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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 122

05 Feb 2019 41 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Colleen Chesebro, Haiga, love, Poet's Choice, Valentines, Watercolour

As I said yesterday, the challenges are back on after a month off!

Today it is Colleen’s turn, with her Tanka Tuesday which is not just about Tankas, but rather a chance to use different syllabic poetic forms.

Usually, she gives us two words which we need to use synonyms of within our verses… but on the first Tuesday of the month, we get free rein, and this month, the suggestion was to think of love related poems, as Valentine’s is so close…

Colleen recently introduced us to a new form, called a Haiga, where the words, usually a haiku or senryu, are echoed by an image, traditionally painted, but nowadays, can be a photo too.

I thought I’d try the traditional way, and even painted my own quick watercolour to go with it! It’s simplistic but effective, I hope!

A senryu for you all.

My words are Together and Heart

Two hearts beating fast
Ten fingers firmly entwined
One life together

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RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #MicroPoetry Prompt Challenge #239 Sugar&Bitter

04 Feb 2019 32 Comments

by Ritu in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, Senryu

It’s been over a month since I took part in this challenge, and boy, am I glad to be back!

Lovely Ron’s words this week are:

Sugar & Bitte r

Two poems today. The first a haiku about the weather…

A bittersweet turn
Delicate flakes fall then melt...
Sorry, no snow day!

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And a senryu:

Model, Face, Beautiful, Black And White — Pixabay Image

Your lips, sugar sweet
Your eyes smoulder with passion
Yet your heart, bitter

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Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image 2016

#SoCS Dec. 29/18 – Ask Another

29 Dec 2018 41 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #SoCS, Ask Anyone, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Squat, Stream Of Consciousness Saturday

Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “ask someone else.” Either ask someone for a prompt word or, if you can’t, turn on a TV or a radio and choose a word from the first sentence you hear. Enjoy!

Squat.

Yes, that is the word I chose after switching on the TV and finding Deuce Bigalo: Male Gigolo on the screen!

So, what can I write about squat?

Diddly squat. I do like that phrase… Where did it come from? Apparently it is thought to have come from the US, where the word doodle might have been used first – meaning poops. Then doodly squat turned to diddly squat, meaning the least amount, or not knowing anything at all!

But I lie… I do know about squatting.

It’s apparently the preferred way to go back home… except I wasn’t born there, so I am happy to sit atop my ivory throne and do the do, if you know what I mean.

Though the West has certainly caught on to the fact that squatting is the natural way to go, and just yesterday I saw an ad for a squat stool, rather like a child’s toilet stool, to help them up when they are toilet training. This time it’s for adults, and you are supposed to put your feet on it when you go, whilst sitting on your ivory throne (because you are too modern for the real squat, you know!) so your legs are squishing up against your body, rather like if you were squatting... And that is supposed to be the next best thing…

Jees, did I really write about toilet habits?

Sorry, that is true Stream Of Consciousness for you!

I could have just told you of the aches and pains caused by me trying the exercise version of the squat, in the 30 day squat challenge a few years ago… but that would just have been tame… and no, I didn’t get the buns of steel!!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Dec. 29/18

Clouds #writephoto

28 Dec 2018 40 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Clouds, Poetry, Sue Vincent

Sue’s prompt this week:

Clouds
Clearing
Sun shining
Vision crystal
The future ahead
Looks promising
Tomorrow
Will be
Great

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Thursday photo prompt: Clouds #writephoto

One Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds

26 Dec 2018 30 Comments

by Ritu in #1linerweds, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, The Terminator, WIP, Writer

“I’ll be back.”
The Terminator & Ritu

It’s the last One-Liner of the year so I thought I’d join in, one last time, but not last for good if you know what I mean?

As of the new year, I am bowing out of my daily challenges, so I can actually get my rewrite and editing done on those blessed WIP of mine. I’ll still be around, you know me, I can’t stay away. Spidey and Chai will definitely be happening, it’s just the other stuff.. for a while at least…

2019 will be the year.

I hope…!

No, I don’t hope, I will make something happen. By the end of the year, there will be a book available, with my name as the author… whether it is by indie means or other… it will be there, and with any luck, another will be well on the way too!

Now, I just need your writerly vibes to help me along!