Tag: #rain
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Floating angels
Wrote this poem based on a view from the flight window Over the clouds we fly Higher and higher we soar Far, far away – you and I Where? We do not know. Wisps of white we see Islands in the sky You and me Watch them, gliding by Now we enter…
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I await the rain – Delhi burning 2
I saw a palace White marble walls Bedecked with jewels Brilliantly dazzling Golden yellow Amaltas * line the drive Red Palash** flowers on the pavement-pretty
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India Diaries 6- We Pray For Kerala-Dedicated to all those affected
I wrote this poem for the ALS prompt “Rain”. And it won the second prize. I dedicate it to my family and friends in Kerala, who’ve been facing the fury of the south-west monsoons since August 8th . More than 200 people have died and 200,000 have been displaced. The destruction has been immense as…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 6 – Thirteen Ways of looking at the Rain
Today’s challenge was to write a poem that looks for the same thing in thirteen different ways. The most famous poem of this type was written by Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of looking at a Blackbird”. I have chosen to write on the rain. I Rain on the tin roof, Its beating, It’s pouring, Soothing and relaxing,…