Poetry

Décima Challenge 37 Poets Collected

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10 Poets and 1 NEW POET from last week’s challenge of STAR and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

It having been the week of Christmas, it should not be a surprise that some of our poems shared a theme this week, as was somewhat intended. However, the variety of how they were done was nice. And there were others who threw in a twist when you thought they were going one way then swerved at the end.

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.

The Periodic Writer | Paving An Opinion:  Christmas Stars  NEW POET!

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

But I Smile Anyway… | Ritu Bhathal:   My Star

Charmed Chaos |Linda Lee Lyberg:  Twilight’s Soft Fade

EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO | Larry Trasciatti:   Insomnia

http://www.engleson.ca

The Most Powerful ____ in the World

As one observes his final days,
golf, the pardons, the disregard
for the poor, this lowly bard
seeks to upbraid his venal ways.

He is a man who feeds on praise,
who only sees his raging star,
starved for air, a voracious scar,
an entity bereft of heart,
who will not graciously depart,
for he is king, the chosen Tsar.

Frank Hubney | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Star

MMA Storytime:   Star Power

Mystical Strings | Dr. Crystal Grimes :   Be the Spark

The Periodic Writer | Paving An Opinion:  Christmas Stars  NEW POET!

Revived Writer:     Reaching for Stars

willowdot21:   Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 37: (STAR) in the C rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 338 BOUND and Sway.

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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. (OPEN and Solace)

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: BOUND, Sway
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Guidelines:

  1. 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.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

BOUND and Sway

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Décima Challenge 36 Poets Collected

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12 Poets from last week’s challenge of GIFT 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.)

 

 

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

But I Smile Anyway… | Ritu Bhathal:  The Covid Gift

Don’t Forget the Half | CSNelson:  Joy of Christmas

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

http://www.engleson.ca

The Inebriated Poet Awaiting the New Year

By Bill Engleson

To pile a cord of words in rhyme,
to give them shape, not let them drift,
is such a satisfying gift,
and helps one wile away the time.

And yet one’s thoughts turn on a dime,
for poetry’s not all there is-
akin to gin without the fizz,
rum minus coke, and so I think
a brace of bards do take to drink
for crafting’s often hit or miss.

Bob Fairfield:  Village Mystery

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:   Nativity

Mindfills:  Alive

MMA Storytime:  The Gift of Dedication

Revived Writer:   Valuable Gifts

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  A Gift

Ronovan Writes:  …THE WISE

willowdot21:   The gift of madness

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THE GIFTS – a haiku a poem

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THE GIFTS

the sky pried opened

gifts rained for all to accept

solace, hope, and life

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 337 OPEN and Solace

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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:

  1. 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.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

OPEN and Solace

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…THE WISE – A poem.

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…THE WISE

They believe the Old are obsolete.
They burn bridges and widen rifts.
Not grasping with wisdom comes gifts,
and balance makes a base concrete.
Two can get twice done in one beat.
Walk the halls with something to add,
setting the futures launching pad.
But as the recent past tells us,
none listens enough to discuss.
Hope falls before a power-grab.

 

A companion poem to my haiku THE FOOLISH… for the Haiku Challenge this week of MAD and Sane.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 36 GIFT.

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THE FOOLISH – a haiku a poem

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THE FOOLISH

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.

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Décima Challenge 35 Poets Collected

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

We had several of a holiday season and along with that vein the true overall why the holiday should be celebrated and honestly how one can be a complete part of it.

All the poems are great this week and deserve a visit and read. Not one is weak. Sometimes we kind of make our missteps but not this time.

Some poems that were outside the holiday theme that stood out this week:

MUST READS

The Dressmaker by  Arthur Richardson

Lost at Birth by Nima Mohan

Ruby by the Willowy one herself Dot

 

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

Ritu Bhathal | But I Smile Anyway…:    Do You Believe?

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

http://www.engleson.ca

The Visitor

I hear the ticking of the clock,
time chiming away in the night,
shadows swaying in the moonlight,
the chatter of night sounds: night talk.

