Décima Challenge 342 Poets Collected

14 Poets from last week’s challenge of CARE and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti: The Couple

http://www.engleson.ca

Deep Winter Despair

This may be where I take my stand,
this late January morning.
Sad thoughts rising, the transforming
virus spreading throughout the land.

Yes, Covid-19, you expand
your reach, our touch, your air, our breath,
your drilling into our soul’s depth.
We are masked pawns. You do not care
a whit for you are everywhere
and we are left with loss, with death

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Care – Décima – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Care – (Weekly Decima Prompt #42) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

Mindfills: https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/to-believe-a-decima/

MMA Storytime: No Care In the Cage

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes: Symphony of Love #Decima #Poem | Mystical Strings

Revived Writer: Careful! | revivedwriter

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: https://arthurrichardson.org/2021/01/28/leisure/

Ronovan Writes: NEVER GIVE UP – A poem. | ronovanwrites

The Tenth Zodiac | Nima: Wild Love – The_tenth_zodiac

Toward the Within: Poetry | Wantin’ Only (Yourself) – Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge – Toward the within…

Two On A Rant::

Décima
She had loved once, innocence lost,
betrayed by his civility,
a man with an agility,
to throw her away without cost.

Outside window covered by frost,
mirrored the emotions inside
a woman unable to hide
her rapidly growing despair…
his child, abandoned without care,
two lives destroyed to save his pride.

Haiku
Hardships test our love,
Through the chill autumn season
into winter’s arms.

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 42: (CARE) in the D rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 BARE and Full

February 1, 2021February 7, 2021 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku

A WINTER Badge below.

Example Haiku with this week’s words.

stay, her teeth are bared

to protect the infants’ future

full action’s needed

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. (ROUGH and Season)

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: BARE, Full
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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!

BARE and Full

SEASONAL BADGE

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NEVER GIVE UP – A poem.

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Ronovan Decima Poetry Covid-19, Decima Poetry, Hope, Life, Longing, Love, Obstacles, Poetry, Quarantine, Rhyme, Travel Ban, Wishing

NEVER GIVE UP

This simple man waits in worry,
through mind-fields of love notes not wrote,
in lakes of heartache where hopes float,
and life hangs back in a hurry.
Watching signs till eyes are blurry.
Each one reads to yield or to stop.
Time’s winning as grains of sand drop,
but dreams continue on with care.
I’ll keep loving this crone so rare,
and breathing till I reach her stop.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 42 CARE.

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Décima Challenge 41 Poets Collected

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 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 Poets from last week’s challenge of SHIMMER and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

NEW POETS THIS WEEK

SHIFTNSHAKE | D. AVERY: Sojurn

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti: A Sad Changing Of the Guard

EMOTIONS | The Ex Introvert: Wake up – The child in you

http://www.engleson.ca

Inauguration Day-A Poem by a Middle Class, Elderly Canadian Socialist (or, Maybe, a Social Democrat in a Pinch)

Even here, in the cloud-gray dawn,
ferry bound, prawn boat scooting by,
Earth seems lighter, even the sky,
dark as it is, knows that he’s gone.

And, in his stead, we venture on,
Hopeful, in the new day’s glimmer,
New? Old? Safe! Not that flimflammer.
And though flawed, like sensible shoes,
footwear to trust, Joe’s paid his dues.
Our eyes shine in the sweet shimmer.

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Shimmer

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Shimmer

MMA Storytime: It Factor

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes: Lighthouse

Revived Writer: Desert Greenery

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: Seasonal

SHIFTNSHAKE | D. AVERY: Sojurn

The Tenth Zodiac | Nima: Suppressed Words

Two On A Rant: Cycle of Life

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 41: (SHIMMER) in the C rhyme line. | willowdot21

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The Question – a poem.

January 26, 2021January 31, 2021 Ronovan Haiku America, Amnesia, Concussion, Depression, Fear, Haiku, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Pain, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Society, the World

The Question

a dark mind’s season

has never-ending self-doubt,

formed such rough visions

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of ROUGH and Season.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season.

