Writer’s Block Décima

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Ronovan Writing

This one should hit home for everyone reading this blog. Not just the poets out there. Of course this NEVER EVER NEVER happens to me. (So what if I didn’t write for 4 years.)

My Fresh Pages

Writer’s block is an artist’s mite;
Tumbleweed blowing in the wind.
The malicious blank canvas grinned,
He cocked his head, and laughed in spite.
Who transmitted this parasite?
I want my thoughts to merge and mesh,
Creating poems filled with flesh.
Who ran away with my ideas?
This has confirmed all of my fears.
I buffer when I press refresh.

In response to Ronovan Writes’ Décima Challenge #12 found here

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The Architect of the Queen – a poem

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku About Bees, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Nature Haiku, Poem About Bees, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

she works in earnest,

to create a home for her queen,

requires great instincts

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Intent&Thought (Earnest&Instincts)

You should click HERE to check out the Worker Bee Wikipedia page. I didn’t know the Worker Bee was female. There are ELEVEN tasks the Worker Bee performs listed on the page. Amazing. Think about how many societal structures of living creatures are based around a female with females being the hardest workers.

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To Know the Future – a poem

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Famous Quote, Goerge Santayana, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Planning for the future, Remember history, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

Do you have intent

while you dream of the future,

give thought to your past.

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Intent&Thought

Inspired by the quote below. One I live by, a mantra if you will, as a former History teacher and writer of Historical fiction. When you do know history you look at what is happening today and you know what will happen tomorrow. And it’s heartbreaking.

George Santayana‘s famous aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Polish translation and English back-translation

Haiku/Tanka Challenge (6/30/20)

June 30, 2020 Ronovan Writing

I asked Clarence of PrairieChat.com to write another poem using the image from the video he shared in his Haiku for the challenges this week. And here it is.

Very nice. Give him a round of applause and a big kiss.

PrairieChat

Same picture different take

Taming open range
Man’s steel stretched mile after mile
-Wild meadowlarks sing

Barbwire strung for land’s control
Rebel sings the sweetest song

©2020 cj holm

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/06/29/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-intent-thought/

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 312 Intent&Thought

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge #AmWriting, Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Short Story Form

Examples Provided using this week’s prompt words, just in case you are new to Haiku.

Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge. I sometimes have the prompt related to the Haiku words. It’s kind of fun to have the two work together in your own poetry.

Click those links in the comments to love your fellow poets Haiku. Click HERE for a quick jump to the comments section below for those links to Haiku.

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

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Intent, Thought
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Example #1:

Do you have intent

while you dream of the future,

give thought to your past.

Example #2 A Nature Haiku:

worker bee’s intent,

to create a home for her queen,

great thought is given

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!

Intent&Thought

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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The Truth of Peace – a poem

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku Poetry, Johan Galtung, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Poetry about Active Peace, Poetry about wellbeing, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge, What is Harmony, What is Peace

harmony’s intent,

isn’t peace but self’s progression,

in truth wellbeing

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Intent&Thought

Inspired by the Theory of Active Peace. Not a perfect representation of it, but the best I could do with 17 syllables… this time.

To use this word instead of that?

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Ronovan Writing BlackLivesMatter, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Origin of African American use, Social Equality, Taking away the power of white supremacy, The Atlantic Article, Understanding the English Language, Word Origin of Negro over negro

In recent months, the number of articles related to race and skin color has increased. Now you can add an article to capitalize a letter or not. On this blog, I supply a creative outlet for an unrestricted audience to express feelings and thoughts based on whatever theme they choose including the current protests and the riots. Thus, I share the article.

The attached article titled The Case for Capitalizing the “B” in Black is about language, and so is this blog. Our poetry is language. Our ideas are language. Every moment of our lives is language. I will share my opinion another time.

The article is not a history lesson. I mention this now because the article refers to a few historical points as they relate to the topic. I don’t want people who don’t like history not to read this.

The article is a walk through the thought processes behind the terms Negro, African American, and now Black. The reasoning for the capital “W” in white is given. The author gives unbiased telling and in someways leaves it to the reader to develop their own opinion.

I encourage you to read and learn. I’m not begging you to read the article. The author doesn’t preach in the article. You learn things, such as an origin of the “N” capitalization in Negro, and the beginning of the term African American.

The above articled mention is by Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University and the author of The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity, which appears in The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/time-to-capitalize-blackand-white/613159/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Words they do… – a poem

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Black Lives Matter, Change 2020, Election 2020, Life, Make a Change, Make a Difference, Poetry, Racism, Ronovan Hester, Societal changes, What words do

Word, the most violent and deadly of devices.

Some cause hurt will some bring sacrifices.

This singular blade of patronization

may bring hope or one’s death causation.

My breath is shallow get off of me,

those are words below a bended knee.

