Write a poem everyday.
Prompts for NaPoWriMo 2023
April 1: I started something I couldn't finish
April 2: Flowers at night
April 3: Every Dead Thing is in need of more mourning
April 4: A Poem from a woman in love
April 5: We are gift-wrapping the earth in plastic, but for whom?
April 6: Orange
April 7: Prayers walk in high heels
April 8: Haircut and Hair coloring as a reset button
April 9: I have built speed breakers in my heart
April 10: Our silence lives in the body of others
April 11: Explore the soul of your city through poetry
April 12: An ode to mispronunciations
April 13: Meeting a poet outside their poems
Previous Year Prompts
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I like melancholy, so I write in the past tense
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I'm afraid when I don't know what I'm afraid of
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It's too beautiful. All this beauty can be exhausting.
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What Color Is The Rain You See?
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Name everything for the first time
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An ode to the Nose
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
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Buddha in a Metaverse
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Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed
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Trees have no elsewhere
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
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A litmus test of Indian Democracy
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Where do we get our dreams from?
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​The sudden movement of objects
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Water has memory
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The Beginning of Possibility is not even the beginning
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Our eyes bend what they can't see
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A Poem for your favourite kind of flower
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Borrowed Meanings
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Everyone laughs. Nobody remembers why. We all have tears in our eyes.
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Children Live in a Parallel Universe
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Tongues of Light
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A Conversation with your Clothes
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A World Where News Travelled Slowly
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Mother's Handwriting
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Misremembered Lyrics
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The Day I was named
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An ode to our Vocabulary
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You must love somebody
NaPoWriMo Guidelines and FAQs
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Every day in April, a new poetry prompt will be added to this page.
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Anyone can take part in Poems India NaPoWriMo 2022 by writing a poem in response to any of the prompts.
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The attempted poem does not have to include the exact wording or phrase of the prompt, but it must be related to the prompt.
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Attempts can be submitted using the form below. If you are on Instagram and post your attempt on your public account, you can use the hashtag #poemsindianapowrimo to have your post considered a submission.
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Each of the prompts is valid for the next 48 hours days. For example, until the end of April 2rd, one can submit their response to the April 1st prompt.
NaPoWriMo
2023
Please submit your attempt here.