#pleasure

An ode to little pleasures: NaPoWriMo Day 18

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NaPoWriMo Day 18: Our optional prompt for the day is to write an ode to life’s small pleasures. Perhaps it’s the first sip of your morning coffee. Or finding some money in the pockets of an old jacket. Discovering a bird’s nest in a lilac bush or just looking up at the sky and watching … Read more

Live for Today

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 Today is the first day of the last month of the year. It’s time to do some assessment 🙂 Let’s assess where we stand on our plans. Let’s assess where we stand our resolutions and commitments. But while doing so, let’s not be a critic of our actions. Let’s not forget to count our blessings … Read more

Acrostic: Life Is Beautiful

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An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spells out a word or phrase. Typically, the first letters of a line are used to spell the message; but, they can appear anywhere. In my poem below, the first letter of each line when written together, spells out the title of my poem, “LIFE … Read more

The Little Pleasures of Life

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This post is in response to the prompts for Day 8 provided by Poetry 101 course of Blogging University. This day’s requirement is to write a poem on “Pleasure”  using anaphora or epistrophe. Anaphora is a poetic device that relies on the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of each verse and epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of verses.

I have used epistrophe in the below poem:

 

The exquisite sunrise with chirping birds,

The invigorating sea with covert marine world,

The starlit sky aboding colorful clouds,

The aromatic flowers with leaves abound,

These pleasures are unique,

These pleasures are invaluable!

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