Tag: #truth

• NaPoWriMo Day 4, 2023- Migrating

  

  Today’s poetry resource is this collection of poetry video recordings from the Dodge Poetry Program. If you’re not familiar with the Program, every two years it sponsors a four-day poetry festival in New Jersey, bringing together poets and students from across the United States and internationally. And now here’s another prompt drawn from our archives – and,…

  Smitha V

  April 4, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day4, #foreignland, #GloPoWriMo2023, #home, #leaving, #life, #migrating, #NaPoWriMo2023, #repetitionpoem, #triolet, #truth

• NaPoWriMo Day 1, 2023: The Feet

  

  P.C. John Lord Peck. Dress and Care of the Feet. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1871 ‘And here’s our own prompt (optional, as always) for the first day of Na/GloPoWriMo. They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said you can’t try to write a poem based on a book cover…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2023

  Poetry

  #bookcover, #day1, #Feet, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #reality, #truth

• Book Review: Variety is the Spice of Life by Sally Cronin

  

  I remember it was sometime around Thanksgiving that this book was released and the author, Sally Cronin, had put up a post on Fb announcing it’s release on Kindle. Being in Dhaka, I had no way of accessing the book as Kindle does not work in this country. I asked Sally if the paperback was…

  Smitha V

  February 8, 2023

  Book Review

  #bloggingcommunity, #bookreview, #inspiration, #life, #love, #nature, #newbook, #poetryandprose, #quickread, #sallycronin, #simplepoems, #truth, #varietyisthespiceoflife

• Dhaka Diaries : It’s Spring!

  

  Although, it was Winter, and I have been waddling around, in layers, a beanie on my head, a scarf around my neck; socks on my feet, and cotton plugged in my ears, my heart has been in ‘Spring’ mode since my older one returned home for the Christmas holidays. I feel paralysed and incapable of…

  Smitha V

  February 1, 2023

  Experiences

  #basantpanchami, #blooms, #dhakadiaries, #flaghoisting, #gardening, #gratitude, #India, #inspiration, #life, #neighborhoodpark, #newcoffeeshop, #repubicday, #spring, #truth, #winter

• Quote 28 : Apology to the oldest child- a parent’s confession

  I’m not sure parents say this, but I’m certain they feel it. Because being a parent isn’t easy and certainly not, the first time around, which for some may be the only time around. There are bound to be mistakes which may not be obvious, and there may be no witnesses other than one’s conscience.…

  Smitha V

  January 30, 2023

  Quotes

  #apology, #foodforthought, #life, #oldestchild, #parenting, #raisingchildren, #relationships, #sayingsorry, #truth