15th April Prompt: Write a poem about markets. Nose crinkled, she wades through wet fish; haggling housewives into Sainsbury’s. The scornful disdain of local culture in favour of The West. Yet it is but ignorant worship – Sains is just an ordinary supermarket, no worthier of your starry eyes than your neighbourhood NTUC.
14th April Prompt: Write a poem in Singlish. Aiyyo why do this My bad English cmi Liddat can anot? Good Friday; Bad English; Gooder English
9th April Prompt: In your poem, mention at least one celestial body in the solar system. single light on earth outshines dozens in the sky does anyone care Not sure if this counts but am just so busy. /Edit: Actually, anything counts in poetry. So there.
One of my favourite haikus! 🙂 Haikus were originally from Japan, so this follows the 5-7-5 syllables form in Japanese, not English. 古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 ふるいけやかわずとびこむみずのおと Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto -Matshuo Basho An ancient pond A frog jumps in – The sound of water.
we all respire. lungs inhale, hold, expire oxygen is life in mitochondria of eukaryotes, this occurs. prokaryotes differ.
photosynthesis; light. water. air. chlorophyll. out comes oxygen.
science harbours mysteries. cold facts in thick texts… but look! here, warm poetry springs.
the poetry convergence 