Tag: #fear
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Moving Part 2 – Letting go
When you’ve moved several homes and countries, you don’t have the clutter that people who’ve never shifted end up accumulating over years. You end up spring cleaning each time you move and what finally remains are the things that have earned their place to stay, over all the other things you possessed. Because, you had […]
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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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Smorgasbord Posts from your Archives – #Potluck – #Poetry The Speaker’s Ordeal (2016)…by Smitha Vishwanath
I woke up this morning to find that this post from 2016, had been shared by Sally Cronin. It brought back a flood of memories – that’s what old writing does right? The post took me back to the time when I wrote this poem – in a hotel room in Dubai in between moving […]
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NaPoWriMo Day 2 : Kidnapped
Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is based on this poem by Claire Wahmanholm, which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. One way it does this is by asking questions – literally. The poem not only contains questions, but ends on a question. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that […]