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Poetry
Love of Rains
Rains,
You quench
The thirst of
The parched,arid
Earth and it's beings.
The petrichor flags your
Arrival on the lap of
Nature, with your pitter-patter
Oh! That urges the child within me
To shed inhibitions and play with you.
Poetry Styles
Etheree
The etheree is a little-known poetry format, consisting of ten lines with graduated syllables. It was created over twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong.
The first line is a monosyllabic...
Poetry
Cinderella in my Imagination
She worked in the gutter,
And ensured that there's no litter.
She found it hard to make ends meet,
But from helping others, never did she retreat.
She never ate her full,
But to give others, her hands were...
Poetry
Mute Witness
Alone she stood, along the unwinding shores
Of the vast sea that rumbled often.
The bouncy waves caressed her legs,
And danced around her like a little child.
The rumblings that echoed, spoke in volumes
Of the notes of...
Reviews
Hiraeth, Partition stories from 1947
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Poetry Styles
Ekphrastic Poem
An Ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of Art.
In an Ekphrastic poem, poets usually describe some part of the work of Art and may extend their...
Poetry
The Realization
She saw her life swinging high and low
As she swung high up in the wooden swing.
The carefree days of childhood,
Brought a beautiful curve on her face.
Lest she knew, how short lived was that,
As she...
Mini Bytes
Pencil Box
Pride of the owner
Envied by the eyes around
Charm it was, to own.
The poem is published in the website of UnitedByInk group : www.unitedbyink.org/
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