Haiku Challenge 321 Poets Collected.

One last thing before we jump in the creativity pool, check out my weekly Haiku Challenge prompts (Morrow & Surge this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.

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

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

If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.

Sites to help:

RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com

Here is the quick description of a Décima:

There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc

The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.

Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.

The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc.

For example, if I say, “(NAME) This week it’s the A rhyme line” in the post heading, my Décima might be:

You took time, with a deadeye aim,
because you saw me scratch an itch,
this wound to my head needs a stitch.
Feel so bad, don’t know my own name.
Not hiding, because there’s no shame.
Get ready for when I get healed,
for your ending will be revealed.
It’s too late when you hear the crack.
That’s when it’s time for some payback.
Then I’ll be carried far afield.

Notice the example prompt word ‘name’ is in the fourth line A spot, and its rhymes are in lines one and five, matching the rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc.

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

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.

Surge Ahead To Not Remain Behind – a poem

September 1, 2020September 7, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Shi Rensa Haiku Haiku, Micro Poetry, Poetry, Poetry about movements, Poetry about Tyranny, Poetry about voting, Poetry of Society, Ronovan Writes Haiku Poetry Challenge, Shi Rensa Haiku, The Lives of Blacks Matter

Surge Ahead To Not Remain Behind

The morrow brings life

To the masses of fleet rage,

Keep the surge alive.

Keep the surge alive

It never lasts long enough,

to change fate’s robbed course.

To change fate’s robbed course,

Ride this rare swell of free minds,

To bring man purpose.

To bring man purpose,

Stop these apathetic streams,

choose on the morrow.

To learn more about the Shi Rensa Haiku and to use it for my weekly https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/31/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-321-morrow-surge/ click HERE. © 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.

Décima Challenge 20 Poets Collected

September 1, 2020September 1, 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 links to the Poets from last week’s challenge of SMILE and their Décima. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Charmed Chaos: As Daylight Wanes Charmed Chaos

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO: About The Great Society – eastelmhurst.a.go.go

http://www.engleson.ca

The Survivors. In anticipation of Hurricane Laura

They stand in the way of the wind.
As it roars through the southern seas.
Fierce, careless, it whips water, trees,
Men, women, shattered and skinned.
And once humanity is thinned,
Disposed of by nature’s guile,
Those who live, with stubborn smiles,
Endure as poor mankind must,
With faith, with toil, and with trust
That it was all worth the trial.

Bob Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/08/29/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-20-reflections-of-a-morose-minstrel/

Frank Hubeny: Smile – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

The Hidden Edge: Just Smile – Ch#58 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

The Indie She: https://indishe.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-20-smile-this-week-its-the-c-rhyme-line/

Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/ringed-a-decima/

MMA Storytime: A Bloody Smile

Prairie Chat: Just A Moment – PrairieChat

Ronovan Writes: Ew Gross or A Stalker Gawk Cur- a poem. | ronovanwrites

revivedwriter: https://revivedwriter.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/smiles/

Ruth Blogs Here: The Lost Smiles… – Ruth Blogs Here

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 20 (SMILE) This week, it’s the C rhyme line. | willowdot21

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 321 Morrow&Surge

August 31, 2020September 1, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku, Short Story Form

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

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

Click HERE for last weeks 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: Morrow, Surge
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!

Morrow&Surge

Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to posts for other forms of Haiku.

Much Respect-Much Love

Ronovan

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Love Swells – a poem

August 31, 2020September 1, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Poetry Christianity, garden of gethsemane, Haiku Poetry, Japanese poetry form, Poetry, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Haiku Prompt Challenge, The betrayal

In the wee hours

The cock crows just three times

fore love swells… rises.

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 321 Morrow & Surge

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

Haiku Challenge 320 Poets Collected.

August 31, 2020August 31, 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 27 Poets 33 Poems from last week’s challenge of Day&Flaw and their haiku. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Annette Rochelle Aben: No Naturale | Annette Rochelle Aben

Bobby Fairfield: https://bobfairfield.org/2020/08/24/ronovan-writes-haiku-challenge-320-poetryprompt/

Breathing Shallow Poetry: Grace for Flawed Days | Breathing Shallow Poetry

http://www.engleson.ca:

Monday

The day unravels;
The flaw in the ointment is
Mondays nick the dream.

