Posting for the ninth day at NaPoWriMo. The tenth day has already started here in India, but I’m taking the liberty to go by EST. The prompt is to write a nonet. A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second has eight, and so on until you get to the …
Gales Spring Up
Hello and welcome to Day Seven of NaPoWriMo. The alphabet for the A to Z Blogging Challenge and for BlogchatterA2Z is 'G'. First about the poem for the day. The challenge is to write a poem that argues against, or somehow questions, a proverb or saying. They say that “all cats are black at midnight,” …
For All Seasons
I am late for Day 6 at NaPoWriMo but as they say better late than never. It's also Day 6 at A to Z Blogging Challenge. The prompt for Day 6 was a variation of an acrostic poem. But rather than spelling out a word with the first letters of each line, we were to …
after the End
It's the day of alphabet E at A to Z Blogging Challenge, and Day 5 at NAPOWRIMO 2022. The poetry prompt for the day is interesting but I'm in no mood to think hard. So I've saved it for another day. (If you'd like to check the prompt, you can do it here). Instead, I'm …
CHILD
#NaPoWrimo Day 3; #AtoZChallenge Day 3. I almost missed this one. It was a difficult prompt for me and I’ll say it’s been a feeble attempt. So, how were we nudged! The poem today is a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to …
Abridged
Hello Readers It’s April 1 and we are officially into the month of challenges. I have challenged myself to do thirty days of poetry. When I decided to take the plunge into NaPoWriMo and AtoZ, I made a few plans. But what are plans if they don’t go wrong! So, all I will say is …
A Hundred Quills 