RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge

Searching (a senryu)

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my tears are unseen

I weep with the empty road

finding my way home

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #361 – Home and Weep

Falling Stars (a haiku)

Falling stars,

Plunge into night sky,

Rapid fire.

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Challenge #358 – Plunge and Rapid

Red and White

It just happens that red and white are the colors of Indonesian flag, so here are haikus from my perspective to answer this prompt challenge of Red and White.

(I)

To the red and white

I bestow my allegiance

no doubt ’til the end

(II)

I hear it calling

red and white in my bloodstream

its pulse – awakening

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge no. 365 – Red and White

Water Water Everywhere (WWE) no. 76 – May 3 2021

An Ending

A journey’s ending,

sadness tugging yet so is

thrill…unwittingly

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #355 – SAD and thrill

#NaPoWriMo2021 – Day 26

When Love Has No Form

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Left behind tunes of

vain sorries mourned by no one–

when love has no form

Ronovan Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #354 – Form and Mourn

MMA Sorytime Haiku Challenge – Tune

#NaPoWriMo2021 – Day 19

Twilight Storm

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Wind at dusk gusting

Branches and twigs hauled away

The night comes too fast

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #353 – Branch and Swift

#NaPoWriMo2021 – Day 14

On the day of Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021, at 10.30 am (local time), two suicide bombers exploded themselves in front of the Cathedral Catholic church in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Makassar is my hometown. I was born and raised there and attended mass several times in that cathedral during my childhood. You can read an article news about it by clicking on the link I posted underneath the image above. This is not the first time a suicide bombing targeted a church. Back in May 2018, another very similar tragedy happened to three churches in the city of Surabaya, the city where I was residing at that time until now. It was a shocking moment, but we bravely continued our daily activities. We could not succumb to fear, we refused!

I present you two senryu poems below as part of my expression.

(I)

deluded comfort

found in extreme hate doctrine,

erupting violence

(II)

safety and comfort

crushed by erupted violence

left a hole in heart

I refuse to succumb to fear, hate, or use my words to promote them. Yes, of course I am angry, sad, desolated, but I still have hope and love in my heart. So, I fight fear with hope and love. Here’s another senryu with this message. May peace be with us all.

(III)

like the rising sun

my heart too rises with hope

confront hate with love

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge no. 351 – Comfort and Erupt

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Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge no. 219 – any subject of poetry using haiku or senryu.