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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 11- My thirty one-liners
Today’s resource is grieftolight, an Instagram account where you will find a wealth of poems.Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the “ones” in the number 11. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at Joe Brainard’s poem “30 One-Liners” or Frank…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 10 - Cabinet Member Loses Trousers
Our resource for the day is the YouTube channel of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize, where you’ll find videos of past prize nominees as well as discussions of the art of translation. And now for our optional prompt! Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 8 : An Ode to Barnie, the dinosaur
Today’s daily resource is Poem Today, a twitter account where you’ll typically find at least one poem every day, and usually more. Our prompt for today (optional, as always) takes its inspiration from Pablo Neruda, the Chilean-born poet and Nobel Prize Winner. While he is most famous in the English-speaking world for his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, he also wrote more than…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 7- Wish you were here
And last but not least, we’re taking it easy with today’s (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem titled “Wish You Were Here” that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard. Consistent with the abbreviated format of a postcard, your poem should be short, and should play with the idea of travel, distance, or sightseeing. If you’re having trouble getting…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 6- Will it kill you?
Our featured resource for the day is “A Poetry Channel” on YouTube, where you’ll find an eclectic array of poems being read with accompanying images and video. And now for our (optional) prompt. Today’s we’d like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and that has stuck with you ever since. Need an…
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NaPoWriMo 2024, Day 5- Take 2 : Joy of the leaf, the little duckling and the child.
I did a second take on today's prompt which was to write a poem from three different things/beings point of view. Joy, said the leafIs water washing down my face and backallowing me to breathe in peace andmaking me look all glossy and newJoy, said the little ducklingIs following my mother and my siblings in a blue lake which holds tall green trees and strong snow-capped mountains in its…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 5 - Luck for the old man, the Hibiscus and the Lion
Our resource for the day is not a social media account, but a podcast that we’ve featured in past years (and is good enough to bear repeating): The Slowdown. You’ll find a poem here every day — you can listen online and read the transcript with the daily poem as well. Now, let’s get to our optional prompt! Today we’d like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of…
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Published: Poem 'Order of the Day'
I’m delighted to share my poem, ‘Order of the Day’ has been published in the magazine, MasticadoresUSA. Thank you, Barbara, for giving this poem a home, and for providing writers a space to share their work. Here’s a verse from the poem:How do I talk about what is ‘out of order’?When I no longer knowThe order of thingsTake the supermarket round the corner, for instance-the one with two entrances…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 4- Cave-Dwelling Birds
Today’s resource is the Instagram account Read a Little Poetry, where you will in fact find a lot of poetry. Our (optional) prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World. First published in 1958, the book gives shortish descriptions of odd natural phenomena, and is notable for both its author’s turn of…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 3- The Clothline
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 2 - Paruppu Payasam- If only Shakespeare knew you
Today’s poetry resource is Secret Chords, an Instagram account where you will find a new poem every day. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love – your love for your sister, or a friend, or even your love for a really good Chicago deep dish pizza. The poem should be written directly to the…
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NaPoWriMo 2024 : Day 1 : Christmas Day
Today’s resource is the twitter account of the poet Tom Snarsky, where you will find a plethora of poems to peruse!‘Today, we’d like to challenge you to write – without consulting the book – a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but that you haven’t read in a long time.’ It was hard to choose between so many favourites. Amongst the…
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Friday Fictioneers 290324: Dance
The prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s challenge hosted by Rochelle, is the below photo by Dale. ‘Come on, darling. We’re getting late to class,” Sonia coaxed Sara, locking the car.Sara dragged her feet to the single storey building that housed her nightmare. Why did she have to learn to dance? Every minute of the forty-five-minute class was pure torture.‘Can you hurry. Here, let me take…
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Easter Sunday & NaPoWriMo 2024- Day 0: The window
First, I’d like to wish everyone who celebrates, a very Happy and blessed Easter! It’s that time of the year again- I’m talking about NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). This is my 6th year participating in NaPoWriMo. I wasn’t sure about participating this year as I was due for a surgery on the 25th of March. That’s why I traveled to India. However, the doctor said, I should wait and…
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Tanka Tuesday 26.3.24, Art Diaries : The girl in the yellow dress
This week for the tanka tuesday challenge hosted by Colleen Chesebro, I’m writing a series of tanka. The weather is cool in Dhaka. It’s been raining and we’ve had thunderstorms, lightning and short bursts of rain. I used the kigo word ‘Birds enter clouds’. ‘Tranquil Dawn’ and ‘Holi’ which is the festival of colors celebrated by Hindus to celebrate Spring and is symbolic of the victory of good…
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First year anniversary
I woke up feeling different today. I wasn’t sure why but it felt like something had lifted off me leaving me lighter. Since I had no idea why I was feeling the way I was, I decided it was the thunder, lightning and rain we had the previous night that had worked its magic. There was a bolt of lightning at around 2.30 a.m. that completely lit up our bedroom. Kind of like ‘Manifest’ (if you’ve…
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Dhaka Diaries : Tanka Tuesday, Art of the week, Thankful Thursday
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