#feelings - Verses and Hues

28 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 28: Sculpting poetry

Today I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a meta-poem of your own- which are poems about poems. Sculpting poetry Poetry is a science; poetry is an art Poetry is passion; a form of meditation A...

#creativity, #feelings, #genesis, #life, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #thoughts, #words

26 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 26: Just when…

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its...

#alliteration, #challenge, #desires, #fate, #feelings, #life, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #repitition, #wishes, blog

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

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

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

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

15 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 15: My monologue

Our prompt for today (optional, as always), takes its inspiration from the idea of a poem as a sort of tiny play, which can be performed dramatically. In the 1800s, there was quite a fad for monologue-style poems that...

#anxiety, #depression, #feelings, #introspection, #life, #mental health, #monologue, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #questions, #solitude, #thoughts, blog

12 Apr

NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo Day 12: Your love letters

Today, the challenge is to write a poem about a dull thing that you own, and why (and how) you love it. Alternatively, what would it mean to you to give away or destroy a significant object. Your...

#feelings, #heart, #heartbroken, #letters, #love, #memories, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #nostalgia, #poem, #romance, #valuable, blog

09 Apr

NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo Day 9: Things that make life meaningful

Here’s the prompt for Day 9: Our (optional) prompt for the day asks you to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer who lived more than...

#feelings, #glad, #grateful, #joy, #life, #meaning, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #thoughts

08 Apr

NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo Day 8: Connecting the dots

Here’s the prompt for Day 8: Today, I’d like to challenge you to think about the argot of a particular job or profession, and see how you can incorporate it into a metaphor that governs or drives your poem....

#connect, #corporate, #feelings, #flow, #humour, #inspiration, #life, #motivation, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #slang, #thought, blog

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