Tag: #Sorrow

• NaPoWriMo: Day 18 – Forgotten

  

  Our optional prompt for the day takes its cue from how poetry can help us to make concrete the wild abstraction of a feeling like grief. “The Lost Pilot” does this, as does this poem by Victoria Chang, called “Obit.” In both poems, loss is made tangible. They take elusive, overwhelming feelings, and place them into the…

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2019

  Poetry

  #awaittheend, #Day18, #death, #depression, #elegy, #forgotten, #GloPoWriMo2019, #life, #loneliness, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #Sorrow, #truth, Poetry

• Quote 5/2019 : Expectations

  

    Ever felt like this or ever made someone else feel like this? If yes, then it’s time to stop! STOP anybody who is making you feel this way and STOP if you are doing it to anybody else. The irony is, those who expect are most often those who are closest to us and…

  Smitha V

  January 21, 2019

  Quotes

  #believeinyourself, #expectations, #inspiration, #life, #relationships, #selfishness, #Sorrow, Quotes

• Prompt Gloom : When will the End Come

  

  The below poem won the first prize from WHPA (World Harmony and Peace Association)  on the topic “Gloom”. Rules were to write a 12-16 line poem. Walls – that once in the heart of the city stood, Crumbled- stone and gravel, pack of cards, dead wood, Rooms that once held the tinkling notes of joyous laughter,…

  Smitha V

  June 20, 2018

  Poetry

  #childrenofwar, #death, #Destruction, #endwar, #gloom, #life, #pain, #peace, #Sensespoem, #Sorrow, #Soundpoem, #syria, #truth, #War, #whpa, 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