RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #171 Lake&Calm

This week Ronovanwrites has given us the two words Lake and Calm.

I wrote a trio of Haiku, a before, during  and after.

   Lake and Calm

Gently the lake flows

Softly bathed in the moonlight

So deep and so calm

The waves  lap my toes

The water fills me with calm

At one with the lake

Cold, pulled from the lake

In death she looked peaceful, calm

All her travails gone.

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #170 Heart&Need

This week the talented Ronovanwrites has given us  Heart and Need as our weekly prompts for  his Haiku Poetry Challenge. 

I have done a Haiku and a Tanka.

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You have broken me

Tenderness  is at the heart

Of all that  I need.

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Once a work of art

Destroyed, spite lays at the heart

Jealousy maybe

Spoiled because of its beauty

Is this envy what we need.

RonovanWrites th#Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #164 Pleasure&Excite

This week Ronovanwrites has set us some sizzling words for our weekly Haiku Challenge : Pleasure and Excite.

Icy pleasure.

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Ice melts on hot skin

The ice cold trickle excites

As pleasure explodes.

RonovanWrites, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #162 Hope&Stay

This week Ronovanwrites has given us the too words, Hope and Stay.

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With you born new hope

Valiantly  lead your troops

We need you to stay

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So came the evil

All bridges burnt hope had fled

She would not remain

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #161 Painted&Lady

This week Ronovanwrites has given us the weekly Haiku prompt of Painted and Lady.

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Eats all in its path

To burst forth full of colour

A painted Lady.

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She always turned heads

Yet now painted in pastal

A stunning lady.

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #159 Fate&Make

This week Ronovanwrites has given us the the words,  Fate&Make.

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Truly it is said

Make the most of everyday

You can not beat fate.

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 Don’t say it’s not fair

All of us make our own fate

Don’t care made to care.

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The fickle finger 

Of fate can be made to wait

You can make it so 

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #149 Excite&Karma

This  week  the  very  talented Ronovan   has  set  us  the  title  words  Excite  & Karma.

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All senses  heighten

Feel  the  Karma all around

What goes  up  comes  down

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #143 Chagrin&Joy

This is my entry to Ronovanwrite’s weekly Haiku challenge.

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Please don’t waste your life

Chargrin is too much effort

Joy is much less strife

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On the edge I stand

Broken and full of chargrin

All joy lost and banned

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Give me joy and life

Chargrin is a waste of time

Run towards the light

Ronovanwrites#Weekly#Haiku.Spring & Fresh

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #142 Spring&Fresh

When fresh winds do blow

Spring is on it’s way, we know

Buds bloom flowers grow.

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A breath of fresh air

She put a spring in his step

Giving him new life.

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The spring fresh water

Bubbles from the cold grey rocks

Quenching the long thirst.

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Poetry Challenge #7 08/07/2012 ARMY DREAMERS

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This really is a song but the words are true poetry. I have always loved it as a poem. It holds as true today as it did in 22 September 1980 when it was released as a single. It tells of the grief of a mother receiving the body of her young son who has been killed in action. Her heart is torn in two and she feel guilty for not stopping him from joining up ( as if she could of stopped him) .

She berates herself for the things he could of been, could of done , the marriage he could of had , the grandchildren and his life. …….. Waste all waste  as I have always said time and time again! War is waste!

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KATE BUSH

Catherine “Kate” Bush (born 30 July 1958)is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom’s most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.

In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single “Wuthering Heights“, becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song.

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THE PHOTOS I HAVE USED ARE FROM THE INTERNET AND THE PHOTO OF THE YOUNG SOLDIER IS NOT RELATED TO THE PHOTO OF THE COFFIN RETURNING HOME

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Our little army boy
Is coming home from b.f.p.o.
I’ve a bunch of purple flowers
To decorate a mammy’s hero.

photo credits http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12466155

Mourning in the aerodrome,
The weather warmer, he is colder.
Four men in uniform
To carry home my little soldier.

“what could he do?
Should have been a rock star.”
But he didn’t have the money for a guitar.
“what could he do?
Should have been a politician.”
But he never had a proper education.
“what could he do?
Should have been a father.”
But he never even made it to his twenties.
What a waste —
Army dreamers.
Ooh, what a waste of
Army dreamers.

Tears o’er a tin box.
Oh, jesus christ, he wasn’t to know,
Like a chicken with a fox,
He couldn’t win the war with ego.

Give the kid the pick of pips,
And give him all your stripes and ribbons.
Now he’s sitting in his hole,
He might as well have buttons and bows.

“what could he do?
Should have been a rock star.”
But he didn’t have the money for a guitar.
“what could he do?
Should have been a politician.”
But he never had a proper education.
“what could he do?
Should have been a father.”
But he never even made it to his twenties.

photo credits http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/

What a waste —
Army dreamers.
Ooh, what a waste of
Army dreamers.
Ooh, what a waste of all that
Army dreamers,
Army dreamers,
Army dreamers, oh…

Poetry Challenge #7 is to create a journal of links and your reactions to poems by established (living or dead poets.) Details are here.  Example response is here. Mr. Linky for Challenge #7 is directly below: