You knocked me for six
It was like winter’s harsh blow
Bird-like I fluttered.
This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 345 BIRD AND Blow.
15 Feb 2021 12 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Depression, Poems, Ronovanwrites, sadness, Talking Straight Tags: bird, Blow, shock
Explosion.
20 Jan 2021 6 Comments
in Poems, sadness Tags: cancer, denial, disbelief, shock
Explosion Reaction
Explosion! what did he say.
No way, this is not right
He cannot say that today.
Close my eyes it’ll be all right.
Let me out I need some air
This is not happening now.
Not me, no this is not fair.
I can’t breathe,this is …. wow.
Open a window I am chocking here.
Yes a glass of water please
He’s spoken the words we all fear.
Please say it’s not true, this is just a tease.
Out in the street the traffic is loud.
Sweating profusely I shiver and shake.
I want to scream caught in this crowd.
Cancer it’s more than I can take.
Realization A Cinqku.
04 Sep 2019 19 Comments
in Poems, Uncategorized Tags: A Cinqku, Realization, shock
Today
Life looked me
Between the eyes
Caught within car headlights
Mown down.
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A cinqku must always have 5 lines and a perfect seventeen-syllable count. The lines typically follow a 2,3,4,6,2 format. There is no title requirement on the second line. As for syntax and diction styles, it follows the free Tanka style originally. There are no metric requirements for a cinqku poem. Additionally, the final line must contain a cinquain or kireji turn for emphasis.
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The Conversation, just before Christmas.
17 Dec 2017 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: angels, death, shock
Man:I like you car, is it new?
Woman : I have only had it a day or is it two.
Man: I love the colour is it blue?
Woman: Well they call it Azure.
Man: Do you know this road well ?
Woman :Yes I have been down it a thousand times for sure,
This road that leads right to my door.
they call in Azure blue
Man: Did you get all your presents the shops are such a crush?
Woman: I did, I even got my sister that amazing eye make up brush.
Man : And the festive food is that all in hand?
Woman: Yes and a good thing too as I am cooking this year as planned .
Man : Look who are all those people talking to the police?
Woman : OMG That is my family they’ve all come out even brought my baby niece.
They may of heard the noise of the crash
My husband does look pale why is he acting so rash.
I think I had better talk to him before he starts to cry!
Man :, hang on my friend you have to come with me………..
Woman : WHY?
Man : You have crashed the car, my dear and you are about to die.
Woman : Surely you are joking I am standing here with you,
Sorry it has been good to chat but I have so much to do.
Man : Tell me what is the last thing you remember before our chat?
Woman : Well I was concentrating very hard because of all the snow
I had to swerve to miss the cat. It all went black and then, I just don’t know.
Woman : OH! my what a commotion they are all in tears
Right outside the garden gate the neighbours have not had so much to look at for years.
Woman : Help I feel so cold and so very weak ,
Is that me inside the car, I just look asleep.
Man : Come my friend I am with you.I shall guide you now that your earthly life is at an end.
Woman : Will they all recover will they manage without me .
Man : Don’t worry they will all cope, you can even watch and see.
Now just relax and lean your head on me,
I have seen you’ve always been kind and you always talk with me.
Woman: I really do not want to leave them are you really sure.
Man: I am my dear friend now come with me just through this open door.
One-Liner Wednesday: Really?
18 May 2016 21 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: #1lineWed, old ladies, shock
Over heard, two octogenarians discussing their deceased husband’s:
“I suppose it is for the best in a way , if they were still here we would have to look after them”
Rules and pingback here
#1linerWeds
It’s Not Happening
20 Oct 2014 20 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: anger, BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH, distress, Fear, panic, shock
Explosion! what did he say.
No way this is not right
He cannot say that today.
If I close my eyes it’ll be all right.
Let me out I need some air
This is not happening now.
Not me, no this is not fair.
I can’t breathe,this is …. wow.
Open a window I am chocking here.
Yes a glass of water please
You spoken the words we all fear.
Please say it’s not true, this is just a tease.
Out in the street the traffic is loud.
Sweating profusely I shiver and shake.
I want to scream caught in this crowd.
Not Cancer it’s more than I can take.
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Another Poem for Breast Cancer Awareness Week.
FanFoFeb : Silence!
13 Feb 2014 16 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: abuse, beatings, bullying, FanFoFeb, loss, murder, shock
2pm
And finally, thankfully the lights went out.
Silence no more abuse nothing left to shout.
Blessed relief, Oh! thank God no more pain
She tried to fight for life but she slipped away all the same.
2.30pm
Slavering he swayed above her body
Bitch, he muttered, looking at his hands, dirty and bloody.
