Dear Readers, At the outset, I'd like to thank you for staying with me for this poetic adventure. This is the eighth week and we are only left with two more. I have enjoyed writing, experimenting with different poetic forms so much and I'm so grateful to Namratha for challenging us with the prompts. As …
On Love
Hello Poetry Lovers It’s been a hard-pressed weekend. With a little breather on Sunday, I decided to do two days of NaPoWriMo together. While I stuck to the prompt for Day Sixteen (A curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he …
Day Ten #NaPoWriMo
It's the tenth day at NAPOWRIMO. It's been a little busy for me. The prompt for today is a love poem. I just refurbished an old one today. Hope you enjoy reading it. remember love thathappily ever afterdoesn't meanno gloom at all. the winds of changeare preordainedand likelyto make you trip and fall. spring is …
All You Need is Love (WEP Feb, 2022)
Hello Friends This month for the first WEP prompt of 2022, I decided to refurbish an old tale that I had written last year. I hope you enjoy it. If you wish to join WEP for lovely pieces of flash fiction every alternate month, visit here. Thanks to @DeniseCCovey @YolandaRenee, @LGKeltner @jemifraser, for the February …
Wild flowers in the woods
Free Image More than four decades ago, in an army cantonment far away from the city, a young Captain and his new bride sat watching ‘The Little Tramp’ in action. As the Captain rolled over laughing, his young bride peered into his sparkling eyes with admiration. Her own eyes, then darted towards the wall clock. …
WHICH OF THESE WILL LAST?
The Poets and Artists 'IGNITE-from within the confines-' was an online art and poetry exhibition curated by Deepa Gopal. I was paired with artist Ahlam Abbas from Lebanon and I composed five poems for her transcendental art pieces. I present one of the poems titled WHICH OF THESE WILL LAST? which compares love in two …
A Hundred Quills 