Poetry - Verses and Hues

12 Oct

Tanka: Dreams

dreams of yesterday glistening beauty today instilling belief I'm quilling more dreams today envisioning future bliss The post follows the prompt words “dreams” and “beauty” given by Elsie of Ramblings of a Writer for Tanka Challenge Week...

#5lines, #beauty, #belief, #dreams, #future, #inspiration, #life, #micropoetry, #motivation, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #reality, #tanka, #today, #vision, #weeklytankachallenge

11 Oct

Poem: I am your refrigerator

Lillian is hosting Tuesday Poetics at dVerse. For today’s prompt, she wants us to walk into our kitchen and open our refrigerator. Pick something specific that resides in, or on the outside of the refrigerator. Let that be the inspiration...

#appliances, #clean, #cleanliness, #dVerse, #essentials, #fridge, #home, #household, #hygiene, #poem, #poetics, #poetrychallenge, #refrigerator, #rhyming, #voice, #women

11 Oct

Quadrille: Hope

De Jackson of WhimsyGizmo who is a Las Vegan, hosted Quadrille on Monday at dVerse, when we write a poem of exactly 44 words, including a given word. (I know I’m a little late for submission!) In light of the...

#attacks, #confidence, #dark, #dVerse, #faith, #freedom, #freeverse, #hope, #inspiration, #life, #love, #motivation, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #politics, #pride, #quadrille, #terror, #terrorism, #wisdom, #world

09 Oct

Haiku: Mist

golden ball of heat expunges ephemeral mist life effloresces The post follows the prompt “mist” given by Haiku Horizons for this week.

#clouds, #fog, #growth, #haiku, #hope, #inspiration, #life, #micropoetry, #mist, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #sun

06 Oct

Poem: I lost myself

thunderous waves never plundered my spirits neither hurricane ravaged my vigour dusk never dawned encumbrance for darkness shrouded my existence unscathed by the disparaging world I was wounded only one time but contusions spurn to heal I’ve been in...

#betray, #betrayal, #Courage, #dVerse, #existence, #feelings, #freeverse, #heart, #hurt, #justice, #life, #love, #Open Link Night, #pain, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #romance, #spirits, #wound

03 Oct

Senryu: Dreams

dreams are obsessions winged with belief and vision enriching vague life The post follows the prompt “dreams & enriched” given by Elsie Hagley of Ramblings of a writer for the Weekly haiku-senryu challenge #9.

#belief, #dreams, #haiku, #imagination, #life, #micropoetry, #obsessions, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #senryu, #thoughts, #vision

23 Sep

Haiku: Ephemeral Life

cherry blossoms bloom what an exquisite beauty ephemeral life

#beauty, #bloom, #blossoms, #cherry, #ephemeral, #flowers, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #life, #micropoetry, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #seasons

22 Sep

Poem: A Desire…

Today I’ve penned down something in my native language- Hindi. These are actually afterthoughts of reading a Hindi poem. I’ve given the English translation below my original poem. इक ख़्वाहिश ठंडी हवा के झोंके जब पेड़ों को...

#belief, #breeze, #desire, #desires, #feelings, #hindi poetry, #hindipoem, #hope, #longing, #love, #lover, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #romance, #wind

21 Sep

Poem: Amazed at the “WHY” Maze

This is my second take on the prompt given by dVerse. The prompt was so intriguing that I couldn’t resist sharing all the questions that keep bothering me from time to time. Bjorn hosted the dVerse on Tuesday. He was inspired by...

#amazed, #desires, #dVerse, #feelings, #freeverse, #maze, #past, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #ponderings, #questions, #revelations, #thoughts, #time, #why, #wishes

20 Sep

Poem: A Reflective Trail

Bjorn is hosting the dVerse today. He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems consisting only of questions. We should leave the answer to the reader. We...

#belief, #dVerse, #freedom, #freeverse, #gandhi, #helen keller, #liberty, #malala, #Mandela, #mother teresa, #motivation, #optimism, #perseverance, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #ponderings, #prejudice, #questions, #reflection, #rights, #socrates, #success, #thoughts, #trust

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