Tag: #love

• Published : ‘Winter’s Gone, Spring is here’ by SpillWords Press

  

  Hi everyone, I’m delighted to share my poem, ‘Winter’s Gone, Spring’s here’ has been published by SpillWords Press. I had written the poem sometime in February when it was Spring in Dhaka. The beauty of Spring had been replaced by excruciatingly hot Summer days where we saw temperatures of around 40 degree centigrade. Thankfully, that…

  Smitha V

  May 13, 2024

  Poetry

  #beautyaroundus, #blooms, #celebrateeachday, #life, #love, #lovenature, #nature, #poem, #poetry, #published, #seasons, #spillwordspress, #spring, #truth, #winter

• Art : Summer blues, Tanka Tuesday poetry-challenge-no-33-5-7-24, FOTD

  

  After a month of NaPoWriMo, it was lovely picking up the brush again. With temperatures averaging around 40 degrees C, and the country declaring a week’s holiday for schools and colleges due to the impending dangers of a heat wave, I painted this picture to cool me down. I call this ‘Summer blues’. I’m linking…

  Smitha V

  May 7, 2024

  Art, Experiences, Photography, Poetry

  #bakulflowers, #beauty, #blue, #dhakadiaries, #flowers, #kouta, #love, #nature, #painting, #passion, #photos, #poetrychallenge33, #rains, #shimul, #Sundaystills, #syllabicpoetry, #TankaTuesday, #vase, #watercolours

• Book Review 08/50 : Grow Damn it! by Cheryl Oreglia

  

  Warning: Lengthy Review It’s the name of the book that caught my attention, a year ago, when I read it on Sally Cronin’s blog. But that was not when I bought the book. It slipped out of my mind and I bought it a year later when I saw the author’s post promoting the book…

  Smitha V

  April 29, 2024

  Book Review

  #book, #bookreview, #cheryloreglia, #familyandrelationships, #inspiration, #learning, #life, #love, #memoir, #positivity, #truth, #wisdom

• NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 27- Etat Paryaaptam

  

  Our featured resource for the day is Poetry Pause, the “daily dispatch” of the League of Canadian Poets. And now for our prompt – optional, as always!  Today we’d like to challenge you to write an “American sonnet.” What’s that? Well, it’s like a regular sonnet but . . . fewer rules? Like a traditional Spencerian…

  Smitha V

  April 27, 2024

  Experiences, Poetry

  #americansonnet, #contentment, #GloPoWriMo2024, #joy, #love, #metaphors, #NaPoWriMo2024, #peace, #poetry, #similies, #thisisenough

• NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 24- To those who hate me

  

  Today’s featured resource is this BBC archive dedicated to the poetry of Robert Burns. You can read about his life, read his poems, and hear them read by dozens of folks, including former-prince-now-king Charles. Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day is another one pulled from our 2016 archives. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a…

  Smitha V

  April 24, 2024

  Poetry

  #Day24, #differentpeople, #GloPoWriMo2024, #hate, #love, #NaPoWriMo2024, #poem, #poetry, #thisisme, #tothosewhohateme