Poetry – Page 20 – M J Mallon YA Author and Poet

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge Review 50

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Review. Check it out. Lots of great haiku. Serious Haiku winner this week Martha of Meredith’s Musings: Aspiration and two winning Humour Haiku: Mari T. of Overcoming Static: Pursuing Growth, and E. Rawls of E. Rawls: Author creating stories and art: Plights of a Merchant, plus Ronovan’s closing haikus too!

ronovanwrites

First, you can still submit your entry to the challenge and have it added to the Review.

Second, for future reviews, as the number of poets are increasing and my functioning hours are decreasing due to health, I am allergic to heat and it’s exacerbating my other conditions and it’s been 100 degrees here lately and no air in my room, that’s what you get for living in a house that was a school house a hundred years ago, the reviews may be minus my comments. I think the comments may actually take away from people being able to get to all of the Haiku anyway, but I know some people enjoy it when I am in a good enough way to have fun with them. Yes, I get goofy sometimes. 🙂

Week #50 Haiku Challenge Review of the Words Gain & Hound.

Be aware all links and images if…

View original post 1,764 more words

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #50 Gain & Hound

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #50 Gain&Hound

Time for another Haiku challenge, this week’s prompt words from Ronovan Writes are Gain and Hound. It kind of puts me in mind of my current situation. We’re in the process of modernising our kitchen, so I’ll gain a new kitchen but in the meantime I’m hounded by dust, debris, dirt and doubts! Are we spending too much? Did we really need to knock down walls? Oh too late, here’s what it looks like with steel girders holding it up!

On top of it all the project manager from the kitchen fitters has gone off sick. So nobody seems to know what they’re doing. That worrying thought is hounding me too!

Then we found out that our daughter had run up a huge mobile phone bill. (She’s in deep water.)

Eek, so please forgive me if a little anxiety creeps into my haiku this week. So to counterbalance my rising anxiety levels let’s have a smiley faced puppet to ward off my Hounding Kitchen Fears:

Hounding Kitchen Fears

Gain a new kitchen

Let go of those growing fears

Hey Stop Hounding Me!

And another one which is not kitchen orientated! It’s about a skinhead hound, hope you never meet one!

The Skinhead Hound

The hound dogged my dreams

No gain for me as I slept

Just skinhead nightmares

Words good or bad, are my very own!

Thanks for stopping by, do come again, I love visitors. Leave a comment if you can…..

Kyrosmagica xx

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge Review 49

Thrilled that my haiku Monkey Says won the humour choice last week, thank you so much Ron. I love writing humorous haiku! I find it so much more difficult to write serious haiku, so well done to the winner of the serious choice haiku, Melissa Barker-Simpson (Author): Incessant Chatter. Hats off to you. Take a look at Ronovan’s review list of wonderful haiku bloggers there are so many to choose from, all so good.

ronovanwrites

You will notice I am late. Also only half or the Haiku have comments with them. I hope I at least saw all the links on the challenge post. I wasn’t able to go hunting for Haiku this time around. I don’t normally give reasons for lateness but since I also don’t have comments with some, I feel one is in order. Saturday was my birthday and I went to a movie for the first time in two years. Good movie, disastrous results. Then I had to go to my parents for Father’s Day. Combine the two and I have been in bed most of the weekend with a very extreme migraine and various Fibromyalgia pains.

Next week we’ll be back to normal with the review. As for the photo? In case anyone wondered that’s actually my mouth. I just painted using samples of the colors from a photo with…

View original post 1,767 more words

Haiku Poetry Prompt challenge #49 Lock & Gab

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #49 Lock&Gab

Time for another Poetry Prompt Challenge from Ronovan Writes. If you haven’t joined in the fun well I would highly recommend you do!

Well this time I’ve added a link to a bit of my writing at the bottom of this post, as the prompts were just so me! All comments haiku and writing related would be most gratefully received. Or just come and have a gabber. Either ways I’d love a chit chat.

Oh, these prompts, what can I say? Ron really knows how to come up with great challenge words. Lock, I love it. It just conjures up mysterious, hidden places, and gab well there’s nothing like a good old chatter, unless of course monkey thinks it’s getting out of hand!

Monkeys says

A hum in my brain

Gab on, Gab Off, now stop it!

Lock it up DARLING.

