Category: Poetry

• Published: Seven Days of Valentine

  

  My poem, ‘Seven Days of Valentine’, has been published by Masticadores USA. In case you’re wondering why I’m talking about Valentine’s in May, well, it’s because I wrote the poem during Valentine’s week. Since the publication had loads of submissions, they couldn’t publish it then. After that, I delayed it as I wanted to update…

  Smitha V

  May 6, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #chocolateday, #Destruction, #earthquake, #hugday, #kissday, #life, #promiseday, #proposeday, #roseday, #syria, #teddyday, #truth, #turkey, #valentines2023, Experiences, Poetry, Published

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 30 – We will survive

  Our final daily resource is a pair of podcasts: Wacky Poem Life, sponsored by the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry (yes, there is a Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry!), and Haiku Chronicles, a podcast focused on haiku and related poetic forms. And now for our last prompt of the year (still optional!) Today, I’d like to challenge…

  Smitha V

  April 30, 2023

  Poetry

  #Day30, #GloPoWriMo2023, #gratitude, #NaPoWriMo2023, #Palinode, #poem, #reversepoem

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 29 – You make me the world’s best mommy

  

  Today’s featured resource is Brevity Magazine’s archive of craft essays. And here’s our daily (optional) prompt. Start by reading Alberto Rios’s poem “Perfect for Any Occasion.” Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, describe the food or meal as if it were…

  Smitha V

  April 29, 2023

  Poetry

  #birthday, #day29, #dessert, #foodpoem, #formydaughter, #GloPoWriMo2023, #mango, #Mangocustardcrumble, #NaPoWriMo2023, #tradition

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 28 – World on Fire

  

  Last but not least, here’s our daily prompt, optional and once more taken from our archives. Have you ever flipped to the index of a book and found it super interesting? Well, I have (yes, I live an exciting life!) For example, the other day I pulled from my shelf a copy of on old…

  Smitha V

  April 28, 2023

  Poetry

  #AmyChua, #awareness, #Day28, #Foundpoetry, #GloPoWriMo2023, #Indexpoem, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #truth, #world, #WorldonFire

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 27 – The Earthworm of strength

  

  And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always). Today, begin by reading Bernadette Mayer’s poem “The Lobelias of Fear.” Now write your own poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun. The poem should contain…

  Smitha V

  April 27, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #courage, #Day27, #earthworm, #GloPoWriMo2023, #humanancestors, #NaPoWriMo2023, #pikaia, #poetry