A few Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Haiku Poetry Challenge, prompt word: Commit.
committed people
committing fanatic deeds
end up committed
commitment is key
for relationships to work
commit to concede
to be committed
to goodness, truth and justice
peace is elusive
kat ~ 11 January 2017
Photo from Pixabay.com
smit by wanderlust
we board coupes and tallyhos
powered by horses
kat – 11 January 2017
For Ronovan Writes Haiku Poetry Challenge, prompt words: Car and Coast
About the challenge: Each Tuesday I will provide a prompt photo, and your mission is to tell a story based on that prompt in 140 characters or less.
If you accept the challenge, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale. A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com.
I will do a roundup each Tuesday, along with providing us a new prompt.
Have Fun!
Here is the roundup based on last week’s photo:
Photo from Pixabay.com
Starting us off, a little romance and mystery from Michael at Morpethroad:
You sure this is the way?
Positive.
Your hand feels cold.
Hold on I’ll warm you.
Glad I wore my boots.
Nearly there.
I’m so tired.
I’ll carry you?
(139 characters)
Next up, carrying on the romance theme is Joy from Poetry Joy
Union means more than mere
exchange of vows and rings
Now they’re coupled
together in every sense
Her heart and legs run
wild, melting for him
(139 characters)
The Bag Lady tackled the resilience, hope and perhaps the naïveté of young love…
Only being married a week, this walk to the bay afforded some privacy. The farm was struggling, but they were going to make it work.
(132 Characters)
Kathryn from Another Foodie Blogger, romance took a turn toward drama and a broken heart!
“I can’t wait for you to see my surprise up ahead!”
John walked hesitantly beside her, knowing his ring would soon be going to his new love.
(139 Characters)
Sonali at Howling with the Wolf takes us down memory lane…
“Do you remember this field, love?”
“Of course.
I proposed.
Dropped the ring.
Then we had to search on our hands and knees for an hour!”
(127 characters)
From Pat at Black Cat Alley a tale that is out of this world!
“You’ve been gone 3 days!” his voice accusatory.
Grabbing his hand, she pulled – “A crop circle – over there – I was abducted by aliens.”
(136 Characters)
From Willowdot21…a cautionary tale perhaps?
Life’s too short not to do
What you want once in a while
So let’s to ourselves be true
Look at this sunset I dare you not to smile
(137 Characters)
Lady Lee Manila took the alien theme to the next level!
Hurry up, we’re hitching a ride to the galaxy.
We could work as star-chasers.
As long as we make it, we’re up in the air.
Forget them all.
(135 Characters)
From Lorraine’s Frilly Freudian Slip a nod back to the good old days…
“Out of gas, she laughed, “that old trick.”
“Seriously,” he replied. “No joke.”
“Now, get your boots on. Gas station coupla miles back.”
(136 Characters)
Irena at Books and Hot Tea offered us a glimpse into young love…
Together they could run and run. Run like children. Run away, escape the past. Run towards the welcoming future.
(112 Characters)
And finally newcomer, Stacy, at Warning the Stars, plotted the ultimate revenge revenge in her tale…
“Where are we going,” he asked. as he readjusted the blindfold.
“We’re almost there,” she answered as she guided him toward the cliffs edge.
(139 Characters)
I kicked the round off with an urban legend…
“Come on Jon, hurry!” Sue took his hand.
There was a huge flattened area under a tree.
“I swear, I saw Bigfoot here!”
“Right…” Jon laughed.
(140 Characters)
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What a great collection this week! If I missed anyone please let me know so I can include you in the list. This week’s prompt has several possibilities. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Mine is below the prompt. Good luck and have fun!
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Photo from Pixabay.com
Doomed
Agent Smith knew the Association would eventually find him.
“Go home to your families while you can,” he sighed, “nothing can save us now.”
(139 Characters)
kat – 10 January 2017
in my dreams you are still here
lazing away the hours, loving me
madly, crushing me with whispers,
driving me over the edge
into a thousand tiny deaths…
we never thought time could end
before the music stopped playing
kat ~ 9 January 2017
(Magnetic Poetry Original Kit)
Happy Sunday! Winter’s fury has descended upon many parts of my country. The weather forecasters and government authorities warn us to stay inside where it’s safe. And we know they’re right. We are reminded they are right by the sound of spinning tires on ice screaming from the silence late at night and by reports of stranded drivers and multiple car pile ups on the evening news. Some people just don’t heed the warnings. But not me. I’m happy to spend the day in my pajamas, eating and drinking warm things and napping between sappy movie binges. Staying safe is bliss!
But after a few days of slugging around behind my sterile four walls, I need a break, if for no other reason than to replenish my dwindling supply of milk and bread. So I dig myself out, venture past my neighborhood into the light of day and join the masses of other cabin fever sufferers who clog the highways and byways, narrow grocery aisles and shopping malls.
We are so predictable aren’t we? So predictable that we are easily convinced to take the safe route. Master manipulators hungry for power are well aware of our weakness. “Let us take care of things for you,” they say, “We’ll make the world great for you again. Let us tend to he details. Stay inside your tiny worlds where you feel safe. Let us handle things. We know things you don’t.”
But eventually it’s time to dig out, because for the world to hum, to thrive, to be great requires our participation. We need to join the masses. There are shopping malls to haunt, restaurants to patronize and grocery stores stocked to the rafters with milk and bread. No one can take care of the details for us. We are the ones who keep things humming.
So as we venture out after the storm, past soot-blackened snow mounds, scary ice patches and bumper to bumper uncomfortable closeness with strangers, with others, it helps to remember that, like us, they are doing their part too.
I’m guessing we’d miss each other if one of us didn’t show up…even the ones who didn’t heed the warnings. And I’m guessing we want us all to arrive safely wherever it is we’re heading.
Stay safe, stay warm…and stay in the game. We need you.
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 8 January 2017
beautiful rain at dawn
flattened area under a tree.
lately is not late
time is a tyrant
early birds will lose
all it takes is a head spin
the sum of our parts
flowers and people
it’s not the destination
earth beneath resting
I got here just in time!
~kat
A shi sai or ReVerse poem is a summary poem with a single line lifted from each entry of a collection of work over a particular timeframe and re-penned in chronological order as a new poem. Unlike a collaborative poem, the shi sai features the words of one writer,providing a glimpse into their thoughts over time. I use it as a review of the previous week. 😊
