peaceful the lilies
spread across the fresh-turned earth
genesis is sowed
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Poetry Challenges and Prompts?
IHello Y’all,
I’m looking to participate in some poetry challenges, and writing challenges, other than my own, and thought maybe some of you could put links in the comments to your favorites. And maybe a one-sentence blurb of what it’s about. Not a necessary thing though.
The links you provide will appear on a page, Challenges/PromptsFrom the Blogsphere, at the top of my blog, as long as they are writing-related and preferably not too naughty. If they are naughty, just let me know and I can make a note by the link.
Don’t worry if someone has already put your choice in, put it anyway. That just shows me how popular it is. Also, you can give more than one challenge site.
The sites could be:
- poetry prompts
- writing prompt sites in general
- Flash Fiction
- It can be an image that is meant to inspire a written word response. (Or typed word, for you literal types.)
I would like to start doing some fiction as well. I’m editing a few books for authors now, and writing my own but need a creative brain break to do something entirely off the plot.
If you facilitate a prompt/challenge then please comment with the link and a little blurb of what it is. As few words as possible.
This will help me, who always forgets where to go, and it’ll be good for people visiting this post to find some prompt sites.
I’ll be making a page with the prompt sites you provide, and the prompt/challenge. If you can provide a small blurb of what it’s about, that would be great, but it’s not required. The site link is what is a must. With the page, we all can easily find them, or at least I can.
I’d like to start up my Friday Fiction prompt again but I would not be as involved as I was before when I was reading and critiquing each story, providing feedback, and some technical information. It’s more difficult to come up with prompts than you might think. If readers show some interest in it, I might start it up. I know of a couple of people who ended up becoming authors after participating. And no, I’m not counting you, and you know who you are. Although I want to. And technically it’s true. 😀
My two poetry prompts are:
- Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge Currently 6 and a half years of uninterrupted weekly prompts.
- Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt A relatively new challenge of 6 months, proving to be a popular one with readers who enjoy the poets who join in.
Thanks ahead of time. And please do give some great ones.
Much Respect,
Ronovan
P.S. If you see any extra letter ‘t’s in the above, forgive me. My ‘t’ key is apparently on the way out. It is super sensitive right now a I end up with two or three ‘t’s sometimes. I had to edit three words in this P.S. message alone. 🙂
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Ron’s Favorite Things!
Ron’s Favorite Things!
Subject to change as I come across others.
Favorite Movies
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Ghost in the Shell (1996) (Anime)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
Favorite Books
- Maestro, John Gardner
- The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, Lilian Jackson Braun
- LOTR, J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Favorite Music
- The Beatles
- George Michael
- Glenn Miller
- R.E.M.
- Harry Styles
Favorite Food (I’m plant-based now but…)
- An authentic Mexican restaurant Taco
- Baked Potato topped with olive oil and a pinch of salt (Or anything.)
- Chinese rice noodles with garlic and vegetables
- Pinto Beans and Cornbread (Life’s blood as a child in the South.)
- Soup
Favorite Animals
- English Bulldog
- Cat
- Beluga Whale
- Sea Lion
- Elephant
Favorite Words
- Serene
- Ocean
- Breeze
- She
- Sleep
Favorite Color
- Royal Blue
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The Burning At The Lake – A poem
from deep dark, he rose
to spread wings, to fly and scorch
the men of the lake
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/10/05/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-326-scorch-shade/. © 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.Long Gone – A poem.
Long Gone
I loved those days, him in his swing,
and those when he giggled to swim.
Hopes to play in the big boy gym,
or watch Pooh and Pig’et and sing.
Now I see him sinking, drowning,
‘neath pressure not meant his to be.
I reach out to lift the weight free,
receiving rebukes for my care.
Being told it’s not my affair,
just a father in name only.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 26 SWING.
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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 26 (SWING) This week, it’s the A rhyme line.
I chose the word SWING this week.
You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (SCORCH & SHADOW). and SWING.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
As you may know, if you write a haiku you could:
-
Take your haiku and carry its theme into your Décima poem. This does not mean add the Haiku to your Décima unless you just want to. But/and you could add the link to your Haiku into your Décima post somewhere.
