Fields of gold stretch for miles to the horizon as far as the eye can see.
Sunflowers turn their faces to the sky yellow and green reaching for blue.
Gaia is at her best her skirts swirling around.
Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #15. Use SUMMER as your inspiration this week.
22 Jun 2022 13 Comments
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Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #14. Use REALITY as your inspiration this week.
16 Jun 2022 12 Comments
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this is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Sijo Challenge
Reality
Caught up with life, the hustle and bustle of everyday.
Occupied by screens, blaring out too loud.
We don’t listen to Gaia, her warning voice speaks of reality, we choose not to hear.
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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 411 FRUIT and Ripe.
23 May 2022 13 Comments
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Today I have written a Tanka for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
apples on the bough
red ripe and ready to pick
Gaiga’s progeny
the fruit of the Earth’s harvest
nature gives and we just take
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 79: (VERVE) in the C rhyme line.
14 Oct 2021 7 Comments
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Enthusiasm and delight
Mixes with Gaia’s perfect plan
The insects are a happy gang .
Some just crawl others take to flight.
Joy da vivre keeps them up all night.
This party is full of such verve
The bugs are on an upward curve.
Butterflies, spiders, ladybugs
All bouncing mad as if on drug.
Phychedelic bugs, high on lovre.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 371 PULL and Push.
16 Aug 2021 11 Comments
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This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
push all the limits
defy all of nature’s rules
pull up your roots
#writephoto : Treeman.
25 Jun 2021 25 Comments
in #writephoto, humour, inspiration, photo prompt, photos, rant, sadness, Stories, Talking Straight Tags: death, Ents, Gaia, rebirth, trees
This week’s prompt is a post with a difference – our JUNE guest photo!
For visually challenged writers, the image a tree that has partly been carved to represent a man (or an ape I’m undecided).
Gaia had given up on mankind, they were so uncaring of this beautiful planet. Their waste and inventions clogged up her seas, oceans and rivers. They drilled, mined and fracked for all her bounty. They waged war, they plundered the spoilt!
Sitting on the edge of the woods surrounded by paper cups, used condoms, plastic bottles and polestyrine cartons Gaia spoke with Death who was looking wan and very thin.
“I just don’t know what to do really I am at my wit’s ends,” she exclaimed a tear in her eye. Death smiled, a scary sight all teeth! “Don’t worry he said I have one last thing up my sleeve.”
Sighing Gaia replied “Well the four horsemen are already here, War, plague ( he played a blinder) famine, and yourself you have all worked so hard.”
“Indeed we have been working overtime, and yet those uncaring humans still carry on their selfish ways. I have called in the big guns, my last resort. “
Gaia, inhailed loudly “Surely you cannot mean….”
“Yes indeed I am going to bring on the Ents…they will soon put pay to mankind and then they can gently and kindly restore you to your former health.”
Just then the first of the Giant Ents arrived looking tired and somewhat irritable!
This is part of K L Caley #writephoto
KL Caley at Novel Ideas has offered to take on Sue Vincent’s #writephoto weekly challenge now Sue has moved on to a higher plain.
April 22: Flash Fiction Challenge
26 Apr 2021 24 Comments
in /flash-fiction, Carrot Ranch, loss, rant, sadness Tags: destruction, Earthing, Gaia, Nature
April 22, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about earthing. Put a character’s hands, feet or body and soul into the earth. Who needs recharging? What happens between the interaction? Go where the prompt leads!
For this prompt I have imagined a letter from Mother Nature/ Earth/ Gaia to us all. This is part of the Carrot Ranch Challenge.
My Children
I tried to warn you, painted warnings on walls and billboards with letters 20ft tall screamed, shouted and made a fuss.No one listens at all.The blooms are out in winter and summer flowers peek in spring. Snow falls in summer and sometimes in spring.You’re heading for another drought your reservoirs almost dry yet you let precious water waste. It’s starting with the the smaller things but soon you will suffer too. This green planet that you call home is dieing. I’m so tired and you just ignore my warning. From a dieing Mother nature.
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 53: (CHASE) in the C rhyme line.
14 Apr 2021 9 Comments
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My word it’s Wednesday again and time for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima Challenge. Ron says “You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (BRANCH and Swift). and this Décima Challenge of NOISE in the C 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 if YOU CHOOSE to do so. I choose to link. Here is my Haiku.
Swaying in the wind root and branch.
Time dances endlessly along
Punctuated by song bird’s song
All is written noughts left to chance.
The Forrest sees all of life’s dance.
Nature likes to watch the eons chase.
Across her planet at such pace.
She knows her cycle will repeat
Winter’s bitter cold, Summer’s heat.
Nature is happy by God’s grace
2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 200, #THEMEPROMPT
27 Oct 2020 28 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Marsha Ingrao from last month’s challenge picked the theme.
This month’s theme is:
This week I have written a Tanka and a short Haiku . To express how humans have this illusion of power, over Mother Nature who laughs at us.
We feel we control
The outcome of life and fate.
Sadly deluded
Gaia sighs and laughes at us
She holds sway above us all.
We’re in charge?
Gaia laughs at us
We haven’t a clue
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 13 (TRUE) This week, it’s the C rhyme line.
08 Jul 2020 10 Comments
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This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Décima poetry challenge which is also linked to his Weekly Haiku Challenge.
We are diminished as a whole
Like ever decreasing circles
Drifting out to Gaia’s center
Gentle ripples in times echo
Resounding loudly as they go
We’ve nearly lost fight it’s true
Blackening the earth and skies too
Can we escape the sands of time
Or will the bells ring out deaths chimes.
Is there anything we can do.
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