NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23 Poem: Will You Answer Me

ALS NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23 Prompt:  We observe a lot of things around us– pets, statues, buildings, household items, stationary items, furniture, vehicles, and the list is endless. How about a poem dedicated to any of these? It may have impacted you in some way, or maybe it makes no difference to your life, but … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 18: Listening to our shadow

NaPoWriMo Day 18 Prompt: This one comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s  table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the poem squash?” or … Read more

Poem: Some days…when I look back

Some days I look back; I reflect Ascertaining the relevance of certain moments, Moments that felt trivial then, but are invaluable now Moments that felt precious then, but appear hollow and trifling now Some days I look back; I reflect I wonder at the way relationships have transformed Relations that drove my world yesterday, how … Read more

Quadrille: Memories

  encumbering societal norms weighed heavy on me so I rescinded to hibernate to rationalize my subsistence to feel my roots like waves retracting to depth of ocean then your memories creaked gently in the silence of my heart breathing me to life yet again   Linked to dVerse Quadrille #43 where Grace has prompted … Read more

Poem: A Reflective Trail

Bjorn is hosting the dVerse today.  He was inspired by the “ he book of Questions” by Pablo Neruda, to give us a prompt to write poems consisting only of questions. We should leave the answer to the reader. We can write a poem consisting of a single question or many. We can fill our questions … Read more

Haiku: Mirror

  how can a mirror reflect true self harboring fiendish intentions       Coincidentally, the prompt given by Haiku Horizons and Colleen for this week is same.  The above post follows the prompt “Mirror” given by Haiku Horizons for week 174 and the prompt  words “mirror” and “harbor” given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge … Read more

Tanka: Reflection

Hey there! I hope you had a great weekend and got some time to reflect on yourself. So, did I and here’s what I discovered enroute my journey of self-discovery 🙂     I faced the mirror The reflection seemed obscure I pried, “Who are you?” “Discover me”, it replied I unmasked a unique self!