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#Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge NO. 209, Last Challenge Of 2020 – Hope #Senryu

31 Dec 2020 28 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, hope, Senryu

It’s the last one of this interesting year… 2020…

For the LAST poetry challenge of 2020, I want you to write a poem about hope, using your favorite poetry form (it doesn’t have to be syllabic). Please make these poems inspirational to others.

Hope

We all need that hope
The world needs us to believe
Things will get better

Ritu 2020

I find it so hard to confirm a specific style of poetry that is my favourite, I love rhyming couplets, and limericks, but equally, the challenge of various syllabic poetic forms is just as satisfying.

This week, I chose a Senryu. I like both Senryu and Haiku, because of how much you can convey in such few syllables.

I hope you enjoy my ramblings, too! (See what I did there, hope?)

Here’s to plenty more poetic adventures in the new year, Peeps!

Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 179, #ThemePrompt #etheree

26 May 2020 22 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Etheree, hope

We have a quote as our syllabic poetry prompt this week, thanks to Merril D. Smith!

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Hope
Can be
Infinite
If you let it
When you shine your light
You become a beacon
Others will flock towards you
And then ignite lights of their own
Just a little spark of your own hope
Can be a catalyst for hope worldwide

Ritu 2020

#WritePhoto – Glimmer

18 Oct 2018 39 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Blogging 101, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Glimmer, hope, Micro Poetry, Peace, Pyramid Poem

Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

It is there.
It may seem far away.
But if you believe, you can see it.
A glimmer of hope, like an oasis in a desert.
Shining through in the darkness of the world we live in.
Peace will reign one day, in the future. We just can’t lose our faith.

Ritu 2018