They weave through time like
Natures undaunted soldiers
whose webs keeps forming
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A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of WEAVE and Web.
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Who needs the tender
mercies of the universe
heal without judgement
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A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of TENDER and Who.
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heed death’s rapid reach
by a dark sense of ennui
the fated plunge nears
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A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of PLUNGE and Rapid..
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Life’s Ebb and Flow
heat flows through new veins
to the ends of outstretched tips
moon’s hold starts to ebb
moon’s hold starts to ebb
the sun gives its warm embrace
the energy flows
the energy flows
slowly, life ebbs toward death
hope waits in the dark
hope waits in the dark
lifelines retire out of time,
still, latent, until…
What am I? Do you know? Comment below with your guess. The tags won’t help this time.
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flesh and bone burn quick to ash
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
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clouds stay closed leaving
her sprouts in a thirsty plight,
earth opens … gives life
A Haiku for my challenge this week: Open and Close.
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I hear your voice
Two words
They hammer at the wall
Of my mind’s death
Heaven sent
Or heart found
I am pulled from the darkness
I breathe
I grieve
I mourn
I want the death again
Why this torture for me
Why the agony of this loss
Why so here and so not
Why
Days of pleading prevail
Please, God bring my ease
Please, God bring me release
Please, God break my mind again
Please, God
Knowing but still nothing
Two words
Freeing me from death
Condemning me to worse
Why were you taken
Why
Where is the never ending joy
Where is my peace
Why does my heart need ache
Why every day
Free me from this tearing of my soul
I pray for an end
Not quick enough
The story of a poem. Think of a man who is in the hospital and unconscious. He hears a voice calling to him, he sees a face. He sees a little girl’s face. He opens his eyes to a place he doesn’t know, with a broken mind. The little girl isn’t there. Where is she? The little girl was never born. She called out to the man. It wasn’t his turn. She used what she could to tell him it just wasn’t his time yet.
Flash forward and the man remembers about the little girl. He remembers who the little girl is. He wants it to be his time. But his time is not quick enough. He wants the memory to go away. But it won’t go away quick enough.
I have seen comments to this poem and I have even seen poems written as a response in which I am tagged in. Thank you for the thoughts and the words, but the suppositions are nowhere near the mark. This is one that cannot recover, cannot be brought back, cannot be made to have a better day. If you pray, pray I forget that I once gain forget the memories that came to me that inspired this poem. Please do so.
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Stoneworth didn’t give a fig about life. As far as he was concerned it could end in a breath and that would be just fine with him. He had lived long enough and life was a bunch of bull. Every step he took he stepped in a big pile of a reminder of it.
“Mr. Stoneworth, may I have your autograph, please,” said the young girl.
Stoneworth looked at the book and pen offered. Gritting his teeth he put on his best fake grin and signed one of his somehow formulaic but popular mysteries. If he thought it all was crap then why did he care if the girl was happy or not? Perhaps he didn’t want it to be all bad, maybe he wanted a sign of something good. Or maybe he wanted to pay bills until the crap buried him.
He left the tip on the table and then the cafe behind. His burger was not even half eaten. It was not a normal bull day.
It was worse. It was like rodeo week and he was the head scooper.
He should have stayed home and eaten the frozen Chinese dinner. It would match the frozen ears he had from the early winter wind. His work was now going to suck the rest of the day and night and he was going to be hungry. Any flow of plot he had was gone. And he had a deadline. Ten days or death would be knocking at his door. Either death or his agent. They looked about the same.
His apartment smelled like burnt hot chocolate, not coffee. He had tried the stuff but couldn’t drink it until it had enough milk, sugar and chocolate syrup in it to taste like hot chocolate. Why waste the time and the money? Just cut out the middle men.
He looked at the wall thermostat and the screwed on lock box. Freaking landlord. 65 degrees. He left his coat on and turned the small electric heater on. He let it oscillate just to have some noise in the place.
Even though he knew his purpose of the day was ruined he sat down at the laptop anyway. The 1 appeared at the top of one tab of the many opened in his browser for research on ancient Central American civilizations. His thoughts improved with hope.
