Poem: Flowing with Life

The crimson ball of light sprinkled its hues in the sky A sense of tranquillity enveloped my heart The waves of the ocean drenched with Sun’s love Its enormity didn’t seem to deter the colors Astonished I stood at the sea shore How could they handle the magnanimity of their act The Sun, the moon, … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Tenacity of Nature

On fourth day of NaPoWriMo Maureen has challenged us today to write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty” or “justice,” but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly concrete nouns. Adjectives are fine too! For example, you could have a poem about sadness that … Read more

Tanka: Night Sky

  stars gift sight to eyes night breeze gracefully dances tickles mind and ears to rhythm of ocean waves moon guards as knight of night sky   The post follows the prompt words “Eyes” and “Ears” shared by Elsie of Ramblingsofawriter for her Weekly Tanka Challenge#74  and to Haiku Horizons for the prompt word “ocean” for … Read more

Poem: I wish there were a world

I wish there were a world where I wasn’t a prisoner of time I wish I could hook the ocean whose waves bid to force me drown I wish I could cage the moments and held them hostage of mine I wish I could silence the sounds that birth and thrust all wounds I wish … Read more

Poem: Sign at the beach

  divorced from the world to spend time with self to discern the purpose of my being to rationalize the significance of grief I walked to the beach     a walk to the beach all I had in mind the magnificence of ocean always felt divine and there it was     and there … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 13: Haibun

The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today has not yet been uploaded so I followed the prompt shared by Colleen for her Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 which requires words “hard” & “soft” or their synonyms to be used in a haiku, tanka or haibun. I have written a haibun with words “soft” and “insistence” (for hard) following the … Read more

Charismatic Ocean

I have written a Haiku this time, inspired by the word and form prompt given by Poetry 101 course of Blogging University. The prompt for today is “Water” in any of its form. I love the ocean and its beauty, hence writing a sequence of three Haiku on ocean:) A traditional Japanese form now popular … Read more