They are screamed, shouted cried in mass,

no wonder the chants have turned to “You can kiss my ass.”

Young man, lying cuffed down on the ground,

pleas of “sorry”, “I’m good”, authorities stand around.

He’s sick and vomiting from fear confused,

all the man asked is, “What drugs have you used?”

One word can turn belief from one to the other.

The right takedown then a lineal belief of a brother.

Words, they do good they do harm they kill they agree.

What does the future hold for this land of the free?

“One cannot change history, but can create the future.” – Ronovan Hester

Hammers have no Power – a poem

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Black Lives Matter, Change 2020, Election 2020, History, Life, Make a Change, Make a Difference, Ronovan Hester, Societal changes

One cannot erase the least of the past,

the memories remain, now, even more, held fast.

It can’t be torn down with a hundred thousand blows.

But unity, voice, and pen have power to transpose.

Not having lost the what, where and were,

one has the knowledge to create the future.

“One cannot change history, but can create the future.”

The End of a Line – A Décima Poem

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Ronovan Decima Poetry #AmWriting, Black Lives Matter, Decima Poetry, Grab the future, Poems that Rhyme, Poetry Challenge, Racism, Racist Denial, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt, Then Commandments, White Privilege, White washing history

The End of a Line

Enshrine their, her, and his story.

While they bathed the ages in lye.

one still in iron, one a tie,

one a boss, one inventory.

One has choice, one mandatory.

One in front, the other the back.

The line starts here and ends in black.

The future is rising, grab that ring.

Make lady justice’s scale swing.

No slowing down, stay the attack.

HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 11 STORY. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 11 (STORY). This week, it’s the A or C rhyme line.

June 24, 2020June 24, 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.

To read poems so far entered this week, click HERE to go to the comment section.

If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on how to write one.

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 that often has prompts (Face&Change this week) that share a central theme, at least in my head, with the Décima Poetry Challenge prompt.

Back to our schedule Décima Poetry Challenge how to and whatnot.

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

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, if you don’t already know how.

Reblogging is great as well.

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

simple living…haiku

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Ronovan Writing earthquakes, floods, Haiku Poetry, human riots, hurricanes, mother nature reclaims, Nature, poetry of nature, poetry of the world's wraith, storms, tsunamis, wildfires

Hello to all my poetry-loving friends. Please visit this poets blog and love her poetry. She has been with my Haiku Challenge for years. A loyal person indeed. Show her talent some love.

To Wear A Rainbow...

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/06/22/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-change-face/

nature’s wrath

changing the face of the earth

time to simplify living

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the earth burns – a haiku poem

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Black Lives Matter, Change 2020, Election 2020, Haiku Poetry, Life, Make a Change, Make a Difference, Poetry Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge, Societal changes

winds of change begin

from east to west and beyond,

earth’s face turns and burns

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Change & Face.

change facer – a haiku poem

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Black Lives Matter, Change 2020, creative moment, Creative Outlet, Election 2020, Haiku Poetry, Life, Make a Change, Make a Difference, Poetry Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge, Voting makes Change

to face the nation

each one of us must reflect

our reason to change

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Change & Face.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 311 Change&Face

June 22, 2020June 24, 2020 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge #AmWriting, Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Short Story Form

Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge (STORY) is the word this week. I sometimes have the prompt related to the Haiku words. It’s kind of fun to have the two work together in your own poetry.

Click those links to love…

some great Haiku. Click HERE to get to the comments below.

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

Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Change, Face
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 currently BEGINS at 8 AM EST (New York City time) on Mondays. And a DEADLINE is Noon EST (New York City time) on the Sunday following the Challenge Post release.

The Challenge Words!

Change&Face

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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life’s cycle – a haiku poem

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 Ronovan Haiku 17 syllables, Birthday, birthday poem, Creative Writing, Haiku, Life, Nature, Poetry, Ronovan Hester

samhradh’s sweet first day,

is time of birth and searching,

yields to cloak and death

My Silence to not be a Hypocrite Racist.

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 Ronovan Life

To Those Of You Who Visit,

(So far today, no one has clicked on the Juneteenth links to discover the history of the day. I am a bit disappointed.)

In the USA yesterday, which was June 19, 2020, there were celebrations, known as Juneteenth, across the country in honor of slavery being abolished in the US.

“Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19^th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. ” – Juneteenth.com

Do visit the site and learn interesting details. I studied Reconstruction history at university and was never made aware of the date or the delay in Texas. But, it was mostly focused on the political and social reconstruction in states the government of the time directed their attention to.

Some of my regular visitors to the blog may have noticed I did not post anything special in honor of this day. This might seem odd, considering my various poetry challenges’ prompt words for the past several weeks have been specifically geared toward the current protest and #BlackLivesMatter movement. My blog is pretty much my only way to physically support any kind of movement. Well, here and my Social Media, from which I do occasionally Tweet African American authors free kindle books I come across AND get myself. I’m not going to promote unless the book has good reviews, otherwise, I think I am, in some ways, being racist.

