Tag: #nature
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Kerala diaries 1: The neighbourhood
It’s four days since I wrote my last post. I’m in Kerala with my husband’s family. We took a train from Mangalore to Kerala- our first train journey in 6 years. After 7 hours of chugging past stretches of paddy fields, meandering rivers, railway tracks, colourful homes, spotted cows, and people, we finally arrived here […]
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Just enough
I had written an earlier poem on the first showers Mumbai received on 10th June. I thought the Monsoons had come but it turned out to be a trick nature played on us. After the 10th, it rained on the 16th- just enough to lower the temperature. This poem is a stream-of-consciousness poem that came […]
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Wordless Wednesdays : A celebration of green
A world of green-some natural, some man-madea carpet at the Taj, Mumbaithe hanging vines in a brewery in Bangalorerain-drenched leavespainted stepswaters in a poolmountains dotted with treesfields in different huespeacock feather rongoli*made on Diwali** *rangoli- colored powder used to make designs on the floor or to play Holi**Diwali – festival of lights Copyright@smithavishwanathsblog.com. All Rights […]
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NaPoWriMo : Day 23- ‘Home’
Today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the style of Kay Ryan, whose poems tend to be short and snappy – with a lot of rhyme and sound play. They also have a deceptive simplicity about them, like proverbs or aphorisms. Once you’ve read a few, you’ll see what I mean. […]