Tag: #death
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Irony of Life
I can’t get over the fact that actor Irrfan Khan passed away today (Wednesday) due to a colon infection. After battling a rare type of cancer, the actor came back and acted in the Hindi movie ‘Angrezi Medium,’ released on 13/3/2020, which I watched last week. His mother passed away on Saturday at the age…
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Two yellow bracelets
I have two yellow bracelets One falls loosely over the wrist Big yellow crystals, in a gold band The other is a clasp Smaller stones – yellow crystals, embedded in Precious! Both! They lie in an ornate box – Two pairs of earrings, sit with those bracelets Freshwater pearls In a ring of yellow sapphire…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 18 – Forgotten
Our optional prompt for the day takes its cue from how poetry can help us to make concrete the wild abstraction of a feeling like grief. “The Lost Pilot” does this, as does this poem by Victoria Chang, called “Obit.” In both poems, loss is made tangible. They take elusive, overwhelming feelings, and place them into the…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 4 -My Husband’s Cousin
And now for today’s (optional) prompt, inspired by Teicher’s poem “Son“. One thing you might notice about this poem is that it is sad, but that it doesn’t generate that feeling through particularly emotional words. The words are very simple. Another thing you might notice is that it’s a sonnet – not in strict iambic…
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Yearn for Love…for You
It’s been so long, since she’s been gone, She, who every role to perfection did don, The quintessence of beauty and grace; as bright as the sunshine, Oh! How I prided myself she was only mine, She was the Kohinoor in my crown, Behind me she stood, when I was up and by…