-
It can either support the haiku, enhance it through the opportunity of more lines, or completely turn the theme on its head and write an argument against the haiku message, which is kind of what a Décima is for, writing a counter to another Décima.
-
If you wrote a true nature haiku, you could flip its message into one about humans and the man-made world around us, such as politics, society, and even love. Yes, love is a man-made thing. At least among the humans. I suppose it could be a penguin-made thing among the penguins.
-
You may also if you like, try to use the Haiku Challenge words in your Décima somewhere. In fact, we have a lady that’s pretty consistent in doing that. And does so with such ease, you don’t even realize she’s done it unless you know she does it and look for it.
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 STILL, click HERE for all the links in one post.
Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.
If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.
Sites to help:
RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc
The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.
Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.
The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc with a choice of a break between line 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.
Example, if I say in the subject line of the post:
“…(FALL) This week it’s the B rhyme line.”
my Décima might be…
NO!
As the end wept upon the land,
we could hear the approaching fall.
Justice answered the trumpet’s call,
trusting the fight to her troop’s hand.
Fate trembles with haste to expand,
through misdeeds by her shameless foe.
Past foolish decisions now crow,
“Wait—no—this was not meant to be.”
They beg the nation, “Hear our plea.
Heal honor, shout, no…no… NO!”
Notice the example prompt word ‘FALL’ is in line 2, the first B line, and its rhyme in is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.
For today’s challenge, the word SWING must be one of the A line words. Then the other A line(s) word(s) must rhyme with SWING.
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 25 Poets Collected
12 Poets from last week’s challenge of STILL and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Nice to see some join in that missed the previous week. That almost made up for the ones out this week. Crazy world right now. I’ll do a better prompt word for #26 and it’s in the A rhyme spot so this should be good.
Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: https://arthurrichardson.org/2020/09/30/haiku-and-decima-challenge/
The Debate
At the heart of a good debate
might be ideas proffered well,
a give, a take, a stunning swell
of thought on what might be our fate.
But no, not this, to decimate,
to thrash with rage, with vitriol,
the man, his clan; this playground brawl
demeans us all, a sadness, yet still
we watched until we had our fill,
grieving for what might next befall.
Frank Hubeny: Still – Holy Spirit – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Gin – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Like Mercury Colliding: if only… | like mercury colliding…
Mindfills: ghost-a-decima/
MMA Storytime: And Still…
Mystical Strings: Call to Rest #Decima #Poem | Mystical Strings
Revived Writer: Truly | revivedwriter
Ronovan Writes:
Someday – a poem. | ronovanwrites
Mad Mad…what was I talking about again? A poem. | ronovanwrites
The Tenth Zodiac: Behind those Eyes – The_tenth_zodiac
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 25 (STILL) This week, it’s the D rhyme line. | willowdot21
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Mad Mad…what was I talking about again? A poem.
Today, Tuesday, October 6th, is Mad Hatter Day, so get your imbecilic nonsense on. I know I did.
Mad Mad…what was I talking about again?
I’m neither here nor there but yonder
smudging the windows of your pains.
Did you know I’ve been seen in seines,
while you stink of Salamander?
Have I seen a girl, much blonder,
than that tailored swift one just there?
Such a question is plain not fair,
I’ll be the hook of her next trill.
But she’ll not catch me standing still
for I’ll pull out my Joyn Mayair.
You might have a bit of fun figuring out some of the words and how they’re used in the story of the poem. Some happened by accident when I read back through. And with a little word change here and there, it jelled. I even ventured into the Lord of the Rings stories, but fortunately thought better.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 25 STILL.