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku

A WINTER Badge below.

Example Haiku with this week’s words.

highs, lows, smooth or rough

life moves you through each season

both sunrise and sunset

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. (FROST and Glint)

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: ROUGH, Season
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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!

ROUGH and Season

SEASONAL BADGE

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Release Me – a poem.

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Ronovan Haiku America, Haiku, Life, Love, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Nature, Peace, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Romance, Society, the World

Release Me

one glimmer of hope

breaking fear’s icy cold hold,

tired souls are set free

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of FROST and Glint.

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Décima Challenge 40 Poets Collected

January 20, 2021January 19, 2021 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

11 Poets from last week’s challenge of FLOAT and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

Here are 3 I thought were standouts for various reasons, those being reasons my strange my caught mid-flight.

But I Smile Anyway… | Ritu Bhathal – A nice poem, but mainly visit her for some moral support. Read her reason behind the poem below her poem. Wow. Very nice Christmas gift. Sarcasm dripping from every letter of that. It is called The Covid Gift after all.

Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson – Of course, I like the poem but her layout for it was very nice and stands out. Perfectly done for a holiday theme.

Bill Engleson – Always a good poem no matter the style, but a very apropos one for all of us this week. (Really, I just wanted a reason to use the word apropos.)

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti: The Raft

http://www.engleson.ca

T….: a Canuck’s Response Midway thru January 13th

Impeached or not, he’s bound to go,
The final bell, the College vote.
He’s now at sea, can barely float
much more than “save the Alamo.”

We see the gulf, the rancour grow,
positions weighted by the yoke
of rhetoric as blurred as smoke.
He is a dismal, thoughtless force.
And though we trust he’s run his course,
a future run should be revoked.

Bob Fairfield: Abridged

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Float – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Float – (Weekly Decima Prompt) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

MMA Storytime: A Star In the Making

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes: Lifeboat

Revived Writer: Learning to Sail

The Indie She: https://indishe.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-40-float-in-the-b-rhyme-line/

The Tenth Zenith | Nima Mohan: Quote on Love

willowdot21 | Willow: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 40: (FLOAT) in the B rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Warm Me – a poem.

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Ronovan Haiku America, Haiku, Life, Love, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Nature, Peace, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Romance, Society, the World

Warm Me

choked breaths chill to frost

as her cold heart claims my core

a glint of light breaks

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of FROST and Glint.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 341 FROST and Glint.

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku

A WINTER 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. (RELEASE and Simple)

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: FROST, Glint
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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!

FROST and Glint

SEASONAL BADGE

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Surf – a poem.

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Ronovan Poetry, Poetry Thoughts Adventure, brave the unknown, Career, daring to do, Failure, Family, fear of failure, Life, Love, overcome adversity, Poetry, Work

Surf
by Ronovan Hester

No peaks, valleys, or destination points.
Never was a road map pointing the way.
No guarantees the fall will eventually end.
The trek back to the top not blazed or marked. Lost. Alone.
Unique in your success, and one more number in the failures.

Dreams ride the random undulating waves.
The crests unstable and never solid for long.
The high only lasts a moment before the crash.
The climax ends in a churning trough of descent, expected, unknown.
To climb this mountain your vision is vast and wide, planning, and watching.

Carried by the past dashed dreams of others,
and the burning saltiness of millennia of failures.
Just one unbalanced breath, and your ride in peril.
And your next, you slip, not along rough terrain to the bottom of dirt and stone.
But down the wall of see-through glass, life on the other side. Predators of players?

Or the dramatic plunge, less graceful than chaos.
Watching the greeting sun reflecting surface below.
Chest raw from the impact through the vanishing hopes.
Pushing through, chin, knees, shins, scrapped with sandpaper of pulverized dead things.
Bloodied and bruised, but not the end, tumbling over and over, gasping for breath. Dying?

