Today, in gratitude for making it to Day 20, our (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem about a handmade or homemade gift that you have received. It could be a friendship bracelet made for you by a grade-school classmate, an itchy sweater from your Aunt Louisa, a plateful of cinnamon toast from your grandmother, a mix-tape from an old girlfriend. And whatever gift you choose, we wish you happy writing!
A repertoire of love
Some crumbs of paper with amateurish art,
They might seem to a pair of foreign eyes
But a reflection of affection I see in these
‘My repertoire of love’ I fondly call them
I’ve been collating these as keepsake
For loving moments they enfold
And amassing a Pandora’s box,
A wealth to be treasured when I grow old
You must be conjecturing, what is it I’m babbling
Well, these are a bunch of cards designed tenderly by my kids
For Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthday and all special occasions
Every year since they understood that love should be reciprocated
A timeline of their growth, clearly tabulated
With a card for each year, revealing their maturity
How expression of their love, they articulated in verses
And how the artist in them has evolved in stages
A card dabbed with glitter, another laced in studs
One modelled with trendy stickers, one gleaming with my picture
Flowers quilled in paper and hearts of origami
‘My repertoire of love’ has seized their childhood memories
©Vandana Bhasin
20.04.2020
My Feelings My Freedom 
So sweet!
Mine also includes letters from my father.
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Aww… that’s a treasure ❤️
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