Tag: #poetry

• #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 321, 5/23/23

  

  Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash I’m taking part in the Wordcraft poetry challenge hosted by Colleen. This week’s challenge is to write a specific form with a twist! Write an acrostic poem with a syllable count of 8, 9, or 10 syllables per line (all the same, or a mixture of syllable counts, is fine). HOW to…

  Smitha V

  May 25, 2023

  Poetry

  #acrostic, #Imagination, #poetry, #TankaTuesday, syllabicpoetry

• Book Review: Do What You Love by MJ Mallon

  

  ‘Do What You Love’ by MJ Mallon is a quick read of 58 pages. It’s a sweet reminder to live life, look back to see how far you’ve come, appreciate all that’s got you this far and look forward to the future. I could read the book in an hour and a half’s time. I’m…

  Smitha V

  May 22, 2023

  Book Review

  #flashfiction, #memoir, #mjmallon, #newbook, #photography, #pleasing, #poetry, #quickread, #shortread

• Book Review: Sorrowful Soul by Harmony Kent

  

  I pre-ordered Harmony Kent’s book in November 2022. The image of a Calla Lilly, in the lightest shade of olive green on the cover against a greyish-white background, attracted me to it. But with life getting in the way, I forgot all about the book after it was released. It was Sally Cronin’s post that…

  Smitha V

  May 18, 2023

  Book Review, Poetry

  #bookreview, #dealingwithloss, #death, #harmonykent, #healing, #journeytohealing, #life, #loss, #poetry

• 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

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 27 – The Earthworm of strength

  

  And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always). Today, begin by reading Bernadette Mayer’s poem “The Lobelias of Fear.” Now write your own poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun. The poem should contain…

  Smitha V

  April 27, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #courage, #Day27, #earthworm, #GloPoWriMo2023, #humanancestors, #NaPoWriMo2023, #pikaia, #poetry