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A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.
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This weeks words were chosen to reflect the holidays of this particular time of the year as well as th after effects of recent events. Choose your path wisely, but never flinch from the freedom of the flow.
Check out my post Friday Fiction with Ronovan Writes Prompt Challenge Holiday Special for a bit of flash fiction fun. You might could link the flash fiction, the Haiku, and even the Décima Poetry Challenge to make one big piece. Yes, tthe Décima Poetry Challenge will be as close as I can get to working with the other two challenges, but also open to interpretaion for non-holiday efforts.
NOW ONWARD AND WRITE YOU TYPING TEMPEST OF SYLLABIC STROPHE!
A new Seasonal Badge below.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (MAD and Sane)
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.
An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: OPEN, Solace
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
SEASONAL BADGE
rabid with triumph
the legion lays waste to foes
scorning wise guidance
A companion poem for …THE WISE, a Décima poem for this week’s challenge.
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it. Some of you may have noticed in the reader the badge has returned to the usual one. This is because our poets are accustomed to seeing that one, so I set it as my featured image. We’ve been missing a few of our regulars for the past couple of weeks since I changed the image, and I’m worried the new image might have lost them. I hope they come back soon.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (CURL and Paw)
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.
An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: MAD, Sane
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
SEASONAL BADGE
There’s a somewhat, or not so recent addition to the cat menagerie of the house. Actually, there are only two now. Things happen, and I’d rather not think about them. But Fluffy is still here, the daughter of Kitty, who helped me when she showed up one day and stayed for years. Now we have Stormy. She started at as a gray furball of a kitten, born to the bonkers, psycho cat you’d ever meet. She became a biter, or was already but became more so. Stormy on the other hand is the sweetest, if not the most ADD cat I’ve ever seen, but she is still mostly a kitten, not even a year yet. Not even close.
She has the nices markings. I’ve never seen the stripes go around the neck and chest before. When she lays on her side and stretches out, you see all her white hair with the dark gray stripes and it’s a shocking contrast, and she is the longest cat. Her legs are…she would be a runway model of cats if they had one, they’re that long. But she’ll let you pick her up and cuddle, her motor vibrating your chest and ear. Until she wants down. Her coat is the softest I’ve ever felt. It’s like stroking, well I can’t really think of anything this luxurious. It’s smooth, thick, not long, but not super short either.
All around an entertaining cat that figured out how to come inside for mealtimes with her Aunt Fluffy, not by blood. Fluffy is more like a mother than an Aunt. You can see Stormy watching her and copying everything she does. And Fluffy catches chipmunks and mice to show Stormy what her job is around the house, but Stormy just thinks the lifeless things are toys. She’s never tasted wild game so far.
Make sure to click on Fluffy’s photo to see her eye color.
Stormy
Fluffy
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it. Some of you may have noticed in the reader the badge has returned to the usual one. This is because our poets are accustomed to seeing that one, so I set it as my featured image. We’ve been missing a few of our regulars for the past couple of weeks since I changed the image, and I’m worried the new image might have lost them. I hope they come back soon.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (GRACE and Slip)
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.
An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: CURL, Paw
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
SEASONAL BADGE
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED ALL OF OUR POETS SO FAR THIS WEEK, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK OUT THE ONES THAT HAVE COME IN RECENTLY. SO MANY GET OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ABLE TO GET TO THE PROMPT AND FREE TO WRITE AS QUICKLY AS, SAY, THE GUY THAT COMES UP WITH HE WORDS AND CAN WRITE HIS POEMS LAST WEEEK FOR THIS WEEK IF HE WANTED TO.
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The night is dry, and the lights glow with cheer,
As the train rolls through to announce the Holiday is here.
The pretty blue tree, an elf singing with the band,
makes the clouds festive, while in the cold we stand.
Cheeks are happily frozen, slight relief from hot cocoa cups,
a time it’s okay to make kids out of grownups.
Rushing our way home to find comfort in warm beds,
Jobs are tomorrow, tonight joyful dreams play in our heads.
Lynn’s Tuesday Picture Prompt A Holiday Train.
Penisitivity’s Three Things Challenge Festive/Pretty/Dry
Fandango’s One Word Challenge. Comfort.
MMAStorytime’s 100 Word Flash Fiction Challenge Job
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it. Some of you may have noticed in the reader the badge has returned to the usual one. This is because our poets are accustomed to seeing that one, so I set it as my featured image. We’ve been missing a few of our regulars for the past couple of weeks since I changed the image, and I’m worried the new image might have lost them. I hope they come back soon.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (LIFE & View)
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.