He had mail. The list of songs were long and not quite his usual fare but he listened. She had sent them. He didn’t listen to much music. It caused headaches. But from her, the headaches didn’t happen. They inspired him.
My beauty has given a gift to me
One I don’t often have time to take
It could not be more sweet and dear
Unless the music her own fingers did make
How is one so beautiful
How is she in my life
If by chance life did change
“Stoneworth!”
He looked up at the ghastly form approaching. He stared through it. Why would it not leave him be? The ghost of a past that was no longer his. All he wanted was the now, the reality of what is.
He did not need what was the never was. He closed his eyes and pressed his hands together until his fingers turned white. The music started again in his ears.
“Worthless! Invalid!”
Stoneworth moved his hands to his ears and pressed hard. Forcing the music in. Driving the hate away.
The pain seared through his brain and down his spine. Cackling laughter reached his now unprotected ears. He slowly sank to the floor unable to control his movements. His body arched as spasms began.
Laughter.
Music.
Laughter.
He shut his eyes tight. Focus on her eyes, those brown eyes, focus. The cackling continued. The pain continued. But suddenly he did not care. He felt warmth touch his skin. A smile crossed his face. It didn’t matter. There was a light he could see now for the first time. And music. He was climbing higher and higher. His dream was there, higher than he had ever been before. A beauty like he would never witness again.
**
“What happened?”
“I don’t know officer. I came in when he missed his deadline for a book he was writing and found him.”
“Did you turn that heater on?”
“No officer. It was already going. I moved it away from his face though. It was really close.”
“Well, it looks like a heart attack.”
“He always said that’s how he would go.”
“Well, this looks like another case he solved before he ever got a chance to write it.”
Ronovan
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Normally I wait until after a piece to tell you the inspiration. Not this time. Fibromyalgia is bad. It can hurt so much you feel like you are going insane. Every emotion is magnified to an incredible level. Therefore depression can be bad, very bad. When you read this, it’s a Bluesy or Soul sounding thing, slow, pausing at the end of each line. I guess you could think of some of Alicia Keys work. I think you will get feel for it maybe, or you can just read it like a poem. Depression and a brutal broken heart can feel the same way. I’m there tonight.
My heart’s still poundin’ though you’re gone
It never really mattered what was wrong
I only wanted to be with you for so long
And that was to be forever ever and ever and ever
But now I sit her all alone
Darkness closes in on me in my fears
Never have I been so filled with so so many tears
Now I can’t see anything through the bleary eyes of what you’ve done
Oh Oh Oh Oh I’m never gonna forgive you this pain
You drove the stake through very vein
Why Why Why Why did you even even even . . . learn my name
But I only have myself to blame
There are ways to forget
There are ways I have left yet
There no reasons for regret
I’m just going to gamble on a bet
Never Never Never Never oh never call me again
Tear drops falling like a tornado filled with rain
Simple truths are simply made up lies
You fooled me once and twice and more with those eyes
Oh baby just let me die.
Oh Oh Oh Oh I hate this time ever came to me
Why did you even ever have to be
Now I follow a path to eternity
Kill me once kill me twice and maybe I will forget
Oh baby you always knew just where to hit
You cut me with those words like a blade
Go ahead and cover my body with that old rusty spade
There are ways to forget
There are ways I have left yet
There no reasons for regret
I’m just going to gamble on a bet
Now I can rest and never worry no more
LMP
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I’ve been told by several people now that I write too much about the L word here on my site. (Waving to all of you and you know who you are.) I would have included a smiley but it would have looked odd with the parenthesis. Okay. I shall talk about other things today.
What pray tell might those things be?
I decided to go with the list of . . .
