Tag: #mumbaidiaries

• Moving Part 2 – Letting go

  

  When you’ve moved several homes and countries, you don’t have the clutter that people who’ve never shifted end up accumulating over years. You end up spring cleaning each time you move and what finally remains are the things that have earned their place to stay, over all the other things you possessed. Because, you had […]

  Smitha V

  September 4, 2022

  Experiences

  #blogaweek, #cities, #diary, #fear, #howIfeelnow, #inspiration, #learning, #lettinggo, #life, #lookingforward, #moving, #mumbai, #mumbaidiaries, #odetoacity, #truth, change

• Weekend conversation: Something good and something bad- life’s a mixed bag

  

  Happy 18th to my younger one! Finally, the exams ended on Friday, the 20th of May, and she kept me on my toes over the weekend. On the Friday,after the exam ,we went Prom dress fitting and then had dinner to celebrate her18th birthday which fell between the exams. The next day, we had to […]

  Smitha V

  June 4, 2022

  Experiences, Photography

  #birthday, #foodforthought, #goodfriends, #graduation, #happymoments, #India, #life, #mumbaidiaries, #photograph, #quoteoftheday, #sadmoments, #truth, #wakeupcall, #weekendconversation

• NaPoWriMo Day 26 – Indian April

  

  Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that contains at least one of a different kind of simile – an epic simile. Also known as Homeric similes, these are basically extended similes that develop over multiple lines. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they have mainly been used in epic poems, typically as decorative elements that emphasize […]

  Smitha V

  April 26, 2022

  Poetry

  #april, #Day26, #furnace, #GloPoWriMo2022, #indiansummer, #mumbaidiaries, #NaPoWriMo2022, #poem, #Similepoem, #summer

• NaPoWriMo Day 2 – Summer is finally here

  

  Today’s prompt is to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. The word I chose is ‘Flosculous’ – it means ‘In full bloom’ My poem for today, ‘Summer is finally here’ Gratitude sweeps over me, like the morning breeze that […]

  Smitha V

  April 2, 2022

  Poetry

  #day2, #GloPoWriMo2022, #Haggardhawks, #inspiration, #mumbaidiaries, #NaPoWriMo2022, #naturepoetry, #summer

• Lockdown Diaries : The death of a fly

  

  The last of our guests left last Thursday after an entire month of festivities and family gatherings. Just when I thought I’d put my feet up and get back to writing, reading and art, my husband returned from work feeling unwell. The test showed positive leaving us feeling anything but positive! As per the current […]

  Smitha V

  January 17, 2022

  Poetry

  #death, #flypoem, #funpoem, #gratitude, #health, #inspiration, #life, #lockdowndiaries, #love, #motivation, #mumbaidiaries, #poem