Tag: #Destruction

• NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 15-Golden Chanterelles

  

  Today’s daily resource is The Shakespeare & Company Interview, a podcast recorded on-site at the renowned Paris bookstore. While not all do, many of the episodes feature poets/poetry. And now for our prompt – optional, as always! Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and…

  Smitha V

  April 15, 2024

  Poetry

  #Destruction, #GloPoWriMo2024, #history, #hope, #mushrooms, #NaPoWriMo2024, #poetry, #resilience, #Russia, #sovietunion, #stamps, #War, #world

• 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 20 – What are these toys?

  

  Today’s poetry resource is a little discussion about poetry in bookstores. There are plenty of bookstores around with good poetry sections (two of my favorites are Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC and Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine). But did you know that there are also a handful of bookstores that only sell poetry? Check out Boston’s Grolier…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2023

  Poetry

  #archaeologists, #battles, #Day20, #Destruction, #GloPoWriMo2023, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poetry, #War

• 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