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Our Past Our Future – a Haibun poem
earth blisters from guilt
of mankind’s ignorance,
shade is cast on all
Remember this is a rambler of a thought withoutt editing, so it went where it went. Enjoy or scream. The environment has been a concern since Adam took his first breath. Actually, it was before then. God did make the Garden of Eden. Note to some, the Garden was in Eden, not named Eden. You wouldn’t believe how that’s not taught in Sunday School. But back to my thoughts. Environmentalists and the casual green supporters consider they do all they can to stop the killing of our planet. But, none of us really do. We all take, but we can never truly give back in equal measure what we take. There is only so much matter on the planet and it’s recycled every day in one form or the other. But each time, a bit more is lost in the processing. There is always processing. You grow the tomato plant organically from the compost and fertilizer you gathered for the purpose. The plants grow and give. You take. You consume. And then you recycle back into the world. No matter how you recycle it, some is lost in the process by your body. I guess maybe we should just stop having babies and eat up all the cows and pigs and chickens as well as all the other types of animals we raise. So long Emu and Ostrich. Yum. Yes, I’m being weird today, but this is one of my stream of thought posts that I like to do sometimes. I’m not even sure what I started out to write anymore. But I think it was basically that we all need to do more, go above and beyond what we think we need to do in order to keep this planet burning and turning into a ball of nothing but a sky filled with swirling dust that once was meant to feed living, breathing creatures of all kinds. Then next year? Step it up another notch. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? About Reduce, Reduce, Reuse, Reuse, Recycle?
Shade here is not one of the traditional dictionary definitions.
The term can be found in Jane Austen‘s novel Mansfield Park (1814). Young Edmund Bertram is displeased with a dinner guest’s disparagement of the uncle who took her in: “With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral.”
In other words, it’s an insult but an insult of another level.
The first major use of “shade” that introduced the slang to the greater public was in Jennie Livingston‘s documentary film, Paris Is Burning (1990), about the mid-1980s drag scene in Manhattan.[2][4] In the documentary, one of the drag queens, Dorian Corey, explains that shade derives from “reading”, the “real art form of insults”. Shade is a developed form of reading: “Shade is, I don’t tell you you’re ugly. But I don’t have to tell you, because you know you’re ugly. And that’s shade.”
I’ve seen the documentary and I can attest to the truth that shade is a whole other level of insult. If done correctly, it’s done with style, grace, and directly to your face.
See quotes in Throw Shade Wikipedia.
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/10/05/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-326-scorch-shade/.
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Someday – a poem.
Someday
I had the plan, so close to shore,
then with one word, it all shattered.
That just proved I never mattered,
that I wasn’t wanted anymore.
~
It will come, that day we yearn for,
the one we share in our night dreams.
Remember our night of moonbeams,
when the air went quiet and still?
Love so large, the stars could not fill,
yet, I must wait, through muffled screams.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 25 STILL. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 326 SCORCH & SHADE
Note: I’ve changed the syllable counter I link to. My antivirus has been giving me a ‘blocked threat’ message the last several times I tried it. It could be an error, but this one works nicely. Just put your entire Haiku in.
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.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Shade, Scorch
SyllableCounter.net
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
- Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
- The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help, visit HowManySyllables.com. (You would be surprised at how many syllables some words actually have.)
- Words have different definitions and you use the definitions that work for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
- You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
- Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
- If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
The Challenge Words!
SCORCH&SHADE
Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to posts for other forms of Haiku.
Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
Haiku Challenge 325 Poets Collected.
Links to the 27 Poets with around 40 Poems from last week’s challenge of CALM & STORM and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Wow, a great amount of involvement this week. I guess the pressure is on to come up with another good pair of prompt words.
Annette Rochelle Aben: center | Annette Rochelle Aben
Bill Engleson:
within
would that I could be
that aura of calm before
the storm swallowed me.
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-prompt325/
Breathing Shallow Poetry: Storms Guaranteed (tanka) – Breathing Shallow Poetry
Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog: https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/the-waters-flowed-calm/ I wasn’t going to include the number of Haiku people wrote this week, but she wrote 7. I had to note that.