Your limp body washes up on the sand, choking.
You join the other eons of unrecognizable rejects.
No one to help. No roadside assistance. No guardian.
People walking along, heads down, looking for empty shells, and finding you.
But you’re not enough, not quite dead enough, you stink of fresh disappointment.

Their heads refuse to look out to the horizon,
never seeing the sun-soaked crests of possibilities.
None of those tumbles, those survivors, or those joys.
They always walk safely on dry sand, toes dry, just out of reach of adventure.
The chance, the opportunity, of living. Heads not in the sand but forever bowed.

Lives only change with empty shells of the living.
Polished with time to the point they all look the same,
yet the wary keep up their search for the next perfect vessel.
Only inches away, a vibrant and exciting life calls with a roar they no longer hear.
But you’ve survived, and you tremble to your battered and pain-filled knees, again.

You stand, turn to that uncharted, desired filled world.
Wading in up to your chest, deep in the sting of the past.
Now dive and swim to fight the tide, or others will drag you.
They’ll help you along or drown you with their own failures, sinking before they’ve crested,
back to those footprints in the sand, now another empty shell to add to their dead collection.

Turn, wade, dive, scan the playing field, and wait for the swell.
Each fall, each ripped open chest and scrapped chin, battle scars.
No success without trying, nor without appreciated amounts of failure.
With each toe that leaves the sand behind, it dips into the salty dreams of ancient warriors.
You learn to descend from those crests in control, with less in chaos. With more success than not.

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Décima Challenge 39 Poets Collected

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 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

12 Poets from last week’s challenge of CONTRAST and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Please be sure to visit everyone at least once if you haven’t already. More variety than I thought would happen this week with the prompt word being Gift.

Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson: Boy Bye!

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti: Looking Back

http://www.engleson.ca

Yes, The Poem is Called January 6th, 2021

Here we sit, a ruling at last,
An electoral finale day.
There are no more dragons to slay.
He is now a voice from the past.

Still, he will scream, rant and contrast
his fantasy with all that’s real,
chant he won, cry “the big steal”
berate, bamboozle, and bellow,
blame the stars, the other fellow,
as we await Biden’s New Deal.

Part 2: Yes, The Poem is Called January 6th, 2021 Later in the Day

In seconds, chaos moves in fast,
a fevered Trump-fuelled riot,
Democracy, once sound, quiet,
and this disgrace, such a contrast.

Trump is an actor so miscast,
a grim presidential eyesore
at best, at worst a rotting core,
a gash on America’s heart.
We watch civility depart
and inch closer to civil war.

Bob Fairfield: A Ray of Hope

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Contrast – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge: Contrast – (Weekly Decima Prompt #) – Laura McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge

MMA Storytime: A Stark Contrast

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: The Dream

Ronovan Writes: The World Watches

Stine Writing: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 39: (CONTRAST) in the A rhyme line. – Stine Writing

Two on a Rant: Ronovan Writes Décima & Haiku poetry challenge : | Two on a Rant

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 39: (CONTRAST) in the A rhyme line. | willowdot21

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The World Watches – A poem.

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Ronovan Decima Poetry Decima Poetry, Election, January 6 Riot, Life, Poetry, political division, Politics, Rhyme, Storming the Capitol, Terrorism, Washington Riots

The World Watches

Daily we are given contrast
of what is true and what is thought.
Fools run amok with lies they’ve bought,
leading to the flag at half-mast.

Thank the Lord the role’s been recast.
But the mad serpent still has fangs,
venom seeps into disturbed veins.
Infected minds storm hallowed halls,
seeking truth with traitorous calls.
Strife will never remove these stains.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 39 CONTRAST.

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Life’s Needs – a poem.

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Ronovan Haiku, Shi Rensa Haiku Blessing of Nature, Desire, Haiku, Life, Love, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Nature, Peace, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Romance, Scent of FLowers

Life’s Needs

red velvet petals

release needed enchantment,

on this simple man

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of RELEASE and Simple.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 340 RELEASE and Simple.