Barely awake, there comes a knock,
A stranger in the forest, lost,
disoriented, chilled from frost,
And so, a late-night rum toddy,
A winter thaw of the body,
A COVID kindness, a bridge crossed.

Bob Fairfield:  https://bobfairfield.org/2020/12/09/ronovan-writes-decima-challenge-35/

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Knocking   

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:    The Open Door

Rant Along:   RONOVAN WRITES : Knock | Two on a Rant

Revived Writer:  A Knock on the Door

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:   The Dressmaker

Ronovan Writes:   Do they know…

Nima Mohan | The Tenth Zodiac:  Lost at Birth

willowdot21:   Ruby

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THE FRUSTRATED – a haiku a poem

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THE FRUSTRATED

sanity speaks to

those possessing intellect

grow mad with the fool

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Fraudzilla (the littlest tyrant) – a haiku a poem

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FRAUDZILLA

the mad tyrant stomps,

to smash cities, citizens

with no sane support

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 336 MAD and Sane

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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:

  1. 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.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

MAD and Sane

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Do they know… – A poem.

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Do they know…

Ever closer ticktocks the clock,
nearing the minute, the hour,
of the day some think sweet, some sour.
All wait to glimpse the holy frock.

Tots faking sleep wait for the knock,
be it on the roof or the door,
as long as they get more, more, more.
Don’t fret to wrap in bows or twine,
cause all you’ll hear is mine, mine, mine.
Don’t they know why the day is for?

 

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 35 KNOCK.

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Envious Kitten – a haiku a poem

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LIFE REMAINS

paw curls around door

playfully asking entry

jealous of her aunt

 

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.

 

 

Image of Stormy, a young gray female catt with darker gray stripes and yellow eyes.

Stormy

 

Adult brown/sable cat with green eyes.Fluffy

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A haiku for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge.

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Décima Challenge 34 Poets Collected

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

Nice

Decima Challenge Poets Collected Image

Ritu Bhathal | But I Smile Anyway…:   Nativity

Larry Trasciatti | EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO:   Winter And Spring

http://www.engleson.ca

Day Dream

This morning fog consumes the sky,
lustrous dreams swallowed in haze,
a portent of loss, an end of days,
a slow sweep slippage into nigh.

But I choose not to let time fly
beyond my grasp, outside my ken.
With every breath, I breathe life in,
achieve new ground, fresh, strong, stable,
extend my reach, my life’s fable.
my spirit, my mind, and my Zen.

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Décimas #1 Stable and #2 Truthful Hope    

Mindfills:   travels in the wild

MMA Storytime:  The Elite Squad

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:    Self-deception

Ranting Along:  https://rantingalong.blog/2020/12/03/23837/

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:  Tripping with the Magi Power Tower

Ronovan Writes:  Our Youth Need

The Tenth Zodiac:  Unfamous Heir

willowdot21:   Banished

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 335 CURL and Paw.

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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:

  1. 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.
  1.  
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

CURL and Paw

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Life Remains – a haiku a poem

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LIFE REMAINS

far from these pained lands

sparks of innocents fly high

once more round the world

 

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

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Sweet Dignity – a Shi Rensa haiku a poem

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SWEET DIGNITY

the world slips along
nothing trying to save it
but with grace, we can

but with grace, we can
fight against the flow of fate
slipping past tyrants

slipping past tyrants
decency defines the day
with decisions made

with decisions made
we slip into a new world
of known dignity

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How to Write a Shi Rensa.

How to Write a Haiku in English Form

A Shi Rensa poem for this week’s Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge of GRACE and Slip.

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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Our Youth Need – A poem.

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Our Youth Need…

The young have not been so lucky,
their world defined by death and rage,
We had freedom, they have a cage,
locked up safe from the dying spree.

The fool and wisdom disagree,
on how to save democracy.
Our youth drown in hypocrisy,
as blue label fights red label.
They need foundations firm…stable,
with no games of bureaucracy.

I wrote this poem in part because of my son. A couple of months ago he came in contact with a classmate who had Covid-19. That of course meant he had to be quarantined. We all wore masks…because he’s a 16-year-old boy who forgets what meal of the day he’s eating. Meaning there was no way we were trusting him to wear a mask all the time. Things at school went downhill from there, well not all downhill, but a class here or there. He had to do remote learning and some teachers didn’t know how to use the equipment very well, and you can’t really learn Chemistry all that well from what is basically a skype call.

