NaPoWriMo'23 Day 19-20: What we cannot hear / Second thoughts before deleting a photograph
My phone scoffs like Amma,
Blinks twice disbelievingly-
Are you planning to let go?
You've aged 3 years,
It's a blurred one
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- Apr 22, 2023
NaPoWriMo TTT x PoemsIndia : Explore the emotional Journey of Adulting
And just like that
In dreams & broken realities
We enter the threshold of adulthood
Waving childhood goodbye
Preserving the little child in
- Apr 20, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day 16/17: Neon Gods / I had a dream you won't understand even If I tell you
we keep bartering our faith in a mosque or a church when google shows 34,45,978 results for the word 'god'
- Apr 19, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Fourteen: Brief Heaven
what is it about mothers and the sad singularity of things they do for themselves?     but i saw her laugh for the longest time and wipe
- Apr 18, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Thirteen: Meeting a poet outside their poems
i met a brilliant poet in an ordinary cafe
he writes poems on everything he ever loved;
but i can’t find a single one about him. so i write
- Apr 17, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 TTT x PoemsIndia: Exploring the soul of your city through poetry
My Delhi fits me
like an oversized hoodie,
In its extremes of cold and heat,
we survive in solidarity
You will find balconies dripping with
- Apr 16, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Ten: Our silence lives in the bodies of others
The prompt is inspired by Ilya Kaminsky's Poem 'We lived happily during the War' The women in my family are without a home by Pritha Jain...
- Apr 16, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Nine: I have built speed breakers in my heart
love becomes a memory
in the blink of an eye.
so i have built speed breakers in my heart
for i want love to be slow with me.
i want love t
- Apr 14, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Eight: Haircut and Hair Coloring as a reset button
A Pixie Cut by Abshaar Saeed I sit in a radiant chamber with tube lights, many other lights some dull and some ephemeral like the...
- Apr 12, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Seven: Prayers walk in high heels
the prayers that remain unheard often go and bitch about god to the prayers that remain unanswered
- Apr 10, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Six: Orange
Song of sapphic orange juice by Aadrit Banerjee citrus blues on soft carpels, a tapestry of fibres weaved on them, lemon smell bringing...
- Apr 9, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Five: We are gift-wrapping the earth in plastic, but for whom
Buried Alive in Plastic by Arya Mohapatra One. Tangled with the acrid scent of burnt paper and wasted sap, the earth reeks of incinerated...
- Apr 7, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 TTT x PoemsIndia : Women In Love
To be a woman and to be in love is exhausting by Antara Vashistha To be a woman and to be in love is exhausting So imagine when the two...
- Apr 5, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Three: Every Dead Thing is in need of more mourning
(Assume all trigger warnings) Until the mo(u)ring flickers in an oil lamp again by Shailja Bahety The red silk light escapes the oil lamp...
- Apr 4, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Two: Flowers at Night
Wildflowers like her by Nithya Vijay My mother loves her nights, Sitting on the verandah- Of our little house, Staring into nothingness....
- Apr 3, 2023
NaPoWriMo 2023 Day One: I started something I couldn't finish
Prayers are beautiful until they have no god to go to by Khatija Khan in families like mine, the first thing they teach you is to pray to...
- Apr 25, 2022
Water has memory, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen
Rivery (Reverie) by Erfana Ripples, oysters and fishermens' hats We were river colours back then Moving to and fro Always wanting to dive...
- Apr 21, 2022
The Sudden Movement of the Objects, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Thirteen
Kutch, January 2001 by Farida Rangwala A misty winter morning, The cups filled with warmth Waiting to be gulped, The giggles floating in...
- Apr 21, 2022
Where do we get our dreams from, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Fourteen
Confessions of a Drunk Sunday by Saheen Rahman i am torn between wanting to love my life and wanting to hate it. an obese monkey in...
- Apr 21, 2022
A Litmus Test of Indian Democracy, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Thirteen
A Qabr of Loktantra by Nameera Anjum Khan Day 13, almost 10 PM I have taken another breath. Alhamdulillah. God wants me to live. My...
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