick with these. Title not included in wordcount. Pingback here or to the challenge prompt by clicking the link in blue, orange, and black (the link just above these plain text sentences.

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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 29 (FRIGHT) This week, it’s the A rhyme line.

October 28, 2020October 28, 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

I chose the word FRIGHT this week.

You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (BLOOM & Wet). and FRIGHT. I‘m thinking they could work well together, depending on how macabre you wanted to get. The HIAKU challenge can be switched out with synonyms.

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 read last week’s Décima Poetry written for the prompt for FRIGHT, click HERE for all the links in one post.

Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.

Sites to help:

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

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.

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Décima Challenge 28 Poets Collected

October 28, 2020October 28, 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

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

A strong set of Décimas this week. Some very personal, with guts and backbone and brutal reality. That’s what the Décima can do. It’s a style from Spain and very much a part of Latin culture and the passion in those cultures seem to give permission through this style to go wherever you need to, or wherever it takes you. Sometimes, a poem just wants to be written.

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: The Fates

Charmed Chaos: Whatever It Brings

Don’t Forget the Half: Unpredictable Certainty

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: The Expendable Pawn

http://www.engleson.ca

The Change of Seasons-Dark

Winter pokes out from the far hills
And I watch, I wonder, I wait
for the snow caps to shape my fate,
the storms, the winds, the cold deep chills.

Other welcome winter. It instills
a warmth, an air of solemn grace,
of times evoked, the soft sweet face
of life and love forever lost
yet still alive, a permafrost
of pleasure ever to embrace.

Frank Hubeny: Fate

The Hidden Edge: Occult Vault

Like Mercury Colliding: Blooms From Dust

Mindfills: Magnetic

MMA Storytime: Left to Fate

Mystical Strings: Tempting Fate

Stine Writing: Integrity

willowdot21: The Awakening

morn’s first kiss – a poem

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Ronovan Haiku blossoms at dawn, eyelashes and tears, flowers covered in dew, girl crying, Nature, Poetry, poetry about a girl, Poetry about Life, Poetry about love, Poetry Blog, poetry of flowers, poety of roses, rising in the morning, rose garden at dawn

morn’s first kiss

caressed by dawn’s light

petals’ tips awash with dew

pearl white blossoms sing

My poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 329 BLOOM & Wet

October 26, 2020October 26, 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

Also, check out this much shorter explanation of my Halloween writing challenge. RW’s The13 Writing Challenge. A Spooky Word Count Enforced Challenge for Poetry and Prose. IYou have all the way until the end of Wednesday, October 28th to enter.

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

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

Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets.

Click HERE. To learn about the new style I’ve created called Shi Rensa Haiku and how to write one, maybe even for the challenges.

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: Bloom, Wet
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

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.

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!

GAZE & Touch

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Haiku Challenge 328 Poets Collected.

October 26, 2020October 26, 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 35 Poets from last week’s challenge of DRIP & DROP and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

An Enigmatic Life: An Enigmatic Life

Annette Rochelle Aben: Barren Ballerinas

Francis Barker | The Midlode Mercury: Haiku: ‘Abundance’ A First Timer to the challenge. At least I think so. You know me though, I’m lucky to remember to post the challenge in the first place.

Crazy Nerds: Draft

William Thomas Engleson:

The Last Season

I am but a weed,
chilled on the earth, awaiting
Winter’s snow dusting.

(And a Shi Rensa)

The Last Season

I am but a weed,
chilled on the earth, awaiting
Winters snow dusting.

Winter’s snow dusting,
Scattered o’er the crying earth,
A silver wasteland.

A silver wasteland,
A dream of frozen sorrows,
And no passage home.

