A poetry challenge housekeeping post.

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Ronovan Décim Poetry Challenge, Haiku Prompt Challenge Poetry Challenge Infromation, Poetry Community, Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

Hello everyone. I just need to mention a few things to make the poetry challenges provide each of you with the best chances of receiving some extra visitors each week. There are a few things I wanted to tell you.

Make certain to either do a PINGBACK or place a COMMENT LINK to your poem in the Comments Section of the challenge you are doing. It makes it easier for other participants to visit you, and for me to gather the links for the collected poets’ posts.
The PINGBACK helps the challenge receive notice by your followers/friends/readers on your blog. This is one way our challenges have seen increases in poets the past several weeks. If you have been doing PINGBACKS for quite a while, see if something as simple as a text color change catches a visitor’s eye. I’m not asking for it to be intrusive. I’m also not asking that you do a PINGBACK AT ALL. Doing the challenge is the only thing that matters. I’m confident in saying there are people out there using the prompts we don’t know about, and that’s WONDERFUL. I never expected to do a challenge when I started a blog, nor have 50 participants per week back before I burned out on blogging, writing, and life itself.
Why do I do the challenges?
1. To give writers something to write about.
2. So each of those who take part has a community of friends if they want one. They can make one by visiting the other poets’ poems, comment at times, and interact on other posts. You don’t know how many long-lasting friendships on WordPress started through the haiku challenge.
3. So each of you gets extra visitors each week, and maybe some regulars who start checking out your other posts.
I don’t always comment on poem posts; it doesn’t mean I’m not reading them. I am or the poets collected posts wouldn’t exist. Sometimes I have the energy to comment and even write a haiku responding to your haiku. More often than not, I don’t. I’m working on the first book in a new series I’m writing and editing books multiple books for others, and it’s using up more energy than I could’ve imagined.
For those of you who do both PINGBACKS and COMMENT LINKS, you may notice the PINGBACK disappears. I remove one so people who visit the challenge and click the links to read the poems don’t visit the same page they just left. Sometimes I correct the links when links provided give error messages.

haiku #5

July 14, 2020July 15, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku Poetry, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, poetry about climate change, poetry about ocean pollution, poetry about the earth and pollution, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

choking life groping

green blue brown invisible

give sailing orb life

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Finger&Planet (Grope&Orb)

Untitled 4- a haiku poem

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku Poetry, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, poetry about God and the universe, poetry of the universe, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

mother earth revolves

on the fingertip of God

universe crumbles

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Finger&Planet

Untitled 3 – a poem

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Ronovan Tanka Anquish, creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Poetry about Depression, Poetry about love, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge, Tanka

Dwindle in anger and

you will find much happiness,

in ripples of love

there will be ups and the downs,

with each mountain and valley.

Untitled 2- a poem

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Poetry about Chronic Pain, Poetry about Depression, Poetry about Fibromyalgia, Poetry about Migraines, Poetry about Pain, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

A soft ripple in

time will bring the end nearer,

this pain will dwindle.

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Dwindle & Ripple

The Architect of the Queen – a poem

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Haiku About Bees, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Nature Haiku, Poem About Bees, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

she works in earnest,

to create a home for her queen,

requires great instincts

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Intent&Thought (Earnest&Instincts)

You should click HERE to check out the Worker Bee Wikipedia page. I didn’t know the Worker Bee was female. There are ELEVEN tasks the Worker Bee performs listed on the page. Amazing. Think about how many societal structures of living creatures are based around a female with females being the hardest workers.

Ronovan Writes Standard Neon Poetry Image

To Know the Future – a poem

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Ronovan Haiku creative moment, Creative Outlet, Famous Quote, Goerge Santayana, Haiku Poetry, Life, Micro Poetry, Micropoetry, Planning for the future, Remember history, Ronovan Hester, Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

Do you have intent

while you dream of the future,

give thought to your past.

A Haiku for my challenge this week: Intent&Thought

Inspired by the quote below. One I live by, a mantra if you will, as a former History teacher and writer of Historical fiction. When you do know history you look at what is happening today and you know what will happen tomorrow. And it’s heartbreaking.

George Santayana‘s famous aphorism “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Polish translation and English back-translation