8 Uplifting Things from the List of THE LATEST on CNN.com.
TRAVEL
Hawaii is a beautiful place, obviously. Reminds me of Elvis and all those old movies of his. Hawaii is getting ready to be hit by two cyclones. I have a friend there I care about a great deal that has been driving everywhere to find water and get the other things she needs before they hit. I hope no one dies. She’s a good friend and we share a lot of similar problems. I don’t want to lose her. I had put the thought of the cyclones out of my mind enough to be okay. Thanks for the reminder of the death possibilities.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Doors and Jim Morrison, who can forget that voice? You wonder what he would have done if he had lived. Marianne Faithful said her ex killed Jim Morrison. Too much heroine. My half-brother died of a drug induced heart attack around the age of twenty. He had been doing hard drugs for years. That and my bio father’s alcoholism are two of the reasons I don’t drink or even smoke. Thanks for the reminder.
RELIGION
Peace in Gaza for the moment, a wonderful thing. Jews used to use the blood of non Jews in their holy matzos or so says a spokesman for Hamas. He says it’s true according to the Jews own books and things. I say “Show me the books, undoctored, or shut up”. Even then if it were true of the old it doesn’t mean it is true of the today. Of course they mention the myth of the Jews killing Jesus. Perhaps I am just too aware of the Bible to fathom this myth. More attempts to sway things one way or the other and both sides do it, but CNN happened to put this one up. As I said in a poem over the weekend, God made the peace and we destroyed it. But this isn’t a place time for Bible speak. Racism and the killing and deaths because of stupid things, at least this didn’t remind me of a death this time, just the near death of my cousin as the KKK whipped him and his black friend as they were tied to a tree. Thanks for the reminder.
HEALTH
Ebola-People dying. 2 people arrived in Atlanta. It was on the news, which I can’t watch but see as I pass by the TV. I know it is happening. People are dying. Children are dying. People here in Atlanta are worried the suits will tear. I have a deep reason for not wanting to hear about children dying, that I recently found out about but had lost a memory of due to my amnesia. I am doing everything I can to forget it again. Yeah, the one memory I never wanted to be reminded of, thanks for the reminder.
POLITICS
Obama wants to plug a tax loophole. May I have something new please? How stop spending what we don’t have? It’s like a household budget, what can you control in your house budget? You can control what you spend. But I don’t want to get into politics. Both parties have good and bad about them. There is no one perfect party. Everyone, in truth does not vote for the best candidate, but the least awful one. At least there are no death reminders other than those that were dying in the veterans who were on waiting lists and all because of bureaucratic garbage. Glad my 82 year old step-father doesn’t have to rely on the VA although he’s veteran. You can see his picture from a father’s day post if you want to.
WORLD EVENTS
A Chinese city band beards? Well it also bans certain types of Islamic clothing along with the traditional beards by those riding buses during an upcoming event. One side says it is part of the anti terror policy of the year in China, the other says it is racism and a discrimination. I was the head of a small department for several years. I had Muslims working for me. I must have been very concerned for my safety? Perhaps it was from the Jews, Christians, Agnostics, and Atheists who all worked together harmoniously with each other along with the Muslims as good friends that I feared. Hmm. Thanks for the reminder of the bigot world, news world. Do I really need to say why this reminds me of death?
LIFE
A 9 year old was stabbed on a playground. I didn’t go into the story itself. My son is 10. You’ve seen his help work in some photography. Thank you for putting that thought into my mind as he goes back to school tomorrow.
INSPIRATION
An 88 year old woman was buried alive in an earthquake for 50 hours. She was rescued. Thanks again for the reminder of my 91 year old grandmother recently out of the hospital. My parents traveled to see her and take care of her as part of my family went to their ‘meeting’. Turns out she hadn’t been being fed and had wasted down to nothing. My 82 year old step-father, more like 65, cooked for her every meal. She ate like crazy and gained 10 lbs in a week. They said she couldn’t eat solid foods. I guess that roast she ate was not solid? All three helpings? She used to cook and feed all of us on hardly any money. You can see her and read about her if you like. I know I have to very old people in my life that won’t be here much longer. Thank you for the reminder about the possibility of death there and loss.
Well, I hope you have enjoyed the no L word post. Perhaps this will give you a look into what future posts may look like. I’ve written other things than the L word but I do suppose I talk about it often. It’s my life. But as one person told me recently you can’t chase the L word you get it by trickery and some other thing I can’t remember. I don’t do trickery so I guess I will just stick to writing about world events.
