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Name : Thoughtfully Crafted Words Author : Amreen B.Shaikh Genre : Poetry Type : E-book Source : Paint the world with words | Download Rating : Cover – 2.5/5 Content – 4/5 Writing Style – 4/5 Overall – 3.5/5 Review : This is a small and concise collection of poetry by Amreen B.Shaikh. Book is beautifully crafted with… Continue reading Review on Thoughtfully Crafted Words – Amreen B.Shaikh
Friends, readers & fellow bloggers! This week’s Poetry form is “Triolet”. I will be posting below how it is written and how it came into existence. I hope you all like it and enjoy! The triolet is a short poem of eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout. The requirements of this fixed form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth … Continue reading Poetry Form of the Week – Triolet
Dear Friends, Fellow bloggers & Readers! I feel great to present you all with my Poetry E-Book- “Thoughtfully Crafted Words”- a collection of poems written by me which releases today- 9th Jan, 2014. Today is a very special day for me for its my Father’s birthday and I dedicate this E-book to my parents for all the love, support, care and happiness they gave me … Continue reading Thoughtfully Crafted Words – My Poetry E-Book
Friends, Readers & fellow Bloggers! This week’s revolutionary poet is “John Milton”. Let me share with you about him, how he encountered Poetry in his life and what are his best known works. Happy Reading! John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, then at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he began to … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – John Milton
Hello friends, fellow bloggers and readers! Happy New Year to all of you and wishing this year bring you loads of happiness and cheer in your life. It’s Tuesday, it’s the Be Inspired Challenge day. When I wrote the challenge’s title, I felt happy to know that this is the 10th Week of the Challenge and I would like to thank everyone who has been … Continue reading PTWWW Be Inspired Challenge #10
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There wasn’t any fireworks in our city centre on New Years Eve. Any official fireworks, that is. At around a quarter to midnight, when I was sitting comfortably on my couch, gin in hand, a huge bang went off outside. I raced on to my balcony to find a fireworks display going on in the middle of the street,… Continue reading Starting 2014 with a Bang!
Readers & Fellow Bloggers! Happy New Year to all of you. May you all shine with happiness! Today is Monday and so is the day of Poetry Forms. This week I would like to share with you all the technique and method to write a Pantoum. Well, this is a Malaysia-originated form and the following extract shows how it has come the long way. Have a … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Pantoum
Lifetime Lifetime for me lies in those baskets of memories, filled with the aroma of bliss… It possesses the reminiscence of cheerfulness as bright as sunshine, with no bits of sorrow… It instills a faded image of blossoms, just like the mild taste of coffee which persists on the tongue for long… It is enveloped with the cool breeze of care, amidst the climate of … Continue reading Lifetime
Winter – A poem by William Shakespeare. ‘Winter’ is a short poem and a song sung by actors in two of Shakespeare’s Comedies. This is part of an entertainment at the end of the comedy ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’. It follows a corresponding poem describing spring, and paints a vivid picture of the effects of winter on human life in Europe. Each line adds a detail … Continue reading Poetry Video of the Week
Living for today…. I feel a barrier when I touch my past no moment to relive it as it no more lasts. Beautiful times etched in the diaries of gone times dried roses yet exists to ponder and the lost melodies of tinkling chimes. I own just few faded memories to live on blush with happiness as jovial moments slip on. My today can still … Continue reading Living for today
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