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In our society, people are often judgmental about various aspects of others’ lives, be it social status, personal choices, career, appearance, outlook or even dreams. “How dare you dream of doing such a thing?” is something you often hear, especially in the case of women. “Women are supposed to dream within boundaries.” Really? … Read more
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 27: Some people dream with open eyes, while some dream throughout their lives. Some of our dreams are fulfilled while others are a forever chase. What dreams have you been quilling? Which dreams keep you awake? Take us to your dreamland with your dreamy verses today. Let me walk you … Read more
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 18: I Wish… We all have infinite desires. Some are fulfilled while others aren’t. We forget about some but carry a few in our hearts. Dig your deepest hidden desires today and show us through your words. Here’s my wish list 🙂 Poem: An Infinity of Desires With all … Read more
I have combined two prompts today. One from ArtoonsInn Poetry Parlour that requires us to write a poem on dreams and hopes and the other from Soul craft that requires us to write a poem on the surrealist image above. Here’s my poem, combining the two prompts! Title: An ocean of dreams The land around … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 7 Prompt: And now, for our (optional) prompt! There are many different poetic forms. Some have specific line counts, syllable counts, stresses, rhymes, or a mix-and-match of the above. Of the poetic forms that are based on syllable counts, probably the most well-known – to English speakers, at least – is the Japanese … Read more
Lilian is hosting Tuesday Poetics at dVerse. She has asked us to write a poem that takes us inside a dream? It can be your dream or someone else’s dream. Are you sleeping in a bed during this dream? Sitting on a train dozing? Leaning up against a tree staring at the clouds? Does your dream … Read more
In a world of social media, where we have plethora of ‘friends’; where we post about our prosperous times day in and day out; where we share our smiling pictures while carefully deleting the natural, candid ones, there are times when we realize that no matter what the circumstances, no matter how many people we … Read more
The challenge of NaPoWriMo today is to draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard. I’ve written a post card poem in the form of a letter to my younger self. Something that has been on my mind for quite some time 🙂 Post card Poem: A Letter to my Younger self … Read more
Here’s today’s prompt. Dream dictionaries have been around as long as people have had dreams. Interestingly, if you consult a few of them, they nearly always tend to have totally different things to say about specific objects or symbols. Dreams, unlike words themselves, don’t seem to be nicely definable! At any rate, today’s prompt is … Read more
