nature’s logic keeps
life with health and harmony
is without anger
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Anger and Logic.
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The darker the skin…
The darker the skin,
the darker the chance.
The darker the chance,
the darker the future.
The darker the future,
the darker the life.
The darker the life,
the darker the death.
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 308 Anger&Logic
**LOOK FOR THE Décima PROMPT THIS WEEK AND DO A CONTINUATION OF YOUR HAIKU. Décima IS SIMPLY A RHYME POEM WITH A SET RHYME PATTERN.**
SEVERAL GREAT RESPONSES THIS WEEK. Do check them out.
(Sorry for shouting but I’m serious about this.)
Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Remember to come back and visit the comments section during the week for your fellow poets’ entries!
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Anger, Logic
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 revenuse 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.
- 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!
Anger&Logic
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
MALAYSIAN HAIKU/SENRYU ECHOES 552: OPEN AND CLOSE
I like this trio this week. Very precise in the delivery.
MALAYSIAN HAIKU/SENRYU ECHOES 552: OPEN AND CLOSE
kill with open eyes
brutality boost by badge
close up cruelty
world is wide open
human rights violation
close cry of cadence
sense open and close
fresh flourishing learners mind
free and predestined
Notes:
This run of haiku/senryu is in response to Ronovan’s Poetry Prompt Challenge, with the words, OPEN & CLOSE, posted on May 25th 2020.
The pictures are copied and pasted from the web, with appreciation.
‘Feared or Loved’ a Haiku
stray cats open eyes
stay away from those who hate
close to those who love
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Still Not Satisfied
Inspired by I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
Still Not Satisfied
A man once said he had a dream.
For this nation falters in stride,
every man resistant by pride.
A man held in so high esteem,
his end caused the earth to scream.
His beliefs inspire those denied,
judged by the color of their hide.
The waters still have not rolled free,
while the stream is far from mighty.
And still, he is not satisfied.
My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge No. 7 DREAM. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
HERE is some of my recent poetry related to Black Lives Matter to scroll through.
Some recent poetry:
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‘BURN’ a Haiku
when close to the sun
flesh and bone burn quick to ash
open to give life
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Sanity’s edge
A first-time décima poet. Nailed it an amazing way. Go take a look, seriously.
At times of loss, then it does seem As though all flat is my being Eyes open, yet nothing seeing; Alone, I wander through a dream. Crazed horizons: a mottled theme Beckons me to sanity's edge. A splintered mind; a driven wedge Into reality's true heart And at the last a distant part Found clinging to a windswept ledge.
Prompt: Ronovan Writes: Decima Poetry Challenge #7: Dream
I’ve never tried a ‘decima‘ poem before. I’m not tremendously pleased with my effort: what do you think of it?
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 7 (DREAM). This week, it’s the A rhyme spot.
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 one.
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines (stanza) of poetry that rhyme but in this case there is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to.
In addition each line must only have 8 syllables.
The rhyme pattern is;
a
b
b
a
a
c
c
d
d
c
For this particular challenge the word DREAM must be one of the A position words. Then the other two A position/s word/s must rhyme with DREAM.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
This week is the
A rhyme spot.
This week’s inspiration is to use
DREAM
as one of your “A” words, and meaning you use DREAM in one spot, and its rhyme in the other.
If you are having a bit of trouble with this prompt, just write whatever you are inspired to do as long as it is a Décima.
Tools you might need to write the poem are:
RhymeZone.com,
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com.
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 a link, Ping Back, of this challenge in your post, to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate., but this is not a must to join in.
If you choose to put the link in your post, this is a Ping Back. Click HERE to find out how to do a Ping Back, if you have never done one before. Basically, any time you click on a link in an article or post, that’s a Ping Back.
Please share this post on your Social Media, such as Twitter or FB. As with the Ping Back, this is not a requirement. Reblogging is great as well.
Some people also like to copy the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
‘Young Life’ a Haiku
den mother keeps close
the young when danger rumbles
open their raw eyes
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
‘Water’ a Haiku
river opens spills
giving saline life from fresh
part of closed circle
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
‘Mother Earth’ a Haiku
clouds stay closed leaving
her sprouts in a thirsty plight,
earth opens … gives life
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 307: Open&Close (Simple Words? Maybe.)
Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Remember to come back and visit the comments section during the week for your fellow poets entries!
Haiku Poetry Prompt Writing Challenge Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Open, Close
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines are simple.
- 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 within it to articles about how to write Haibun, Tanka, and even a new form I created called Freku. 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.)
- The two words can be used as you like. Words have different definitions and you can use the definitions you like. You can even use a synonym word as long as it does not change the meaning. Go to Thesaurus.com for Synonym help.
- Use the Tag of Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge. This will help me find you in case you forget to ping back or leave your URL in the comments.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL in a comment so we can all go and visit your site to see what you have done. You can do a ping back. What’s a ping back? Put the URL link in the address bar of this post, if you like, within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenges out, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing by more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running I get paid for by your visit. Click HERE for a detailed article on Ping Backs.
