Posts

Brevity for a Blog #1

Image
  Hello! I recently held a poetry contest on All Poetry, you can visit it here .  The idea of the contest was that the winners will write a few words about their poem and I will put their entries and those words on this blog. So, without further ado, here are the winning entries- #1 Then Dust  - Bruce Jefferson Rose   From glaciers far, mountains near  rivers recent to this shore the rock in my hand a softly rounded, flat quartz white stone with smooth orange edges, in my grip whips with my hurling arm skipping, sidetracked in its journey to becoming sand. "Standing on a rocky shore it is human nature to toss a stone into the waters; a stone on natures geologic path to sand then dust. It is also natural to improve your thrown stone’s poetry, be it a splash or gentle settling. My poem is a taxi to destinations of your devise." - Bruce Jefferson Rose #2 Winter -  Melclarity Coldness drifts expressively stretched through valleys and hills indulged icy ripples lightly tinker in s

Reading Brevity #1 Winners!

Image
I held a poetry contest on All Poetry , called- "Reading Brevity" the entire idea of the contest was, that the winners will read their poems out loud on camera and I will edit it into a YouTube video and announce them on my website. So here they are! - 🥇 And then.... - Linda Evans And then.... As cool Autumn breezes blow falling leaves in colours of every conceivable hue thickly carpet the earth below. Throughout Winter trees, brutally bare resemble Giacometti statues standing there weathering the storms, the snow. Meanwhile, finally finally the advent of Spring miraculously reinvigorates everything as tiny green leaflets and blossoms galore .proliferate, here there everywhere, once more and O what an absolutely glorious sight they are to behold after endless Winter's bleakly stark, dark bitterly cold ruthlessly relentless stranglehold. 🥈  autumn brevity - Kareneisenlord Klge Two white butterflies flit among squash gourds in last rites of fertility. The harvest moon ris

Best Books For All Ages

Image
  We all enjoyed reading books, books are a special thing that drown you into an entirely new storyline somewhere which we automatically start comparing with our own lives. Sometimes, it is difficult to find books of our choices, we often also get confused on the correct books to read for a person of our age. So today, I have prepared a list to guide you to your next book. Let's start! #1 Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat is a classic humorous fiction by Jerome K. Jerome. It is the best for anyone of any age and has a unique theme that will interest any reader.  We already have a full book review on this book, click here to read it. The story has three main characters- J. who is based on the author himself and narrates the book through out, Harris who is the craziest of all the three of them, and George , a banker. These three men are not as intelligent as the rest, they think that they are sick and not well. To cure this, they go to a river trip across th

Book Review: Three Men In A Boat -Jerome K. Jerome

Image
  Book Title: Three Men In A Boat Author: Jerome K. Jerome Synopsis: " The four of us were sitting in my room-George, William Samuel Harris, Montmorency and I, J. " These starting lines of the popular humour book Three Men In A Boat by author Jerome K. Jerome are the lines responsible for taking us into the world of unstoppable and stomach-aching laughs!  The story has three characters,- J. who is based on the author himself, George who is a banker, Montmorency , the dog and Harris , who is the craziest of them all! (Though they all are quite crazy) The three men were sitting in J.'s room, they were talking about how sick  they were, J. was sure that his liver was not working properly because he read a patent liver-pill circular and claimed that all the symptoms matched his current situation, though he also mentioned that he has never read one of these and not come up with the conclusion that he has all of the symptoms. After hearing this, the other two also started stati

What is a Free Verse? : All You Need to Know

Image
  Introduction Hello! My name is Arastu Goyal and in this article, we will be talking about how to write free verse poetry. As you may know that there are hundreds if not a thousand types of poetry, going from Limericks ,  Haikus  to Free Verse poetry. Basically, free-verse poems are poems that don't follow a traditional structure, rhyme or meter, thus they are called free-verse  poetry.  When I started out with writing poetry, the first poem I ever wrote was a free verse! At that time I did not know much about poetry myself so this was a great way to start! How to write one? To write a free-verse, you can write them about anything ! These can be put in any way, you can rhyme if you want to but I wont recommend it as it may distract you a little from actually putting out the message of your poem. Here, read this piece I wrote- Tea With Some Folks The wind came, and sat on his chair As flowers bloomed here and there We sat with the sun, and had some tea The wind invited too his wife

How to Write a Haiku: For Beginners

Image
Introduction Hello my name is Arastu Goyal, today we'll talk about how to write haikus! A haiku is a 3 lined poem originating from Japan in which none of the three lines can rhyme. These poems are mainly focused on one specific scene, usually written about nature.   Wind and Leaves Leaf falling in pond Moves with wind drifting downwards Slowly rows, leaf boats -Arastu G. Steps Think of a scene As I said before, these focus on specific scenes, in the example I provided here my scene was- A leaf falling in a pond very slowly and then drifting in the water here and there Syllables Perhaps the most important bit of this blog, the syllable count! A traditional haiku has 17 syllable  (5-7-5). If you want to, feel free to experiment but remember that poets will classify that as an  experimental piece but not a traditional Haiku. LINE 1 - 5 Syllables LINE 2 - 7  Syllables LINE 3 - 5 Syllables