Stay – A Décima Love Song

Ronovan Décima Poetry Challenge #18
“Stay” In A rhyme line

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Photo by Pixabay

Stay!

Our time is ending won’t you stay?
There is so much left to explore.
Hopes and dreams of what is in store,
Don’t leave this moment slip away.

My hands are trembling, they betray,
That you’re thinking the same thing too.
Let’s leave nothing to misconstrue!
The fire is burning in the hearth,
Please stay by me and share the warmth.
There is so much that’s left to do.

                                                            ©2020 cj holm*

*Writer’s note – This is one poem that changed entirely as it was being written. At first, it was a beginning – Then it became an ending!

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/12/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-18-stay-this-week-its-the-a-rhyme-line/

“Décima” (also known as Espinel) is a Spanish style or form of musical poetry that contains 10 lines of eight syllables.
The style has a rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc. Sometimes you break the stanza up in abba/accddc.
The abba/accddc requires either a period or semicolon after the fourth line break.

 

Haiku Challenge (8/10/20)

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 318 – Meet / Part

The challenge is to create a linked haiku, known in a fashionable eclectic circle as Shi Rensa Haiku

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Then Again

Day’s closing sunlight
Meets this evenings shade of blue
Young lovers must part.

Young lovers must part
Daylight memories remain
Thoughts cast to the night

Thoughts cast to the night
Fills the heart with pleasant dreams
Till night becomes day

Till night become day
And blue is lit by sunlight
Love begins again

                 ©2020 cj holm

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/10/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-318-meetpart/#comment-75970

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Haiku Challenge (8/3/20)

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 317 – Eye / Light

Five Momentary Hues

Glimpse of tomorrow
Seen in the light of their eyes
Lover’s destiny

          ©2020 cj holm

First light of morning
Linking hearts and open eyes
Desire’s golden chains

          ©2020 cj holm

Refracted sunlight
Rainbows caught by children’s eyes
Magic thoughts in air

          ©2020 cj holm

Last light of battle
Seen by soldier’s dying eyes
Opens heaven’s door

          ©2020 cj holm

Sparkle of dew drops
Delight early morning eyes
Light’s priceless jewels

          ©2020 cj holm

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/08/03/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-317-eyelight/

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Stand With Me

 

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Journey – Art Credit Stuart Glazer http://www.stuartglazer.com

Stand with me at the protest edge
And listen to the speaker’s words.
Carry a banner that says you care,
And sing old gospel songs!

Scream “Hands up” with thunderous cries
That echo through all suburbs!
Send a message loud and clear,
Our nation must change forever.

There is no excuse for what was done
George Floyd has gone to heaven.
Give us the life that all should have,
Equality is not an option!

©2020 cj holm

Charade – Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge (3/23/20)

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 298 Bad / Play
(Writers note —  Bad = a dyslectic Bay)

Who decides what’s bad
in the lover’s games they play
-Me too, she exclaimed

                              ©2020 cj holm

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/03/23/haiku-poetry-prompt-bay-play/

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
-Mark Twain
“Oh what a hit we made
We came on next to closing
Best on the bill, lovers until
Love left the masquerade”
-Henry Nicola Mancini / John H. Mercer

Haiku/Senryu Challenge (2/24/20)

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The first taste of spring
is held for the purest love
-Chaste Cherry Blossoms

                                                             -CJ Holm
Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 294 Chaste / Taste

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https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/02/24/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-chaste-taste/

 

“A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow.”
                                 -Menander of Athens

Dance With Me

Created for Susi Bocks Challenge

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Here in this orchard
won’t you come to dance with me
and share my sweet fruit

                                              -CJ Holm

IWH weekly Haiku/Senryu Challenge 33 – August 20, 2019

I couldn’t resist adding some dream elements to the B & W image you (Susi) provided

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