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With that a month of Poetry comes to a close and what a beautiful month it's been. I have had such a beautiful time writing all of these poems. This is such a special day and I wanted to commemorate it with a song that was my favourite for half a decade. #Napowrimo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth #Poetry #TaylorSwift

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 29:

Today’s prompt challenges us to write a poem that takes its inspiration from the life of a musician, poet, or other artist. And while there are many artists that I admire, I really wanted to write about Demi Lovato’s journey in the industry- being a long time fan of their activism about mental health. Someday you'll be a hero, with billboards of your face Around the town you are praised as the…

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Today’s writing challenge: capture the feeling of music at a ceremony or event through poetry. Here’s what emerged when I thought about it — not just a band or a song, but how love itself sometimes feels like a ceremony with its own hidden soundtrack. Fumbling dance steps, thunderstorms lighting up midnight skies, confessions sounding like favorite songs — I tried to capture all the small, chaotic, beautiful ways falling in love feels like a ceremony you never quite planned for, but somehow, always waited for. Sharing a small excerpt: "When you fall in love there must be Confessions that sound like your favourite songs And the silence like a melody Of the earth cheering you on Asking you to finally begin The story you'll always tell." Would love to hear — if your life had a secret ceremony, what would the soundtrack be? 🎶 #Poetry #CreativeWriting #LoveAndLife #WritingChallenge

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Today’s creative challenge was to respond to a painting the way W.H. Auden once did with Brueghel’s "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." I chose Georges Seurat’s *"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"* — but instead of focusing on its idyllic surface, I wrote about *what’s bubbling underneath.* Here’s a short excerpt from my poem: Escape the city you swore you’d build a life in — Sold your mother’s earrings, your father’s land, Took a job that pays peanuts, live in matchboxes, Without sun to greet you, without the breeze. Sometimes even in the most picturesque moments, there’s a quiet search for freedom — from cities, jobs, expectations. Art doesn’t just reflect what is beautiful; it reveals the undercurrents we don’t always name. Would love to hear — Have you ever found yourself *escaping* inside a moment that looked perfect on the outside? #Poetry #CreativeWriting #ArtAndLife #GeorgesSeurat #WritingCommunity #LinkedInWriters

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 26: Neglected Plants

Today, we get to write a good old sonnet. And the English Lit major in me wanted to play a bit with it so I thought of writing a Petrarchan sonnet. So an octave that sets the scene, the 9th line with the question and then the resolution. A sudden bloodied hue dresses pale walls Dancing, disappearing, follows the music. Scary growls, stomach-churning wilderness calls - Lying in pain on the cold…

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 25: sundar nursery, 2024

Today we have to write a poem that recounts an experience of hearing live music, and tells how it moves you. It could be a Rolling Stones concert, your little sister’s middle school musical, or just someone whistling – it just needs to be something meaningful to you. My take is a Queer Musical I watched!in the middle of a particularly serious scene-ominous music breaks the tension with its…

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 24: How love mingles with Hurt

Today’s prompt asks us to write a poem that involves people making music together, and that references – with a lyric or line – a song or poem that is important to you. Under a moonless skyOn midnight's darker sideLying over discarded mattressesOn the terraceDrenched in fake rain as the overhead tank overflowsSerenading the mundaneAnother bottle that lasted All Seasonsthat wanedipped in…

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On Birdsongs #Nature #naturepoetry #napowrimo

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 22: Thanking my mother for Odissi lessons

Today’s prompt was the most beautiful poem by Diane Wakoski, Thanking my mother for Piano Lessons. So this is my trial to write like she did. I still love dancing and the stage. I barely do it but when I do I realise that its all mine. Also ghungura is the hindi word ghungroo which are according to Google, anklets with jingle bells. The elation of stepping onto a darkened stageas if you…

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: Live at 4:30, from Hyderabad

Today’s prompt was to try our hand at writing a poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well-understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire, but is described as if it is all very normal. I always thought of the mundane life when I was 21, as this insane plot of a show. So this is about that. The camera rolls, the lights turn onAnd wake the protagonist…

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 20: Postcards from the future

Today’s poem was weird. The rhythm is odd, the rhymes are too, and the language is strangely prophetic and not at all “conversational.” Despite – or maybe because – of this, it has a hypnotic quality, as if it were all inevitable. The challenge is, with this poem in mind, to write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance,…

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 19: The Only One Left

Today’s prompt was a challenge to write a poem that tells a story in the style of a blues song or ballad that describes a family tragedy like the classical goat song. Listen: The cat was born in the bandoned halls inside pharma crates,She grew in the shadows of her beautiful siblings, never being praisedThey scurried together, a family of four, but the cat was always the lastLicked the remnant…

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NaoWriMo 2025 Day 18: Bhutan

Today’s prompt asks us to craft our own poem that recounts an experience of driving/riding and singing, incorporating a song lyric. The longest I ever drove through meandering roads,when the night owl arose earlier than the sun.Speeding at ninety through the hills and fieldsThe sun bathing in the crystal-clear riverThrough the freshly lit roads we singEvery song on the playlist, while my…

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Today's poem is about my favourite topic: female friendships! I got to learn about Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo's friendships and inspirations. I used their surreal, witchy and domestic themes to talk about my closest friend. #napowrimo #napowrimo2025 #femalefriendships #poetry #surreal

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Shillong has a beautiful dream-like charm especially for the romantics. The curving paths and the beautiful lanes always has a beautiful story. And oh god! the rains. #rains #lovepoems #napowrimo #napowrimo2025 #dailypoems

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As a ritual, when bad days strike there are certain things we say to calm down. And often there isn't anyone else to help us calm down. Today's prompt reminded me of that. #poem #sermon #prayer #breathe #breath #anxiety #panic

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I am grateful to be living in a house where I can walk through the garden, and look at the cats and trees. I hate living in concrete cities where there is nothing to wake up to. I always wake up late but I sometimes have the chance to stay up late enough to watch the world wake. #NaPoWriMo #NaPoWriMo2025 #naturepoetry #nature #mornings #gardens