Secret Key Sings

The bewitched attic

A gab about mystery

The secret key sings

I found these particular prompts very inspiring. I wrote about a secret key in one of my chapters of my first manuscript, here’s a link to my writing extract: https://atomic-temporary-67364188.wpcomstaging.com/2015/06/18/writing-extract-the-mystery-of-the-talking-key/

If you like this tiny sample of my writing please do let me know. I’d appreciate that so much. Thanks. x

Words good or bad, are my very own!

Thank you for stopping by, do come again, I love visitors.

Kyrosmagica. x

Haiku Poetry prompt Challenge #48 Inspire & Loss

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #48 Inspire&Loss

Inspire and Loss – what a wonderful pairing, I’m going to enjoy this weeks Haiku Challenge from Ronovan Writes.

It’s funny how a couple of words can take you on a strange journey, into a surreal picnic setting with a tree, a floating piece of grass, and a kite attached to the tree. Oh and a passionate kiss, nearly forgot that! How could I? If this loved up couple move an inch on their picnic playground there’s a chance they will fall of their half bubble of perfectly maintained grass. Never mind that kite, they should have tethered themselves to the tree as well, just in case, you can never be too careful! But passion doesn’t tend to go hand in hand with caution does it? Nope, it sure doesn’t. Oops…..

Kite Boy

Floating grass picnic

Inspires such surreal desire

Sad Loss My Kite Boy

Moving on from the loss of Kite Boy, let’s take a moment to reflect on this still life. After Kite Boy’s gone I think the peacock feather will be plucked, colour dashed, so sad……………

Plucked Still Life

Plucked inspiration

Loss of a peacock feather

A muted still life

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #47 Water & Bard

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #47 Water&Bard

WELCOME TO KYROSMAGICA

Let’s indulge in a bit of Haiku Heaven this Friday, and where better to start this creative process than Ronovan Write’s weekly Haiku Challenge.

In this modern age when tweets can mean more than bird sounds this kind of ruffled my bird feathers, so I came up with a tweeting haiku I do hope you like it!

Tweet Tweet

The water words flow

A poetic bird this bard

He tweets haikus

Moving on from tweeting Haikus let’s step into the Tragic Bard’s Tale:

The Tragic Bard’s Tale

The Bard’s Tragic Tale

Music fiercely edited

Water drowned his notes

THIS BLOG claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to its respectful owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it to appear on this site, please contact or e-mail me with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge, Think # 46, Fresh

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-46-think-fresh/
So the challenge words this week from Ronovan are Think and Fresh.

Well let me see………………………..

I couldn’t come up with a serious one this week, somehow think and fresh just didn’t lead me down that path. In fact I’d say that these two prompt words took me to some rather strange places. Sorry failed miserably, on the plus side I came up with two funny ones instead!

Student think Award

Prize given to Fresh woman

Freshman is pissed off.

This one is really dark humour/weird, so apologies in advance:

Think of a challenge

Grim reaper tries to get fresh

But he was past it.

Haiku Prompt Challenge #45 Pitch & Time

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #45 Pitch&Time

I like the combination of these two challenge words.

Pitch could be lots of things, pitching a tent, perfect pitch of voice, a pitcher of juice, a football pitch, and time’s such a fine word to conjure up all sorts of mysterious ideas.

Here’s my funny one:

A thief’s fun day out

Perfect pitch Sunday car boot

Time to weigh the loot

Here’s my serious one:

Her perfect pitch of voice

Gone, cancer robbed, deleted

Time’s sweet song silent

Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge#44 Charge & Lovers

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #44 Charge&Lovers

So a new prompt this week from Ronovan Writes: Charge and Lovers, an interesting combination. I wonder what I can come up with?

Here goes, a funny one, no worries this time Ron, no more tomato balloons exploding, I promise! But, I couldn’t resist the redness of the hearts in amongst the frozen gold coins.

Cash Desk Woes

Frozen cash desk woes

Preposterous charge overflows

Poor lovers tiff grows

My attempt at a more serious offering, this is difficult!

Lover’s Staff

Lover’s purple staff

A battle locked last embrace

Killing life’s sweet flame

Why does everything end up sounding ridiculous? Well, I reckon it’s because I find a cute picture and the seriousness gets lost, oh and I have a tendency to be a bit prone to silliness, I suppose, guilty your honour!!!

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #43 Source & Thought

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #43 Source & Thought

Here’s my funny one:

The source of red sauce

Full ketchup balloons of course

What a messy thought

A serious One:

Fleeting source of life

A Butterfly caught in time

It flutters winged thoughts

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: