Tag: #published

• Published: A wake-up call

  

  I’m happy to share my poem, ‘A wake-up call’ has been published by MasticadoreUSA. A shout-out to Barbara, the editor of the e-zine, for accepting the poem. “A wake-up call” by Smitha Vishwanath Publicado por MEELOSMOMel19 FEBRERO, 2023 I The day before the surgery The morning I went for a check-up I had no idea they’d…

  Smitha V

  February 20, 2023

  Experiences, Mum’s World, Poetry

  #children, #diary, #experience, #hospital, #inspiration, #life, #live, #love, #mother, #poetry, #published, #purpose, #strength, #surgery, #wakeupcall

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Kabul is falling

  I started this poem three days prior to August 15th – the day when Kabul fell. The television channels buzzed with the news of how close the Taliban was getting to Kabul. Those three days that’s all we talked about- we lamented at the state of the Afghan people and the sorry state of women…

  Smitha V

  September 18, 2021

  Poetry

  #Afghanistan, #blogaday, #blogging101, #borderlessjournal, #currentissues, #kabul, #Mahabharath, #news, #poem, #published