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Hello Poetteers! I'm bringing in the new month with a new set of poetry prompts! It's a bit different. I gave you 15 prompts. You can do it all in the two weeks or take the whole month to do them. I'll be participating along side you. The prompts are up to your interpretation and creativity. You can repost my challenge graphic on your Instagram profile for reference, or download the PDF version . Be sure to tag your poems on Instagram with #dailypoetrygram so we can all see it.Tag me ( @poetfida ) so I can leave some love. Get help with your poetry prompts with these questions, get your copy when you sign up for my newsletter . stay inspired, Fida

Hello Poetteers, It's day 20 of NaPoWriMo! The prompt today is to write a Kennings poem. What is a Kennings poem? A Kenning is a two word phrase describing an object often using a metaphor. A Kennings poem is a riddle made up of several lines to describe something or someone. An example of a Kennings poem: Quilt Big hug soft kisses cold protecter Memory keeper stitched love. Stay inspired, Fida

Hello Poeetteers, I haven't been officially participating in NaPoWriMo but I'm loving today's prompt: I’d like you to try an odd little exercise that I have had good results with. Today, I challenge you to write a poem backwards. Start with the last line and work your way up the page to the beginning. Another way to go about this might be to take a poem you’ve already written, and flip the order of the lines and from there, edit it so the poem now works with its new order. This will probably feel a bit strange (and really, it is a bit strange), but it just may help you see the formal “opening” and “closing” strategies of your poems in a new way! Here is a poem I wrote the other day: It makes me crazy to know I think of you yet it also keeps me calm I won't deny my thoughts of you but I also won't deny my beliefs the faith I follow. Here it is flipped: The faith I follow I won't deny my beliefs but I also won't deny my thoughts of you it keeps me calm to thi...

Hello Poetteers, From a prompt that Dua shared: Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it! I came up with this poem: There is no ship like a book to take us away from the lands we know there is no path like the ones of poetry to make us love This is a path anyone can take without oppression or permission this is an importance that carries and bears a human soul. Love, Fida A to Z Poetry

Hello readers, My mind is blind to the world around me The sun trapped at the window soon it will reach me soon the veil is lifted and I can see again. Love, Fida P.S. It's double up day at NaNoWriMo! Double up on chocolate, on coffee, on books: # Poetteers , but most importantly... word count! It would be great if you could support me in helping me fundraise for NaNoWriMo . Thank you!

Hello readers, When I'm tired I'm compelled to stay in bed but also compelled to stay awake and go on with my day When I'm feeling myself I'm compelled to write poetry to find the peace and love in and around me. Love, Fida This is my fundraising page for NaNoWriMo. If you are able to support me I may write you a personalized poem. Talking about poems, I have three collections published: # Poetteers .

I may not be a superhero but I will be your hero or at least try all these songs talking about it stuck it my head Like another fairytale unreachable. Love, Fida # Poetteers

Hello readers, I'm under a blanket of sadness so I blanket my feelings it's all so heavy all too much I want to take the blankets off but I'm scared of the cold I'll get Love, Fida # Poetteers

Hello readers, Together again my sadness and I never separate Together again I don't know what to do with you I try to ignore you manage you Together again to share our love. Love, Fida Check out the link to find the book in the picture: # Poetteers

Hello readers, It's game over today I don't know about tomorrow or the day after that maybe it will be another game over or it won't be another game over I still will play again I will find my strength stand on firm ground or not so firm I will roll up my sleeves and fight all night I will fight until it stops saying game over for my happiness I will play again until my happiness is back This sad feeling It will soon be over. Love, Fida # Poetteers

Hello readers! It's the last day of the challenge. It's bittersweet. But for Z all I can think about is Zzz's. Since it's the last day I have three poems and most of them are inspired/about sleep. Enjoy! (I hope they don't make you fall asleep, lol)! Sleep or Work All I want to do is sleep but the sun is shining bright and at my face calling me to get on with my day It may hard to get up but you have to you have one more thing to do and then it's done You'll get to do what you want whenever you want but for now you show one last time the skills you got. Sleep For a while now you worked your mind so hard without a break You finally get one and don't do any thinking just falling into your bed and falling asleep. The End You've reached the end and know what to do beyond the end it's outlined But after throwing yourself out there you're surprised and they are surprised you're tired and others are, too you've reached the end Give each othe...

