Fan those embers
for the flame of passion
to stay kindled.
Don’t use a roaring flame
to roast your yam in Summers heat
just the embers will do
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Jacqueline
Tag: Micro poetry
Deep & Dark – Ronovan writes weekly haiku #154
Everyone has a light and dark side
sometimes, our darkness runs deep
then a ray of light interrupts it.
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Jacqueline
Bloom and Shine – Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge
Bachata – Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku
When I saw the haiku prompt please & tease, Chaka Demus song ‘tease me, tease me, tease me, baby, till I lose control,’ came to my lips, I knew my prompt had to be musical.
Bachata is a riveting dance
its sensual moves teases all the senses
and certainly, pleases the heart
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Jacqueline
Miracle…Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge
She called herself a realist,
believing in only what she could explain,
until a miracle saved her.
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Nothing can save you now,
not even a miracle;
and then the unexpected happened.
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Jacqueline
Miracles do happen. Every day.
Sharpen and Shaped
My days,
I must shape
with a sharp blade.
To cut
wasting good moments,
and losing many edges.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Plain and Puzzling…
When I saw Ronovan’s prompt for this week’s haiku ‘plain & fast’ I didn’t know where to go with it so I left it and went to brew myself a cup of something to drink.
I don’t know if it’s the cheap cup of homemade Cappucino that I am sipping, but as I stood by the kitchen counter pondering over something that’s being going on in my life in recent days, a thought just whispered into my ear ‘life is plain and simple, but we choose to complicate it and lose finding the beauty in every situation when we are in such a hurry to get past an uncomfortable experience.’ That was my answer right there 🙂
So, thanks to the little God of Thoughts and my cup of Cappucino.
In plain thoughts, life is a puzzle,
with no hard and fast rules.
Enjoy it as you fit the pieces.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Leap in haste – Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge
When I saw ‘leap & throb’ as the prompt for Ronovan’s weekly haiku challenge, my mind went to the age-old caution of look before you leap.
Sometimes, I guess we just have to take chances in life especially when it comes to love.
Telling you to look before you leap,
is only a sensible advice,
to prevent breaking parts that will throb.
She leaped into love in such haste,
that she regretted such mistake,
her broken heart throbbed from painful deceit.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Love of My Life…
You are the love of my life.
I knew I loved you,
the first time my eyes beheld yours.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Life’s Blessings…Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge
When I saw this week’s prompt ‘beautiful & curse,’ by Ronovan, I smiled. Easier than the past two weeks. What I wanted to write sprouted so fast in my mind.
Life is so beautiful and a blessing,
that to ignore those blessings,
is walking blindly and inevitably a curse.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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