Category: Experiences

• TSL Day 19 – Asleep; just not sleeping- Near-death experience poetry

  

  I’m not going in order while sharing the poems I wrote for the Facebook group, TSL in the month of April. Instead, I decided to share poems that got a good review from those who read them. The prompt for the 18th day was “asleep but not oblivious of the unslept, unsleeping”- Adrienne Rich. Below […]

  Smitha V

  May 16, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #AdrienneRich, #Anitamoorjani, #asleep, #bookpoem, #consciousness, #Day18, #dyingtobeme, #life, #light, #NDE, #near-death, #occurence, #poem, #spiritual, #subconscious, #truth, #TSL

• The end of another NaPoWriMo- Winnings, Wrapping up, Learnings and much more

  

  And finally, April came to an end and I managed to clock in 58 poems (as two poems fitted a prompt from both the groups I was participating in). This year, I remember feeling exhausted within the first week- the kind of feeling when you feel you’ve churned out everything you had to and there’s […]

  Smitha V

  May 1, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #finishline, #fortheloveofpoetry, #GloPoWriMo2022, #gratitude, #Itsawrap, #journey, #NaPoWriMo2022, #Thankyou, #winninginNaPoWriMo

• NaPoWriMo Day 22- School mornings

  

  In honour of today’s being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, an image, or any combination of things. My poem- School mornings One eye squeezed like a lemon the other forced open Stretch for the […]

  Smitha V

  April 22, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #children, #Day22, #GloPoWriMo2022, #meditation, #morningchaos, #mothers, #NaPoWriMo2022, #poem, #repetitionpoetry, #schoolmorning, #yoga

• NaPoWriMo Day 18: This is how you do it

  

  Today’s prompt is based on Faisal Mohyuddin’s poem “Five Answers to the Same Question.” Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered. I You say you love Him How can there be love […]

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #answers, #behappy, #Day18, #GloPoWriMo2022, #havefaith, #inspiration, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo2022, #platitudes, #poem, #whyworry

• NaPoWriMo Day 17 – The English Garden

  

  The prompt for today. “This is a fun one – it’s a prompt developed by the comic artist Lynda Barry, and it asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you.” Today’s featured online journal is Plume, which has published more […]

  Smitha V

  April 17, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #children, #Day17, #dogs, #Englishgraden, #GloPoWriMo2022, #memories, #munich, #NaPoWriMo2022, #narrativepoem, #nostalgia, #parents, #pugs, #training