Hello readers, it's the second to last day of this challenge! Here's a few poems that may or may not be inspired by poetic asides and may or may not start with the letter Y: RELAX Yoga Exercise your mind and your body push yourself, yet relax Yoga lets you exercise both but in ways to let you calm down and relax. Yo-yo People say life is like a roller coaster and it is, but it also can be compared to other things like a yo-yo. We Need Shade we need once we get heated water we need food we need it is life we are living while we get heated. *this last poem was my attempt at a shadorma. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

Hello readers! Here are a couple poems that may or may not be inspired by poetic asides and may or may not start with the letter X: Mechanical Today everything is mechanical where it is technology or us working and walking blindly. World Xercise In the world we live today you need to push yourself push yourself to exercise your body And also in today's world you need to push yourself push yourself to exercise your mind In the world we live in we do mindless things, but we're not here to do that we're here to make a world a better place and we have to start by making ourselves better. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

I apologize for not posting yesterday. Here is two poems, one for the letter V and another for W: Vast A vast mind can be good or bad you might have something or you might not Even if you do you don't know what to let out and what to hide whether to let stay or go. With your vastness you may be disliked or loved Just put yourself out there. *of course I doubt putting my poems out there, but you all seem to like bits and pieces of different kinds. Also, I did have three different lines for the end. I hope you enjoyed it! Wake up Wake up and smell the coffee smell the roses smell and see everything as it is If it's good, show it if it's bad, hide it and/or change it it's what your life is for. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

Hello readers! Here are a couple poems that may or may not start with the letter U: Umbrella All through yesterday it's been sunny and cloudy that evening it rained and as night came, it poured it poured through the night and still is on this midweek morning. If I were out besides seeing my own and hearing of others I'll see a rainbow of umbrellas. Unity I love communities cuz it's mostly about unity working together to host a dinner or multiple working together to create a better environment for themselves and their kids working and praying together you can feel the love just by being there. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

Hello readers, Today is a simple day. Here is one poem that may or may not start with the letter T: Tea or Coffee We are from a culture that loves both Every household needs it they may ask for one or the other but at the end, you'll get both Ever girl needs to know how to make both it's a test to who will love you or love you more a test to who is lucky to have you unless that girl is lucky finding a guy that can do it. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

Before I introduce my poems I want to let my new readers (and old ones if you forgot) Salaam means peace. A greeting Muslims exchange. Islam means peace and submission. Here are some poems that may or may not be inspired by poetic asides and faith, and may or may not start with the letter S: Kiss and Salaam As a child I go to sleep with a kiss from my parents As a teen I go to sleep with salaams from my parents At both times without that kiss or salaam I can't sleep, I wait to get it It's like having to say I love you before leaving a person cuz you don't know what's going to happen next. Complex Complex is something you make of something when it doesn't need to be don't think too much, just do it Don't do it to making yourself blind with it but do it with a deep love. Islam Islam on my mind School out of sight but shouldn't be Islam should be consuming, in a way that it helps you that is what Islam is about. -Fi...

Red A color that can go both ways it can be soft or hard of love or anger Red is the blood that flows in our body keeping us alive Red is the blood that drips when we are hurt. Red is a just a color. Rest It's been a week since camp started and ended I'm catching up to my resting I had left exhausted and the next day I slept half the day but from that day on my midday rests have been shorter I know I'm getting my rest and a reward for going This wasn't just another event to hangout with people and then forget them it's an even to make a friend that will last for the rest of time If only I could see them again at another camp but the next is rigorous and unless there was a miracle I'll fast at home during Ramadan and rest at home all summer. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}

Here are a few poems that may or may not be inspired by poetic asides and may or may not start with the letter Q: Quiet Today is quiet I can't think of a thing to write my quill is empty and so is my mind after writing all those other poems of friends and camp But I'm not going to quit there'll be a comeback. Burn At first you may think you got burned but in reality it's a lesson to be learned. Queen They call me the iPad queen just because I was the first to use it at school and was smart in figuring out how to use it and more But I don't like being called an iPad queen it may be a little part of me but I don't feel it's me I shouldn't be attached to material things and shouldn't be loved for material things I should be loved for my personality and I do see that happening Things are changing and so is this but no matter what I'm among many queens of the faith I follow. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyr...

Hello, I'm thankful for your love and I have one poem to show that. My other poem is another myna inspired poem. I hope you enjoy both: Post Camp Depression You are all of a sudden alone after days of being with a big group of course you're sad You gained a high after doing everything together you try to keep that high with your memories. --- Poetry All I do is express myself they read it And say it touches their heart it gives them all these emotions and I'm forever sharing with them I'm forever grateful for the gift God gave me. -Fida Islaih {all writing is copyrighted}