RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #106 Sing&Flower

Through Layers

Where is my voice now?

Buried in the yard, howling

through layers of dirt.

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #105-Time&Grow

Memories of Dirt

The woods became cars.

I no longer hear the birds

outside my window.

 

Should I smile more now

or less because of progress?

Summer burns my feet

 

as I walk barefoot

on asphalt, trying to live

memories of dirt.

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Poetry: Black Drops

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Black drops

Cold black drops, rain now,

cry now, then sleep, dream not, cold

black drops, cold black drops.

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A Haiku: I Struggle with Naming Things

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I often wonder if, where, when it is okay to tell my story. 

 

A rabbit, or anything

It’s a strange thing

no one teaches you to be

or calls you human

 

from birth, as you die

I wonder if it’s alright 

then to be a bird,

 

call yourself Sparrow,

maybe then watching rain clouds

wouldn’t feel lonely.

 

You see, I was born

to a regretful summer,

or at least Thursday.

 

I’m sure I cried,

or laughed, then learned to stop

 among other things.

 

I wanted to be 

a rabbit or anything 

other than me.

 

Only one question,

unspoken, fills the seasons.

Will I be human?

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #104 Dazzle&Sky

 

Dream of nightfall

“Why bother to rise?”

I asked the sun, still smiling, 

drenched by summer’s heat.

 

I wander mind-fields,

pick thought-petals, have lunch, sleep

under the old oak

 

tree without worry,

with the sky protecting me,

I dream of nightfall.

 

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Prompt Words: Dazzle & Sky. 

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Fragile Brevity: RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #102 Birth & Cheer

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Fragile Brevity

Come down now, embrace

the sky-less ground, breathless clouds,

without reason. Cry

 

the moment light breaks

safety of shadow, recall

nothing without pain.

 

In this commonplace,

fragile brevity exists

joyful misery.

 

Why do we bother

naming seasons? Or a self?

Possessiveness breeds

 

many sorrows called

jealousy, misguided love

that create children.

 

 

In kindergarten,

a bird sang daily until

a classmate killed it.

 

Many winters passed

since then, I wondered often

how cruelty starts.

 

At what age do clouds

lose magic and we forget

that the sky exists?

 

Why not celebrate, 

soon to be forgotten? Live, 

now, embrace what is.

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Happy Birthday, Ronovan! 🙂

Source: RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #102 Birth&Cheer

2 Laptops, a Button-less Phone & That Thing About Traveling

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I don’t know where in the world you are, but where I am

it’s Monday,

14:07,

somewhere around

90 degrees (Fahrenheit),

and boring as all heck.

I’m trying to console myself because my Words with Friends-designated laptop is in the remote hands of some person very far away in some office belonging to Microsoft, who is trying to fix my operating system.

It’s no good, this.

I’ve not had much else but peanut butter and ginger ale today, and I keep thinking I should eat something, but my laptop being remotely controlled is keeping me fixed to one spot.

Life ought not to be this boring:

watching a “Downloading installation file: Feel free to keep using your PC.”

Twirl-twirl-circularly moving dotted thingy…

I’m at 15% complete with an

Estimated time: 2 hr 27 min 12 sec

2 hr 25 min  7 sec

away from being able to move from this spot.

Every now and again, I pretend to be “with it” (do people still use with it?) and “slide” the “buttons” the phone my mom made me get because she was embarrassed by my Verizon flip-phone from 2013. Now, I’m Boost Mobilin’ and tweetin’ (not really).

19% complete and

I’m wondering if using my other laptop means that I’m having an affair.

At 24%, I feel almost a quarter way decent about my position in life,

sitting on a bed,

sweat collecting to drip,

my wanderlust has taken control of my mind and prompting my feet to move.

How far do I want to go in

2 hr 11 min 30 sec?

Maybe Newark International Airport,

but then I wouldn’t come back here for a while.

That’s the thing about being nomadic, you see.

Opening the front door means that there’s another

awaiting you somewhere.

But at 30%,

I’m not even a third way complete.

How fast, I wonder.

How much faster must I travel within

to have the freedom to live without

the burden of time and place.

1 hr 56 min 17 sec.

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NaPoWriMo #4: mirror terror

 

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Self-portrait, digital image, 2015

Sometimes life fails me.

Mirrors reveal my terror:

being Black scares me.

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NaPoWriMo #3: Even in the Grey

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Even in the grey,

those overwhelming moments,

when all seems lost: dance.

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NaPoWriMo: Entry #2 Black, is it

not enough to be born

into a must-be-better-than

and can-never-be-good-enough

dominant society that shames

god-given skin, that uses

words and guns to trump,

that whitewashes while adding

phalluses to a supposed history,

that does not know its own face,

a Dorian Gray, if ever one existed,

playing a solitary piggy in the middle

while making a mockery of freedom,

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