NaPoWriMo Day 4: Floating in the desert

NaPoWriMo Day 4 Prompt: Poetry often takes us to strange places – to feelings and actions that are hard to express except through the medium of a poem. To the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation that exists at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold, neither one thing nor … Read more

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, who gave the project of creating such decks to his students in a 1976 lecture at … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 2: Please forgive me

This poem has been written following the prompt of Poetry Parlour for Day 2 that requires to start the poem with a “Thank You” and end it with “Sorry”. I’ve written the below poem as an ode to all those relationships in our lives- parents, siblings, friends, spouse, whom we tend to take for granted. … Read more