Charmed Chaos: #Haiku: Setting Sun Charmed Chaos

Anisha | Crazy Nerds: Poetic Sunsets – CᖇazY Neᖇɗs (3 Haiku & 1 Senryu)

Goutam’s Writings: Winter tales – Goutam’s Writings

The Hidden Edge: Forgive – Ch#55 (Just one thing) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

J-Dubs Grin and Bear It: Haiku – Day & Flaw – J-Dubs Grin and Bear It

LSS Attitude of Gratitude: Ronovan Writes Haiku – #320 – Day and Flaw – ❀ Welcome To LSS Attitude of Gratitude❀

Meanings & Musings: Who is right? #haiku 320 #dance – MEANINGS AND MUSINGS

Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/2188/

MMA Storytime: Make Your Own Luck

Mukhamani (Lakshmi Bhat}: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 320 Day&Flaw – Mukhamani

Prairie Chat: Haiku Challenge (8/24/20) – PrairieChat (Tanka)

Queen Nandini: My Haikus with the Words Day and Flaw | queennandini

Quilted Poetry: Stormy Weather (Tanka) & Rain or Shine

Ronovan Writes: A SPECKLED CROWN – a poem | ronovanwrites

Sketching Words: https://sketchingwords.com/2020/08/24/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-320/

Sweet Aroma: SEW THREADS OF KINDNESS | Sweet aroma

The Tenth Zodiac: https://thetenthzodiac.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/transition/ (4 Haiku)

Thoughts and Entanglements:Flawless | thoughts and entanglements

Tina Stewart Brakebill: finding joy – Tina Stewart Brakebill

WillowDot21: Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 320 Day& Flaw | willowdot21

Whippet Wisdom: haiku-sandcastle

A Wise Woman’s Journey: One Moment’s Choice | awisewomansjourney

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YOU ARE A MYSTERY TO ME – A Chanso Poem.

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 Ronovan Poetry #AmWriting, Chanso Poetry, French Poetry Form, How to Write a Chanso Poem, How to Write Poetry, Poem about reading a book, Poetry that challenges, poetry that rhymes, Rhyme Poetry, Syllabic Poetry, Troubadour lyric poetry form

YOU ARE A MYSTERY TO ME

I search and spy you from across the room.
At first sight, I felt my heart burst in bloom.
My thoughts race to islands of blue waters
And for just a moment my vision blurs.

I touch your dress and feel the electric.
In this moment I know you’re the right pick.
I grip you in my hands, oh how perfect.
You hold my attention, firm, and direct.

You open to me, no fear to reveal.
Fragile as glass or hard as tungsten steel.
The lure of the first moments of delight.
No doubt about it, it’s love at first sight.

Your voice just for me, soft as a whisper,
Drawing me in and cause visions to stir.
Telling me what you plan to give to me,
Every single thought I can’t help but agree.

My eyes thrill to follow your every line
Making the moon rise and the stars to shine.
My mind explodes… the things to do with you,
and oh… the smile on my face when we’re through.

Took you home quick… opened your cover too.
Turn those pages for a whodunit clue.

If you want to know more about a Chanso poem, click here for How To Write Chanso Poetry. Or jump below the logo to get a not so quick explanation but a somewhat clear version.

The not so quick explanation but a somewhat clear version:

You write however many stanzas you like or need in order to tell your story.

Each line has the same number of syllables… your choice. If one line is 7 then all lines are 7.

The number of lines per stanza is up to you but must stay the same for all stanzas with the exception of the last stanza. If one is 4 then all are 4, but the last would be 2, see next.

The final stanza has half the number of lines the other stanzas have. For this poem the stanzas have 4 lines, so my final stanza has 2.

The final stanza sums up what happened in your poem, or you can make a dedication to whoever or whatever you wrote the poem about.

And that’s it. I’ll be updating the How To… post soon with some history about the Chanso poetry form and some interesting language aspects that a history freak like me just loves to stumble upon.

Hope you enjoyed the poem, and try the style out.

Just a tip, if you write one, pick your topic/subject, then write a sentence for what each stanza will be about. For example:

My poem was about reading a book, as revealed in the final stanza. The subject of the poem being a deception until the end was my own doing, not a requirement of the style at all. Now here is how I went about my Chanso. I divided it up into what I considered the elements of reading a book, a real, honest to goodness, made of paper, book.

Seeing the book (On the shelf, the thrill that it’s there, the color of the cover.)

Feeling the book (As I take it off the shelf. Happy I finally and thrilled I finally have it.)

Opening the book (Opening the book to a story of a heartbreaking emotional story or a hard as nails action thriller. And knowing it was the right pick and delighting in what I see.)

Hearing the book (Hearing that creak of a book opening and the pages rifling.)

Reading the book (The words and the images and the ending and satisfaction of having read the book.)

The reveal (In this case.) that it is a book. (A quick summation of the poem. I was surprised by how easy it was to do it.)

How to write Chanso Poetry.

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Forms Chanso Poetry, French Poetry Form, How to Write a Chanso Poem, How to Write Poetry, Troubadour lyric poetry form

It’s New Form Friday for your Poetic Palates.

Today I bring you the CHANSO.

