Some shameless self promotion

I’ll be using words as prompts for the first 20 days. I chose the final prompts and their order with an online random chooser from the prompts my family and friends gave me. Here’s the 20 prompts:

For the last ten days, I will decide the topic on my own. As a very indecisive person these la...

That is why, I decided to challenge myself to a 30 day poetry challenge. I will write one poem everyday for thirty days. No excuses. So, at the end I’ll have 30 poems to show for the challenge.

I don’t expect any of the poems to be any good. But what I will promise is that I’ll write each a...

There’s no conclusion, at least, not yet. Follow along on my journey as I attempt this self-imposed challenge. Hope you enjoy!

When searching for poems to quote on writing a poem everyday, I came across this that talks about undertaking exactly this challenge, only the writer Kwame Dawes is a prolific and experienced p...

This challenge will begin on 1st July with the first poem and continue without break until 30th July.

On 31st July I’ll be posting the final blog post in the series containing all the links to the 30 poems.

I may share my experience about doing this challenge in a separate post if I h...

I am giving myself the liberty to post bad poems. All the poems will be written from the heart but my words don’t always co-operate with me. But if I sought for perfection in every poem, I doubt that I’d even post one poem.

The ultimate goal of this challenge is simply to have 30 poems at t...

But, I can write too. I cannot write good. But I too pour my passion into my words. It is my shortcoming that the passion doesn’t reach the readers. That is why, I need to improve.

I have understood that I don’t really write as much as I need to. A friend had recently reminded me of the wor...

Surrounded by books from epics to golden treasuries to song books, I have marvelled at the skill of poets from ancient to modern times. As alluded in Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII, poetry is eternal.

As long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to th...

The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

This is the famous definition of poetry given by Wordsworth. In the same book he calls his poetry ‘experimental’. According to him, it is the poet’s business to embody in their poetry...