An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: LIFE, View
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
SEASONAL BADGE
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How to Write a Haiku in English Form
IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED ALL OF OUR POETS SO FAR THIS WEEK, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK OUT THE ONES THAT HAVE COME IN RECENTLY. SO MANY GET OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ABLE TO GET TO THE PROMPT AND FREE TO WRITE AS QUICKLY AS, SAY, THE GUY THAT COMES UP WITH HE WORDS AND CAN WRITE HIS POEMS LAST WEEEK FOR THIS WEEK IF HE WANTED TO.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
Upside Down
Been in disguise since I was twenty-five,
never knowing if I should live or die.
Always thinking this world left me alone,
feeling it deeply through blood and bone.
Needing answers with these decades of doubt,
reaching for a handhold before I shout.
Then I met a small Carolina town,
flipping this Southern boy’s world upside down.
So close it hurts can touch but not feel it,
thrown up obstacles I fight to not quit.
This mask is slipping, years I’m passing through,
with no doubts I’ll live now that I found you.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
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IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED ALL OF OUR POETS SO FAR THIS WEEK, MAKE CERTAIN TO CHECK OUT THE ONES THAT HAVE COME IN RECENTLY. SO MANY GET OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ABLE TO GET TO THE PROMPT AND FREE TO WRITE AS QUICKLY AS, SAY, THE GUY THAT COMES UP WITH HE WORDS AND CAN WRITE HIS POEMS LAST WEEEK FOR THIS WEEK IF HE WANTED TO.
How to Write a Haiku in English Form
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
A new Seasonal Badge for the Challenge is below if you would like to use it. Some of you may have noticed in the reader the badge has returned to the usual one. This is because our poets are accustomed to seeing that one, so I set it as my featured image. We’ve been missing a few of our regulars for the past couple of weeks since I changed the image, and I’m worried the new image might have lost them. I hope they come back soon.
Check out the COMMENTS for entries this week, and come back throughout the week to see more links to poems as they come in.
Drop by on Wednesday for the Décima Poetry Challenge. Sometimes the two challenges have similar themes you can unite over the week.
Click HERE for last week’s collected links for easy access to the poems of last week’s poets. (EBB & Flow)
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.
An updated How to Write Haiku in English. that has just a little more detail and for knowledge and perhaps craft. And how to do a Pingback.
Useful Links.
Thesaurus: LIFE, View
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Guidelines:
SEASONAL BADGE
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Dreams obscene,
thoughts so wrong.
Things your wearing.
turn me on.
What do you think I, feel when I see ya?
I’ve been stupid shy, this I can’t deny.
What is this cold fear, waitin’ for the all-clear?
Praying for a leap year, so I can see…you…dear…
That sinful grin,
jeans so tight.
I love it when,
you walk just right.
Skin so smooth
hair feels nice,.
Those fingertips,
I’ll pay the price.
This fire inside of me, is fighting to be free.
It needs hotter degrees., please hear my pleas.
Fire deep inside…
of me.
I’m on my…
knees.
I’m begging…
please.
Please hear my pleas.
Please hear my pleas.
Please hear my pleas.
Sometimes I just have to let it go.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
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How to Write a Haiku in English Form
© 2020 Ronovan Hester Copyright reserved. The author asserts his moral and legal rights over this work.
I recently, as in the same day I wrote this post and Haiku, shared a quote from a book a social media platform. And individual there that is a Friend there responded. My initial quote and supporting comments were not politically charged, at least I didn’t think so. In fact, they were about the planet, the environment, and the role humans have played in the slow destruction of all of it. Nothing was untrue. It was simply my saying that God gave us the earth and all things upon it to be good stewards of and have dominion over. Dominion meaning to reign over. To reign over something means you must take care of it, not to abuse it. Apparently, that part of what I said either wasn’t agreed on, was skipped, or the quote from the book set the person off so much that nothing else was considered. I was quite surprised to see a comment at least twice as long as my original update. But, it gave me this post, this haiku, this haibun. God uses the oddest things to make good from. I should point out this person as well as others have taken some of my recent updates as meaning I am a Liberal, at least that’s the message I’m receiving. I’m not. I am conservative in most of my political leanings but as I believe all people do, I agree with some ideas on the other side of the political line. If anyone is 100% one thing…I get worried. No one party has the right answers to everything. And I get the feeling some of those from my more distant past cannot see the truth of that.
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How to Write a Haiku in English Form
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