Sometime in the summer of 2022, the idea of a poetry challenge struck me. How about 100 days of poetry, I asked myself. Crazy? Maybe. Maybe not. I spent a large part of 2022 writing and reading thanks to a research program I was engaged in. I loved the rigorous process; I was building my…
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I wasn’t able to write every day. Tihar could have been an excuse, but Tihar could have been an inspiration too. Writing about places was hard. I stood there, surrounded by an imaginary aura, and I realized I lacked all the words to describe the lives running around me and in me. I have begun…
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The number 30 evokes strong emotions. Think about turning 30 – it feels like a big deal. 30 is the number of days of some of our months in the calendar. 30, being even gives off a sensation of roundness and completeness. Perhaps for these reasons, 30 feels like a transition point or a milestone…
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Theme #2: Colorsipration The theme for the second set of 10 days in 100 Days of Poetry was about getting inspired by colors, thus the name colorspiration. I was surfing unique color names on the internet when I saw many new ways to say yellow, orange, blue, and pink; like words reserved for special occasions,…
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Every Dashain I write a reminiscent note,one that smells of nostalgia;the days that were and thus can never again be. This Dashain I wanted to writeanything but nostalgia,but when the October sun struckboth cold and warm,shivery and humid at the same timeit ushered an unnamed feeling. Something happens to the citywhen it gets silentlike an…
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When the idea to take on the challenge of writing one poem a day for 100 consecutive days struck me sometime during August 2022, it felt too big of a task to even attempt. I had been slacking behind in writing poetry for the last few months (a few months might be an understatement, it…
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