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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth.

09 Feb 2021 18 Comments

by Ritu in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge Tags: Bite & Teeth, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, Senryu

Ronovan’s weekly Haiku Challenge:

Bite & Teeth

It’s no secret, how disappointed I am with the snow offering we had, here where I live, considering the Beast from the Baltic was meant to be visiting. My Haiku/Senryu is dedicated to that beast with less of a roar, and more of a whimper… though it did manage to close our school, because others were much luckier and couldn’t get in because they got several inches of snow, rather than our couple of centimetres!

This was from Sunday. There was a little more on Monday.

Beast from the Baltic
Comes at us baring sharp teeth
But he barely bites! 

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 344 BITE and Teeth.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 Bare and Full

02 Feb 2021 18 Comments

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Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge:

Bare & Full

Baring his sharp teeth
The king shows us his full set
Back away, slowly

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Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 343 BARE and Full

#TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 210 #SYNONYMSONLY #Senryu Past & Present

28 Jan 2021 20 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Past & Present, Senryu

Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry challenge: Use synonyms of the prompt words in any of the syllabic poetry forms.

Past & Present

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Start the day today
Not thinking of yesterday
But of the future

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#TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 209, #POET’SCHOICE #Senryu

21 Jan 2021 22 Comments

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

Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry challenge this week is free choice, as in poets choice of syllabic form poetry.

Need my morning tea
To flush away the cobwebs
Refreshingly good

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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

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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!