Tag: #parents

• Published: The Gift of a Poem

  

  P.C. Spillwords Press I’m very happy to say that my poem, ‘The Gift of a Poem’, has been published by SpillWords Press today. Today is my younger one’s birthday, and Spillwords very kindly agreed to publish the poem today. It meant a lot to me, especially since she’s been asking me why I haven’t written…

  Smitha V

  May 17, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #awayfromhome, #birthday, #children, #daughter, #leavingthenest, #life, #loveyou, #missyou, #parents, #poetry, #published, #waitingtoseeyou

• My father’s home

  

  I wrote this tanka prose on the 26th of November. The tanka prose is based on my visit in September to the place where my father bought his first house. The house was in a most sought-after locale and I remember, dad, being very proud of it. I was around nine at the time and…

  Smitha V

  December 1, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #childhood, #dealingwithpain, #healing, #home, #japanesepoetry, #life, #loss, #memories, #nostalgia, #parents, #tankaprose, #truth

• Published: Ye Birds on my Window sill

  

  I know I’m supposed to be sharing the poetry I wrote during April but, today, I’m taking a break and sharing a poem that’s close to my heart and that got published by SpillWords Press yesterday.Here’s the link to the poem. And here’s one stanza ( it’s not about birds, so do read to find…

  Smitha V

  May 4, 2022

  Poetry

  #absence, #birds, #children, #childrenmovingaway, #leavingthenest, #love, #parents, #poem, #published, #spillwordspress

• 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

• Published: My dad, the Pied Piper

  

  My poem, ‘ My dad, the Pied Piper’ was published on 26th November 2021, on my dad’s first death anniversary by Spillword Press. It was very kind of them to publish the poem on the very date. I wrote the poem a month earlier and sent it to them informing them about the death anniversary…

  Smitha V

  December 4, 2021

  Poetry

  #dadsanddaughters, #deathanniversary, #father, #granddad, #healing, #life, #loveyoudad, #missyou, #parents, #spillwordspress