Ruchira's Ramblings

If wishes were horses... Napowrimo2019 Day 7 prompt from napowrimo.net: "Our prompt for the day (optional, as always) is inspired by Rachel McKibbens, who posted these thoughts on her Twitter account a few months back: 'What do you deserve? Name it. All of it. What are you ready to let go of? Name that too. Then name the most gentle gift for yourself. Name the brightest song your body’s ever held. Summon joy like you would a child; call it home. It wanders, yes. But it’s still yours.' Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give someone else?" Happy wishing to all of you.

#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.

#napowrimo Day 3. Prompt from napowrimo.net: "Today’s prompt is based in a poem by Larry Levis called “The Two Trees.” It is a poem that seems to meander, full of little digressions, odd bits of information, but fundamentally, it is a poem that takes time. It takes its time getting where it’s going, and the action of the poem itself takes place over months. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write something that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable amount of time." This prompt stumped me for a bit, especially since I prefer writing shorter poems but what doing NaPoWriMo and then about eight months of weekly prompts with Airplane Poetry Movement has made me believe is that I can write on any prompts if I try, which is what the challenge is all about, after all. Apologies if this meanders too much and makes sense too little. Point is, I wrote a poem. In other news, two of my favourite poets, Shantanu Anand and Nandini Verma, the founders of A...