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Day 30: Love a Palinode
A palinode written for Day 30th of National Poem Writing Month 2023 inspired by Palinode by Edmund Bolton (1575-1633) and the painting The Lovers (1928) by Rene Margritte (1898-1967)
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Day 26/ Portrait on the Broken Mirror
Written for Day 26th of National Poem Writing Month 2023 Photo: I’m signing my first book
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Day 24
Writing a poetic review for my favourite painting for Day 24th of National Poem Writing Month 2023
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Day 23/ Lockdown Meeting
1. Rain raining, first of the season. Parched leaves Wet As if lips after kiss Dried branches Brown again As if new clothes for festival. 2. Meeting getting extended— Started with Five minutes only. Now it’s fifty (and) five minutes. Drenched crow Clawed on window’s wood. Spreads Drenching the magazine On the table. 3. The…
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Day 22
After Emily Dickinson’s Poem 741 Painting: Evening Lights by Robert T. Sweeney (Portrait of Emily Dickinson) Reworking a poem of Emily Dickinson for National Poem Writing Month 2023 Day 22nd
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Day 21/Courage
Painting: Portrait of a Woman by Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) Choosing an abstract noun from the list below, and then using that as the title for a poem that contains very short lines, and at least one invented word.
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Day 20/Diamond Wedding Ring
(a box it is when delivery man delivered it) a box it is when the most precious stone the ring holds a box it is with a ring and just a stone its hold a box it is what the ancient humans played with is it a mean to get on look attractive or is…
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Day 19/Charcoal Eyes
After Forest Night (circa 1910) by Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) ancientness of forest whispers the yellow moon shadow tall loomed over the hermit meditating–reciting Psalm in lost language don’t open the eyes– red burning charcoal those are stop the humming sounding like brontide I plead while in broken calm voice Grandpa speaks making me fall asleep…
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Day 18
Antelope to starts on aeroplane; Beaver on the bicycle. Coyote have to be on camera while Dodo spied on Elephant, who endangered the plot, hearing which Flamingo reacted with f-words only. Goose called Hen at headquarters. I inking the route searching Jaguar all around who supposed to find Koala the new kingpin. Love followed by…
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Day 17
Painting: Roses and Sunflowers (1886) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Written for Day 17th of National Poem Writing Month 2023
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Day 16
Painting: Abhimanue Badh by Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) Written a Poem of Negation–yes (or, maybe No)
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Day 15
Hi all, You know me all but not like today. My hat is made of a pair of Artisan Breads And the same form the shoulder. I can, like you, smell the Chicken Wing– It forms the nose of mine. You like Pastas? There are Fusilli Pasta, Fettuccine Pasta, Rigatoni Pasta, and Conchiglione Pasta Recolouring…
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Day 14
Painting: Painting: Charak Puja from Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal (1832) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos (1795–1865) Write a parody or satire based on a famous poem
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Day 13
Try writing a short poem (or a few, if you’re inspired) that follows the beats of a classic joke.
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Day 12
Painting: The Poet by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) A poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self
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Day 9
I met a woman while crossing the street. She was reminiscence of the good old days when the beats were young and hairs stylized. She was a girl once with heavy powered glass, chubby cheeks and the curly hair. And most of the times dreaming of us. Now I observed nothing has changed except this…
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Day 8
Straight from the horse’s mouth it will be. He will look like BoJack, grinning with his humor dwelt. His face colored in seven each day, and the mirror a canvas–I’ve forgot the painter’s name. Every time I will take the tiny caplet at Perfect Place in Town, burst of the ingredients and the spike of…
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Day 7
How to made a boyhood April memory? Splinters of crayons, pared papers—blank and ruled, imagination higher than the atmosphere and lazy summer morn. How to made a memory with father? Sitting down, calming your mind, and. What shall be said I do not know. My Father to me is a mythical man. He lives in…
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Day 6
Inspired by Etude by Kim Yideum (1969) and Idyll by Mustafa Kor (1976) Painting: Number One (Lavender Mist) by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Take inspiration from Poetry International poets in the language foreign to individual.
