Hathi Room

Notes: This one is formatted a bit oddly – I wanted to give it the structure of a letter, but still write it with stanzas that flow well together. The prompt for today was to write a letter to a celebrity, so I decided to write to Gandhiji, a very real celebrity in my mind. Read more

Notes: This poem was written to complement the photo above. Family is a pretty widely defined term for me and this particular ‘family portrait’ focuses on the two cousins on my mom’s side and my sister. The poem itself is composed of rhyming couplets with each one of us pictured being the focus of a Read more

NaPoWriMo Day 1 – Lune Notes – With the sun being out these last few days, I thought writing about the summer would be fitting for my 1st NaPoWriMo poem. This one is styled like a typical Lune. It has stanzas consisting of three lines; the first with five syllables, the second with three syllables Read more

I’ll leave this one a bit more open for interpretation –   Friday “Wake up buddy!” Buzzzz riiiing riiiing beep buzzzz riiiing riiiing beep “Get out of bed already it’s time to get up!” Snooze “Leave me alone!!” Covers off, kick, kick – left leg then right, pushed to the foot of the bed “Don’t Read more

I got a little too eager with this first one and decided to start writing before April rolled around. Notes:  A quick seven liner with a quasi-anaphoric pattern, but not really following any distinctive structure other than that. The intent of this poem was more of a personal one. Gujarati is my mother language, but Read more