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    Aprilverse
    Aprilverse
    Aprilverse
    Ebook79 pages30 minutes

    Aprilverse

    By Hetvi Jethwani

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    About this ebook

    Aprilverse is the collection of poems Hetvi wrote persistently throughout April, each poem was written in the span of a day. With each piece, the author yearns to break the intimidating norms she is surrounded with - at all fronts. Read on, to embark on a journey through a lifetime condensed within 30 days.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHetvi Jethwani
    Release dateMay 10, 2020
    ISBN9780463921845
    Aprilverse
    Author

    Hetvi Jethwani

    I am a poet yearning to reach out to more people with my bold ideas and words.The things I love include mathematics, literature, and wordplay.If you have any lingering questions, or if you read my work and would like to give feedback - please do not hesitate from reaching out to me!

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      Aprilverse - Hetvi Jethwani

      Aprilverse

      By Hetvi Jethwani

      Copyright 2020 Hetvi Jethwani

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      "…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, then what is?

      - Vincent Van Gogh

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      1. Lentils as a metaphor for life (make an unusual action metaphor for life)

      2. The Yellow House (where Van Gogh lived)

      3. Trapped (inspired by Baroness Elsa - a dada artist)

      4. Peep Hole (based on a dream)

      5. Pineapple bud (twenty little poetry project)

      6. Testimonials from a Bosch painting (write from the perspective of an animal)

      7. Dying for a better life (based on a news article: South Koreans fake their funerals)

      8. A lazy sonnet to rejection (inspired by Sylvia Plath)

      9. Grey Matter (write visually)

      10. Wanderer above the sea of fog (write using haynakus)

      11. Gajra, ghaghra, howl (on the language of flowers)

      12. The sleep of reason (write a triolet)

      13. Robbed Emotions (non-apology for stealing)

      14. Skywriting (about art which inspires me)

      15. Blues (a poem which reads like a song)

      16. Wild, untamed (weird compliments to yourself)

      17. Radio Head (remembering forgotten technology)

      18. Forgotten; Leatherbound (about the small pleasures of life)

      19. Indomethacin (inspiration from a walking archive)

      20. No candles for you (about handmade gifts)

      21. The death of a task (inspired by a poem from another language)

      22. Fire (beginning with an idiom from German)

      23. Dread (write about the letters that form a short word)

      24. ‘He’ manufactures Red (to write about a fruit)

      25. Sisyphus (an unforced flow of words)

      26. Lockdown (based on the almanac questionnaire)

      27. Meta-critic (a poetic review of something unusual)

      28. Paying Guest (a bedroom from your past)

      29. Haikus which rock (a pet immortalized in verse)

      30. The Butterfly Effect (something that returns)

      About me

      FOREWORD

      All of these poems were written in the month of April, as part of the Global Poetry Writing Month,2020. Most of them are based on prompts released

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