And no passage home,
The deep of it, the journey
Will not see the end.

http://www.engleson.ca

Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/10/16/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-challenge-327/

Breathing Shallow Poetry: Dust and Weeds – Z & Z Poetry

CBialczak | Stime Writing: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 328 DUST & Weed – Stine Writing

Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog: https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/the-dust-had-settled/

Goutam’s Writings: Success – Goutam’s Writings

Help from Heaven: Learning to Respect Each Other

Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Whoa Sometimes an interesting title will get the attention. 🙂

It’s A Humphrey | Humphrey’s Place:

Humphrey’s Place Haiku #1

Humphrey’s Place Haiku #2

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Dust & Weed ~ 10/19/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

Like Mercury Colliding: blooms from dust

LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Ronovan Writes Haiku – Dust and Weed – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀

Mindfills: eerie

MMA Storytime: Practice, Win, Repeat

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 328 DUST & Weed – Mukhamani

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings: Harvest

Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (10/19/20) – PrairieChat

Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the Words Dust and Weed | queennandini

Lizl Bennefeld | Quilted Poetry:

Raindrop Promises

Dry ground

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: https://arthurrichardson.org/2020/10/21/haiku-challenge-weed-and-dust/

Ronovan Writes: Heavenly Rain?

Scribblans: Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes

Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/10/19/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-328/

somawrites: Faux

teleportingweena: Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge – Dust/Weed | teleportingweena

The Verse Smith: The Wasteland First Timer here. Makes sure to visit. Make sure to visit. This is a blogspot blog and their pingbacks don’t seem to work with my blog.

They, You and Me: Ecosystem

Thoughts and Entanglements: dust .. weed | thoughts and entanglements

Tina Stewart Brakebill: memories bloom

To Wear a Rainbow: love,live and let live

WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 328 DUST & Weed | willowdot21

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Ranee of Atlantis

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Atlantis of the Sands, Couplets, Demons, False ruler, Myth, Poetry, Queen, Sammi Cox, SammiScribbiles, The Deceiver, Ubar, Weeked Writing Prompt

Ranee of Atlantis

The vault revealed empty, clarion calls sound,

Ranee slips through shadows, each entrapment found.

Fiends unfurl and fly, Deceiver’s crown gone?

What will Ranee do, once set upon?

Through streets of Ubar, through dwellings past,

she passes the poor, so many…vast.

The demons fly in, stones rain down,

Ranee the rightful queen, wears the crown.

There are a number of words used this time with many meanings. Your interpretation could make the story of the poem be several things, although mostly the same, just with your own imagery and flair to it. Ubar is one of the names of a legendary lost city in the southern Arabian sands, claimed to have been destroyed by a natural disaster or as a punishment by God. The fictional name for it is Atlantis of the Sands.

This poem was created in response to the Weekend Writing Prompt by Sammi Cox of sammiscribbles blog. As you can see it was to use the word ‘Vault’ and be 56 words.

Sammi’s challenge as well as other blogger’s challenges/prompts links are collected on the page at the top of this blog Challenges/Prompts from the Blogosphere.

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How to Write a Vocabularicon Poem.

October 24, 2020December 30, 2020 Ronovan Poetry, Ronovan Writes Poetry Forms 100 word flash fiction challenge, Couplets, MMA Storytime, Poetry, Poetry of Mind Body and Soul, Prompt word, Prose, Ronovan Writes Poetry Forms, Vocabularical, Vocabularicon Poetry Form, Writing Inspiration, Writing Prompt

This is replacing the previous post due to inappropriate spam I would rather not deal with. Don’t ask.

There are two ways you could do the Vocabularicon.

A few months ago, after I started the Décima Poetry Challenge, I was wanted to create something of my own, as I tend to do. A 10 line poem with 10 syllables per line. It was inspired by a poet named Vocabularical and his participation in the challenge. He was a cool guy, with awesome ideas, and a way with words. I mean, if you’re going to give yourself a name like Vocabularical…you better be good. I decided to name my new poetry form, a Vocabularicon. If you think about it, you definitely will need to use great vocabulary.

