Tag: #children

• ART & POETRY : The orange chair

  

  It was our job To carry it to the verandah On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays- the other days she would wet her hair sprinkling few drops on her head so she could pray Our first lesson that rules could be modified, if not broken Those three days were different- The hair wash, was an elaborate…

  Smitha V

  November 17, 2020

  Art, Experiences, Poetry

  #acquarello, #beginnerartist, #childhood, #children, #dappled, #grandma, #India, #kerala, #life, #Mangalore, #memory, #moonwashedmusingsweeklyprompt, #nostalgia, #poem, #watercolors

• Lockdown Diaries : Places I wish to go (2)

  

  Did these watercolor paintings based on pictures on Pinterest under the series  Lockdown Diaries – Art – Places I wish to go   The last time we visited this place was eighteen years ago. Things were so different then – we were younger and it being our first visit to a foreign country I remember it…

  Smitha V

  July 19, 2020

  Art, Travel

  #beginnerartist, #bucketlist, #children, #harrods, #life, #memories, #painting, #places, #selflearner, #watercolors

• NaPoWriMo Day 27 – Review on the children post lockdown

  

  And now for our (optional) prompt. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the…

  Smitha V

  April 28, 2020

  Creative Writing, Poetry

  #children, #coronadiaries, #coronatimes, #creativewriting, #day 27, #GloPoWriMo2020, #lockdown, #love, #NaPoWriMo2020, #parenting, #people, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo2020- Day 10 – Let me go

  

  Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second…

  Smitha V

  April 10, 2020

  Poetry

  #children, #Day10, #freedom, #GloPoWriMo2020, #lettinggo, #life, #love, #NaPoWriMo2020, #parenting, #people, #poem, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo2020- Day 8: Golden child

  

  Our prompt for the day (optional as always) asks you to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out to you, as the seed for your own poem. Need an example? Well, there’s actually quite a…

  Smitha V

  April 9, 2020

  Creative Writing, Poetry

  #children, #childrenofwar, #day8, #forgiveness, #GloPoWriMo2020, #life, #napowrimo, #NaPoWriMo2020, #palestine, #suffering, #sylviaplathbot, #syria, #truth, Poetry