Help from Heaven: Be Encouraged: All Storms End! – Help from Heaven
The Hidden Edge: The Pandemic – (Weekly Haiku Prompt #325) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Calm & Storm 9/28/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
Like Mercury Colliding: if only… | like mercury colliding… A challenges combo of the Haiku and Décima prompts
LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Ronovan Writes Haiku – Challenge 325 – Calm & Storm – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/grey-jay-a-haiku/
Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 325 CALM & STORM – Mukhamani
Mystical Strings: Panic Button #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (9/21/20) – PrairieChat
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Calm and Storm | queennandini
Quilted Poetry: I Promise You | #RonovanWrites #Haiku #Challenge 325 Calm+Storm – Quilted Poetry
Ronovan Writes:
Indignant Nature – a poem | ronovanwrites
They Thirst Alone – a tanka poem | ronovanwrites
Pray Good Sense – a Shi Rensa poem | ronovanwrites
Scraps From Life: https://scraps-from-life.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-rainbow-peace.html?m=1
Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325/
Straight From My Heart: Foretelling – Straight From My Heart A Shi Rensa.
The Bag Lady: Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt 9-28-20 – The Bag Lady
The Tenth Zodiac: Ronovan Writes – Weekly Haiku Challenge #325 – The_tenth_zodiac
They, You and Me: what matters… | They, You and Me
Thoughts and Entanglements: Moon – Haibun | thoughts and entanglements
Tina Stewart Brakebill: Haiku – Calm & Storm 9/28/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
To Wear a Rainbow: true love… | To Wear A Rainbow
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 325 CALM & STORM | willowdot21
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Pray Good Sense – a Shi Rensa poem
Pray Good Sense
by
Ronovan
~
gulf storms and sea swells
waves ravage innocent sands
calm beauty returns
*
calm beauty returns
at the final gust of breath
the ear knows silence
*
the ear knows silence
and the roaring void is hope
the listless will stir
*
the listless will stir
when empty truths are laid bare
pray good sense prevails
My Shi Rensa for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/.
To learn more about my poetry form please click HERE.
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Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 25 (STILL) This week, it’s the D rhyme line.
I chose the word STILL this week to help those who might want to combine it with their haiku for Monday’s Haiku Challenge prompt of (CALM & STORM).
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
As you may know, if you did write a haiku you can:
-
Take your haiku and carry its theme into your Décima poem.
-
It can either support the haiku, enhance it through the opportunity of more lines, or completely turn the theme on its head and write an argument against the haiku message, which is kind of what a Décima is for, writing a counter to another Décima.
-
If you wrote a true nature haiku, you could flip its message into one about humans and the man-made world around us, such as politics, society, and even love. Yes, love is a man-made thing. At least among the humans. I suppose it could be a penguin-made thing among the penguins.
-
You may also if you like, try to use the Haiku Challenge words in your Décima somewhere. In fact, we have a lady that’s pretty consistent in doing that. And does so with such ease, you don’t even realize she’s done it unless you know she does it and look for it.
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 LOOK, click HERE for all the links in one post.
Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.
If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.
Sites to help:
RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc
The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.
Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.
The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc with a choice of a break between line 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.
Example, if I say in the subject line of the post:
“…(FALL) This week it’s the B rhyme line.”
my Décima might be…
NO!
As the end wept upon the land,
we could hear the approaching fall.
Justice answered the trumpet’s call,
trusting the fight to her troop’s hand.
Fate trembles with haste to expand,
through misdeeds by her shameless foe.
Past foolish decisions now crow,
“Wait—no—this was not meant to be.”
They beg the nation, “Hear our plea.
Heal honor, shout, no…no… NO!”
Notice the example prompt word ‘FALL’ is in line 2, the first B line, and its rhyme in is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.
For today’s challenge, the word STILL must be one of the D line words. Then the other D line(s) word(s) must rhyme with STILL.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
Once you complete your poem and post it on your blog, copy the link and place it in the comments in this post. That way other people can visit your post and check out your poem. You can also put the link of this challenge in your post to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate. This is called a Pingback. This is not mandatory to join in or to put your post link in the comments. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback.
Reblogging is great as well.
Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
They Thirst Alone – a tanka poem
to storm the chaste
we slowly prepare the plots,
for thirsty readers
hearts yearn for their passion tales
then break in hushed loneliness
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/.