What gave rise to a second manner of doing the poem was when I participated in MMA Storyline’s 100 Word Flash Fiction Challenge. I thought this challenge is perfect for trying out my new style for the very first time. So, I wrote 10 lines, 10 words per line, with only 10 syllables per line. Yes, that means only one syllable per word. Your word choice is even more vital here than in other poems. Other than perhaps a Haiku, especially the 3/5/3 version, that’s syllables, not necessarily words or even the non-existent 1/2/1 I’ve tried**.

The quick and dirty instructions: (links are to LiteraryDevices.net)

Number One

10 LINES/verses
10 SYLLABLES PER LINE.
DIVIDED INTO 5 Couplets See the example below.
With Couplets, meter is important. “Essentially, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work. Meter functions as a means of imposing a specific number of syllables and emphasis when it comes to a line of poetry that adds to its musicality.”-LiteraryDevices.net
“The literary device “foot” is a measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables… The combination of feet creates meter in poetry. Later, these meters are joined for the composition of a complete poem. Therefore, a foot is the formative unit of the meter.”

Number Two

10 LINES/verses
10 ONE-SYLLABLE WORDS PER LINE.
DIVIDED INTO 5 Couplets See the example below.
With Couplets, meter is important. “Essentially, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work. Meter functions as a means of imposing a specific number of syllables and emphasis when it comes to a line of poetry that adds to its musicality.”-LiteraryDevices.net
“The literary device “foot” is a measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables… The combination of feet creates meter in poetry. Later, these meters are joined for the composition of a complete poem. Therefore, a foot is the formative unit of the meter.”

IF YOU WOULD LIKE, YOU COULD GROUP THE VERSES TOGETHER TO FORM A GEOMETRIC BLOCK. THAT WOULD BE KIND OF NEAT TO ACHIEVE.

Think about it, if you can get the exact same number of letters per line, keeping to the other guidelines mentioned, that would be a nice accomplishment.

Below is an example of the 10×10/Vocabularicon.

Daddy’s Baby Boy

They sneak at night, to pick their mid, fall gourd,

But they know not, they have crossed the Dark Lord.

The clouds do glow, to buy the fools some time,

and lead the way, clear of his broods’ wet grime.

They come each year, to choose for their blithe signs.

and with plans made, hunt one with thick lush vines

Once they find him, his life’s line is cut short,

pray what comes next, you’ve heard tell of a sort

The Dark Lord comes, his rage steams up the night,

It’s All Saint’s Eve, and Dad’s set for a fright.

Most of us self-taught poets have used poetic meter and feet for the entirety of our poetic lives. Meter, for this poem, is the shared length of the verses and the rhyme pattern. The feet are either stressed or unstressed words. Stressed is when you go up on the word or syllable. Since this poetry form is restricted to one-syllable words, you stress a word. For this poem I’ve made the first part of each verse four words long, and the second six. As you read you quickly pick up both the feet and meter patterns with ease. Or so I hope. But, for each person their might the opposite feet emphasis than another person reading it. Also, feet are not as simple as four words here and six words there, you should also listen to how your words are working together to accomplish a natural rhythm and not one that’s hunted for. As I’ve been working with these types of poems, I’ve been trying to do better with meter and feet, but still have a long way to go. But…I keep writing.

**My How To Write A Haiku Poem In English Form post has been updated with some added information.

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RW’s The13 Writing Challenge. A Spooky Word Count Enforced Challenge (The Shorter Explanation.)

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Ronovan Writing Challenges Fantasy Writting Challenge, Halloween Flash Fiction Prompt, Halloween Poetry Challenge Prompt, Halloween Writing Challenge, Halloween Writing Prompt, Horror Prompt, Mystery Prompt, Prose Writing Prompt, Prose Writting Challenge, Ronovan Writes The Writing Challenge, Science Fiction Writing Challenge, Spooky Writing Prompt, Word Count Restriction Writing Challenge

This is a much shorter version of last week’s post, which was around 1500 words. This week’s post is under 600, with 132 of that being the recommended tip post descriptions.

This year I thought I would hold a writing challenge based around a spooky theme, your interpretation of that. I intend to do this annually moving forward. This would be a prime opportunity to share the ‘spooky’ is of your country/culture.

