Tag: #poem

• NaPoWriMo Day2023- Day 5: Grandma’s funeral

  

  Today, our featured resource is Verse Daily, where you will find – you guessed it – a new poem every day. You can also check out more than twenty years of archived poems – a rich collection indeed. Finally, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day. Begin by reading Charles Simic’s poem “The Melon.” It would…

  Smitha V

  April 5, 2023

  Poetry

  #day5, #funeral, #funnypoem, #juxtaposition, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #poetry, #shockingpoem

• NaPoWriMo Day 1, 2023: The Feet

  

  P.C. John Lord Peck. Dress and Care of the Feet. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1871 ‘And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2023

  Poetry

  #bookcover, #day1, #Feet, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #reality, #truth

• Published: Another night, another fight

  

  It wouldn’t be right to live in Dhaka and not write about mosquitoes. Come winter, come December, and they flow in droves. And not that I’m belittling the Indian mosquitoes, but the ones in Dhaka, are definitely hardier, more brilliant and more innovative than their Indian counterparts. They are ice-breakers- the subject of conversations –…

  Smitha V

  January 21, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #dhakadiaries, #funpoem, #masticadores, #mosquitoes, #poem, #published, #truth, #winterindhaka

• #WDYS : A grey world

  

  A mild cold wave swept over Dhaka on January 3rd. The temperature fell to 11 degrees C. We couldn’t see the sun for a week. Apparently, this is the coldest it has ever been here…yet another sign of climate change or global warming. The picture was taken at 7.00 a.m. on the 8th of January…

  Smitha V

  January 12, 2023

  Photography, Poetry

  #climatechange, #coldwave, #dhakadiaries, #experiences, #globalwarming, #keepitalive, #life, #Naturepoem, #pictureprompt, #poem, #WDYS, #whatdoyousee, #winter

• Published: 3 poems in Thieving Magpies

  

  I am very pleased to share three of my poems published in the Chicago-based digital literary magazine, in their Winter issue on their 5th Anniversary. Since it is a quarterly issue and their standards for publication are pretty high, it feels very good getting accepted. If you’d like to check out the magazine, click here.…

  Smitha V

  December 27, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #anchored, #dhakadiaries, #expatdiaries, #expatwife, #experiences, #home, #life, #lonely, #poem, #published, #thievingmagpies, #winterissue