Tag: #natureateacher
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NaPoWriMo2020: Day3 – Let us out
Today’s prompt asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can generate this list however you’d like – pull a book off the shelf and find ten words you like, name ten things you can see from where you’re sitting, etc. Now, for each…
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The teaching of the skies
I reworked on a poem that I had written a few years’ ago – 27/12/2016 to be precise. I was on a holiday in Vietnam. Hubby and me woke up in the morning while the rest slept in and we walked up to the beach, which was a 5 minute walk from the hotel in…
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Chandrakala- A short story
Meera sat on her bed and stared out of the window. This was ‘her’ time, at the end of the day. It was what had kept her going the past several years when she managed home and family with a demanding job. However, since she quit her job a few months ago, to everybody else…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 18- It’s April! It’s Spring!
Today we have a new craft resource for you, in the form of this collection of images of poets’ first drafts of their poems, complete with their crossings-out/notes. I find these particularly interesting in how they show a poet’s own evaluation of their initial thoughts – what works, what doesn’t work, what is too discursive, what…
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NaPoWriMo : Day 24 – Ekphrasis – Ant Art
National Poetry Writing Challenge Day 24 to write a poem of ekphrasis- that is a poem inspired by a work of art. Today’s challenge is to write a poem on a very particular kind of art – the marginalia of medieval manuscripts. My poem for today is based on the below 13th Century English Miscellany art on…