- You may copy one of the badges/images appearing in this post below or above and place it on your site if you wish, most normally use it within their post. I am not saying you need to, but if you would like to do so then go ahead. It is simply my way of saying thank you for participating. I sometimes make custom images for the week, if time and health permits.
- 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!
Open&Close
Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to articles for other forms of Haiku.
Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
Stumbling on: A Tanka Poem.
The breeze caresses
like your longing fingertips
fate glides through my mind
with lightning, thunder and pain
I stumble on day by day.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Wand’ring Eye Décima
Ha, an excellent and true poem that connects to so many, whether they have been in this or have seen their friends in it. Nicely done.
You took a second glance. I could
Forgive you for a wand’ring eye.
As long as you do not deny,
And just assume I’ve understood,
Given a choice, I know you would
Allow that longing, leering stare
To ricochet back to me where
It will be reciprocated.
Besides, I’ve often debated
To gaze, myself. It’s only fair.
In response to Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 6 found here
A Foolish Vow: a Décima Poem.
My entry for this weeks Décima Poetry Challenge No. 6 EYE. (A New Challenge here on ronovanwrites.com)
A Foolish Vow
Threading his way through the thick crowd,
he takes pains to draw not an eye.
For which of these could be their spy?
His escape must not be allowed,
as to their master they have vowed,
if not alive … then severed head?
Would a bloodied corpse do instead?
But their mission will bring but pain,
cause each life will drain from each vein.
With their fate no tears will be shed.
To scene before this one, click for “Gypsy Guest: a Décima Poem.”
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 6 (Eye). This week, it’s the B rhyme spot.
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 one.
Click the name of my Décima below to see my take on this weeks prompt word for an example. It is the second part of one I wrote last week.
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines (stanza) of poetry that rhyme but in this case there is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to.
In addition each line must only have 8 syllables.
The rhyme pattern is;
a
b
b
a
a
c
c
d
d
c
For this particular challenge the word EYE must be one of the B position words. Then the other two C position words must rhyme with EYE.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
This week is the
B rhyme spot.
This week’s inspiration is to use
EYE
as one of your “B” words, and meaning you use EYE in one spot, and its rhyme in the other.
If you are having a bit of trouble with this prompt, just write whatever you are inspired to do as long as it is a Décima.
Tools you might need to write the poem are:
RhymeZone.com,
Thesaurus.com
HowManySyllables.com.
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 a link, Ping Back, of this challenge in your post, to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate., but this is not a must to join in.
If you choose to put the link in your post, this is a Ping Back. Click HERE to find out how to do a Ping Back, if you have never done one before. Basically, any time you click on a link in an article or post, that’s a Ping Back.
Please share this post on your Social Media, such as Twitter or FB. As with the Ping Back, this is not a requirement. Reblogging is great as well.
Some people also like to copy the challenge image into their post. That’s okay with me.
The Horn Sounds: A Haiku Poem.
Their cloak of trust and
Greedy guile gained victory
and his vengeful chase.
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Cloak&Race.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 306: Cloak&Race
Please come by on Wednesday for the new Décima Poetry Challenge.
How to write Haiku in English. And how to do a Pingback.
Remember to come back and visit the comments section during the week for your fellow poets entries!
Haiku Poetry Prompt Writing Challenge Useful Links.
Thesaurus: Cloak, Race
HowManySyllables.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines are simple.
- 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 within it to articles about how to write Haibun, Tanka, and even a new form I created called Freku. 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.)
- The two words can be used as you like. Words have different definitions and you can use the definitions you like. You can even use a synonym word as long as it does not change the meaning. Go to Thesaurus.com for Synonym help.
- Use the Tag of Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge. This will help me find you in case you forget to ping back or leave your URL in the comments.
- Copy the link of your finished haiku URL in a comment so we can all go and visit your site to see what you have done. You can do a ping back. What’s a ping back? Put the URL link in the address bar of this post, if you like, within your post. Your inclusion of the link encourages others to try the challenges out, be creative, and join a community to find friends and more followers (hopefully). I honestly gain nothing by more people visiting the post. I don’t have ads running I get paid for by your visit. Click HERE for a detailed article on Ping Backs.
- You may copy one of the badges/images appearing in this post below or above and place it on your site if you wish, most normally use it within their post. I am not saying you need to, but if you would like to do so then go ahead. It is simply my way of saying thank you for participating. I sometimes make custom images for the week, if time and health permits.
- 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!
Cloak&Race
Not sure how to write a Haiku? Click HERE for a quick How to write Haiku Poem in English Form with links to articles for other forms of Haiku.
Much Respect-Much Love
Ronovan
To Smile, To Live: A Haiku.
To smile is to live
A life filled with potential
Is one of God’s gifts.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
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