Tag: #fathersanddaughters

• Published : poetry- My home is the river

  

  I am pleased to say that my poem ‘My home is the river’ which I wrote for a prompt in April has been published by the Rebelle Society. The prompt required us to listen to Sufjan Stevens’ latest album, ‘Convocations‘. The album has five parts to it — ‘Meditations’, ‘Lamentations’, ‘Revelations’, ‘Celebrations’ and ‘Incantations’. Sufjan created the album as a tribute to his […]

  Smitha V

  May 10, 2021

  Poetry

  #convocations, #death, #fathersanddaughters, #funeralrites, #home, #loss, #poem, #river, #sufanstevens, Published

• TEN Things I learnt by WATCHING Dad!

  

  I wrote this post in 2017. I remember sharing it with dad on WhatsApp. He did not reply. When I asked him the next day if he had read it, he said, ‘I did nothing. It was your mother who managed it all. You and your sister are the way you’ll are because of her.’ […]

  Smitha V

  December 11, 2020

  Experiences

  #dad, #fathersanddaughters, #learning, #life, #love, #memory, #nostalgia, #parents, #tenthingsIlearntfrommyfather, #watchandlearn

• And then pa?

  

  I stand watching you While you fight for your life Your breathing slow, each breath slower than the last I hear the machines beeping, an urgency And then there is silence, they beep no more I see you sleeping Like you’ve dozed off like you used to, before, when we were young while telling a […]

  Smitha V

  December 4, 2020

  Experiences, Poetry

  #dealingwithloss, #death, #father, #fathersanddaughters, #healing, #life, #loveyoudad, #memories, #pain, #relationshippoems, #truth