Ancient flower child
Recalls days of peace and love
When the world went wild
I never got to San Francisco.
06 Mar 2021 20 Comments
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Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Butter.
06 Mar 2021 22 Comments
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It’s time again for our Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Our hostess LindaGHill has given us the prompt:“butter.” Use it as a noun, use it as a verb, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Butterfly Tanka.
Butter, Butterfly 🦋
Drawn to light you swoop and fly 🦋
Please don’t make me cry.🦋
Use your magic Butterfly 🦋
Let me win before I die. 🦋
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 47: (START) in the A rhyme line.
05 Mar 2021 6 Comments
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Hi, it’s time for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima. You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (ACHE and Ease) here is mine. and this Décima Challenge of START in the A rhyme line. This means you could write a haiku post using the prompt words. Then do a Décima post using this week’s prompt uniting the two with a common message.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but can be combined as I have chosen to do again.
Midas Ache.
She was left wanting from the start.
From her first breath she was needy.
Misunderstood and thought greedy.
So much emptiness in her heart.
She kept this secret, being smart.
Relationships, never lasted.
Through feasting times she fasted.
Try as she may she was
shadowed
Sadness and pain from her soul flowed.
Hopes out of the waters blasted
Thursday photo prompt -Secrets #writephoto
04 Mar 2021 5 Comments
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Sue Vincent’s#Writphoto.
Hi everyone just a quick note if anyone would like to re-post any of their old #writephoto prompts please do. While Sue is not posting a photo prompt due to not being well, she would love to see old ones reposted.Now if you would like to join in please use the #writephoto badge
This part of Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt – #writephoto. I wrote this one in Nov 2016.
Secrets. A Nonet.
Fractals of light pour through the window
Motes of dust dance across the floor
Timeless here within the slow
Span of her life Princess
Familiar kneels
And prays for less
Pain. She hides
Secrets
Here.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 347 ACHE and Ease.
03 Mar 2021 5 Comments
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Ache and ease.
This ache is constant
Midas like it mars my life.
Nothing can ease it.
The Story Sofa.
01 Mar 2021 18 Comments
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Here I am with open arms
Oblivious to all your charms.
Here I am, the one you need
I’m always up for a midnight feed!!
I am on hand for a cosy rest in front of the fire, Sit with me in winter and watch the snow fall as the flames grow higher.
I am here for you, in spring
Sit with me and listen to the Thrush sing.
Early morning late at night
I keep your secrets as you grow older
I am here for you when you need a shoulder
And encourage you to climb a gigantic life boulder!
I excel at family gatherings
Christmas, Easter, Birthdays Weddings.
Usually I get tarted up when special visitors come to sup!
Always in need when there are babies,
Good for cuddles and sometimes a lot more too!
I will not say what that’s about .
I shall not disclose what you get up to when everyone’s out!
Such comfort can found in my arms.
For weary heads with physical or mental qualms.
I never nag or boss you. I am always here when your day is through.
I stand here for you when you’ve had enough.
I’ve been with you good and bad
Shared your grief when you’ve been sad.
Seen you laugh loud and free
And kept the secrets you’ve given me.
Then one day comes a bolt out of the blue I am of no longer any use to you.
I am banished shoved aside
No longer wanted even though I held your side.
Cast aside for versions new
Now, how ungrateful can you be !
After all these years you abandon me??
#TANKA TUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 214, #THEMEPROMPT
23 Feb 2021 21 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt?
This month’s theme is:
Dreams.
Colleen suggested an optional form for us to experiment with. A few months ago, Merril D. Smith wrote a poem called a Diatelle. She found this form on shadowpoetry.com.
“The Diatelle is a fun, syllable counting form like the etheree with a twist. The syllable structure of the diatelle is as follows: 1/2/3/4/6/8/10/12/10/8/6/4/3/2/1, but unlike an etheree, has a set rhyme pattern of abbcbccaccbcbba. This poetry form may be written on any subject matter and looks best center aligned in a diamond shape.”
Night Terrors
Dreams
They grow
And they flow
In black and white
Your deepest secrets show
In shadows of darkest night.
Could there be escape from unearthly plight.
Is that sunlight or are we caught in headlight beams.
Rooted incapable of fight or
flight.
Face my demons dodging their bite
They chase and scare me so.
I aim for light
Where to go
Oh! No.
Dreams.
Heart on my sleeve.
22 Feb 2021 45 Comments
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This is me here I stand,
You’ve taken my heart and crushed it in your hand.
Your words hurt they beat me down.
With a smile you watch me drown.
In my blood you see me thrash,
Laying bets to when I’ll crash!
Beat me, slap me with your words
My mouth is taped, so my screams can’t be heard.
Cut me carve me it is nothing I have not done before .
Lost and wrecked on emotion’s shore.
Abuse me use me sate your need
Throw me off like an unwanted weed.
See my heart it’s wrent it in two
See it there on my sleeve for you.
No pride left I let it bleed dry
You don’t see the need within my eye.
There is not much more I can do
You tample on my soul, it’s black and blue
I stand here screaming silently
Bleeding need and blood constantly.
Hit me kick me just don’t look at my face,
No matter how hard I tried I’ve lost this race.
Here it comes the huge and vicious mouth
I can’t take any more I fall and stumble south.
Damn you damn you what can I do
To get respect or love from you.
Love okay it’s too late
Sorry, will not compensate
*********
This is just a poem.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 346 SLIP and Time.
22 Feb 2021 21 Comments
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I reach for your hand
But slip though linear cracks
Lost in space and time.
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 20, 2021
20 Feb 2021 21 Comments
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It’s Saturday and time for LindaGHill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. This week Our Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “nerve.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!.
Nerve, don’t lose your nerve. I decided to do an Acrostic Tanka.
Never let it show
Even if you feel threatened
Retreats no option
Valour is the only course
Ever brave, do hold your nerve
