Author | Poet | Artist
When I’m with you,My heart plays a different rhythmMy body dances to a different tuneMy words sing a different melody When I’m with you,Your love brings out a different person in me-A person unfamiliar to not only this worldBut even myself! When I’m with you,I rediscover myself, layer by layerKnowing my true self,At times ecstatic, … Read more
What a beautiful place Is your heart, Where waves of my emotions Waltz in the breeze of your love And rest peacefully at the shore That’s soaked in the shower of our love! What a beautiful place Is your heart, Where the spark of my love Ignites the fire of romance Radiating … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 29: With just one more day to go, our daily prompt (optional, as always) asks us to write a paean to the stalwart hero of your household: your pet. Sing high your praises and tell the tale of Kitty McFluffle face’s ascension of Mt. Couch. Let us hear how your intrepid doggo bravely … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 20: Today, in gratitude for making it to Day 20, our (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem about a handmade or homemade gift that you have received. It could be a friendship bracelet made for you by a grade-school classmate, an itchy sweater from your Aunt Louisa, a plateful of cinnamon … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 16: Today we challenge you to write a poem of over-the-top compliments. Pick a person, place, or thing you love, and praise it in the most effusive way you can. Go for broke with metaphors, similes, and more. Here’s to two people I love the most! Poem: You light up my … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 15: The challenge today is to write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music. Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean incorporating refrains, neologisms and flights of whimsy, or repeating/inverting lines or ideas – whatever your chosen … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 12: For today’s prompt (optional, as always), I’d like to challenge you to write a triolet. These eight-line poems involve repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme. I love this form of poetry and have written the same earlier too. Sharing my earlier triolets too to give you all the flavours 🙂 … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day11: Our optional prompt for the day is based on the concept of the language of flowers. Have you ever heard, for example, that yellow roses stand for friendship, white roses for innocence, and red roses for love? Well, there are as many potential meanings for flowers as there are flowers. The Victorians were particularly … Read more
NaPoWriMo Day 9: The challenge today is to write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem. This might seem like a very modernist idea, but poets have been writing concrete poems since the 1600s! … Read more