Day 26 - Z (A to Z Challenge) and Day 30 - Life moves (Napowrimo)

Day 26 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 26. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.

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Day 30 Napowrimo

Past those alleys buried in time

Past those frontiers caved from sight

Past those fences that align the periphery

Of the lost, discarded city one finds

Treasures buried – tiny treasures blind

To the naked eyes

A sapling in the crease of the dilapidated

Second-storey where they had hung lush green ferns

A random rose that buttons itself up from perilous grounds

Hum of the bees singing to the sunshine

As dust arising to touch the trees

The rustling of the banyan as it greets home

The children of tomorrow

The faded aroma of the spices that once was held

In flamboyant hues arranged on wooden palettes

All that leads to the middle mansion

Where dreams grow in bundles

Saturated and ebullient

Disbursed in tiny totems

Sprinkled across each street

Named after life’s spirited details

And passions, love and life itself

The horizon and the zenith merge at this point

Life moves seamlessly in all directions.

Napowrimo prompt:

Today’s prompt is based on a prompt written by Jacqueline Saphra, and featured in this group of prompts published back in 2015 by The Poetry Society of the U.K. This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place. It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.” Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate as you like.

And we have reached the final day of both A to Z challenge and Napowrimo. I can't believe that a month has gone by! Thanks to Maureen Thorson for the 30-day Napowrimo challenge. It's been quite a journey creating my fluid art and writing poetry. Thanks to everyone of you who visited and left behind an imprint of their visit and for the love and support through comments.

Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 25 - Y (A to Z Challenge) and Day 29 - The Window of that Time (Napowrimo)

Day 25 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 25. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

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Day 29 Napowrimo

A world of unknown that can be shut

When the outside forms a threat

A world of luminous possibilities

Sacrosanct, meditative and at once flamboyant

Mystic secrets piled within, 

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*red-breasted Trogon - a bird

*gulmohar - flowering tree 

*raat ki rani - literal meaning queen of the night. Night blooming jasmine or it could also mean the Queen of the Night (nishagandhi) that blooms only at night.

*aham - "I" in Sanskrit

*brahmam - the Lord/ the omnipotent

Napowrimo prompt:

This one is called “in the window.” Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene. It could be your childhood neighbor’s workshop, or a window looking into an alien spaceship. Maybe a window looking into a witch’s gingerbread cottage, or Lord Nelson’s cabin aboard the H.M.S. Victory. What do you see? What’s going on?

I went into a mystic mode which wasn't what I had intended and I did find the words flowing through though.

Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 24 - X (A to Z Challenge) and Day 28 - Where I begin to Stop? (Napowrimo)

Day 24 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 24. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

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Day 28 Napowrimo

Where do I begin to stop?

Where do I begin?

With time or being old?

With the love or life that seems so cold.

 

What time does the sun rise and set?

Will it rain today? You bet.

When is the next full moon with its fabulous silhouette?

 

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Napowrimo prompt:

Write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the deal with cats knocking things off tables?”), the interruptive (“Could you repeat that?”) and the conversational (“Are those peanuts? Can I have some?”). You can choose to answer them – or just let the questions keep building up, creating a poem that asks the reader to come up with their own answer(s).

Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 23 - W (A to Z Challenge) and Day 27 - She Moved, Slightly-- (Napowrimo)

Day 23 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 23. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.

#AtoZchallenge

Day 27 Napowrimo

Looking into the mirror

She erased the filigree memory, wiping it off

Like wiping the vapourised glass

She stood transfixed, staring

At her own reflection

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Napowrimo prompt:

In today’s (optional) prompt, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. The entries are very vivid – maybe too vivid! But perhaps one of the sorrows will strike a chord with you, or even get you thinking about defining an in-between, minor, haunting feeling that you have, and that does not yet have a name.

I chose Opia from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. 

opia
n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.

Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you.

You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 22- V (A to Z Challenge) and Day 26 (Napowrimo)

Day 22 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 22. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.

#AtoZchallenge

Day 26 Napowrimo

Do let me know your views. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Today's image of A to Z is one I was inspired from a picture I had collected from Pinterest sometime back, do not remember the artist. It was sculptural-kind of a painting.

