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Hi All! This is my first poetics prompt on Dverse. To be honest, I cannot still believe that I am actually doing it. When I read the very first post in here, I wondered how cool it must be for the bartender to host such an event. It was almost two years back. So today is indeed great moment for me.
Last week Grace told us to write about colors. I am sure all of us had fun writing for it. I wanted to extend the idea a little further. To do so, I need to bring in a bit of my own culture and share some stories. I grew up with a very special festival in the month of March – Holi, also known as Basanta Utsav – a festival of colors, but more importantly a festival of love. The celebration starts the previous evening by making a bonfire and continues the next day by coloring everyone with colored powder or water.
What I have enjoyed most is how people open up on this day, even strangers. You go to someone’s house and you will be greeted with sweets, drink and colors. A homemade drink from cannabis, milk and various spices is a must. Though it is really an ancient festival, it surprises me how made its place in modern society. I have seen people bending the rules of corporate houses for ‘Holi’ week. I read that the idea has now spread to some other parts of the world too. This year it was on 16th of March but I missed it being away from home in England.
Now here comes the fun part – as a student, it was a day of love for us all, one that brought all the boys and girls of the university campus together. That’s how ‘Holi’ become very popular among youngsters. All that closeness, roaming about in wet, colored clothes and those hugs – definitely takes a lot of barriers away. The weather around this time of the year in India, is just perfect to spend the day in wet clothes.
So tonight – I want you to think about coloring others.
- What if you secretly like someone and suddenly got a chance to get close?
- What colors would you chose for your loved ones?
- Does colors rekindle passion with your partner?
- What if you are reconnecting to an old friend or friends?
- How would it feel to let go and be colored?
Explore your imagination. Now, this is what you got to do.
- Write a poem and post it to your site.
- Enter a link to your poem and your name by clicking Mr Linky below
- You will find links to other poets. Read and comment on other poet’s work,
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Thank you all. Have fun.
Digital Art Credits: Reetam Banerjee
Nice prompt, Abhra. Color is so important in a person’s life! Nice to see you behind the bar.
Thanks Mary – I am really enjoying the moment 🙂
smiles… cool to see you behind the bar abhra and what a colorful prompt as well… wish we had such a color festival over here… sounds very cool.. happy writing everyone
oh i think a color festival would be cool….the street art festival is like that for me…but would be cool if everyone could be in the color and not just the artists….
Ah yes, whenever I am home – I have always enjoyed this festival 🙂
Next time I’ plan to do some photography on this occasion. but really need to take good care of the camera.
bet that would be hard with all the color flying…
ha. i took you very literally and tried to capture the color within someone in mine…and the symbolism of those colors…
great to have you behind the bar abhra….you are going to do a great job….look forward to seeing how people play in the paint today…
Thanks Brian – you made it very special for me 🙂
Welcome aboard, Abhra. I was uncertain if or how I was going to tackle your prompt. But then this morning, in the chill and gray outside my front door, I heard the seven-note call of a cardinal. And there he was, a pennant of red above the blah of too-long winter. I tried imagining what it was like for him, so colorful (and LOUD) a little dude, to be the clarion and painter of someday-soon spring. Thanks for helping me look up with hope again, Abhra.
did you get more snow as well Joe? we had another 4-5 inches today….blech…saturday though is supposed to be warm…saturday…only 5 days…ha…keep looking up joe
Your storm is supposed to move northeast tonight, Brian. Cape Cod and Downeast Maine are supposed to catch it (wind and snow) good. Over here on the sunset side of the Berkshires and Greens we may get shots of snow, but, hopefully, nothing too measurable. Still cold and windy, though.
yeah the winds are supposed to kick up soon….40-50 mph winds…
at moms for the day so the boys could play in the snow with their cousins
will have to head out soon before they get kicking too much…
Thank you Joe – I am glad I could do that. There are so many ways to see colors and am glad you found yours.
Welcome! I’ll be back full of color and love. I just saw lots of pics of Holi at Wikipedia. I’m wondering if the powders make people sneeze? Great prompt.
ha smiles… that would be extra fun if they’d all sneeze…smiles
ha colors would be flying all the more…
Oh Brian – in this festival, it is actually flying color 🙂
I’ll be back after my Meeting. I hope my poem matches the spirit of the day.
i tagged you in susan…see you here in a bit….
Ah but no that doesn’t make people sneeze at all – smiles. And those powders have a really nice fragrance 🙂
Oh! That’s an other dimension entirely. Glad you mentioned it.
Welcome to the dVerse Pub hosting bar, Abhra; how brave & wonderful you are to step up now, and begin pumping new poetic energy & perspective into our prompting. Your prompt today is a great ice-breaker, following up on other similar ones, but uniquely yours. I found myself rainbow-lost pigment-blessed, using kennings, researching color to my entry.
smiles… i continue to use kennings as well… they’re tenacious…
Love to have you onboard Abhra.. I can recall my thrill the first time I gave a prompt. I managed to finish my poem just in time of the pub…woke up a quearter to 4 this morning… and wrote part of the poem on my flight honme… I love to write on colors… my favorite subject…
so how was bucharest… ?
and a quarter to four sounds like a good time to write poetry…
smiles
Ah.. I went directly to the airport in Bucharest then.. a really long day is close to an end.
get some rest man….
