Poetry - Verses and Hues

10 May

Focus: Week 1

This is the first week of our monthly theme “focus”. Focus is imperative to prosper in life. Our life is swarming with distractions and if we lose sight of our goal even for a minute, we might have to...

#aspiration, #concentrate, #dreams, #focus, #goal, #inspiration, #monthly, #monthly feature, #motivation, #optimism, #success

09 May

Acrostic Quadrille: Echoes

The prompt given by dVerse is to write a quadrille using the word “echo/ echoes/ echoing”. I wanted more fun so decided to combine two forms of poetry to write an acrostic quadrille. An acrostic poem is a type...

#acrostic, #betrayal, #dVerse, #echo, #echoes, #feelings, #heart, #life, #love, #oblivious, #poetrychallenge, #quadrille, #resonate, #resound, #words

08 May

Poem: Moments of Gratitude

Just before the day cedes to the darkness Just before the moon impounds the crown Just before the stars embellish the sky Just before the synthetic light ensues the natural light Just before the birds fly back home Just...

#birds, #blessings, #celestials, #darkness, #dusk, #God, #gratitude, #inspiration, #light, #love, #moments, #moon, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #revere, #sky, #stars, #sun, #thanks, #twilight

08 May

Senryu: Life

deserting alive lamenting whilst death fondles what folly of life

#death, #folly, #haiku, #humour, #irony, #life, #micropoetry, #poetrychallenge, #senryu

05 May

Lead and Save

The post follows the prompts shared by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge#32. The challenge is to use the words “lead” and “save” or their synonyms in a haiku/ tanka/ haibun. I have written a haiku with “lead” and “save” and a tanka...

#5lines, #God, #haiku, #lead, #liberate, #micropoetry, #nature, #peace, #poetrychallenge, #save, #tanka

04 May

Double Haiku: Link

Past proliferates its reflection on present link always remains Present silhouettes leads its footprints to future link will still remain This post follows the Haiku Horizons prompt for this week “Link”

#haiku, #link, #micropoetry, #past, #poetrychallenge, #present, #reflection

30 Apr

NaPoWriMo Final Day!

Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo! I can’t believe I’ve been writing a poem everyday for a month. A big thanks to Maureen for successfully hosting another year of NaPoWriMo by constantly motivating and guiding us by providing interesting...

#belief, #faith, #final, #hope, #life, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #optimism, #poetrychallenge, #positivity, #repetitive, #success

29 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 29

As I am travelling, I am not following the NaPoWriMo prompt today as well. Here’s poem for today titled “A lizard on my wall”! A lizard on my wall Doesn’t it say all? The creepy reptile majestically climbs...

#animal, #cold blooded, #fear, #lizard, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #predator, #reptile

28 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 28: Time

I am not following the NaPoWriMo prompt today as I am travelling. Here is my Tanka titled “Time” for today. Struggles shadowed life learned opined “It’s bad time” so I changed old watch time stood still without impact is...

#5lines, #micropoetry, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #poetrychallenge, #tanka, #time, #watch

27 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 27: Mom’s Classic Pie

The NaPoWriMo prompt for today is to write a poem that explores your sense of taste! This could be a poem about food, or wine, or even the oddly metallic sensation of a snowflake on your tongue. ...

#affection, #delectable, #feelings, #food, #love, #mother, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2017, #pie, #poetrychallenge, #recipe, #taste, #vegetable

Archive for Category: Poetry