One teacher is a bit of a difficult one, and the boy has been stressed more than we realized. He was out two days sick, not from anything, just mentally psyched out and throwing up for two days. It turns out he has the hardest class schedule in his entire school, and it’s a college prep school. Imagine having 1 AP class, meaning a college credit class, the hardest class in the school, 3 Honors classes, and the rest College Prep classes except for Band where he’s an officer and section leader.

What we didn’t know was that while he was quarantined he was constantly worried he might end up with something that could potentially kill him. That on top of trying to keep up with two weeks of classwork and tests.

Anyway, that’s where we are. Just trying to get to winter break and a clean slate begins. We just hope his current slate isn’t a shattered mess. For a boy who has been identified as gifted, and identified as a Duke Tip student, and been in the national junior honor society and now Beta Club, this has been a huge blow for him.

How to write an Espinela or Décima poem.

Whether you enjoyed my poem or not, please click the link below to head to this week’s challenge page and visit some of the loyal in the comments who keep coming back to write using this style of poetry that is so accomodating to different ideas and more difficult than you may think to write. And it’s a great feeling to know you’re writing in a style created hundreds of years ago in Spain.

My entry for this week’s Décima Poetry Challenge NO. 34 STABLE.

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Décima Challenge 33 Poets Collected

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14 Poets with 3 NEW POET BLOGS from last week’s challenge of BLIND and their Décimas. All links open in a new window when clicked on.

Some titles of the poems are chosen by me. So don’t blame the poet if it makes no sense with the actual poem. Great takes on the theme. Nice to see some new blogs taking part and a couple of the original Haiku Challenge poets from years ago joining in.

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Ritu Bhathal | But I Smile Anyway…:  The Daily Grind

NEW POETRY BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

Linda Lee Lyberg | Charmed Chaos:   Of Liquid Memories and Tears

Larry Trasciatti | EASTELMHURST.A.GO.GO:   Black Times

http://www.engleson.ca

Pickleball Blues

A small thing really, almost trite,
A privileged sort, COVID immune
But now we’re singing a new tune,
Though we know our case is quite…slight.

“We planned it well; almost airtight,
The best protocols you could find,
a thoughtful plan, we were not blind
to risk, to spread, it’s viral way.”
Sweet Pickleball, one more delay;
Were you a dream, a state of mind?

Bob Fairfield:    A philosopher’s foible

JosieHolfFord.com

NEW POETRY BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

Blind

Old Gloucester in Shakespeare’s King Lear –
Quite the wanton lad in his youth –
Was just like Lear, blind to the truth.
His good son Edgar sent away
While evil Edmund has his way.
Gloucester has eyes but he is blind
He loses sight, Lear his mind.
Scenes painful and anarchic
The play’s effect – most cathartic:
To death and loss we are resigned

Frank Hubeny | Poetry, Short Prose and Walking:   Tears To Leave Behind    

Laurie McHarrie @ The Hidden Edge:    Blind

MMA Storytime:    Rules Are Meant to Be Broken

Dr. Crystal Grimes | Mystical Strings:    Oasis

Revived Writer:   Was Blind But Now I See

Arthur Richardson | Poems, Polemicks and Licks:   A Way

Two on a Rant:   Ronovan Writes Poetry Challenge : Decima & Haiku | Two on a Rant

NEW POETRY BLOG TO THE CHALLENGE

willowdot21:   Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 33: (BLIND) in the C rhyme line. | willowdot21

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Holiday Train – a poem

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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.

Lynn's Picture Prompt at twilight with neon, the word Holiday, a blue Christmas tree and an elf.
Photo by Lynn. CP Holiday Train

Penisitivity’s Three Things Challenge   Festive/Pretty/Drypensitivity three things challenge logoFandango’s One Word Challenge.   Comfort.fowc challenge prompt imageMMAStorytime’s 100 Word Flash Fiction Challenge   Job

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