Poetry - Verses and Hues

25 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 25: The changing phase of city

The challenge is to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where are the songs of spring?”)...

#citylife, #emotions, #feelings, #happiness, #hectic, #joy, #life, #monsoon, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #rains, #seasons

24 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 24: Thesaurus of my laptop

Today’s (optional) prompt is to write a poem that, like “Dictionary Illustrations,” is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be...

#dictionary, #illustrations, #impact, #meaning, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #thesaurus, #words, blog

23 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 23: The monarch of Arctic

The challenge today is to write a poem about an animal. I had written on Eagle, couple of months ago, for a similar prompt. You can read that here. This time I have written about an endangered species. The...

#animals, #endangered, #global warming, #love, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #polar bear, #threatened, blog

22 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 22: Enlivening music

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school struggles with learning to play the French...

#art, #emotions, #feelings, #ghazals, #jagjit singh, #JagjitSingh, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #songs, #thoughts

21 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 21: A surrealist dream

Today, the challenge is to write a poem that, incorporates wild, surreal images. Try to play around with writing that doesn’t make formal sense, but which engages all the senses and involves dream-logic. I have tried to combine surrealism...

#creativity, #fun, #humour, #imagination, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poe#poetry, #poem, #surreal, #surrealism, blog

20 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 20: Our daily conversations

Today, the challenge is to write a poem that “talks.” What does that mean? Well, take a look at this poem by Diane Seuss. While it isn’t a monologue, it’s largely based in spoken language, interspersed with the speaker/narrator’s...

#children, #conversation, #feelings, #fun, #funny, #home, #house, #humour, #life, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #parents, #poem, #slangs, #talk, blog

19 Apr

The Sky Takes Over

NaPoWriMo prompt for today is to write a abecedarian poem. When my 11 year old son heard me say this, he snatched my laptop from me and penned this below poem in about 30 minutes. I couldn’t stop myself...

#creativity, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #sky

19 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 19: The sky is mine

Today, the challenge is to write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet. You could write a very strict abecedarian poem, in which there are twenty-six words in alphabetical...

#confidence, #feelings, #inspiration, #inspire, #learning, #life, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #reflections, #writing

18 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 18: Elegy for my hero

Today, the challenge is to write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. This may not be a “fun” prompt, but loss is one of...

#army, #border, #death, #elegy, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #soldier, #terror, #terrorism, #truth, #war

17 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 17: I am Benjamin’s Kite

Today, the challenge is to write a poem that presents a scene from an unusual point of view. Perhaps you could write a poem that presents Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery from the perspective of the apple. Or the shootout...

#biography, #charged, #electricity, #humour, #lightning experiment, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #personification, #poem, #science, blog, Experiment

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