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Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge – #67 Call & Cheer

19 Oct 2015 38 Comments

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

Monday arrives, and so does the weekly haiku challenge set by our dear Ronovan.
Please check out his challenge here.
This week the prompt words are Call & Cheer.

Can I say before I write, I am not feeling too ‘cheery’ at the moment, due to some sad personal news. The only ‘calls’ I had, held sadness…

If this colours the way I think about my haiku, I apologise…

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Gone – Tanka

I call out to you
As you seem to be floating
Far away from me
It hits me, like a bullet
Happiness evaporates

——–

You left me then. Gone
No word to say you were off.
I feel so empty
Knowing that I shall not see
Your cheery face anymore…

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I shall add another, more light hearted one that I also penned…

Last Orders – Haiku

The barman calls time
Then changes his mind… Lock In!
Cheers erupt all round!

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Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Callenge # 66 Pine & Grief

13 Oct 2015 28 Comments

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

Monday came and Ronovan set us his weekly challenge again. Check it out Here.
The prompt words this week are Pine & Grief.

Strangely simple, yet oh so tough too. You could be very obvious, but then again, obscurity could hit too…

What will I manage to come up with this time???

Sonu Singh’s Lament

Pining for his clan

He cannot contain his grief

Left alone… Again

The Things You Do For Love…

Bed of pine needles

Mere moments of sheer pleasure

But hours of pure grief

There you go, two for the price of one!

🙂

A Photographic Breakfast

11 Oct 2015 55 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Foodie Pics, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Breakfast, Challenge, Photos, poem

So, I love to take photos…
By no means am I a professional
And Hugh has set a challenge
That could be like a confessional
This week, present your breakfast
And post for all to see
Whether you sup hair of the dog
Or a lovely cup of tea
Full English, continental,
Cereal or toast
Or perhaps last night’s pizza
Is what you love the most!
He’ll be busy checking our photos
Of toast dripping with jam
And if he thinks it’s worthy
You might get featured on Instagram!
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So here’s my today’s brekkie!
A cup of tea, with fresh strawberries and mango, granola with yoghurt and a mango puree!

What Have I Done To You WP? 😥

11 Oct 2015 67 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: awaiting moderation, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, spam, spambot, WP

So now I’m spam?
Not good enough?
I know I’ve been quiet
But you’re being quite rough!
I’ve grown to love
This interaction
These conversations
With the writers faction…
But now you’re
Causing such a delay
Even my pingbacks
Aren’t allowed to play!
It’s only little
Smiley me!
I am no spambot
Can’t you see?
Please sort it out
Don’t cause me grief!
Stop being such
A comment thief!

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Written by a rather frustrated Ritu, seeming my comments go into spam folders with increasing regularity recently, and I’m constantly being moderated…. I feel like I’m at work! Moderates? Sheesh!

So please Peeps, keep checking your spam folders, you never know who may be lurking in there… It could be me…. Or any number of other members of your blogily, not just the lovely spam branch of the family, that you don’t really keep in touch with!!!!

Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #65 – Clear & Harp – linking to a hardly political blog-cast!

05 Oct 2015 24 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, clear & harp, Election, Gurdwara, Haiku, Politics

Monday heralds the Haiku challenge our dear friend Ronovan sets each week. Check it out here!

The words, Clear and Harp… Again Ronovan, you are totally testing us!!!

Election Fever

It doesn’t matter

How clearly I state my views

You harp on anyway…

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A little background to this haiku this time.

We are in the throes of election fever here. Not General elections, but the time to select the new Mukh Sevadar, or President, of the Sikh Temple here.

It’s annoying enough, getting bombarded with literature and visits at every turn, from well wishing supporters of various candidates, to family and friends who have their own agenda with regards to who they support.

But to have scandalous videos, and mudslinging happening between the two candidates…. Or their parties… That is unacceptable.

We are voting for someone to lead our temple for the next two years, a place of worship, a source of sanctity, not to help people with their own personal gains. This role is pretty big. We are one of the largest Gurdwaras in Europe. We need someone who will act for the good of the Sangat, the worshippers, creating a temple and atmosphere of spirituality, and serenity, not someone who point fingers, or wants gratitude.

I’ll name no names. I’m not swaying votes with my piece.

All I know is I have read lots, and it’s becoming hard to decide what is truth, and what is a pile of lies…

Truly, it has become politics within religion. Manifestos, debates, promises. All I want, and what most of those I know want, is a Gurdwara where we can go to, to pray, to soak in the beauty of the Sikh religion, to feel tranquility….

Ok, hopping off my soapbox now!!!!