This is a French form made popular by troubadours in 12th century Europe. Often about the chivalrous manner to treat women. (More details coming in updates or a new post. You know I love the historic details of things.)

Here it goes the How To Write:

4 or more STANZAS
The number of lines for a STANZA is up to you. But EACH STANZA will be that number of lines.
SYLLABLES should be the same for each line throughout. The number is your choice.
The RHYME SCHEME is your choice, but whatever you set for the FIRST STANZA, should be the same for all STANZAS.

The RHYME PATTERN for a four-line four STANZA Chanso would look like this: (Image)

(Text Version)
RHYMING PATTERNS for a four-line, four stanza CHANSO.
Each stanza is to use its OWN rhymes, not those of
the previous stanza’s rhymes.
A                              A
B    A
A                                B
B B

C C
D C
C D
D D

E    E
F    E
E    F
F                                  F

G                                  G
H                                  G
G                                  H
H    H

I I
J I

You choose the NUMBER OF STANZAS you want your Chanso to have.
The FINAL STANZA called an ENVOY or TORNADA, is a summary of the poem or a dedication to the subject the poem is about if that applies in any way.
The ENVOY/TORNADO is half the number of lines as the main stanzas.
For the ABOVE PATTERN, the ENVOY is a 2 line stanza because the main stanza is 4 lines
If the main was a 6 line stanza, the final stanza would be a 3 line stanza.
The RHYME PATTERN for the ENVOY/TORNADA is the same as the main stanza
beginning with line one. If this were a 6 line main stanza, then the envoy/tornada would be IJI or IIJ.

Ew Gross or A Stalker Gawk Cur- a poem.

August 26, 2020October 22, 2020 Ronovan Decima Poetry #AmWriting, Be Creative, block the creep, creeps, online stalkers, Poems that Rhyme, Poetry Challenge, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt, scumbags, Society, stalkers

Ew, Gross

A Stalker Gawk Cur

A Taco Bell date got you cussed.

That former flame turned out her light

when your wallet became too tight.

Your love life has turned into dust,

and now Friday nights are a bust.

Your face is a lunatic smile

while stalking her twitter profile.

Dude, that brain of lust should be trussed.

Not good at all, but I needed to write. So, I did.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 20 SMILE. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 20 (SMILE) This week, it’s the C rhyme line.

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge Creative Outlet, Decima Poetry, Espinela Poetry, Fun, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Prompt, Rhyme Poetry, Serious, Spanish Origin Poetry, Vicente Espinel, Weekly Challenge, Writing Inspiration, Writing Prompt

Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.

If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on How to Write an Espinela or Décima Poem.

Or…

Keep reading and find out, with an example included.

One last thing before we jump in the creativity pool, check out my weekly Haiku Challenge prompts (Day & Flaw this week) that often share a central theme with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.

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

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

Sites to help:

RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com

Here is the quick description of a Décima:

There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc

The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.

Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.

The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc.

For example, if I say, “(NAME) This week it’s the A rhyme line” in the post heading, my Décima might be:

Notice the example prompt word ‘name’ is in the fourth line A spot, and its rhymes are in lines one and five, matching the rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc.

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

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

Reblogging is great as well.

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

Décima Challenge 19 Poets Collected

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

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

Charmed Chaos: Three Feathers Charmed Chaos

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

http://www.engleson.ca

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

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

Frank Hubeny: Ride – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

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

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

MMA Storytime: Place Your Bets

My Fresh Pages: The Fall Décima – My Fresh Pages

revivedwriter: A Rocket-Ship Ride | revivedwriter

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

A poetry challenge housekeeping post.

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

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

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

A SPECKLED CROWN – a poem

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

As bird gifts to man

a crowning day of white specks

so Man gifts the Earth.

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge 320 Day & Flaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Day, Flaw
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English as my style, which is 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, but you can use what you like.
- The link above has links on how to write Haibun and Tanka. You can also do the 3/5/3 form if you like instead of the 5/7/5 that I usually use. Write, share, and have fun. For syllable help, visit HowManySyllables.com. (You would be surprised at how many syllables some words actually have.)
- Words have different definitions and you use the definitions that work for you Haiku. You can also use SYNONYMS. Go to Thesaurus.com for synonym help.

Copy the link of your finished haiku URL and paste in a comment below so we can all go and visit your Haiku.
- You can do a pingback. What’s a pingback? Place the URL from the address bar up top from this post as a link within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenge, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing with more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running that generates revenue by your visit or by clicks on whatever WordPress has put up.
- Click HERE for a detailed post on PINGBACKS.
If you like, copy the image in this post and place it within their post, just to show the Haiku is part of this challenge.
- I am not saying you need or even should, but if you would like to do so then go ahead.