We are experiencing turbulent times; incidents we never fathomed, situations we have no expertise in dealing; and worst of all, the cumulative grief and pain as a society and as humankind. We are at loss of words to express...
NaPoWriMo Day 28: Our prompt today (optional, as always), is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the...
Year 2020 was challenging in more ways than we had expected it to be. Unprecedented events, uncertain environment and clouds of fear engulfed us throughout the year. Sanitization, quarantine, lockdown, masks and social distancing, became our new normal. It...
Some days I’m not myselfbut still I am there, alive Some days I don’t feel like doing anythingbut still I end up doing all the chores Some days I don’t want to assess if everything is in orderbut...
NaPoWriMo Day 10: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku...
NaPoWriMo Day 5: The challenge is to use/do all of the following in the same poem. Of course, if you can’t fit all twenty projects into your poem, or a few of them get your poem going, that is...
NaPoWriMo Day 3: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can generate this list however you’d like – pull a book off...
The road in front of my house, That happily led my children to school, That carved the way through traffic, to offices, That even took me to my place of solace- my God’s abode I know...
Eighty messages! I had left the phone unattended for only about an hour and it was loaded with messages. By this time, I was too tired to even open the app to check the sender’s names,...
As we fight COVID-19, our country is observing a curfew today across the nation. Let’s hope that the efforts of the world pave the way for a better tomorrow. I wake up to a new day A day...