Poetry - Verses and Hues

29 Aug

Limerick: Trust

This post is in response to Limerick Challenge Week 35, hosted by Mind and Life matters. This week’s prompt is “trust”, which must be used in first, second or fifth line. Here’s my take on it: The race...

#fate, #life, #Limerick Poetry Challenge, #motivation, #optimism, #trust

16 Aug

Tanka: Silence

Tanka is a poetry form which originated in Japan more than 13 centuries ago. Tanka, translated, means “short song.” It is similar to haiku in that there are specific numbers of syllables for each line of the poem and they often discuss the...

#divine, #echo, #feelings, #insight, #life, #nature, #prayer, #silence, #soul, #tanka, #thoughts, #voice

11 Aug

My Journey

I have written prose poetry this time. Hope you like it! Deserting me in solitude, With arrogance and attitude, Abandoning signs of gratitude, Tormenting me like destitute, Swearing never to return, How could he even yearn?

#hope, #journey, #liberated, #life, #memories, #past, #prosepoetry, #solitude, #struggle

09 Aug

Limerick: Heart Vs. Mind

Thoughts of future whirled my mind, Pain of past seized my steps behind, Past was a curse, Future looked worse, Yet my heart led the path for a fate redefined!

#fate, #future, #heart, #mind, #past

04 Aug

God’s Love

The ship of my life was about to sink, My courage abandoned me without a wink, My future looked obscure, I could see no cure, Yet my faith in Almighty was eternally pure!

#confidence, #faith, #God, #hope, #life, #optimism, #patience, #positive thinking, #Supreme

19 Jul

Lipogram: Sky is Limit

Today, I have used a tool called “Lipogram”. Lipogram is a kind of constrained writing in which you restrict the use of certain letters usually a common vowel. It is much more difficult to avoid common letters like E, T, or A, as the...

#confidence, #football, #kick, #Limit, #lipogram, #optimism, #positive thinking, #sky, #spirit, #vowel, #win

12 Jul

A Book Is A Child

This poem is based on a prompt that requires “conceit” to be used as a poetic tool. A poetic conceit is often an unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual. In metaphor, we try to bring...

#book, #bookshelf, #child, #conceit, #knowledge, #metaphor, #orphan

12 Jul

Limerick: Rain

This post is in response to Limerick Challenge Week 28 hosted by @mindandlifematters. The prompt for this week’s challenge is ‘Rain’ and the limerick should include the word ‘Rain’ in either Line 1, 2 or 5. So, here’s my attempt at it. Thunderous...

#clouds, #heat, #lightning, #rain, #Thunder

26 May

Rain

This post is based on prompts given on Day 9 of Poetry 101 course of Blogging University. We are required to write a poem on landscape or any of its elements. The poetic device suggested is Apostrophe. It occurs...

#apostrophe, #beauty, #blessing, #divine, #introtopoetry, #landscape, #nature, #poetry101, #rain

24 May

The Little Pleasures of Life

This post is in response to the prompts for Day 8 provided by Poetry 101 course of Blogging University. This day’s requirement is to write a poem on “Pleasure” using anaphora or epistrophe. Anaphora is a poetic device that relies on...

#dreams, #epistrophe, #introtopoetry, #invaluable, #journey, #life, #pleasure, #poetry101, #unique

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