Stepping over her he gave her side a kick, it was then the baby started to cry
No, not again he screamed, shut up, shut up you little shit, die.
3pm
He’d picked the baby up and smashed its’ head against the floor
Swung the baby round shaking it, it stopped screaming as it’s head met the door.
He left it lying there by her side … bloody thing it would of been okay if it had not cried
He went over to the table and drank from the bottle , unaware and uncaring that his wife and baby had died.
4pm
He is slumped across the table
Snoring , drunk to wake unable
What a greeting for a child from school
Mum and baby sister dead and bloodied, too cruel.
4.10pm
She was sick, she can’t believe her eyes
Frozen to the spot she cannot move however hard she tries
The evil drunk spoiler of her miserable life
Tired she is of him, sick again she reaches for a knife.
4.30pm
She puts the knife in his chest. No time to stop and think.
He hardly makes a move anesthetized by the drink.
Her senses tell her what to do so she picks up the phone.
Ambulance please, Dad has hurt my Mum, I have just got home .
5pm
The Police came with the Ambulance they had been there before.
They knew that this was bad as they stepped inside the door.
The girl in the corner dead baby in her arms dry eyed and lost
Mother a mass of bruises she did her best, but at such an awful cost.
6pm
The man was D.O.A . The paramedics could do nothing for him
The girl was so distraught they had to prize the baby from her arms so thin.
Poor little soul was what the nurses had to say
Her Mum and Dad and sister all of them snatched away.
8pm
The relatives room was quite apart from the little girls sobs
The social workers said they hate these type of jobs.
What ever could they do to help a little soul
Too young to understand , withdrawn and swallowed whole.
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Gate keepers :12
05 Aug 2013 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Gate Keepers, horror, sadness, shock
Why do they sit and guard at the gates, what are the horrors that they await?
Why do they guard the portal, why do they never sleep what is it they guard why is this their fate.
Why for millenniums have they stood by their posts
Why, …… is it to save us from aliens or ungodly hosts?
What are they protecting us from, what fiendish hell are they shutting out
What is it fighting to get in and attack this world and wipe it all out!?
What is the secret they keep , what would happen if they open the portal for us to take a peek.
What is the horrible truth that they keep , are you ready to hear and face the words that I speak.
It is not us they are saving, is it not us they protect ,
NO! It is all the other dimensions and worlds across the threshold …… they will not let us infect!
It is shocking and fearful for us to be told
It is us that we are the evil from all other worlds and dimensions they must withhold!!
The Gate Keepers :11
04 Aug 2013 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Fear, Gate Keepers, hate, Man's inhumanity, shock
The gate keepers where shocked by man’s inhumanity to man
They saw what happened in the garden of Eden , they saw the how the world began.
They saw what they did to the son of God upon the cross , they saw they murdered in God’s name
They saw how man put man in chains they saw how they gassed and beat and shot for Hitlers’ fame.
They wept for child soldiers taught to fight , maim and rape
They wept for all that man did in the name of Mammon and hate.
They wept for all the men who hoarded money and food , condemning Others to starve!
They wept for those dying of disease for want of proper drugs, sadly their lives halved.
They mourned for mother Earth, now in her dying throw
They mourned for all the dreadful things that man had heaped upon her stunting how her flowers grow.
They mourned for all her forests and jungles stripped of foliage and trees
They mourned for all poisons poured into her rivers and her seas,
They mourned for all she ever was for now she was brought down to her knees
The story Sofa!
17 May 2012 20 Comments
in Poems Tags: amazment, Family, furniture, horror, shock, ungratefulness!
Here I am with open arms oblivious to all your charms. Here unmoving day and night I helped you learn to read and write
photo credits http://www.squidoo.com
Here I am, the one you need, to get you through life’s challenges, 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 sip your tea and listen as the Thrush sings!
Early morning late at night I am here for your delight!!
photo creditshttp://www.allposters.com/
I keep your secrets as you grow older and see your relationships get hot or colder. As you grow and become much bolder.
I am here for you when life becomes to hard to shoulder and encourage you as you climb up another gigantic life boulder!
You may change my covers to suit the fashion to look good or cool for swings from anger into passion. Never deserting always there the answer to exhaustions prayer.
photo credits http://www.masterfile.com/
I excel at family gatherings Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and especially Weddings. Usually I get tarted up when special visitors come to sup!
Always in need when there are babies, new, 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 no one else is about.
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 have never done a nasty thing to you.
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, you have found some one new! I am banished shoved aside not wanted even though I’ve comforted you whenever you’ve cried! Cast aside for versions new after all I have done for you!!
photo credit http://xenophober.blogspot.co.uk/
Now, how ungrateful can you be ! After all these years you abandon me??
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