Day-21
NaPoWriMo-2026
Prompt: In your poem for today, we challenge you to write your own poem in which you muse on your name and nicknames you’ve been given or, if you like, the name and nicknames for an animal, plant, or place. For example, I’ve always been amused at the fact that red trillium (a rather pretty wildflower that grows in the woods near my house) has several other common names, including the bizarre “stinking benjamin.” The plant grows very short and close to the ground, so I’ve never actually leaned over far enough to get a whiff and see how merited that sobriquet is!
The birthday song
"Happy birthday, Sunita
Happy birthday to you."
made me crawl into a rathole.
Every year, the movie song
rolled on every tongue
maybe , my father was
enmoured with the heroine
for naming me so.
A civilized name underwent
mutilation to mutation
through the decades.
Maa bellowing from the doorsteps
Sunit! sunit! sunit!
to run the errands.
Baba calling beta, beta,
for being the eldest.
In school, the teacher
rolled his tongue,
changing every syllable
to his choice. Sunidha!Sunidha! Sunidha!
You can comprehend the state he belonged,
During the roll call in the class, I
would hardly respond.
Friends and pals cringingly
chorusing Suni, suni, suni!
on the volleyball court,
some even ended up
calling me Su, su su...yuck!
Then the knight in armour
in my distress, trying his best
to calm the marital chords
pleading...Sunny, sunny, sunny!
till I bated my eyelids!
Career in the South
added extra letters
to make it rhyme
to fit their time
Sunita became Sunitha, Suneetha
and whatnot!
Give me a break!!!
If I go on, my eyes will go blurry!
There goes the multi-faceted
a game changing...grrrrrrrrrrhhhh
name changing harakiri!
Participating in: NaPoWriMo-2026
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