26 Jun 2016 28 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Magpie, wings
I’ve written about Magpies before, and this week’s prompt from TJ for his Haiku challenge was a beautiful photo of a lone magpie, with an additional prompt word of Wings.
Whenever I see magpies, that rhyme is in my head, about what the future holds, depending on the amount of birds you see, so this inspired my Tanka-style Haiku this week!
Magpie spread your wings
Fly and find your other half
You need to be ‘two’
I don’t want sorrow today
I need a little more joyRitu 2016
23 Jun 2016 61 Comments
in Challenges, My Writing, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Doors, Poetry, Sue Vincent, tanka
I do love Sue’s photo prompts! She has given a beautiful door to work with this week. And I give to you, a poem made up of 3 tankas – a Trianka!
The Unknown…
What is it that lies
Beyond the ancient entrance
Cloaked in mystery?
A portal to a new world
Or simply another house?Do you dare to look?
To turn that rusty door knob?
To push it open?
To force ageing joints to creak?
To quench your thirst for the truth?But be careful though
You know not, what you may find
Like Pandora’s box
Could be a pleasant surprise
Or you may unleash a beast….Ritu 2016
Funny, but as I wrote this, all that kept on going through my mind was the EU Referendum today! We were all faced with this dilemma… do we vote to stay, and stay on this side of the ‘door’, safe with what we know? Or do we take the risk, and push open that door, to see what lies beyond the confines of Europe?
See what your Referendum has done to my mind, Government?! It’s taken over my creative process!
20 Jun 2016 27 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #Ronovansweeklyhailuchallenge, Birth & Cheer, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge
Firstly,
A huge birthday cheer
For our Haiku Meister Ron
Wish you many more!Ritu 2016
The prompt words this week,
Image from Pixabay
The dawn of summer
A time for optimism
The sun WILL come outRitu 2016
Cheers of joy erupt
The birth of a new baby
Happiness abounds
A time for celebrations
New life, new love, a new hopeRitu 2016
18 Jun 2016 29 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cactus, dry, Haiku
Tj’s prompt today… An image of a cactus, or the word dry
I tried to use both…
Image from Pixabay
The ground, parched and dry
Yet still a source of beauty
Where cacti can thriveRitu 2016
18 Jun 2016 24 Comments
in Challenges, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Pale, Sue Vincent
Sue’s Photo prompt.
I found it quite hard to think up something for this one, but here goes!
A family
There once were three
Now there’s nothing leftA calamity
Took their dignity
And no one has confessedA community
presumably
Are now feeling bereftFutility
They cannot see
This happen to the restRitu 2016
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