NaPoWriMo Day 13: A Journey to Parallel Universe

Day 13: NaPoWriMo with SoulCraft: Multiverses and parallel dimensions. We have all stumbled across these terms at some point or the other. Today, imagine another Universe. What would you be doing there? Who would you be? And who would you be with? Tell us. Here’s an account of my visit 🙂 Poem: A Journey to … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 1: A World Draped in Colors

Yay! It’s Poetry Writing Month again! I had been eagerly waiting for April this time as amongst other things that surround our lives, writing had taken a back seat and I really wanted to get my creative juices flowing. So here we are with prompt for Day 1 as follows: “Sometimes, writing poetry is a … Read more

If only I could: NaPoWriMo Day 8

NaPoWriMo prompt for day 8 asks us to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out, as the seed for our own poem The Sylvia Plath Bot, as you might expect, tweets snippets of Plath. @PercyBotShelley tweets Shelley, @ruefle_exe tweets bits … Read more

A fascinating dream: NaPoWriMo Day4

Our prompt for the day 4 of  NaPoWriMo asks us to write a poem based on an image from a dream. Here are the glimpses of my dream 🙂   A fascinating dream   Dreams- a manifestation of our sub conscious, Aren’t they? My thoughts, my emotions that design my day Cuddle me in my … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 21: A surrealist dream

Today, the challenge is to write a poem that, incorporates wild, surreal images. Try to play around with writing that doesn’t make formal sense, but which engages all the senses and involves dream-logic. I have tried to combine surrealism with ‘progressive’ form of poetry. The first line has exactly 11 words, The second line has exactly … Read more

NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 6: If…

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of the possible. What does that mean? Well, take a look at these poems by Raena Shirali and Rachel Mennies. Both poems are squarely focused not on what has happened, or what will happen, but on what might happen if the conditions are right. Today, … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 19: Erasure Poetry

Today the challenge is to write a paragraph that briefly recounts a story, describes the scene outside your window, or even gives directions from your house to the grocery store. Now try erasing words from this paragraph to create a poem or, alternatively, use the words of your paragraph to build a new poem. So, … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 11: A Day in My Future

NaPoWriMo challenge for Day 11 is to write a poem that addresses the future, answering the questions “What does y(our) future provide? What is your future state of mind? If you are a citizen of the “union” that is your body, what is your future “state of the union” address?” I actually imagined an idealistic … Read more

Tanka: Dreamer’s World

  mounting unicorn soaring higher than my dreams spilling magic beans for utopia on earth welcome to a dreamer’s world!   The post follows the prompt words “dream” and “magic” given by Elsie for her Weekly Tanka Challenge #77.