Is that what we want to read about? Is that what I want to write about? In all honesty I can write about anything, as you may know if you’ve read enough of my blog, I just happen to write about certain things more than other. Perhaps I should move away from one subject so often.
Perhaps I will put out a poll asking what you most enjoy reading here on RonovanWrites. I’ve been wanting to do a poll so now maybe I have my topic.
Much Appreciation to all of You
Ronovan
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Waking up and Recognizing
by: Lost Mind
What things are on this Lost Mind of mine
People focusing on a cinema and a dime
This world has gone total whack crazy
While lives die greater in numbers than F-bombs in a picture by Scorsese
We’re petty and selfish in ways we don’ t know
Don’t blame yourself for our ignorance though
Don’t get and angry with me for saying it
It’s just a thing that we all need to change and recommit
Did you buy a soft drink for 1.69
Did you stop on the way home for a fast food dine
While there is food in your house and a drink
I do it to, all that money and the good with it I don’t think
But it’s not all about the paper and the jangling discs
It’s about the deep and the core within our midst
No matter what you give in the way of the wealth
If you don’t change your heart death won’t come from lack of health
Dig a little deeper way down go where you hide
Go past the hole forming in the pocket on the right side
Take a u-turn and head back upright
Then squeeze that blind heart real real tight
When you finally feel the pain and the ache
And the agony is way way more than you can take
That feeling is the day to day fate
For those people to the world just don’t rate
We enjoy or luxurious compared lives
While girls are being taken by gun and knives
We enjoy our milk shakes and our Big Macs
While kids hide in mountains waiting for another rocket attack
Hey–you–yeah, the one looking at porn
There are babies that will die as soon as they’re born
While you HD and stream and grip your sex addiction online
Those babies grip a finger for their only time
Have I been preaching during this diatribe
I don’t know, do you feel so sick like you are poisoned by cyanide
I’m just here to share what thoughts seem to flow
Don’t like it, then just tell me to blow
After I wrote this another blogger friend of mind commented that apparently we were in the same mind set today. Take a look at Turn it Off if You Want to by joatmon 14.
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Insanity Havens Shattered
I can’t see where I am waiting
The light has gone out of my eyes
The dam breaks into the cavernous hollow
That was once my mind filled with memories of you
Now I don’t know what I am here for
I can’t seem to discover my path back through
The rifts of the time I was in before
Keep me in your thoughts and your heart
Torch marks engrave the image of you
Torn deep into the crevices of my soul
I look for a way to hang onto the pain
The pain of loving you
Thunder pounds into the echoes of madness
Lightning strikes behind my dimmed eyes
Even opened
They still see lightning strike images of you
Cracks formed in the insanity havens
Believed to be the sanctuary holding me bound
But now
Now I can no longer heart beat be found
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Isaiah Austin has Marfan Syndrome and won’t be able to play professional basketball in the NBA. That dream is over. But due to his talent and popularity he has many opportunities to remain in the sport he loves from coaching at his alma mater to a job with the NBA once he finishes school.
You’re wondering why you should you care, right? Ronovan doesn’t write about sports. Keep reading. How often do I not have a madness to my method?
Marfan and Beautiful ‘M’
by: Ronovan
“About 1 in 5,000 people have Marfan syndrome, including men and women of all races and ethnic groups.”-marfan.org
Now take a look at what Marfan Syndrome is:
“Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects the body’s connective tissue. Connective tissue holds all the body’s cells, organs and tissue together. It also plays an important role in helping the body grow and develop properly.” “Some Marfan features – for example, aortic enlargement (expansion of the main blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body) – can be life-threatening. The lungs, skin and nervous system may also be affected. Marfan syndrome does not affect intelligence.”-marfan.org
For something most of us that has never heard of it, we can tell by that simple blurb this is a very serious disorder.
What if you aren’t a superstar athlete . . . in a popular ‘sport’?
First of all, don’t think I am knocking Isaiah Austin. He didn’t ask for Marfan or the opportunities coming his way. That’s not it. Now that he’s drawn attention to Marfan I want to draw attention to another side of it.
