Day Five-Napowrimo-Louder than Possible

 today’s (optional) prompt is inspired by musical notation, and particularly those little italicized –and often Italian – instructions you’ll find over the staves in sheet music, like con allegro or andante. First, pick a notation from the first column below. Then, pick a musical genre from the second column. Finally, pick at least one word from the third column. Now write a poem that takes inspiration from your musical genre and notation, and uses the word or words you picked from the third column.

Details here: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-five-12/

Day Five-Napowrimo-Louder than Possible

 

Let me remember those days

When I thought you loved me—

My heart ached louder than possible

O dear, only to see you once again.

 

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Notation: Louder than possible

Genre: Aria

An "aria" originally refers to a type of song in opera, typically one sung by a soloist with an orchestral accompaniment. It's usually a moment of emotional expression or reflection in an opera. In a poem, the use of "aria" may evoke this idea of a solo performance or a lyrical, expressive moment. It can symbolize a character's personal or emotional outpouring, much like an aria in an opera. "Aria" often conveys beauty, depth, and emotional intensity, and it may signal a moment of intense feeling or contemplation in the poem.

Words: bones, shadow, clock and moonlight

Day Four-Napowrimo-Embracing Couple

...today’s (optional) prompt. In her poem, “Living with a Painting,” Denise Levertov describes just that. And well, that’s a pretty universal experience, isn’t it? It’s the rare human structure – be it a bedroom, kitchen, dentist’s office, or classroom – that doesn’t have art on its walls, even if it’s only the photos on a calendar. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own poem about living with a piece of art.

Art by T K Padmini

Day Four-Napowrimo-Embracing Couple

 

In the late summer afternoon

When the languid air breathes fire,

I sweat under the Embracing Couple, basking

Under the blood moon and primary colours –

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This is one of my favourite Padmini works and it hangs in the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi's Durbar Hall Art Gallery in Kochi. There's a dedicated section to Padmini's art housing her collection even her sketchbooks. Padmini passed away at 29 following complications after childbirth (her child didn't survive too), quite young leaving behind an incredible oeuvre ahead of her time. I always imagine what she would she would have achieved if she had lived on. Many more incredible paintings lost before they had the chance to be born. I dream of owning this someday, a part of Padmini's soul.

I am loving this year's NaPoWriMo theme...Ekphrasis. Each day I am looking forward to what's coming up. It's quite exciting and exhilarating maybe because it involves my my two loves - art and poems. 

Day Three-Napowrimo-Why I am not a Mind Reader?

Day Three - NaPoWriMo

And now for our (optional) prompt. The American poet Frank O’Hara was an art critic and friend to numerous painters and poets In New York City in the 1950s and 60s. His poems feature a breezy, funny, conversational style. His poem “Why I Am Not a Painter” is pretty characteristic, with actual dialogue and a playfully offhand tone. Following O’Hara, today we challenge you to write a poem that obliquely explains why you are a poet and not some other kind of artist – or, if you think of yourself as more of a musician or painter (or school bus driver or scuba diver or expert on medieval Maltese banking) – explain why you are that and not something else!

Here's my take:

AI vector art that I created with prompts on Adobe Illustrator

Why I am not a Mind Reader?

The brain is a complex character

What about the mind?!

Ask someone where the mind is—

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1.lone palm aflame – is an expression to suggest a haunted spirit creating chaos.

2.their palm, their foot, their belly – indicating palm reading, foot reading, and belly/naval reading

Day Two-Napowrimo-Woman Who Rode Away

Day 2 of NaPoWriMo

Write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word, an odd/unusual simile, a statement of “fact,” and something that seems out of place in time (like a Sonny & Cher song in a poem about a Greek myth).

I decided to address Georgia O'Keeffee herself and write about her as she is one of my favourite artists.

Red Hills and Bones, 1941 by Georgia O'Keeffe
image:https://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/

Woman Who Rode Away

Look at you, Georgia

You turned a hermit

With those white walls and long halls

Those painted canvas and the framed window

You turned inwards and outwards, all at the same time.

 

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*(witchy exotization)

(1)the long black box -  it is said that O'Keeffe chose the Casa for the black door which appears in several of her photographs behind which was nothing else but her storage space. People often thought of the black door as mysterious. She continued the theme of black in her studio space where she had a long black box that contained nothing but her art materials. There was no mystery there. I guess, she just had a sense of humour.