Khatija Khan | Poems India

Khandwa - A Forgotten City with Footprints of Remembered Artists

In the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh, breathes Khandwa, a city which has the soul of an old woman, forgotten and fading away. The walls...

Rooh Afza's Story of Mediocrity, Medicine and Mercy

Did you ever wonder about the journey of the scarlet red syrup that permanently sits in your kitchen and rules your heart in scorching...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

"An ode to the Nose" Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Six

An ode to the Nose by Meenu Maria Jose The nose is the ugly duckling in the face family. The black sheep. Every other part of the face...