Tag: #mothers

• NaPoWriMo Day 22- School mornings

  

  In honour of today’s being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, an image, or any combination of things. My poem- School mornings One eye squeezed like a lemon the other forced open Stretch for the…

  Smitha V

  April 22, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #children, #Day22, #GloPoWriMo2022, #meditation, #morningchaos, #mothers, #NaPoWriMo2022, #poem, #repetitionpoetry, #schoolmorning, #yoga

• Ripped Jeans

  

  I wrote this poem on the prompt by the same name given by the Fb group ‘TSL’ in April . Its based on an experience I had on our last day of shopping in March this year, after which the malls closed. For those who do not know when ‘Ripped jeans’ came into being and…

  Smitha V

  May 21, 2021

  Poetry

  #experience, #funpoem, #mothers, #napowrimo, #newfad, #pun, #rippedjeans, #satire, #shopping, #trend, #valueformoney

• Lockdown Diaries : Saving Me

  

  I don’t know which phase of the ‘lockdown’ or the ‘release from lockdown,’ phase we are in. I’ve lost track. It’s now…let me count…from 22nd March till date…around four months since this never-ending nightmare began. For all those who’ve counted, it’s 116 days as I write this and since I started doing the cleaning, mopping,…

  Smitha V

  July 18, 2020

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #coronatimes, #diary, #dresswell, #inspiration, #mothers, #parents, #people, #saveyourself, #wakeupcall

• Quote 8/20 : You’re no Wonder Woman and it’s O.K.

  Note: If you’re a man and you’re reading this quote you’re probably doing one of two things- a) agreeing with it or b) disagreeing with it. If you agree with it, then I have nothing to say except maybe you can make life easier for the woman in your life – mother, wife, daughter, cousin,…

  Smitha V

  May 28, 2020

  Quotes

  #coronatimes, #ladies, #life, #lockdowndiaries, #mother, #mothers, #parents, #quote, #selfcare, #takeabreak, #truth, #women

• What do we really want for our children?

  

  It’s that time of the year in India, when you find students pouring over their books, papers, laptops. I see them with their noses dipped at the building gates awaiting the school bus, in the coffee shop with their ear phones on – to shut the noise out, on park benches amidst cawing crows and…

  Smitha V

  February 16, 2020

  Experiences, Mum’s World

  #children, #exams, #goodpeople, #inspiration, #life, #mothers, #motivation, #parenting, #parents, #people, #reality, #timewithkids, #truth