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Indignant Nature – a poem
gulf storms and sea swells
waves ravage innocent sands
calm beauty returns
My poem for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/28/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-325-calm-storm/.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Décima Challenge 24 Poets Collected
14 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of LOOK and their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Thanks to all for making this a good week for the challenge. Great poetry. Go check out the ones you haven’t already.
Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: https://arthurrichardson.org/2020/09/25/the-stream/
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/23/ronovan-writes-decima-challenge-prompt-24/
Charmed Chaos: Shades of Blue Charmed Chaos
EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: The Mantle – eastelmhurst.a.go.go
Directions of A Truly Concerned Literate Citizen
The storm skirts in from the far west,
the east to some, to some the same,
but no matter the gale, the name,
I huddle, wait for nature’s test.
In most things, I am a person blessed,
pleasure found in my cozy nook,
the odd glance, a slight probing look
at the gloomier side of life,
hardship, war, hunger, so much strife,
glad for the bliss of a good book.
Frank Hubeny: Look – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking
The Hidden Edge: Six Months (Weekly Decima Challenge #24 – Look) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
Like Mercury Colliding: dark days | like mercury colliding…
Meanings and Musings: Truth will emerge – MEANINGS AND MUSINGS
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/look-a-decima/
MMA Storytime: The Journey
Mystical Strings: Looking for Love #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Quest – PrairieChat
willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 24 (LOOK) This week, it’s the C rhyme line. | willowdot21
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 325 CALM & STORM
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.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Calm, Storm
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
- Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
- The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help, visit HowManySyllables.com. (You would be surprised at how many syllables some words actually have.)
- Words have different definitions and you use the definitions that work for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
- You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
- Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
- If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.
The Challenge Words!
Calm&Storm
Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to posts for other forms of Haiku.
Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
Haiku Challenge 324 Poets Collected.
Links to the 24 Poets with over 35 Poems from last week’s challenge of FURY & SLOW and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.
Thank you to all those who participated this week. The more the that write the more I know I offer the right prompt words for the week. It isn’t always easy to come up with original ones I haven’t used before, at least not after 300 of these. I have been forced to use a few twice. As long as y’all write and enjoy, I’ll keep doing them.
Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-haiku-weekly-prompt-324/
Breathing Shallow Poetry: Take a Slow Bell | Breathing Shallow Poetry
Geetha Balvannanathan’s Blog – Isis Tratum: https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/all-rage-now-vanquished/ 10 Haiku
Help from Heaven: Don’t Make Angry Decisions – Help from Heaven
The Hidden Edge: Ouch – (Weekly Haiku Prompt) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge
J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Fury & Slow ~ 9/21/20 – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It
Like Mercury Colliding: dark days | like mercury colliding…
Lillie-Put: SLOW BURN | Lillie-Put
Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/outside-the-inside/ 3 Haiku
Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 FURY&SLOW – Mukhamani
Mystical Strings: Awakening #Haiku #Poem | Mystical Strings
Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (9/21/20) – PrairieChat
Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the words Fury and Slow | queennandini
Quilted Poetry: Family | Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 – Quilted Poetry
Ronovan Writes:
Bonfire – a poem | ronovanwrites
tempered – a poem. | ronovanwrites
Throned – a poem | ronovanwrites A Shi Rensa
Scraps From Life: https://scraps-from-life.blogspot.com/2020/09/oped.html
scribblans: Sometimes I Don’t Rhymes: Fury and Slow – Scribblans
Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-324/
Straight From My Heart: Nature’s Fury – Straight From My Heart
The Bag Lady: Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – The Bag Lady
Tina Stewart Brakebill: the equinox – Tina Stewart Brakebill
Thoughts and Entanglements: Slow Burn | thoughts and entanglements
WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 324 FURY&SLOW. | willowdot21
Word Florilegium:How Now, Ronovan… – Word Florilegium
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tempered – a poem.
fall’s fragile fragrance
a reward to devour
and temper madness
A haiku for my Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge. https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-324-furyslow/.
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