Creative Experiments and More

Well, in order to write one, you have to know that a couplet is two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.  You also need to know that a tercet is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet, and that sounds confusing to me, but it just means that they rhyme with another triplet.  You also need to know what a villanelle is, and that is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.  A quatrain is a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.  A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem and this is also called a verse.  There is one other requirement for writing poetry of this type and that is knowing…

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Welcome to yet another week!

Let’s go off at a tangent, and conquer —- our mindsets, if nothing else. Control the controllable!

PROMPT #170

Create a post on your blog, and copy-paste the link in Comments. In case you are using a pingback, do check back to see if it has worked.

Last, but not least, don’t forget to tag the post “Reena’s Exploration Challenge” for easy location in the blog roll.

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Life throws loads of questions at us

They are simple when we are younger

But grow more complex as we progress in life

All questions have answers that we can look for

Life is a journey of discovery all the way through

“Learn from the cradle to the grave” is a great maxim to live to

Imagine how boring and perplexing life would be

If…

छटी नहीं है ग़म की काली घटा अभी
पर दिखती है आशा की किरन मुझे

कितनी गहरी होगी सोचो प्यास मेरी
लगता है दरया एक कतरा शबनम मुझे

सुनते है भर देता है वक़्त हर घाव
कैसी है यह फिर सीने में चुभन मुझे

किसको फुर्सत सुनता कोई नग़मा मेरा
हर शख़्स मिला अपने में मगन मुझे

नहीं रही मेरी पहले सी सूरत “अमित”
मत दिखलाओ अब कोई दर्पन मुझे

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 170

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #170

your hesitation asks questions
giving rise to unending doubt
shutting hope down

success in the making asks other questions
your future being challenges your past
it’s waiting to be discovered

force recognition of your strengths
face the obvious which holds you back
achieve all you are capable of

yes, NOW
change your trajectory
live your dreams

demand that of yourself