Twenty Five Years: An Elegy for My Father

National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#24: Write an elegy that has a hopefulness to it. 

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Fossil

National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#23: Today…

Curtain

 

National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#22: Write a poem taking one of the following statements of something impossible, and then write a poem in which the impossible thing happens:

The sun can’t rise in the west.

A circle can’t have corners.

Pigs can’t fly.

The clock can’t strike thirteen.

The stars cannot rearrange themselves in the sky.

A mouse can’t eat an elephant.

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Daffodil

National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#21: Write a poem that plays with the myth of Narcissus in some way. 

Man & God

National Poem Writing Month Day#20: Write a poem taking its cue from Notley’s rebelliousness, and asks you to write a poem that involves rebellion in some way. 

Road

National Poem Writing Month 2018 Day#19: Write a poem taking the cue from Dan Brady’s suggestion that erasure/word banks can allow for compelling repetitive effects. Today we challenge you to write a paragraph that briefly recounts a story, describes the scene outside your window, or even gives directions from your house to the grocery store. Now try erasing words from this paragraph to create a poem or, alternatively, use the words of your paragraph to build a new poem.

Moment

The original poem is being taken from the book Wings of Poetry: Layers of Life (2018) by my fellow blogger admirer Meenakshidi (Sethi) who has also become my second Elder Sister. The poem name is “Till This Cycle Breaks”, and it goes like this–