ALS NaPoWriMo Day 6: Prompt for ALS NaPoWriMo Day 6: Love is the most beautiful emotion known to living beings. We may or may not have celebrated Valentine's Day but we all have been in love with someone in our lives. Today, write a love poem expressing...
Prompt for ALS NaPoWriMo Day 5: We all can dream big. We all can fly high. We just need to find our wings. Interpret this theme as you like. You may write a poem that motivates others to find their wings, or narrate a tale of discovering your own wings, or...
Prompt for Day 4 by Maureen: Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final...
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 4: Here's the prompt: It's the season of spring, and we see colorful flowers blooming everywhere. Our life is also like a garden, experiencing all the seasons from time to time. Write a poem to show us the garden of your life. Which flowers...
As I am following prompts from two communities, here's the day 3 prompt given by Maureen: Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. For example, you might turn...
The prompt at ALS for Day 3 is as below: The World Outside My Window Everyone sees the world differently. When we are happy, the world outside appears full of glee, but when we are trapped in sadness or pain, we perceive the outside world as unjust, uncertain or even...
NaPoWriMo Day 2: The prompt given by Maureen is as below: And now for today’s (optional) prompt! The Romanian-born poet Paul Celan once wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers. Here are a couple of examples:...
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 2: Introspection is the key to personal growth. No matter how learned we are, or how much we believe in ourselves or our dreams, we feel the need of asking ourselves those pertinent questions about our existence, our relations and our actions....
The poetry writing month has begun and no matter how much I may have stayed away from writing, I cannot stay away from NaPoWriMo! This year, I am also the host of the NaPoWriMo at Asian Literary Society's platform on Facebook. You can also the join the community to...