Tag: #nostalgia

• 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 21 – I remember

  

  Today’s prompt is one I got from the poet Betsy Sholl. This prompt asks you to write a poem in which you first recall someone you used to know closely but are no longer in touch with, then a job you used to have but no longer do, and then a piece of art that you […]

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2022

  Poetry

  #Art, #Day21, #friendship, #GloPoWriMo2022, #life, #memories, #NaPoWriMo2022, #nostalgia, #poem, #stories, #truth

• NaPoWriMo Day 17 – The English Garden

  

  The prompt for today. “This is a fun one – it’s a prompt developed by the comic artist Lynda Barry, and it asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you.” Today’s featured online journal is Plume, which has published more […]

  Smitha V

  April 17, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #children, #Day17, #dogs, #Englishgraden, #GloPoWriMo2022, #memories, #munich, #NaPoWriMo2022, #narrativepoem, #nostalgia, #parents, #pugs, #training

• 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