Oh I am glad that among all that you could write for my prompts. Thanks 🙂
I would love to be in a Holi Festival as it looks fun and festive with all the colored powder ~
Thanks for the colorful prompt Abhra, smiles ~ I am responding with my other persona, ha ~
Am still in the office and will be around to return your visits ~ Happy Tuesday to all ~
we had another snow storm today so i got to be home when POetics went up…woot…ha…
ha – i was stuck at work from 6:45 to 6:45 today… but our cherry trees started blossoming…smiles
I am envious of that Claudia, smiles ~
cherry blossoms!!!!!
love them….might have to take a trip to DC for the cherry blossom festival…
ha – probably i have to create a secret new persona for me as well…smiles
Thanks Grace, I loved what you created from this prompt 🙂
Love the prompt, color is just what we need these days!
so true… after the long winter esp. i’m so color-hungry….
ok – will be away for a bit as i have an urgent appointment with raymond reddington… he wants to talk to me about the next name on the list…. smiles
Ah.. I will leave too.. I have an urgent appointment with my pillow…
haha urgent appointments…
enjoy the pillow bjorn
claudia…which episode are you on now?
the alchemist…
and ha – urgent appointment with my pillow is next on my list as well…smiles
nice….you are only 4 behind us then…and you met ‘jolene’….only gets more interesting fro here…smiles.
Now I am going to have to check out the Blacklist …and from a prompt on color …
Thank you Abhra for the prompt! I like how it made me reflect on the colors in my life.
hiya gabriella…
Abhra, your first prompt is a delight. I will definitely write to it, but hesitate to post since my Internet connections are so sketchy right now and I want to comment. None the less, you’ve teased my muse right out of her shell. Glad to have you aboard.
come on out of that shell muse…
sorry for your net woes v…
wont be surprised if we dont later tonight
as the winds are to be in the 40 mph range
What a wonderful idea – and thank you for sharing some of your culture with us, Abhra! Oh, and congratulations on your new role as bartender! 🙂
heya freya…
abhra will be around again
here in a bit
Hello Abhra! Welcome to the poetics gang – woot woot… from one n00b to another… smiles 🙂
This is a really great prompt; I read a few writes this morning… heading around now.
you rock anthony….
you do too, my man.
Hey Anthony – many thanks, It’s such a great fun to read others on an idea that is yours.
you got that right… it’s so different–and awesome–when you read poems created from YOUR idea; humbling as well, and inspires you to keep up the effort in the future. 🙂
Thank you for the nice prompt, Abhra. I’m posting late after a long day at work, but I managed to write a poem and take pictures. Thanks again for the inspiration. 🙂
thanks for hanging in there to get the poem out….smiles…hope you get some rest tonight…be over in a moment…
Hi Abhra! I been in India during Holi but many years ago but both my daughters have been there recently during Holi–and were quite overcome with colors–dyed for days! Once was in Jodpur and once in Ahmedabad! Thanks for the very creative prompt. k.
An interesting prompt! Hope you have a roller coaster ride tending the bar Abhra. have a bit of catching up, hope to link in on time
good morning… hope you gonna make it… almost 23 hours left… smiles
nah! my bad. got stuck at work yesterday and internet problems in the morning 😦
Nice prompt, Abhra. You prompted me to finally write and link up for dVerse, it’s my first time, too. 🙂
welcome to dverse…i will be over in just a bit
Nice poetics 🙂 Just to clarify, Holi was on the 17th, Abhra 😉
Happy holi!
I lived in India for quite a few years and remember Holi well. Lots of fun but very messy.
I wrote a poem some time ago on colour and will post it here although it is not strictly in line with the prompt.
great last stanza ros…
and i think it fits right in line with the prompt…
Abhra, thanks for the lovely prompt and welcome behind the bar at dVerse.
Like rosross, I have given you a re-blogged poem, though I have added new illustrations. My life is full of colour, being a quilter, so I often write colourful poems.
Congrats on your first fine prompt Abhra!
My little offering was too grim to enter here, so I will probably enter same on OLN.
Once again – congats!
Anna :o]
hey that is coming up this weekend!
stay tuned as we will be opening a little earlier that day…
Cheers for the info Brian – will do.
Anna :o]
ah! i will link up there. missed the linky here! 😦 and hope to hear about the critics too soon! Brian….
Oh how fun! This reminds me of a food fight we had one spring, with bright blue iced cupcakes! 🙂 I think I’ve shared that photo with a poem before. I have some ideas…will post something today!
Finally, I got one in at a reasonable time. 🙂 Thanks for the prompt. 🙂
woot