In response to the lovely Hugh’s Photo Challenge this week…
I found it tough, looking for rust…. but I found some!
Rust waits for nothing
Not even time forgiven
Tick tock, my poor clock!
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Hope you like it!
Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 11 – Rust
04 Feb 2016 22 Comments
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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #82 Star&Child
02 Feb 2016 57 Comments
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Monday evening means it’s Ron’s haiku challenge! Read more here.
Great words this week – Child & Star. I started with a little humour, but the words touched me in a personal way, paving the path for the second haiku…
Honey Boo Boo!
Reality
Reality stars
Nothing more than hyped up and
Celebrated brats
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And one a little more emotionally deep… means something to me…
For my 2 stars, twinkling in the sky…
Forever Stars
Farewell my cherubs
Gone too soon but with me still
Two more stars twinkle
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Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 10 – Faces
27 Jan 2016 24 Comments
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Hugh always manages to think of great prompts for his photography challenge, and this week the topic was faces. Check out the prompt here.
Not any old face, but those faces that are not real. You know when you look at a static object, and can almost ‘see’ a figure, or features? Yes, that kind of face!
So here is my face… I read the prompt yesterday, and wondered where I may find or see a face, and my colleague had made our home corner into a castle last night… as I looked at one panel, it almost stared back at me! And with that wide open mouth, I wasn’t sure it it was showing surprise, or getting ready to eat one of the kids!
And you know I like to add a little poetic twist… that is just my thing! A haiku this time…
Faces
Unseeing eyes stare
Tongues lick lips that never taste…
Are you really there?
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Enjoy!!!!
FFF #30 – Jealous
27 Jan 2016 25 Comments
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Tuesday was prompt day from Matt The Book Blogger, and I was a little tied up to manage to post straight away last night, so here is my attempt this week!
Check out the prompt here.
This week the prompt song is Labyrinth’s Jealous.
I sat here listening to the words… really listening. What a song! I know it’s a sad one, but I loved it!
Jealous
Sitting here watching you smiling…
Happy…
Happier than you ever were with me.
Why couldn’t I give you that happiness?
Still, I can’t moan, I can’t hold it against you.
But I still feel it… jealousy.
There. I said it.
Jealous.
I never realised that all you wanted was that extra affection.
I regret all those times I shrugged your arm off my shoulders, or refused to hold your hand in public.
It was never that I was ashamed. I just felt trapped, almost.
Does that make sense?
And that trap, of my own making, lost you.
I miss you…
I hope you enjoyed my take!
Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #81 – Trill & Final
25 Jan 2016 50 Comments
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I’m not sure whether our challenge day is changing, or it’s just Ron keeping up on our toes, but the challenge I usually complete on a Monday, called out to me on a Sunday this week!
Our prompt words are Trill & Final.
Check the challenge out here
The Match – A Tanka
Twenty two players
Run ragged across the pitch
Fighting exhaustion
The shrill trill of the whistle
Sounds the end of the final
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