Tag: #lifeateacher
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A Kind Soul
When I read this prompt, I closed my eyes to think of what kindness meant to me. I thought of all the people I had met and I had taken an instant liking to without knowing them or the people I knew and I felt immensely comfortable with, and they all had similar features because…
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The Homecoming
Time flies. Last week, at this time 5.00 p.m, I was sitting alone, sipping on my tea and watching Cinderella on T.V. with all the latches on the door put; the only sounds being of the sparrows and the grandfather clock in the living room. ‘Mamma don’t leave me. Keep holding me,’ my younger one…
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Saving the ‘writer’ in me
It’s been ages since I have written. Not literally, if poetry writing is counted. But writing to prompts ( 30 days of NaPoWriMo prompts) does not feel like writing because you write more from the brain and less from your heart. It feels like exercise. I’m not complaining- a) because I chose to do it…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 26 – I didn’t know
Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its meaning. There are (perhaps paradoxically) infinite possibilities in repetition. Want to look at some examples? Perhaps…
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Quote 7/2019 : You are your Responsibility
I had written this thought sometime last year but am sharing it here now. It is as relevant today as it was when I first wrote it. As we are nearing the end of the first quarter of the year, its time to re-look at all that you’ve done versus all that you have wanted…