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Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge # 57

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku#PoetryPrompt# Challenge#57 Bust & Must

This week’s prompt words for Ron’s Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge are bust and must.

There are several meanings for the word bust so I thought I’d explore them and have a bit of fun!

The two prompt words brought to mind my piano teacher, God rest her soul. I feel a bit mean about this one, she was a lovely chatty lady with one very abundant distinguishing feature. But, she was a good sport and an excellent piano teacher so, I trust she wouldn’t mind if I start off with joke to make you smile.

Piano Teacher

Must navigate around her

Ample bust on keys

Expressions with the word bust in them –

He bust his sweet ass

To make a forever perch

Love must always last

Oh, and let’s not forget artists mannequins:

Such a fine red hat

A mannequin bust display

Must have gold necklace

or:

Holiday must see

Clear blue skies sand sculpture bust

Amazing delight

Unfortunately the other day I broke my lovely tea caddy, I was a bit upset about this, but I suppose on the bright side it gives me an excuse to buy a new one! Or who knows maybe a magical tea cup? I need one of these at the moment, my kitchen renovation is still going on, when will it ever end? Magic wand please come to my rescue!

Bust my china cup

My only magical brew

Must get a new one.

Here’s the link to Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenges:

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-57-bust-must/

Hope you liked this week’s dose of several haiku, I seem to have got a bit carried away, boy this haiku gets a bit addictive!

I’d love to hear from you please don’t be shy do leave a comment.

Marje @ Kyrosmagica xx

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge Guide & Mad

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #53 Guide & Mad

What could this weeks Haiku poetry prompt challenge from Ronovan Writes be?

Ah the two words are Guide and Mad.

So what will I make of the prompt words guide and mad, could someone be driving me mad? Or are they guiding me to do something that I really should pay attention to? I don’t always listen, especially if I’m being coerced into doing something I don’t enjoy. Particularly if that unwelcome activity is taking me away from my writing! Ah, how dreadful. How could you ask me to abandon my blogging! Sacre bleu! Especially when I’m helping someone learn how to use WordPress. I’m spreading the word, doing my best to nurture another blogging hero.

Alright now you’re probably thinking what in heavens is she going on about?

Is she mad? Possibly a little!

I’ve been helping my sister in law set up her blog and well a certain someone wasn’t too pleased that I wasn’t doing what they wanted me to do. Ah, you can see my predicament, you can never please everyone can you? Least of all your nearest and dearest.

So with that in mind, here’s a little confession. Moi, I can be a very stubborn individual, a total rascal! Oh La La!!!

So this haiku is inspired by my stubborn spirit. I’m a Scorpio after all. I’m quiet on the surface, easy going, but underneath it all I have a saved up unexpected sting in my tail that comes out to play when you least expect it! Oh well it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve had this blog for over a year now, it was about time I told you about the real me. Warts and all. Sting and all. Tail and all.

Enough’s enough. I suppose I’ll have to be a good lass tomorrow but today I can do whatever I like!!! So I’m writing two posts to be published this week. Tee Hee!!!

Don’t tell anyone will you? I love secrets.

Ring, Ring, Don’t Call Me

Ring, Ring, Don’t Call Me.
You can guide but don’t change me
Your mad I’m Scorpio

My final Haiku is based on a real life event apparently kids were sneaking onto my dad’s golf course and picking magic mushrooms! Whatever next! This golfer looks very disgusted doesn’t he? He’d say something like this: “Magic Mushrooms, shocking! Why can’t they take up a healthy activity like golf? If I hadn’t seen this wicked magic mushroom picking with my own straight to the pin golfer’s eyes I’d would have to conclude that I’d been on the MM’s myself.”

Magic Mushrooms Heist

A guide to catch them
Mad kids on fairway mischief
Magic mushrooms heist

Words good or bad, are my very own!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you found this weeks haiku entertaining. I seem to have particularly enjoyed them! Stay clear of those Magic Mushrooms folks, and try to be good, not a stubborn, rascal of a Scorpio like me!

If you want to find out more about joining in this wonderful weekly blogging activity then click this link: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-53-guide-mad/

Do leave a comment I’d love to hear from you.

Marje @ Kyrosmagica xx

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #52 Silent & Loud.

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #52 Silent&Loud
https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-52-silent-loud/

This week’s image from Ron is Meridith, of Meredith’s Musings. Most definitely a blog to follow if you aren’t already.

At the moment the building work is progressing in the kitchen but unfortunately we have had a few problems, everything seems to be going on the blink. Today, the washing machine decided to pack in, just after it finished a load of sheets, can’t get the blooming door to open, and our boiler isn’t working either. So loud bangs with boilers accompanied by silent washing machines, such is life!