All of that to say the following. The reason I didn’t post yesterday was that I felt it somewhat hypocritical of me, as a White man, or a person of any skin color than black, to post my support when I have done nothing until recently in support of the cause of equality for all. To post would, to me, feel as though I were being racist somehow. Almost taking advantage of something that was not mine to bring visitors to my blog.

None of the above paragraph would have been my intent. However, until I have been consistent and intentional in my support of equality for all, I have no right to jump on a wagon that I am not pulling.

Respectfully,

Ronovan – An Awakening White Man

Amaze Me – A Poem

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Ronovan Poetry Bright Lights, Call for Help, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, Darkness, Depression, Do Not Give Up, euphoria, Fibromyalgia, Hope for the Futre, Hope of Love, Love Poem, Ronovan Hester

How you amaze me
Every day
I think of ways
You give me life and meaning

No one who
Could be like you
And not change me

How you amaze me
How you amaze me
How you amaze me

I travel through
a black blue sea
until I can be
just one of your days

Finding words
Like pulling nerves
Too many and all painful
Just let me be pain free
Once in my life

How you amaze me
How you amaze me
How you amaze me

Just once in my life
Make me pain free.

I used to call these my lyrical poems. I suppose all poems are lyrical…with the right accompaniment. What you see is what came out as it came out.

A Racist Confessed – A Décima Poem

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Ronovan Decima Poetry #AmWriting, Black Lives Matter, Decima Poetry, I am racist, Poems that Rhyme, Poetry Challenge, Racism, Racist Denial, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt, Then Commandments, White Privilege

A Racist Confessed

I confess that I’m a racist.

Looking away from bigotry.

Angry at one man’s bended knee.

Knowing that blue on black exists.

Hoping proof shows the black resists.

Loving the colors of all skin?

Bet on who I’ll blame the break-in.

Time all these lies become past tense.

Pray man comes to a common sense.

Confess we’ve held down our own kin

This Décima was inspired by this week’s Décima by Vocabularical (Is that not the best name for a wordsmith?)- Décima Challenge: Sense. That’s the name of his entry post. Click it and you will not be disappointed. I reblogged it here on my blog, but he deserves to have it read where it lives. Please do go and read it. It will hit some of you right between the eyes.

HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 10 SENSE. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)

A Poem of Challenges…

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Ronovan Decima Poetry, Haiku Black Lives Matter, Decima Poetry, Haiku Poetry, Need for a change, Pensitivity101, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes, Three Things Challenge, Vote Your Needs, Whie People Be Active However You can for Change, White Privilege, Your Right to Protest, Your Right To Vote

a voice from on high

raining down over blind hearts

the shared truth triumphs

The mind plus the heart makes for change.

A whisper of placation will do,

as will just praying from your pew.

Groupthink who buys that…will derange.

Those aware are bound to outrange.

Fools who hate, fear, and deny,

why degenerate, prove your why?

He’s in his fortress, while you fight?

Him or the blood, you know which’s right.

For him, no grace, a nation’s cry.

for my Haiku Challenge this week: Share & Voice, and my Décima Poetry Challenge No. 10 SENSE. and Pensitivity’s Three Things Challeng #270 Grace, Fortress, and Whisper.

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Writer’s Block Décima

The Architect of the Queen – a poem

To Know the Future – a poem

Haiku/Tanka Challenge (6/30/20)

Taming open range
Man’s steel stretched mile after mile
-Wild meadowlarks sing

Barbwire strung for land’s control
Rebel sings the sweetest song

©2020 cj holm

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/06/29/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-intent-thought/

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 312 Intent&Thought

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

The Challenge Words!

Intent&Thought

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The Truth of Peace – a poem

Words they do… – a poem

Hammers have no Power – a poem

The End of a Line – A Décima Poem

The End of a Line

Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 11 (STORY). This week, it’s the A or C rhyme line.

simple living…haiku

the earth burns – a haiku poem

change facer – a haiku poem

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 311 Change&Face

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

The Challenge Words!

Change&Face

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life’s cycle – a haiku poem

My Silence to not be a Hypocrite Racist.

Amaze Me – A Poem

A Racist Confessed – A Décima Poem

A Racist Confessed

A Poem of Challenges…

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Taming open rangeMan’s steel stretched mile after mile-Wild meadowlarks sing

Barbwire strung for land’s controlRebel sings the sweetest song

©2020 cj holm

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

The Challenge Words!

Intent&Thought

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The End of a Line

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

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Change&Face

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A Racist Confessed

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Taming open range
Man’s steel stretched mile after mile
-Wild meadowlarks sing

Barbwire strung for land’s control
Rebel sings the sweetest song