#ArtooninnWritersRoom #Augustwritingprompt A love story from the perspective of a Panipuriwala. “Am I in heaven?” I whispered to an Angel who exuded beauty and light. Her presence seemed to tranquilize my restless soul. “Yes, God has decreed you stay here
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I sit by the large windows every day And wonder what is it that took you away, Away, beyond the snow-capped peaks Maybe, far into the jungles of the east. I think long and hard for reasons beyond me, What
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I stood near the only window in the dreary room, straining my neck to see what was happening downstairs. As I expected, the cacophony rose and ebbed like a discordant storm preparing to gain a foothold on the city. The
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The Link’in Poem is an 11-line, stanzaic poem, built by using the last letter of each line as the first letter of the next line. The twist in the form is that, the first letter of the first line becomes the
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#ArtoonsinnWritersRoom #JulyWritingEvent 2 I clearly remember that day in 1780. Boom! The entire ammunition depot of the British was on fire. Flames leapt up to the sky but no greater than what burned in my heart. All of them rejoiced.
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This poem revolves around a conversation with death. Death is sad and melancholic. In this poem, I have imagined death to be a living creature and penned my thoughts as a conversation with it if I were to enter into
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He stood under the only yellow light in the dingy room, his blank eyes absorbing the theatrical performance outside. Thunder clapped, “Action!” As if on cue, lightening sparkled, blinding the audience and brightening the vast stage acrimoniously, only to die
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Boonstra Brain Function or Boonstra is seven-line stanzaic poem. It is wordic rather than syllabic and follows the 11-10-9-6-4-2-1 word count. Its main rule is that, it has to do with the function of the brain and body. It means, it focuses on the poem character’s
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This poem is of the type The Englyn Unodl Union. Originated from Wales, The Englyn Unodl Union is a syllabic, four-line, three-stanza poem. The first line of each stanza plays a vital role in determining the rhyming scheme of the rest of the
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This poem is of the type ‘The Florette’. Created by Jan Turner, the Florette consists of two or more 4-line stanzas. It follows the syllable count 8-8-8-12 and aaba rhyme scheme. Like the outgrowing of a small flower, the fourth
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