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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #99 Flag&Fallen

30 May 2016 15 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Flag & Fallen, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Time for Ron’s weekly haiku challenge…

Yes, I am in extremely sunny Finland (really!!) at the moment, but I have to try and keep up to date with as many challenges as I can! At the moment, I am back at the hotel, the kids are trying to go to sleep, Hubby Dearest has gone out for a swift half (or 5) with my brother, so I have time!

Obviously, an apt prompt as it is Memorial Day in the USA…

Flag & Fallen

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Today raise a flag
In honour of those soldiers
True fallen heroes
Protected flag and country
They’re gone but not forgotten

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TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Potpourri

29 May 2016 13 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Potpourri, TJ's Household Haiku Chalenge

This week TJ has used my prompt idea of Potpourri.

Image from Pixabay… Sorry I’m not home to take my own at the moment!

Two little entries from me this week!

Who would have thought that
Dried old peels and dead flowers
Could make rooms smell good…?

Pretty potpourri
Hides a multitude of smells
With fragrant odors

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Still Water – #writephoto

27 May 2016 21 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, still waters, Sue Vincent

Sue’s Photo prompt this week.

An open window
Promising serenity
Soothes a troubled mind

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #98 Rein&Quest

23 May 2016 39 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Rein & Quest, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Monday Haiku time! And Ron has given us a tough couple of words this week!

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image.

Rein & Quest

Two takes this week…

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The Hunter

Now the hunt is on
Excitement can’t be suppressed
It’s within my grasp

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Sleeping Beauty – A Tanka

Holding the reins tight
I gallop into the woods
On a quest for love
To find the Princess I seek
Asleep for a hundred years.

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Images from Pixabay

TJ’s Household Haiku – Footstool

21 May 2016 14 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Footstool

This week TJ gave us the prompt of a footstool.

A quick initial haiku…

Life has worn you out
Come and rest your weary legs
Upon my smooth back

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I don’t have one, as such, and could only think of the small embroidered one we bought my Mother-in-law this birthday. It’s cute, and has a little drawer in the side, as the children thought their grandma could do with a secret hiding place for her pens and glasses! But I wasn’t able to get the photo… maybe later this week.

Then I remembered that I do have one, but it’s not mine!

It belongs to the kids. A miniature armchair and footstool set that Lil Man was gifted on his 1st birthday, by my parents.

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