Following my heart, Daring to dream, Living without regrets
“And now, our prompt. I’ve seen some fairly funny twitter conversations lately among poets who are coming to terms with the fact that they keep writing poems about the moon. For better or worse, the moon seems to exert a powerful hold on poets, as this large collection of moon-themed poems suggests. Today, I’d like to challenge…
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Delhi is burning And nobody is looking Who should we tell? That the capital’s, a living hell! Makes it difficult for them to see Through all that dust and smog maybe Delhi is bleeding and there’s no respite Seventy odd years on, since the stroke of midnight The law of the jungle, its new…
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Had written this poem last year as part of the NaPoWriMo 2017. A year hence and the war against terror rages on. How many more children must be orphaned before peace is achieved? National Poetry Writing Month, Day 11’s challenge to write the Bop. The invention of Poet Afaa Michael Weaver, the Bop is a…
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ational Poetry Writing Month, Day 11’s challenge to write the Bop. The invention of Poet Afaa Michael Weaver, the Bop is a kind of a combination sonnet + song. like a Shakespearean sonnet, it introduces, discusses, and then solves (or fails to solve) a problem. My Bop: Her eyes shone a tear, her…
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