Meet ‘M’. She’s not a superstar yet, well not to the world but she is to those who know and love her, but she is a competitive athlete. She’s been in competitive cheerle
ading for most of her life.
Some don’t realize how tough competitive cheer is. ‘M’ has been a flyer. Meaning she is the one that is thrown in the air and just prays she is caught. She has to spin and do all sorts of things while up there and still find her mark on the way down 
while trying to stay in sync with the other flyers.
On top of that she also does the gymnastic tumbling and has to be super strong in her core, abdomen in order to stay stiff as a board while standing up with people holding her in the air. Or how about you have to support someone as they jump over your head while you are in the air? Think it’s easy? Try it. Plus she also has to hold others in the air while she is up on peoples hands because she is so strong. You know that person in the middle of all those people up in the air that others are hanging onto? That’s ‘M’.
Big Brother? Small brain!
by: Ronovan
What’s Wrong With Iraq? Big brother let ‘em down.
The US let Iraq down. Yes, the US is the big brother in that we like to act like it.
People are seemingly amazed at ISIS and the advances it is making in Iraq. Really? Seriously? Wow.
This is RonovanWritesRanting time.
Hey, enemies of the new Iraq government, you guys just wait and plan because we’re going to pull out our troops by this date! Is that cool with you guys? Yeah? Okay, stock up.
Okay and before I go on, I am ticked off. I am mad. I am angry. Yes, RonovanWrites is angry. Think of all the troops, US, Iraqi and all the other countries involved that lost their lives just for this to happen. Yeah, ticked off is my polite way of putting it.
Oh, and before people start blaming Obama for pulling the troops out, Bush actually signed the order with the date on it for the troops to be removed before he left office. And no, this does not mean I am an Obama supporter or a Democrat, it means I like facts, I guess it’s the Historian in me. But does that mean I am a Bush supporter or a Republican? No, it means I like facts.
You cannot set a date for something like what happened in Iraq. You stay until they ask you to leave or the situation is well in hand. Now the US is storming to the area with a warship. I hope no more lives are lost.
I read a book a while back, took some notes on it, and it said that the reason terrorists from that area of the world are turning their attention to the US is because we keep stomping around in their yards. If a country asks for help, sure, go for it. Was there a legit reason to go into Iraq in the first place? I’ll never know.
But this I do know; once you are there you stay there without an expiration date until the job is done. One president caved to the pressure to set a date, and another caved to the pressure to follow through with it. Both were wrong.
I don’t understand everything going on in Iraq. We get the news here in the US with a western take on things. I try to look at a lot of sides. Regardless of what’s going on ISIS has been wrong so far. And really the whole idea of ISIS from my understanding is wrong, especially there methods.
I think the US needs to change their foreign policy in the future about how to deal with things. Don’t mess in other people’s muck. Take care of number 1, US, and each country would call themselves number 1 so don’t start with me on calling US number 1.
And here is my biggest Foreign Policy change. Whoever the president is consider this; if we cannot get it right in this country why are we going elsewhere to think we can fix it there?
Much Regards
Ronovan
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Blue Socks
by: Ronovan
I sat at the bus stop and laughter announced the arrival of Rod and Emerile. Rod nodded, I returned with a weak smile. He picked it up the meaning, glancing to my right.
The figure held the brim of a black fedora, twisting it out of shape. Rod elbowed Emerile. Both went silent staring up the street and into the sun as if looking for the bus.
Fingers squeezed into fists around the felt. They trembled as they settled upon his knees.
An occasional sigh was cut off by chocking sounds. Aftershave fought with the exhaust fumes of passing cars. He placed the fedora over his knee and took his left hand in his right, thumb touching the ring on his finger as if afraid it would break.
People became silent as they walked up to wait for the bus. The honking of horns began silent as if they knew. The hiss of airbrakes signaled the arrival of the bus. The man stood up and put on the crumpled brimmed fedora.
Rod and Emerile stood to one side as others did the same. The man nodded. The dark black suit climbed into the bus revealing a glimpse of navy blue socks.
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He who Loves
by: Ronovan
Without hope of Love,
There is a promise of Death,
Without he who Loves.
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