Book Review: Letters from a stranger

Book Title: Letters from a stranger Author: Samrudhi Dash Genre: Fiction Pages: 131 Availability: Amazon Kindle Review: “Letters from a stranger” authored by Samrudhi Dash is a fiction that revolves around the life of a young medical student.   It is said that ups and downs in a life are important to keep us going … Read more

Hues of Love

Love comes in many forms. And with love, come responsibilities, expectations and an overflow of emotions. Moments of happiness are soon followed by bouts of solitude despite being in a crowd. The words, the actions and the reactions of our loved ones, start controlling our mood swings. Yet, many a times, we take our loved … Read more

Time to celebrate

I joined the WordPress community about three and a half years ago, in Jan’2016. What started as an uncharted journey, soon turned into passion with enriching experiences and learning each day. Writing brings you so close to yourself and the emotions of the people around you, that you find your mind scouring for words all … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 30: The World of Words

Yay! Finally we have reached the end of the journey with pride, elation, learning and growth! Thanks to Maureen for this stupendous journey. The challenge today is to write a poem that engages with a strange and fascinating fact. It could be an odd piece of history, an unusual bit of art trivia, or something … Read more

Happy Women’s Day

Extricating her grit and resilience from her limitations She is a sanctified foundation of motivation Her quintessence is in her commitment and acumen Her competence and fervor bequeathing “The Power Icon”   Happy Women’s Day to all my fellow women bloggers! We all know we are epitome of strength, courage and endurance. We are the … Read more

Poem: Book of Life

On the blank page of life I write a verse each day Sometimes ecstatic Sometimes dreary Some pages filled with hope Some pages wet with tears Some words echoing my musings Some words reflecting worldly virtues But I never fail to inscribe each day As I never fail to breathe each day!       … Read more

A Book Is A Child

This poem is based on a prompt that requires “conceit”  to be used as a poetic tool. A poetic conceit is often an unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual. In metaphor, we try to bring out similarity between two very different things. A conceit is like an extended metaphor where the two objects are absolutely and completely different. 

I have tried to bring this out in this poem by using ‘a book’ and ‘an orphan child’ as two objects of comparison.

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