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A Broken Shoe

21 Jul 202221 Jul 2022 Mithila Gogate

Pasting on the sole and a wide smile, with an air of normalcy I drag my broken shoe. I add on some pins and pricks

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Contented I Wait To Embrace Death

21 Jul 202221 Jul 2022 Bhavna Kaushik

I look back, how far life has come keeping me strong, not turning full circle like Shakespeare’s poem Observing my chums, leaving me one by

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My Paradise

20 Jul 202220 Jul 2022 Gayathri Achar

Fragrant flowers dotted around, sealed my wounds with their sweet elixir. The prickly grass underneath, tickled away all my worries. The breezy zephyr, vanquished negative

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Childhood Dreams

20 Jul 202220 Jul 2022 Aditi Lahiry

Dear children build sandcastles Dance in the rain Weave stories beyond the storm Splash in puddles Swing in the garden Smile like the sunflower Sing

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Matters of the Heart

20 Jul 202220 Jul 2022 Moonmoon Chowdhury

I glided on silken moments, That sang in your presence, Surrendering to ecstasy. I yearned to lay bare, The yarns of tenderness, With paeans devoted

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Girl Child

20 Jul 202220 Jul 2022 Ratnaprabha Raykar

They are coming To see the girl Said her uncle But she hated The word ‘girl’, sounded like’ cattle’ in a fair Being treated Like

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First Day at School

19 Jul 202219 Jul 2022 Ekta Sachdeva

Remember the day when you first entered the school with whimpers and wails? Cheerful morning greetings lisped to the welcoming teachers who intently looked fresh

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The Nephophile

16 Jul 202216 Jul 2022 Lalitha Ramanathan

I glance at the azure sky, wonderstruck by the fluffy, white, cottony clouds. Shapeshifting and drifting, like undisputed monarchs of the kingdom of heaven. Pristine,

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Soundless

14 Jul 202214 Jul 2022 Munira Dalal

Did you hear when your lover ‘fell’ head over heels in love with you Did you hear your heart being ‘stolen’ when love unlocked the

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You are a Miracle

13 Jul 202213 Jul 2022 Moumita Dutta

Yes, you are a miracle for, you’ve come a long way and you’ve got miles to go. At times you feel incomplete and search for

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Transformation

13 Jul 202213 Jul 2022 Moumita Dutta

’twas a lazy summer noon my friends and I were calmly resting inside a trug brown. A sudden jolt took us by surprise, and frightened

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Connect

13 Jul 202213 Jul 2022 Moumita Dutta

Let’s start afresh and create tales interesting. Stories that’ll inspire and rekindle the flickering spark in hearts that yearn. Come, let’s unite once again and

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Wish Life Was Fair

11 Jul 202211 Jul 2022 Pooja Gupta

I felt uneasy yet He wasn’t bothered To enquire about me. With no choice, I had to Ease up and normalise My life like every

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Senescence

11 Jul 202211 Jul 2022 Priya Washikar

My wrinkled fingers caress the silken threads of your favorite azure blue scarf The old closet holds this soft wisp of fabric lying obscurely beneath

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Self Respect

10 Jul 202210 Jul 2022 Gopalakrishnan Prakash

Wandering along I espied a mongrel, Scrawny, scaled and starved. Rich lady walking A hefty dog, threw Biscuits to her pet. One rolled over to

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July 26th

10 Jul 202210 Jul 2022 Kirti V

Camouflaging themselves, along the snow, they marched along. The prying eyes that they had guarded the tall mountains, and spotted every passer-by. The pristine white

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The Three Sheep

10 Jul 202210 Jul 2022 Srividya Subramanian

left alone by someone in the fair fields are the three sheep. Mother and her babies lonely, looking for company with desperate eyes. A price

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Outbound

10 Jul 202210 Jul 2022 Urmi Chakravorty

The giant bird soared high above carrying a slice of my heart with it, to shores, far and foreign. Glass and steel facades, jazzy lights,

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Moving On

9 Jul 202211 Jul 2022 Vandana Nadar

“Get up and move for it is time to leave the premises which you called your sweet abode.” With reluctance, the heart moves glancing longingly

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Tears

8 Jul 202212 Jul 2022 Sarita Khullar

Invisible tears Like ominous clouds Hover on minds sky, Threatening viciously To burst anytime. Like molten lava Smouldering in the bosom, Ready to erupt, In

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Sacrosanct

7 Jul 20227 Jul 2022 Venkataraman Ganesan

the mob closed in the sky above an innocuous blue unashamed brown the earth below. gnarled tree-trunks mute spectators spontaneous sounds of intense love ants

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