Ruchira's Ramblings

NaPoWriMo Day 18. Prompt from napowrimo.net: "Today, I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail."

This was a tough one. From napowrimo.net: " today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three, wow! " They don't ask for much, do they? My external texts: the ballad 'Scarborough Fair' and the poem 'Alone with Everyone' by Charles Bukowski.

#napowrimo Day 4. Prompt from napowrimo.net: "Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own sad poem, but one that, like Teicher’s, achieves sadness through simplicity. Playing with the sonnet form may help you – its very compactness can compel you to be straightforward, using plain, small words." I wrote 2 poems. One is autobiographical.

Wanting to ask you something, I groped around my dusty days And found I had no questions. Wishing greatly to speak to you, I searched the pages of the book And learnt there was nothing to say. I ran through the entire phonebook: All names were yours and you were nowhere. I deleted the message I’d typed for you. And all my words have lost their way Into some indifferent black-hole.