Tag: #dream
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NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 8 – My dreams are birds of gold
Today’s resource is “Public Access Poetry,” an online feature from the Poetry Project, presenting digitized audio files of a poetry-themed public-access TV show that aired in New York City in 1977 and 1978. Listen to stalwarts and shining lights of the late-70s NYC “scene” such as Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, and more! And…
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NaPoWriMo Day 26 :Bali, India, Dubai -with love
And now for our prompt (optional, as always). This is one that we’ve used before, but one test of a good prompt is that you can come back to it! For this prompt, you will need to fill out, in five minutes or less, the following “Almanac Questionnaire.” Then, use your responses as to basis…
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Mumbai diaries- Janaki -One among the millions
I wrote this poem based on a girl I saw on one of my morning walks. Mumbai – a city of stark contrasts has the rich staying on one side of the street and the poor on the other. No matter how affluent one is in Mumbai, there’s no escaping the harsh realities – the…
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I had a dream
Have you ever seen a dream that felt so real, that when you woke up, you could still see it and remember each bit? I had the strangest dream last night and the words wrote themselves out in my dream. All I had to do was wake up and type them down before they slipped…
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An Ode to the Best Teacher, Mrs. Narayanan…For Believing in Me
Mrs. Narayanan did it again.This poem won the first prize. English was always my favorite subject in school. I loved the elegant English teachers with their straight-backed posture, top knots and their starched saris. There was something about the way they carried themselves that each one of us in the Elite private school for girls’…