Ronovan writes #Haiku prompt #397

Seizing a crown takes

grit and determination

dawn of destiny

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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #248 #Strange little girl

I used to live in a place called New Mawden

and I went to school with a Lizzie Bawden

with her long black hair she looked delicious

but apparently she was quite capricious

when I asked her if she wanted to come out to play

she said she was helping mum chop sticks that day

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #170 Limerick time again

I used to have a friend called Jacko

he enjoyed a pipe of tobacco

smoking it in church he would sit aloof

but the priest, he banished him to the roof

where grinning he sits by himself and cackles

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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #The media farce.

There’s one sure thing I hear you say

guaranteed to flummox and dismay

we can only look on in disgust

as those on whose news reports we trust

spend their public financed time reporting

quite trivial items that have become quite boring

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #169 #A sign of things to come

There’s been no rain for most of the year

and the signs of it are very clear

we went for a walk around the town

and noticed that everyone’s lawns were brown

because there had been quite a drought

no one was allowed to get hoses out

and with the lack of rain clouds in the sky

the chance of showers seems very slight

if you find the situation strange

get used to it, it’s climate change.

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Ronovan writes Decima poetry prompt #94 #Commitment

Julian sat in her stone cell

from behind a window of glass

she could watch as they performed mass

while confined in this living hell,

tickets to see her, priests would sell,

in the mid fourteenth century

an anchoress she chose to be

while all through those long lonely years

she recorded her thoughts and fears

so that all, her passion might see.

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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #246 #Dedicated follower of fashion

Big-boned Betty would often saunter

along the beach so that she could flaunt her

ample assets provokingly attired

in a style that everyone admired

because she always looked so dashing

as she paraded the latest bikini fashion

no-one knew how she got her name

but called her that just the same

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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #245 An Exmoor tale of superstition and a gullible wife

Charlie Bates was happy with life

often going on Saturday night

to his local pub for a pint

then go home to his wife

making his way across the moor

but one day he was very late

his wife worried about his fate

till he came in through the door

claiming he’d been pixie led

with a smile his worried wife said

next time fool, here’s what you do

turn widdershins, they can’t bother you.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #167 #Oui, je suis un rock star

I was in a band with a guy named Mick

my guitar riffs were oh so slick

but now even I’m too old my day is done

so I spend my time sitting in the sun

waiting for my next part in a pirate flick

Who am I?

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Ronovan writes Decima prompt #93 #Memories

Whilst stationed in the Hindu Kush

something that I can still recall

was every day before nightfall

over the mountains would come a hush

just the song of a single thrush

his liquid song like crystal clear

and all would pause the notes to hear

while every day his song we heard

we never saw the tuneful bird

something we all found rather queer

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