Tag: #Refugee

• Where do I go?

  

  War is at the doorstep. What do you want me to do? You say I must run- but where you do not say- Where do I go When this is the only home I know You say, ‘Do it for your family.’ And I agree. I wake my sleeping children Stuff my pockets with money,…

  Smitha V

  March 3, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #blogaday, #friends, #inspiration, #motivation, #peace, #poem, #Refugee, #War

• How easy to become a refugee?

  

  Mr President, Sir You taught me something new today I thought those who fled their nation were a different breed Forgive me, my ignorance But, I thought they came from nations ruled by zealots where violence was a norm; cursed countries gave birth to them – and I felt sorry for them As I watched…

  Smitha V

  February 28, 2022

  Poetry

  #CallforPeace, #currentissues, #hope, #humanity, #irony, #people, #Refugee, #Russia, #Ukraine, #War, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo: Day 15 – Ali sleeps

  

  Our prompt for today (optional, as always), takes its inspiration from the idea of a poem as a sort of tiny play, which can be performed dramatically. In the 1800s, there was quite a fad for monologue-style poems that lend themselves extremely well to dramatic interpretations (this kind of work was basically Robert Browning’s jam). And…

  Smitha V

  April 15, 2019

  Poetry

  #crisis, #foreignland, #GloPoWriMo2019, #immigrants, #life, #loss, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #Refugee, #sadpoem, #truth, #War, #worldtoday, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo :Day 5- A Norwegian Poem In My Words – The Eyes Tell A Story

  

  Today, challenge was to write a poem that, like the work in Translucence, reacts both to photography and to words in a language not your own. Begin with a photograph. Now find a poem in a language you don’t know (here’s a good place to look!) Ignore any accompanying English translation (maybe cover it up, or cut-and-paste…

  Smitha V

  April 5, 2018

  Poetry

  #Day52018, #Destruction, #eyesamirror, #GloPoWriMo2018, #MonicaAasprong, #NaPoWriMo2018, #Norwegianpoet, #pain, #peace, #Refugee, #Sorrow, #War, Poetry