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NaPoWriMo Day 21 Poem: The Window to My Soul

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ALS NaPoWriMo Day 21: Peer Poems Prompt: A writer should first be a reader. We complete 3 weeks of NaPoWriMo today and would have generated more than 1500 poems in last 20 days on this platform itself. Seek inspiration from any poem posted by your friends. Let their words be your muse today. If nothing … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 25: The World of Books

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NaPoWriMo Day 25: Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is to write an “occasional” poem. The poem you write can be for an occasion in the past or the future, one important to you and your family (a wedding, a birth) or for an occasion in the public eye (the Olympics, perhaps?). I decided … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Floating in the desert

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NaPoWriMo Day 4 Prompt: Poetry often takes us to strange places – to feelings and actions that are hard to express except through the medium of a poem. To the “liminal,” in other words – a place or sensation that exists at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold, neither one thing nor … Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 15: My monologue

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Our prompt for today (optional, as always), takes its inspiration from the idea of a poem as a sort of tiny play, which can be performed dramatically. In the 1800s, there was quite a fad for monologue-style poems that lend themselves extremely well to dramatic interpretations (this kind of work was basically Robert Browning’s jam). And … Read more

Poem: I am a Solitary Reaper

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  A solitary reaper in the cage of life I was frantically foraging my identity You appeared adoringly to avow your love And I discerned you were the true purpose of my life       O dear! I was the princess of your empire And I adorned that identity with glee and pride Until … Read more

Poem: Perseverance

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  Life may not thrive expectedly, So what! Reckon it as learning Road may not be even, So what! Learn from pitfalls     It may not always be sunny, Aha! Rejoice the rain and stars Friends may not always welcome you, Aha! Revere the silence and solitude     Dreams may take time to … Read more