January 11, 2021March 5, 2021 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku

A 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. (CHILD and Grow)

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: R*E*LEASE, Simple
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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!

**SIMPLE and Release**

SEASONAL BADGE

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Décima Challenge 38 Poets Collected

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 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 Poets from last week’s challenge of BASH and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti: Good~Bye 2020

http://www.engleson.ca

The Dark Dawn

The storm inside me seeks the light,
whilst mornings clouds sink to the sea,
And there, within the dark of me,
I huddle in the cold of night.

As 2020 leaves stage right,
Its lines fumbled, no final bow
No gracious words can we allow
This ingenue who entered brash,
bold, and succumbs, no year end bash,
leaving us to wonder: what now?

Bob Fairfield: The Boxer’s Tale

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking: Spiny Orb Weaver

Like Mercury Colliding | Kat Myrman: our heroes

MMA Storytime: Career Day

Revived Writer: https://revivedwriter.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/6147/

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks: Abashed

Ronovan Writes: The Final Countdown

willowdot21: Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 38: (BASH) in the D rhyme line. | willowdot21

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The Final Countdown – A poem.

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Ronovan Decima Poetry Decima Poetry, disrespectful colleagues, Election, Life, party division, party politics, Poetry, political division, Politics, Rhyme

The Final Countdown

Unity lost to the loppers,
by bottomfeeding dunderheads.
Proof each family tree under-weds,
and brain cells… hippity hoppers.

For the greediest of goppers,
choose to put selfish gain forward.
They hope to feed the frenzied horde.
The two sides come to one last clash.
So they bing they bang and they bash,
and the tally… remains the same.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 38 BASH.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 339 CHILD and Grow.

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 Ronovan Haiku Prompt Challenge Challenge, Haiku, Humor, Micropoetry, Nature, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Poetry Prompt, PoetryCommunity, Prompt, Ronovan Hester, Shi Rensa Haiku

A 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. (BOUND and Sway)

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: CHILD, Grow
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

Take the two words and write a Haiku. I use Haiku in English (the link shows you how) 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,
- For syllables for each word, and different definitions, you use the definition that works 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!

CHILD and Grow

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Leaping and Dancing- a Shi Rensa Haiku.

December 31, 2020December 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku, Shi Rensa Haiku America's Future, Celebrate, Dreams and wishes, Four Chain Haiku, Haiku, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, New Years, party, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Shi Rensa Haiku, the ark of God

Leaping and Dancing

All should bound and sway

with knowledge of future days

better than the past.

Better than the past,

Will be this new dominion,

a saltating boon?

A saltating boon!

Inspire the weary minded,

with eyes uplifted.

With eyes uplifted,

light shines into the soul,

guiding restrained hope.

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

How to Write a Shi Rensa or Four Chain Haiku.

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BOUND and Sway.

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Leaping and Dancing- a haiku a poem

December 31, 2020December 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku 2 Samuel, Celebrate, David, Haiku, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, New Years, party, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Scripture, the ark of God

Leaping and Dancing

all should bound and sway

with knowledge of future days

better than those past

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of BOUND and Sway.

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14 Poets from last week’s challenge of CARE and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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The Challenge Words!

BARE and Full

SEASONAL BADGE

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13 Poets from last week’s challenge of SHIMMER and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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The Question

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The Challenge Words!

ROUGH and Season

SEASONAL BADGE

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Release Me

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11 Poets from last week’s challenge of FLOAT and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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Warm Me

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The Challenge Words!

FROST and Glint

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12 Poets from last week’s challenge of CONTRAST and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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Life’s Needs

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The Challenge Words!

SIMPLE and R*e*lease

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10 Poets from last week’s challenge of BASH and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

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The Challenge Words!

CHILD and Grow

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Leaping and Dancing

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Leaping and Dancing

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**SIMPLE and Release**