Tag: #memory

• Book Review: Woman by the door by Kashiana Singh

  

  I’m reading ‘Women by the door’ by my virtual friend and poet, Kashiana Singh. I bought this book sometime in March and I read a few poems as soon as I got the book. I loved the ones I read so much, that I decided I would read one a day so I could savour […]

  Smitha V

  August 12, 2022

  Book Review, Poetry

  #bookreview, #indianpoems, #losspoems, #lovepoems, #memory, #nostalgia, #poetrybook, #sikh, #womenpoems

• NaPoWriMo Day 29 – The Gift

  

  “And here’s our prompt. In certain versions of the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty, various fairies or witches are invited to a princess’s christening, and bring her gifts. One fairy/witch, however, is not invited, and in revenge for the insult, lays a curse on the princess. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in […]

  Smitha V

  April 29, 2022

  Poetry

  #borntomeet, #day29, #destiny, #fate, #gift, #GloPoWriMo2022, #love, #memory, #NaPoWriMo2022, #nostalgia, #soulmates, #storypoem, #whatmyfathersaid

• NaPoWriMo Day 9 – The Gift

  

  Today’s prompt is to write in a specific form – the nonet! A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second has eight, and so on until you get to the last line, which has just one syllable. I wrote two nonets on the subject. I wasn’t sure which sounded better, so, […]

  Smitha V

  April 9, 2022

  Poetry

  #day9, #death, #father'sgift, #gift, #GloPoWriMo2022, #goodbye, #life, #love, #memory, #NaPoWriMo2022, #parting

• NaPoWriMo Day 1 : Because

  

  The prompt for today is based on Robert Hass’s remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your own prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about the body. The poem should contain an encounter between two people, some spoken language, and at least […]

  Smitha V

  April 1, 2022

  Poetry

  #body, #day1, #GloPoWriMo2022, #memory, #NaPoWriMo2022, #prosepoetry, #roberthass, #story

• NaPoWriMo Day 18 – Gas, Food, Longing

  

  “And now for our (optional) daily prompt! This one comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s  table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the […]

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2021

  Poetry

  #Day18, #GloPoWriMo2021, #healing, #hurting, #imagery, #memory, #metaphorpoem, #NaPoWriMo2021, #nostalgia, #painofloss, #poem