So Silent and Loud seem quite appropriate prompt words. How does Ron do it, is he psychic?

Washing Machine Woes

The loud beep beep cries

A final spin forget it

Silent no chance mate

The next haiku kind of happens sometimes in our house, we have this mad bird who takes great pleasure in dive bombing our lounge window. Very strange. I think the bird sees the wall opposite which is painted green and gets confused. I’m always amazed that this bird keeps on coming and survives ! He’s real cute too, just wish he wasn’t so daft!

Anyway, let’s hope that nothing else breaks down, or I might be joining the bird banging my head against the window too!

Our visiting crazy bird isn’t a hummingbird but I liked this photo so allow me to introduce you to the Dive Bombing Bird:

Dive Bombing Bird

Loud music plugged in

Silent bird dive bombs window

Confused by the green

Words good or bad, are my very own!

Thanks for stopping by.

Do leave a comment, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this weeks Haiku.

Marje at Kyrosmagica xx

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #51 Future & Give

This weeks Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge words are Future & Give.

Do stop by Ronovan Writes and see all that his blog has to offer, and why not join in the haiku challenge?It’s such fun!

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #51 Future&Give

My haiku this week are inspired by the birth of a baby girl, the granddaughter of a friend of mine. The prompt words future and give just seem to be such a perfect choice this week. A baby is such a hopeful start, a promise of future, a gift giving joy to family, and friends.

Of course I’ve had two baby girls too, many, many years ago, but those early days with a new born are still such precious memories. My first child Natasha was born early, as if she was impatient to join us, desperate to discover all there was to know about the world. She was born two weeks early on Christmas day, on the very day that I was supposed to have my Christmas dinner with friends! This was to be the first of many small sacrifices that I was to make as a parent. I wonder if being born early or late has any bearing on the person we become? Does it shape our character in some way? I think it possibly does. My youngest daughter Georgina was born exactly on her due date. The midwife said, “You’ll have no trouble with this one.” In some ways it was true baby Georgina was a very good baby, Baby Natasha was a handful! In fact the staff at the nursery that Natasha went to said that she was like a whirlwind! Yes, a whirlwind, a delightful one, or at least that’s what I thought! What about Georgina? My baby angel! In fact that early quiet start should have been a warning: A Calm Before The Teenage Storm! Both of my girls have had their whirlwind moments possibly at different times in their development, but that’s what makes them who they are, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

A baby girl

A Baby Girl Born

What A Future She Will Bring

Give Her My Blessing

Cherish Every Day

Cherish Every Day

Future Gives Colours Promise

Life’s Sweet Adventure

Words good or bad, are my very own!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you enjoyed this weeks Baby inspired Haiku.

Do leave a comment, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this weeks Haiku.

Marje at
Kyrosmagica xx

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.

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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…

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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 #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

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Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge #41

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #41 Want&Tatters

Another fine prompt from Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku prompt challenge.

This time I thought I’d dedicate my Haiku to the 150th Anniversary of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland so here goes:

thG79JS7GJ — Statue of Alice in Wonderland, New York

Bronze Alice

Bronze New York Alice

She wants Wonderland dreaming

Dreams tatter like cards

For some reason I found this week’s haiku especially hard, the words wants and tatters were alluding me somewhat but anyway had a go. Tried my best.

Links:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/alice-in-wonderland.html

http://lewiscarrollresources.net/2015/

Fantastic illustrations on this site: http://www.150alice.com/about/

Ronovan Writes: Weekly Haiku Challenge – No. 38 ILL AND REST

RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #38 ill&rest

Well I enjoyed doing Challenge #37, so I thought I’d do another Haiku Prompt Challenge.

It’s fun so here goes.

The theme this week is ill and rest.

I wrote two Hiakus this week, they are both about loss and death, sorry for being so morbid but the prompt of ill and rest seemed to lead me down that path!

My first Haiku A Bitter Ill is about illness resulting in loss of life, whereas my second Haiku,

The Tornado’s Fist is about loss of life, caused by the devastating effect of natural disasters.

A Bitter Ill

A bitter ill may kill

Rest survive when others die

Too cruel this sad world.

A bitter ill may kill, rest survive when others die.

Rest survive when others die, too cruel this sad world.

The Tornado’s Fist

The Tornado’s Fist

Strangers far away do grieve

Lives lost with one blow

The tornado’s fist, strangers far away do grieve.

Strangers far away do grieve, lives lost with one blow.

Haikus are my very own! Hope you enjoyed.

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