Tag: #Destruction

• NaPoWriMo Day 3: Sleep, my baby, sleep

  

  Today’s prompt is to write a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2022

  Poetry

  #CallforPeace, #day3, #death, #Destruction, #forukraine, #GloPoWriMo2022, #glosapoetry, #longpoem, #lullaby, #motherandchild, #NaPoWriMo2022, #news, #pain, #tribute, #Ukraine, #War

• Water – The Elixir of Life

  

  The rains have finally hit Mumbai after a long spell of summer. And everybody is rejoicing. No one is complaining of traffic delays, clothes not drying or not being able to play outdoors. With no rains in Chennai, there’s an acute water shortage in the city. Its been all over the news since the last…

  Smitha V

  June 29, 2019

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #conservewater, #critical, #Destruction, #do, #eachdropcounts, #help, #helpsolvetheproblem, #India, #life, #makeadifference, #reality, #savetheworld, #savewater, #truth, #water, #whatcanyoudo, Creative Writing, Experiences

• Prompt Gloom : When will the End Come

  

  The below poem won the first prize from WHPA (World Harmony and Peace Association)  on the topic “Gloom”. Rules were to write a 12-16 line poem. Walls – that once in the heart of the city stood, Crumbled- stone and gravel, pack of cards, dead wood, Rooms that once held the tinkling notes of joyous laughter,…

  Smitha V

  June 20, 2018

  Poetry

  #childrenofwar, #death, #Destruction, #endwar, #gloom, #life, #pain, #peace, #Sensespoem, #Sorrow, #Soundpoem, #syria, #truth, #War, #whpa, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo :Day 5- A Norwegian Poem In My Words – The Eyes Tell A Story

  

  Today, challenge was to write a poem that, like the work in Translucence, reacts both to photography and to words in a language not your own. Begin with a photograph. Now find a poem in a language you don’t know (here’s a good place to look!) Ignore any accompanying English translation (maybe cover it up, or cut-and-paste…

  Smitha V

  April 5, 2018

  Poetry

  #Day52018, #Destruction, #eyesamirror, #GloPoWriMo2018, #MonicaAasprong, #NaPoWriMo2018, #Norwegianpoet, #pain, #peace, #Refugee, #Sorrow, #War, Poetry

• Morning News…Wake Up!

  

    A bomb fell today, On Idlib (Syria), they say, 20 Children, 16 women, among the dead, A news item, over coffee, we read… Shopping for Mother’s Day, it said, When a rocket hit, by rebel forces led, “Oh, that’s terrible”, your heart for a moment thought- And turning the page, you quickly forgot.  …

  Smitha V

  March 22, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Bethechange, #Destruction, #immunetowhatshappening, #life, #news, #terrorattacks, #waterconservation, #worldnews, Experiences, Poetry