Tag: #birthday

• Published: The Gift of a Poem

  

  P.C. Spillwords Press I’m very happy to say that my poem, ‘The Gift of a Poem’, has been published by SpillWords Press today. Today is my younger one’s birthday, and Spillwords very kindly agreed to publish the poem today. It meant a lot to me, especially since she’s been asking me why I haven’t written…

  Smitha V

  May 17, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #awayfromhome, #birthday, #children, #daughter, #leavingthenest, #life, #loveyou, #missyou, #parents, #poetry, #published, #waitingtoseeyou

• 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

• Weekend conversation: Something good and something bad- life’s a mixed bag

  

  Happy 18th to my younger one! Finally, the exams ended on Friday, the 20th of May, and she kept me on my toes over the weekend. On the Friday,after the exam ,we went Prom dress fitting and then had dinner to celebrate her18th birthday which fell between the exams. The next day, we had to…

  Smitha V

  June 4, 2022

  Experiences, Photography

  #birthday, #foodforthought, #goodfriends, #graduation, #happymoments, #India, #life, #mumbaidiaries, #photograph, #quoteoftheday, #sadmoments, #truth, #wakeupcall, #weekendconversation

• Quadrille : Baby’s breath

  

  The prompt on the 30th of April by the facebook group TSL, was to write a poem using a line from a song you like. I chose to write it on a song that’s very special to me- ‘Edelweiss’ from the Sound of Music. The truth is I’m no good at singing. But I would…

  Smitha V

  May 17, 2022

  Poetry

  #baby, #birthday, #dVerse, #lullaby, #motherandbaby, #poem, #quadrille, #sleepytime, #soundofmusic

• Happy Birthday to my best childhood memory!

  

  Yesterday , my best friend celebrated her birthday. I’m not sure how I got confused with the dates. Thank God my aunt decided to upload a picture on Facebook of her cutting the cake, flanked by the family; I was saved from the life-long guilt of having forgotten. Late but not never, I managed to…

  Smitha V

  November 2, 2017

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #badfood, #birthday, #grandma, #health, #healthyfood, #life, #love, #memories, #nostalgia, #oldage, #olddays, Creative Writing, Experiences