NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 10 Poem: The Tale of Rumpelstiltskin

ALS NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 10 Prompt: A poem about a classic/ famous fairy tale that unfolds as per your imagination  For today, recall some of the fairy tales you read/ heard in your childhood, or the ones you may have read out to your children or grandchildren. Did you really like the way the story … Read more

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 9 Poem: A Tricolor World

ALS NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 9 Prompt: A World Devoid of Colors/ A Colorful World We all love the hues of the rainbow, the shades of sky, the colors of flowers around us. Have you ever imagined a world devoid of colors? Can such a world exist? How would it impact our lives? Take us on … Read more

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 Poem 2: ‘I am’ Ego

ALS NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 Prompt: Ego and Love can/ cannot exist together “Let’s dive into another week of poetry with the two most acknowledged emotions- love and ego. Do you think they can co-exist? Does love stand in the way of ego or vice-versa? What is ego? Let your experience guide your pen in … Read more

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 Poem: Do You Identify With Your Ego

ALS NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 Prompt: Ego and Love can/ cannot exist together “Let’s dive into another week of poetry with the two most acknowledged emotions- love and ego. Do you think they can co-exist? Does love stand in the way of ego or vice-versa? What is ego? Let your experience guide your pen in … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 7 Poem: Become Who You Are

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 7 Prompt: Today is World Health Day. And today being a Sunday, is a good day to talk about our health. Shakespeare said, “Our bodies are our gardens, our wills are our gardeners.” Even the great poet couldn’t refrain from harping on the value of good health. Show us your thoughts and … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 6 Poem: A moment that’s pre-sent (present)

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 6 Prompt: Being Present   Poem: A moment that’s pre-sent (present)   Past– a cage; future– an illusion The essence is the present moment of time A state of timelessness; no shackles, no constructs I seek to be an observer of my mind   No guilt, no shame, no regrets, no complains … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 5 Poem: The Nature’s Platter

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 5 Prompt:   Today, let us indulge our senses as we pen down our verses. So, your poem must include words to show visual (seeing), auditory (hearing), tactile (touch), gustatory (taste), or olfactory (smell) senses. Challenging? Don’t worry. You can use any three senses instead of five.   Poem: The Nature’s Platter … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 4 Poem: Your Presence Completes Me!

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 4: I am incomplete without you  Prompt: Today, let’s challenge ourselves to identify what/ who makes us feel complete. It could be a person, a deity, or a quality or skill you possess. Let your heart guide you in identifying it and weave those emotions into a poem.   Here’s my poem … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 3 Poem: I Refuse to Choose Fear

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 3 Prompt:   Our life is the result of choices we make, and also the ones we choose not to make, but we always have a choice. ‘To be or not to be’ is also a choice. Let’s inspire ourselves and others around us today around the thought that we always have … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 2 Poem: The Thinker

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 2: Pictures- A Treasure of Past   The Prompt: Today, let’s take out some old pictures, some photographs gathering dust in the attic, some hidden in the old folders of the laptop, or some memories peeping in the phone gallery. Let those good and bad memories of past inspire you to write … Read more