#perseverance - Verses and Hues

24 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 24 Poem: From Yesteryears to Today

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 24 Prompt: Writing is cathartic. We often use it to express our anger, guilt, remorse, vengeance. Today, let our verses express any of these emotions we might have hidden in our hearts against someone or...

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03 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 3: One grain of sand

NaPoWriMo Day 3 Prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to make a “Personal Universal Deck,” and then to write a poem using it. The idea of the “Personal Universal Deck” originated with the poet and playwright Michael McClure,...

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23 Apr

Perseverance: From ‘P’ to ‘E’: NaPoWriMo Day 23

NaPoWriMo Day 23: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word. Doesn’t “S” look sneaky and snakelike? And “W” clearly...

#acrostic, #determination, #inspiring, #motivational, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2020, #optimism, #perseverance, #positivity

28 Mar

Life’s teachings

Slowly, life has taught me... To be low on expectations But high on gratitude To not deter from challenges But make your way through defeat To overlook others’ shortcomings But work on own mistakes Perseverance is the key to...

#foodforthought, #inspiring, #lessons, #life, #motivational, #musings, #perseverance, #thoughts

04 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Tenacity of Nature

On fourth day of NaPoWriMo Maureen has challenged us today to write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty” or “justice,” but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly...

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19 Feb

Poem: Perseverance

Life may not thrive expectedly, So what! Reckon it as learning Road may not be even, So what! Learn from pitfalls It may not always be sunny, Aha! Rejoice the rain and stars Friends may not...

#confidence, #dreams, #emotions, #feelings, #fortitude, #friends, #goal, #learning, #life, #optimism, #patience, #peace, #perseverance, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #rejoice, #silence, #skills, #solitude, #solutions, #wisdom, blog

25 Jan

Rise to the Occasion

When life is pushing you to an end And you cannot endure to mend When courage abandons you in straits And mind cannot contemplate All you need is a transformation You need to rise to the occasion ...

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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...

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19 Jun

Haibun: Clouds

The sky seemed captivating, adorned with the glitterati of stars like a bride dressed in an impeccably sparkling outfit. I had been admiring the blue for hours and was eager to continue my adoration for eternity. The moving...

#5lines, #clouds, #Colleen’s Weekly, #compassion, #enshroud, #grit, #haibun, #harmony, #inspiration, #introspection, #lessons, #life, #life’s lessons, #micropoetry, #mist, #nature, #perseverance, #poetrychallenge, #sky, #smoke, #sun, #tanka, #unison, #unity, #veil

31 May

Focus: Week 4

“Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you are going to finish” – Herman Edwards The last day of the month brings us to the end of our month long journey of “focus”. We started the month...

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