 

Day 21- U (A to Z Challenge) and Day 24 - Fear and Curiosity (Napowrimo)

 Day 21 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 21. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

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Day 23 Napowrimo

Fear and Curiosity

On a crisp spring morning in 2008, Fear overheard a pair of Curiosities having a chat.

Fear had been tracking Curiosity for some years now when the Curiosities, nicknamed Flywing and Bigeye, nuzzled their enormous boxy heads and began to talk.

 

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Napowrimo prompt:

Today’s (optional) prompt is a fun one. Find a factual article about an animal. A Wikipedia article or something from National Geographic would do nicely – just make sure it repeats the name of the animal a lot. Now, go back through the text and replace the name of the animal with something else – it could be something very abstract, like “sadness” or “my heart,” or something more concrete, like “the streetlight outside my window that won’t stop blinking.” You should wind up with some very funny and even touching combinations, which you can then rearrange and edit into a poem.

I took inspiration from an article at National Geographic, "Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language" by Craig Welch. This was a pretty interesting exercise particularly to note how the meaning and the intensity of the subject changes and varies with reference to who/what it pertains to.

You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 20 - T (A to Z Challenge) and Day 23 - I am Still Invisible (Napowrimo)

Day 20 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 20. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

The intention is to reach out to young girls in specific and everyone in general who need to hear some positive and empowering affirmations each day. Just a humble alliterative effort. I wish we could all inspire each other everyday, place a helping hand, a shoulder to rest for a while, embrace to overcome the each other's pain, ease with laughter and a extend a bit of company to one another. In short, empower one another.

#AtoZchallenge

Day 23 Napowrimo

The Dance of the Eunuchs to the drum beat

Of the City                        sweating and pelting—

Carouseling the streets of the elaborate maze

Dazzled               by the prick of heat—

Blinded by the suborn summer—

Neglected           obliterated to the newness of each second.

 

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Napowrimo prompt:

One thing that makes me want to write poetry is reading poetry. Sometimes, reading another poet’s work gives me an idea or image. And sometimes I read a poem that I want to formally respond to – whether because I agree with it, or disagree with it, or just because it starts a conversation in my head that I want to continue on the page.

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that responds, in some way, to another. This could be as simple as using a line or image from another poem as a jumping-off point, or it could be a more formal poetic response to the argument or ideas raised in another poem. You might use a favorite (or least favorite poem) as the source for your response. 

My poem today, is something that I had to pen down after reading "The Dance of the Eunuchs" by Kamala Das. It's from her collection "Summer in Calcutta". This probably was a response to the feelings that seeped in through her words. 

Do let me know your views on my poem. What do you gather from my art that you see here? Would love to hear from you.

You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.

Day 19 - S (A to Z Challenge) and Day 22 - The Golden Dunes Sing (Napowrimo)

Day 19 AtoZ Challenge

Art and affirmative alliteration for Day 19. All my art works of AtoZ challenge have been done in acrylic inks and coffee wash.

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Day 21 Napowrimo

the golden dunes sing

of the knowledge bearers

of the ancient times...

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Astrolabe - ancient astronomical instrument that was a handheld model of the universe.

Tanoura - a folkloric dance form. Tanoura refers to skirt.

Darvish - devoted followers of Sufism.

Napowrimo prompt:

It comes to us from Poets & Writers’ “The Time is Now” column, which provides weekly poetry prompts, as well as weekly fiction and creative non-fiction prompts.

In a prompt originally posted this past February, Poets & Writers directs us to an essay by Urvi Kumbhat on the use of mangoes in diasporic literature. As she discusses in her essay, mangoes have become a sort of shorthand or symbol that writers use to invoke an entire culture, country, or way of life. This has the beauty of simplicity – but also the problems of simplicity, in that you really can’t sum up a culture in a single image or item, and you risk cliché if you try.

But at the same time, the “staying power” of the mango underscores the strength of metonymy in poetry. Following Poets & Writers’ prompt, today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that invokes a specific object as a symbol of a particular time, era, or place.

Today's poem is my tribute to country I live in - U.A.E, Dubai to be precise.

Do let me know your views on both my art+alliteration and my poem. You can click on the AtoZChallenge/ Napowrimo tags to look at my earlier posts.

PS : This post is posted as part of BlogchatterA2Z 2021 challenge.

Poem posted as part of the 30 day poetry challenge for the month of April NaPoWriMo2021

ps: do check out my works on Instagram.