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Day 5
Inspired by Soir Bleu (1914) by Edward Hooper (1882-1967) Write a poem in which laughter comes at what might otherwise seem an inappropriate moment – or one that the poem invites the reader to think of as inappropriate
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Day 4
time deny being to be old leaving this stay of existence the path sand clock has drawn deepened time deny being to be old night tonight bowed her head; weakened path of stars hazed; way to town lost time deny being to be old leaving this stay of existence Let’s try writing a Triolet…
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Day 3
Tyger tyger not so dull when its shine, In the darkness of the day amidst the plain; Not a mortal grip or the sight Can disarrange to arrange your graceful asymmetry. ——- Far beyond the boundary of the existence Does those kindle of your eyes flickered? Does he have disposed all the enthusiasm? Was the…
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Day 2
sitting by the path of dust in the starlight blind guard for the beautiful widow she’s sipping tea and waiting for dream— admiration of being love as if dangling of mango ripened in the summer moon though its eclipse of the clouded full moon and the protector smelt of rotten smell of wishes unfulfilled sitting by…
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Day 1
The leaves glittering in the silver The mountain of the moon held head high. Silence is what one can least expect– The trumpet, the laugh, the mysterious cough– Nature’s menagerie, young, sipping elixir of moon. We, two, traversing the ancient jungle And I sprang. A roar, angry and hungry, of king And I look back–childhood…
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Why Emperor Hide His Hand?
Hide thou hand like Bonaparte does. Tuck thou hand like Napoleon did. Look into deep of the eyes. And a pinch of sly smile. Hide thou hand like Napoleon . I’m a painter though portraying those hands not an easy task. Sire thus tuck the hand. Hide thou hand like Napoleon Bonaparte. The century will…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xxx: Farewell
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 … Row, row down the stream Sing softly to rhythm of the oar.…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Day xxix: Window
A “in the window” poem for National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 29 prompt. . from my window you can see the sky a bit. from my window last of the trees can be seen waltzing in the summer blazed sun of late morning. the green of the leaves are burning green in color. the…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xxviii: Virus
Poem of series of questions for the National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 28 prompt… … What’s makes us the masked vigilante? Is virus fighting against us or is it we against it? What is dreams are made of? What does the dreamt mean? Do the virus dream? What makes a ruler out of a…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Day xxvii: Roc
Inspired by National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 27 prompt … 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…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xxvi: Binge
A Parody of Shakespeare’s Sonnet xviii (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?) for National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 26 prompt of parody. shall I compare you to meditation? keeping us calm in the locked chamber days. rough winds do shakes aged wooden windows, long will be days, summer hath just commenced. sometime…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Day xv: United
“Occasion Poem” for National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 25 Prompt. Days are just dull when we questioned self when it’s going to end? Days are just expanse of blue when we fight to settle with truth. Days, but, are just a day when we smiled and take on the fight. // Endless nights followed…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Day xxiv: Forgotten
Inspired by National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 24 prompt … 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…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xxiii: Pillars
Written for Day 23 of National Poem Writing Month 2021 prompt of Response Poem …. Response to few poems by Maya Angelou (1928-2014) especially On the Pulse to Morning, and inspired by Pillars of Democracy–
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xxii: Heroes
Written for National Poem Writing Month 2021, Day 22 … a poem that invokes a specific object as a symbol of a particular time, era, or place. … Phantom riding on his horse Hero with pet Devil on the tow. The air smelled potpourri of odors that mixed naptholene,– Camphor, frankincense, and insence sticks. Smoke is…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Day xxi: Memory
Inspired by … write a poem that … uses lines that have a repetitive set-up. … Inspired by a poem of Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021) … What has happened to the riverThat border the roadsWhat has happened to the roadThat we ran on to the schoolWhat the walls of school look likeThat where they shoot our…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xx: Reflection
Sijo written for National Poem Writing Month 2021, Day 20 prompt. we complete each other, but the age that’s what define us; a unique trait the time comes with, redefining of the same thing I thought this morning, when I looked at me on the mirror.
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xix: Quarrel
Written for Day 19 of National Poem Writing Month 2021 where prompt is … to write a humorous rant. In this poem, you may excoriate to your heart’s content all the things that get on your nerves. Mi dear quarrel digger, the owner of the house was surprised By hearing another-man’s voice in our house.…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xviii: Arriving
Written for National Poem Writing Month 2021 Day 18 Prompt: …. comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside”…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xvii: Moon
Inspired by … poem that is about, or that involves, the moon. … Waning its wax she lights the urban sky.The trail of way milky can be pave in silver.The old granny in the moon weaving stringIn the charka, and letting the linen fly Into night-sky, tying the star into a necklace. The mountains of…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xiv: Name
Inspired by … write a poem that delves into the meaning of your first or last name… “Sangbad” though not a word without meaning but a name, queer and weird, a man can have. There are nothing mysterious facts belongs to the first name of mine. It’s very straight and clear. In Bengali it means…
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National Poem Writing Month 2021: Poem xiii: Dawn
Last year it was millions of millions. Now this year it is hundreds. Getting the vaccine on time and taking care of self all needed. The deadly virus now a flu like Pox or Influenza. All need is self care. People have started living again. They are coming out obviously in masks and gloves. They…