The haiku for today follows the prompt given for week 167 of Haiku Horizons! The prompt for this week is “heat". soft chivalrous clouds audaciously camouflage giant ball of heat
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Focus: Week 1
This is the first week of our monthly theme “focus”. Focus is imperative to prosper in life. Our life is swarming with distractions and if we lose sight of our goal even for a minute, we might have to forget it forever. When we are in flight, we are advised to switch...
Acrostic Quadrille: Echoes
The prompt given by dVerse is to write a quadrille using the word “echo/ echoes/ echoing”. I wanted more fun so decided to combine two forms of poetry to write an acrostic quadrille. An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line...
Poem: Moments of Gratitude
Just before the day cedes to the darkness Just before the moon impounds the crown Just before the stars embellish the sky Just before the synthetic light ensues the natural light Just before the birds fly back home Just before the kids leave the dome Just before the...
Senryu: Life
deserting alive lamenting whilst death fondles what folly of life
Lead and Save
The post follows the prompts shared by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge#32. The challenge is to use the words “lead” and “save” or their synonyms in a haiku/ tanka/ haibun. I have written a haiku with “lead” and “save" and a tanka with “lead” and “liberate” (synonym...
Double Haiku: Link
Past proliferates its reflection on present link always remains Present silhouettes leads its footprints to future link will still remain This post follows the Haiku Horizons prompt for this week “Link"
NaPoWriMo Final Day!
Today is the last day of NaPoWriMo! I can’t believe I’ve been writing a poem everyday for a month. A big thanks to Maureen for successfully hosting another year of NaPoWriMo by constantly motivating and guiding us by providing interesting prompts each day! And...
NaPoWriMo Day 29
As I am travelling, I am not following the NaPoWriMo prompt today as well. Here’s poem for today titled “A lizard on my wall”! A lizard on my wall Doesn’t it say all? The creepy reptile majestically climbs my room’s wall Aztec...