Tag: NaPoWriMo

To be selfish like the brain, the heart and the pen #napowrimo2024

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NAPOWRIMO 2024 Day 5

To be selfish,
Like how the brain does,
Is to write perfectly,
Speckless from errors,
Perfect forms and execution.
Flawless,

To be selfish,
Like how the heart does,
Is to write freely,
Passionate and intense,
Let them feel how it felt,
Thrilling,

To be selfish,
Like how the hand does,
Is to write thoroughly,
To tell everything,
Let everyone knows wholly,
Unapologetic.

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Therapy is a journey to be a better you

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NAPOWRIMO 2024 Day 4

An hour a week,
Vulnerable and weak,
A whole hour to speak,
All truth and no slick,
Trauma hurts like a prick,
Build the present with stones and sticks,
Seize the future, ready the bricks,
Take all the time to heal – no sick,
It is a lifelong journey, you’ll kick –
The old you, without a single trick,
Be the better you without the need to bootlick.

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Her eyes spoke to me #napowrimo24

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NAPOWRIMO 2024 Day 3

Her eyes speaks to me in a language I’m not familiar but I can totally understand through the dilation of her pupils and her blinking counts. In a soft yet precise and straightforward signal, I understand it well. Without a single tear flowing down her cheek. It was clear as the blue sky of March that day her eyes spoke to me,

Her eyes said in the softest and respectful tone: “Enough. You did more than enough. I can never reciprocate your love. No matter how much you’re willing to give. Enough.”

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Moving with the groove in a bachata #napowrimo2024

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NAPOWRIMO 2024 Day 2

I still remember my first time,
Counting the steps,
One, two, three, tap,
And failed miserably,

My knees wasn’t bent,
My shoes stuck flat on the floor,
My eyes followed too,
Yet, I feel like stepping in the dark,

Slowly, I learn to love you,
Even when I can’t move my hand well,
I’m stuck with the same moves,
I didn’t have the confidence in me,

I don’t remember how,
I started to enjoy the music,
My legs move on its own,
And my hand enjoys it too,

Now, I might not be as good as others yet,
But I am way better,
Because I couldn’t get enough,
Moving with the groove in a bachata.

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A poem to all the poets that are afraid to be creative and free in their words

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Could you believe it, it’s that time again,
Every poet, writhe in blood and pain,
Squeezing their brain hard, including their heart,
To assemble words, then tear them apart,

NAPOWRIMO is here, join us all, dear,
Don’t listen to them, their words like a spear,
Telling you to do this and to do that,
Everything has forms, like a snobbish brat,

Poetry has forms and freedom as well,
It will never dry, it’s not an old well,
It is not a cage of syllables, rhymes,
Free forms, no rhymes, short lines, those are not crimes,

Oh, pardon me, I’m rhyming too much here,
And quatrains with four stanzas to adhere,
Let us poets write, we know what is right,
Come! Pen our words, that is our fight.

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It is a love story of two souls #napowrimo2024

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NAPOWRIMO 2024 DAY 1

It is a love story of two souls,
Young and stubborn,
Witnessed by the city of Baku,
Shaped by the differences in culture and faith,
Challenged by the time of war,
Oh, how beautiful!

A beautiful illusion,
Leaving me delusion,
Wishing for my own collusion,
With a different outcome and conclusion,

Maybe it is just a dream and fantasy,
Or maybe it is still an unknown destiny.

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The Ocean #napowrimo24

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NAPOWRIMO Day 0 prompt

The ocean,
Vast, blue, limitless,
Like a horizon painted the white canvas,
It made me nervous,
The sky can be the kindest,
Until it shy and turn the wildest,
No one would believe,
When they say the waves,
Can be violent and tall,
Like a hill ready to fall,

The ocean,
Can be calm yet can be crazy,
Beautiful but can get ugly,
On the surface, that is,
Wait until you learn,
About what lurks,
Under the ocean.

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NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 30

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Day Thirty

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. For example, you might pick a poem you drafted earlier in the month and write a poem that contradicts or troubles it. This could be an interesting way to start working on a series of related poems. Alternatively, you could play around with the idea of a palinode by writing a poem in which the speaker says something like “I take it back” or otherwise abandons a prior position within the single poem.

I choose this poem for reference.

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 16

Her smiles drained me,
Sucking the life out of me,
Slowly cursing me,
After her presence left me,

Oh, how I was so wrong,
Or was I blinded to be wrong,
Indecisive between right and wrong,
Or the boundaries I crossed were wrong,

Her smile drained me,
Leaving me with a pool of tears.

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 29 (“I am the Laksa for you”)

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Day Twenty-Nine

Start by reading Alberto Rios’s poem “Perfect for Any Occasion.” Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, describe the food or meal as if it were a specific kind of person. Give the food/meal at least one line of spoken dialogue.

I.

I can’t trust you,
If you don’t like Laksa,
Don’t get me wrong,
I’m not saying that,
I don’t respect your taste in food,

I always believe there is a Laksa,
That suits your personality,
I mean look,
In Malaysia alone,
There are different styles of Laksa,

We have the OG Laksa from the Peranakan,
And then Asam Laksa packed with the sweet and sour punch,
You like curry? Fine, we have Curry Laksa for you,
Something different? We offer Sarawak Laksa,
We are proud with our Laksam and Johor Laksa too,

II.

Of course, my personal favorite is Asam Laksa,
A full warm bowl from Ah Cheng would make my day,
A comfort food for me,
Getting me through the harsh day,
Of a full day work,

A spoonful of the soup,
A taste of playful fishes,
Inside my mouth,
The sweetness comfort,
And revitalizing sourness of tamarinds,

Like a warm embrace,
Of a loved one,
And whispering,
Slowly with every slurp,
“I am the Laksa for you”.