#poetrychallenge - Verses and Hues

22 Sep

Poem: A Desire…

Today I’ve penned down something in my native language- Hindi. These are actually afterthoughts of reading a Hindi poem. I’ve given the English translation below my original poem. इक ख़्वाहिश ठंडी हवा के झोंके जब पेड़ों को...

#belief, #breeze, #desire, #desires, #feelings, #hindi poetry, #hindipoem, #hope, #longing, #love, #lover, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #romance, #wind

21 Sep

Poem: Amazed at the “WHY” Maze

This is my second take on the prompt given by dVerse. The prompt was so intriguing that I couldn’t resist sharing all the questions that keep bothering me from time to time. Bjorn hosted the dVerse on Tuesday. He was inspired by...

#amazed, #desires, #dVerse, #feelings, #freeverse, #maze, #past, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #ponderings, #questions, #revelations, #thoughts, #time, #why, #wishes

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...

#belief, #dVerse, #freedom, #freeverse, #gandhi, #helen keller, #liberty, #malala, #Mandela, #mother teresa, #motivation, #optimism, #perseverance, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #ponderings, #prejudice, #questions, #reflection, #rights, #socrates, #success, #thoughts, #trust

19 Sep

Poem: I forgot to live

Traversing the deserted memory lane treasuring glimpses of my childhood reminiscing shades of myself a sudden realization shuddered me I forgot to live An immature amenable child I followed the path led by adults teenage soon...

#adult, #career, #child, #desires, #dream, #forget, #freedom, #freeverse, #introspection, #liberty, #life, #life’s lessons, #live, #marriage, #memories, #poetrychallenge, #self awareness, #self discovery, #struggles, #teenager

15 Sep

Haiku: A Mother’s Shade

surged gloriously from a child to a parent in shade of your trust The post follows the prompt “shade” given by Haiku Horizons for the week #185.

#haiku, #haiku horizons, #love, #micropoetry, #mom, #mother, #mother's day, #parents, #poetrychallenge, #shade, #trust

11 Sep

Poem: A Child’s Musings

Recently, a very disgraceful and heinous crime has been committed in my vicinity wherein a young seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered inside school premises. The incident has sent shock waves across the country. Since, I have two kids of...

#brutal, #child, #child abuse, #children, #crime, #cry, #depressed, #destiny, #heinous, #horrendous, #horrific, #justice, #killing, #mourn, #murder, #musings, #peace, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #Pradhyumn, #Pradyuman, #Pradyumn, #Ryan, #sad, #school

09 Sep

Haiku: Butterfly

tired larva cocoons accedes mutation with zeal beauty comes to life

#beauty, #butterfly, #change, #cocoon, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #inspiration, #larva, #micropoetry, #mutation, #poetrychallenge, #spirit, #transformation

08 Sep

Haiku: Cake

Haiku Horizons has given the prompt “cake” for week#184. What a timely prompt! I couldn’t have asked for a more relevant one as we just celebrated the tenth birthday of my son this week. Here’s to cake: choco...

#birthday, #cake, #celebration, #chocolate, #dessert, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #happiness, #micropoetry, #occassion, #party, #poetrychallenge

07 Sep

Poem: Tears

the tears in her eyes revealed it all despite her efforts at detaining them inside dreading someone’s fall with their fall but the feelings in her heart the emotions that wrought drove the moist pearls to the edge of...

#betrayal, #cry, #depressed, #depression, #despise, #emotions, #feelings, #freeverse, #hatred, #infidelity, #Lie, #life, #love, #pain, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #sad, #tears, #treason, #truth

01 Sep

Poem: A Woman’s Shoes

A closet flooded with shoes an obsession a woman ensues red, white, golden and blue black and pink in all its hue adding a tad of perfection a silhouette for each occasion beach flip flops to winter shoes...

#cinderella, #dVerse, #female, #footwear, #freeverse, #occasion, #poetics, #poetrychallenge, #shoes, #sneakers, #stilettoes, #wedges, #woman

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