Tag: #memories
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 13- Chilled Beer
Today’s resource is the twitter account of the Wild and Precious Life reading series, where you’ll find a prompt every day for this month (if our own prompts don’t inspire you, or in case you just want to collect oodles of prompts to keep you going after April’s over). Finally, our optional prompt for the day…
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Friday Fictioneers 280224- Gift
The photograph loomed like a giant threatening to topple over the present. It was the family’s first car. Little Anil had rammed it into the neighbour’s wall on its first day at home. He’d gone on his first road trip in it, driving along the West coast- he and three of his friends. In…
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Book Review 2024 – 2/50: ‘Earthly Days’ by Cheryl Batavia
It was the name that got my attention. ‘Earthly Days’ feels like there could be other days, like ‘Heavenly Days’ for instance, something after ‘Earthly Days’ and somehow reduces the despondency one feels on knowing one’s time on earth is limited. The book has around 40 poems divided into 5 sections: Perspective, Love, Family, Nostalgia…
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Art: The Urn of Memories,Tanka Tuesday poetry challenge 337-9-12-23/, Cee’s fun photo challenge, ‘You’re in good hands’
Last week I did a watercolor painting. Having done a number of acrylic paintings, I figured it was time to do a watercolor so I didn’t lose touch. I love the transparency of watercolors, the way a drop of water makes the color spread on paper and how much can be done with a little…
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NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 17 – An ode to the good, old coconut
Today’s resource is a pair of online reading series. If you’re looking for a regular poetry fix you can enjoy from the comfort of your laptop, why not try the Poets in Pajamas series, which hosts readings every month? Poet and professor Jordan Stempleman also hosts a monthly reading which you can attend online (and you can…