NaPoWriMo
April 1st
I like melancholy, so I write in the past tense
April 3rd
It's too beautiful. All this beauty can be exhausting.
April 5th
Name everything for the first time
April 7th
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
April 9th
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed
April 11th
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
April 13th
A litmus test of Indian Democracy
April 15th
The sudden movement of objects
April 18th
The Beginning of Possibility is not even the beginning
April 20th
A Poem for your favourite kind of flower
April 22nd
Everyone laughs. Nobody remembers why. We all have tears in our eyes.
April 17th
Tongues of Light
April 25th
A World Where News Travelled Slowly
April 27th
Misremembered Lyrics
April 29th
You must love somebody
April 2nd
I'm afraid when I don't know what I'm afraid of
April 4th
What Color Is The Rain You See?
April 6th
An ode to the Nose
April 8th
Buddha in a Metaverse
April 10th
Trees have no elsewhere
April 14th
Where do we get our dreams from?
April 16th
Water has memory
April 19th
Our eyes bend what they can't see
April 21st
Borrowed Meanings
April 23rd
Children Live in a Parallel Universe
April 24th
A Conversation with your Clothes
April 26th
Mother's Handwriting
April 28th
The Day I was Named
April 30th
An ode to our Vocabulary
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 three days. For example, until the end of April 3rd, one can submit their response to the April 1st prompt.