(The Badge)

HERE IS THE CHALLENGE

Write a spooky (Your interpretation of what that means.) piece of word fiction (Your choice of style.)

Use one of these word counts: 13, 113, 213, 313, 413, or 513.
I would like it to have a beginning, middle, and end. No matter the style, it is still a work of fiction. Those three elements don’t have to be what we traditionally think of. Yes, Poetry can have those. A hero or main character, conflict, and resolution would be nice. Again, those three elements don’t have to be what we traditionally think of.
At 00:01 Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, EST: My personal piece will go live. You can post that day and pingback to it and/or copy and paste your link. Also, you can copy and paste your link in the comments. (Did you know that you could post tomorrow, include the link in the next section, and on the 28th, it will ping my post?) So you could copy and paste your link/pingback to this post your reading AND set a pingback for the 28th post. I just blew my mind.
MY POST’S SHORT LINK TO PINGBACK: https://wp.me/p4y9jb-HfZ (I’ve already named my post, Dance Till Dawn, without having an idea what it’s about or style for it yet. I figured that’ll be even more of a challenge.) It will go live At 00:01 Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, EST, or New York City time, although I don’t live in New York City. (How to do a Pingback )
Did you know that if you wrote a piece and published it today, with my Oct. 28th link in it as a pingback, that it would activate when my post goes live next week?
So you could pingback both here and there. You could even paste your link in this post’s comments and then come back on the 28th and paste them there.
The Hashtag to Use: #RWThe13WritingChallenge This is if you want to use it. For social media as well as the WordPress Reader. It’s easier when you do it that way for you to find works by those who you don’t follow and for those who don’t follow you.
On Thursday, October 29th, I’ll begin making a post with all the links, as I do with the poetry challenges. I hope to include a one-sentence description for each piece.
Saturday, October 31: The collection post will go live on.

For the original post with some tips, inspirations, and the like, click HERE.

For further inspiration and tips, see:

5 Ways to Discover Story Ideas. This one came out this week. The name says it all, except for the fact it gives some examples of some of the ‘Ways’ provided.

Stripping for Fiction. This is about how to write Flash Fiction.

Using Proofing to Help Your Fiction Diction & More! With this one, you learn how to use Word to polish your piece. It shows you how to customize your Spell and Grammar Check in Word to do so much more than you realized. It includes checking for Passive Sentences and can even give you the reading grade level of your piece.

5 Unexpected Ways to Inject Humor Into Your Writing Spooky doesn’t mean scary. Think of the Abbot and Costello meets (Insert Monster Here) movies.

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Links to the 31 Poets with 1 New Poet, from last week’s challenge of COLD & Fall and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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the great hall grows cold,

no cheers or laughter abound,

for the fallen lead

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with one cold shudder

life falls into the abyss,

never to return

never to return,

the frozen traumatized land,

the dirt now laid bare

the dirt now laid bare,

irresponsibility,

its cutting care spent

its cutting care spent,

abused lands once more tended,

new red flags ahead

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

Well, what better number of poets than 13 for a Fright prompt during Halloween week? Some different than what you might be expecting. Also, some even record their poetry so you can actually hear what they sound like…the people, not necessarily the poems.

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with one cold shudder

life falls into the abyss,

never to return

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The Challenge Words!

COLD & Fall

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Links to the 24 Poets with 33 Poems and 1 New Poet, from last week’s challenge of BLOOM & Wet and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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Dance Till Dawn by Ronovan

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I chose the word FRIGHT this week.

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

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caressed by dawn’s light

petals’ tips awash with dew

pearl white blossoms sing

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The Challenge Words!

GAZE & Touch

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Links to the 35 Poets from last week’s challenge of DRIP & DROP and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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Ranee of Atlantis

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The quick and dirty instructions: (links are to LiteraryDevices.net)

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HERE IS THE CHALLENGE

For further inspiration and tips, see:

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Dance Till Dawn
by Ronovan