Once Upon a Verse: Because Poems Tell Stories

By Anoushka Sabnis

In January 2016, a young girl of nine was asked by her mother, Whats your New Year resolution? Excited at the thought, she responded, Can we discuss this, Mom? After the discussion came out a list of twenty interesting things she could do.

Of the many things on the list, one was to write one poem every month. The little girl started writing, and as she wrote her initial few poems, she started enjoying it, and yes, she certainly did not stop at twelve poems. Her love for poetry kept growing every week, and she wrote fifty-two poems over fifty-two weekends of the year!

This book is a collection of those poemspoems that are funny, scary, mystical, hilarious, thoughtful, inspiring, wishful, naughty, conversational, introspective, and relatable across age groups! The use of language is simple yet stimulating. At the end of each poem is a personalized footnote by Anoushka explaining the rhyming scheme and technique used and her own thoughts behind writing the particular poem.

Once Upon a Verse is the journey of a young girl discovering a hidden talent. It is an inspiration to millions of children out there to find their calling. But more than anything, it is life as seen and experienced by a child!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Dec 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543701357

Anoushka Sabnis

Anoushka Sabnis is a young girl of ten, gifted with the talent of bringing the imagined and unimagined to life through the beauty of her words. She is an avid reader and has already read over 500 books. She started writing stories when she was five; at six, she composed her first poem. She regularly writes on her blog and has hundreds of followers on social media. Currently studying in the sixth grade; she is a classical singer, a dancer, an athlete and loves literature. She enjoys travelling and has travelled to seven countries till now. Her dream profession varies from being a writer to food-stylist to fashion designer. She proudly calls herself an Authorista (author-cum-artist-cum-fashionista).

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Once Upon a Verse

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Because Poems Tell Stories

Written & Illustrated by

Anoushka Sabnis

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Copyright © 2017 by Anoushka Sabnis.

ISBN:      Softcover   978-1-5437-0134-0

                eBook       978-1-5437-0135-7

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Contents

Week 1 Bounty of Nature

Week 2 Looking Out of my Window

Week 3 The Windmill on the Hill

Week 4 A Spooky Night

Week 5 The Poopy Cycle

Week 6 Bake-a-Cake

Week 7 The Man who went Sleepy Mad

Week 8 Solution for Pollution

Week 9 A Birthday Party

Week 10 Book-o-topia

Week 11 Writing a Poem

Week 12 Shytoons

Week 13 Four Limericks

Week 14 My To-Buy List

Week 15 Happy Mother’s Day

Week 16 Me – a name

Week 17 The World of My Dreams

Week 18 My Evil Twin

Week 19 Like a Sunflower

Week 20 Unity in Diversity

Week 21 What I did this Weekend

Week 22 Fantasy Valley

Week 23 Tick Tock Clocks

Week 24 Rainy Day

Week 25 School Birthday

Week 26 A Red Moon Night

Week 27 Some Things About Me

Week 28 Busy Bee Me

Week 29 I Wonder How

Week 30 My Feelies

Week 31 What To Do

Week 32 What Peace Means to Me

Week 33 The Orthopedic and Tigger

Week 34 Cap’n Pegleg Meg

Week 35 TinkleToes – the Dairy Fairy

Week 36 A-Z Seasons

Week 37 Zombienstein

Week 38 SweetTown Yum

Week 39 Barmer Farmer

Week 40 Pluto – the Untold Story

Week 41 These are a few of my Favourite Things

Week 42 The Perfect Winter Cocoa

Week 43 The Salad

Week 44 The Big Wash

Week 45 ZooZoo

Week 46 The Oak inside the Acorn

Week 47 When Museum Came to Life

Week 48 Serendipity

Week 49 A Fluttery Dreamer

Week 50 My Pet Bat

Week 51 A Talking Shoe

Week 52 If I Were…

Week 1

Bounty of Nature

Here I am standing on a tower,

Looking for and finding my favourite flower;

I can see a tree,

With as many birds as can be.

The pleasant sky, with fluffy cloud,

The thundering thunder, is very loud;

I look through my window pane,

And I’m happy to see the rain.

In my garden,

A-a-achhoo!

Pardon!

I see cats that go mew mew mew,

Sniffing the flowers that look best with dew!

~ Anoushka Sabnis

Poetry style AABB, Quatrain

This is one of my initial poems. Happy to write about nature and a fairytale-like tower.

Week 2

Looking Out of my Window