Tag: #death

• NaPoWriMo : Day 23- ‘Home’

  

   Today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the style of Kay Ryan, whose poems tend to be short and snappy – with a lot of rhyme and sound play. They also have a deceptive simplicity about them, like proverbs or aphorisms. Once you’ve read a few, you’ll see what I mean. […]

  Smitha V

  April 23, 2022

  Poetry

  #death, #emotions, #feelings, #GloPoWriMo2022, #kayryan, #NaPoWriMo2022, #nature, #people, #redwoodtrees, #small, #tall, #wonder

• NaPoWriMo Day 16- Save the sunflowers

  

  “Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, “Pied Beauty.” A curtal sonnet has eleven lines, instead of the usual fourteen, and […]

  Smitha V

  April 16, 2022

  Poetry

  #covid, #day16, #death, #GloPoWriMo2022, #NaPoWriMo2022, #Ukraine

• NaPoWriMo Day 9 – The Gift

  

  Today’s prompt is to write in a specific form – the nonet! A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second has eight, and so on until you get to the last line, which has just one syllable. I wrote two nonets on the subject. I wasn’t sure which sounded better, so, […]

  Smitha V

  April 9, 2022

  Poetry

  #day9, #death, #father'sgift, #gift, #GloPoWriMo2022, #goodbye, #life, #love, #memory, #NaPoWriMo2022, #parting

• NaPoWriMo Day 3: Sleep, my baby, sleep

  

  Today’s prompt is to write a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the […]

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2022

  Poetry

  #CallforPeace, #day3, #death, #Destruction, #forukraine, #GloPoWriMo2022, #glosapoetry, #longpoem, #lullaby, #motherandchild, #NaPoWriMo2022, #news, #pain, #tribute, #Ukraine, #War

• Lockdown Diaries : The death of a fly

  

  The last of our guests left last Thursday after an entire month of festivities and family gatherings. Just when I thought I’d put my feet up and get back to writing, reading and art, my husband returned from work feeling unwell. The test showed positive leaving us feeling anything but positive! As per the current […]

  Smitha V

  January 17, 2022

  Poetry

  #death, #flypoem, #funpoem, #gratitude, #health, #inspiration, #life, #lockdowndiaries, #love, #motivation, #mumbaidiaries, #poem