A melody of love: NaPoWriMo Day 15

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

I wonder: NaPoWriMo Day 12

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

My Orchard of Love: NaPoWriMo Day 11

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

Love: NaPoWriMo Day 9

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

The Lost Ring: NaPoWriMo Day 7

NaPoWriMo Day 7: Today our prompt (optional, of course) is to write a poem based on a news article. I have chosen to write on the below news, that I found really interesting 🙂 Ring lost in US 47 years ago is found buried in a Finnish forest   The lost ring   The summer … Read more

You complete me!

  Tenderness of your voice, Moistens the wryness of crisp air Fragrance adorning your silken curves- An aroma that enlivens my breath Depth of your emerald eyes, Unravels the mystery of universe But it’s the rhythm of your heart, That fills me up- completes me! ©Vandana Bhasin   Linked to dVerse where De Jackson (aka … Read more

गज़ल: वफ़ा/ Ghazal: Fidelity

  ये इल्तिज़ा है तुमसे, हमें याद तुम न करना और हम भूल जाएँ तुमको, ये भी दुआ न करना   है नहीं मोहब्बत हमसे, ये इल्म तो हमें है पर अक्स आईने में कभी तुम न ढूँढा करना   हुस्न-ओ-जमाल-ए-दिल से वाक़िफ हैं हम तुम्हारे कोई और हो वाबस्ता, ये उम्मीद तुम न करना … Read more