Tag: #elegy

• Published in Borderless Journal : Omid

  

    Elated to say my poem ‘Omid’ has been published in Borderless Journal. You can read the poem on the Journal’s site by clicking on the below link. Omid   Omid Seven years she’d waited for him She’d prayed five times each day At fajr, zuhr, asr, maghrib and isha On the nineteenth day of […]

  Smitha V

  June 13, 2020

  Creative Writing, Poetry

  #Afghanistan, #borderlessjournal, #elegy, #life, #news, #poem, #terrorism, #tribute, #truth, Featured, Published

• 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 […]

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2019

  Poetry

  #awaittheend, #Day18, #death, #depression, #elegy, #forgotten, #GloPoWriMo2019, #life, #loneliness, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #Sorrow, #truth, Poetry

• 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 […]

  Smitha V

  April 4, 2019

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day4, #death, #elegy, #family, #inspiration, #life, #live, #NaPoWriMo2019, #notincontrol, #poem, #regret, #theonlytruth, #truth, Experiences, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2018 : Day 24 – I Will Always Remember You

  Today’s craft resource is a long-ish essay by Hyejung Kook regarding how poetry can be created from absence, or in the wake of loss, and how awareness of mortality drives a desire to produce art, people, poems. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write an elegy – a poem typically written in honor or […]

  Smitha V

  April 24, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day24, #death, #elegy, #friendship, #GloPoWriMo2018, #inspiration, #life, #loss, #NaPoWriMo2018, #peace, #truth, Experiences, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo: Day 10 – A Woman I Loved

  

  Day 10 of NaPoWriMo Challenge was to write a Portrait Poem. Fortunately this came easier than day 9. No confusion. Clarity abound. Just 1 person, whose portrait I could draw with my eyes closed, whose presence I feel even when she’s not around, who visits me in my dreams and helps me cross every stream… the […]

  Smitha V

  April 10, 2017

  Poetry

  #Day 10, #elegy, #love, #Loveyouforever, #memories, #NaPoWriMo 2017, #poem, #portraitpoem, #Shakespeare, Poetry