Escape
Finally the chance to get away, restraints slack, door unlocked.
Silently, heart pounding. Crawl into the night’s cool air.
Sweet smell of earth surrounds me then pain. Blackness as life escapes me.
Ronovan Writes SIJO Wednesday Poetry Challenge #47. Use ESCAPE as your inspiration this week.
01 Feb 2023 10 Comments
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 447 BUBBLING and Creek.
30 Jan 2023 7 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Bubbles, Creek, Nature, water
It’s effervescence
Filling tides, inlets and coves
Bubbling like Champagne.
Ronovan Writes SIJO Wednesday Poetry Challenge #46. Use FORTUNE as your inspiration this week.
25 Jan 2023 14 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Homelessness, inspiration, Ronovanwrites, sadness, Sijo Tags: Fortune, sacrifice, War
I do not apologize for basing my Sijo this week on News story: Jan. 24, 2023, at 2:14 p.m. LONDON (Reuters) -British voluntary aid workers Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed during an attempted humanitarian evacuation in eastern Ukraine, Parry’s family said on Tuesday, weeks after they were reported missing in the war-torn country.
THE FORTUNE OF WAR.
Caught up in the theatre of war, two heroes gave their lives for others.
Winter showed no pity, the enemy gives no quarter.
Four seasons witness atrocities, the miss fortune of war.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 446 CHIRP and Hello.
23 Jan 2023 33 Comments
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This week I’ve written a Haiku inspired by this mornings walk with Ruby.
Cold frosty morning
Across frozen fields we tramp
Birds from frosted trees
Chirp having survived the night
Bleak midwinter’s harsh hello.
Ronovan Writes SIJO Wednesday Poetry Challenge #45. Use EMBRACE as your inspiration this week.
18 Jan 2023 17 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Review, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: babies, birth, Embrace, Gaia, love
From the second you arrive either clinical delivery suite
Or cosily at home or even a paddy field
That first embrace with mother or father, Gaia enfolds them all .
PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY SIJO CHALLENGE.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 445 FREE and Last.
16 Jan 2023 7 Comments
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Free and Last for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge. Two Haiku.
Escape from the cage
Free yourself from restrictions
Fly, be free at last.
******
Free falling
Not hit the ground yet
Nothing lasts.
Ronovan Writes SIJO Wednesday Poetry Challenge #44. Use OVERCOME as your inspiration this week.
11 Jan 2023 12 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo, Talking Straight Tags: determination, Nature, Overcome, survival
Overcome
I have been down and I have been out for the count, bruised and blooded.
Held down and shamed, out of work and out of sorts
But like the mushroom kept in the dark and fed shit I am determined and will overcome.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 444 DOG and Frog.
10 Jan 2023 26 Comments
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Dog and frog.
Croaking from the pond
Ears pricked she barks from the door
Nature’s mismatched friends.
Ronovan Writes PROMISE Wednesday Poetry Challenge #43. Use PROMISE as your inspiration this week.
05 Jan 2023 7 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: Changing Seasons, Nature, promise
The New Year beckons. As young as she is, she holds the promise of new and exciting times.
Wrapped still in winter’s deathly cold, she meanders forth.
Yet underneath hope is preparing to bloom bright and new.
part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Sijo Challenge
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 443 BREAK and Mend.
02 Jan 2023 8 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, Ronovanwrites Tags: Broke, Mend
Free fall, hard landing
Words easily break a heart
Takes so long to mend.
Patience can repair
Take timeout
Life is just too short.
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