Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge

Unite Our Breaths

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For Ronovan Writes’s haiku challenge. I wrote a somonka, which is two tankas, usually having the theme of love or loss. 

The plaintive wolf howls

At the moon; her face is mine

Missing you in night —

I see breath in chilly air

Longing for my belovèd.

 

I too see the moon;

She is beautiful as you

May we soon unite —

See your presence next to me

Embracing my belovèd.

Choose Faith

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For Ronovan Writes’s challenge to write a haiku using the words Choice and Faith or their synonyms, here. I wrote a tanka.

Faith in the unknown,

Based on what’s already known:

Choose to see the grace,

Grace has brought me safe thus far.

Travel bravely onward — home.

My Long-Ago Room

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I met two prompts at once this time. First, it is for Ronovan Writes’s “shy and sweet”challenge (except I wrote a tanks instead of a haiku). Also, it is for a prompt on Real Toads about a poem by Maya Angelou which mentions long-ago rooms.

In long-ago rooms,

Porcelain dolls gaze out shyly,

And pink walls look sweet.

These were times of innocence,

Memories still dear to me.

Hope and Magic

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This week’s Ronovan Writes challenge is to use the words “hope” and “magic” in a haikai poem. I have 2 to share.

Aging

Children believe in

Magic, and the word “hopeless”

Is not known to them —

Why do adults turn away

From wells of ageless wisdom?

Coming and going,

Hope is not a magic spell.

How I love her face,

How her presence saves from hell,

Nothing else can take her place.