Tag: #philosophy
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Waiting- the antonym for ‘living’
Have you ever given it a thought- Why it takes so long for rice to cook, or for milk to boil when you’re waiting? Why does rice get overcooked and milk boil over when you’ve turned away for what seems like no more than a moment? Why does a journey sometime feel like forever And […]
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Just enough
I had written an earlier poem on the first showers Mumbai received on 10th June. I thought the Monsoons had come but it turned out to be a trick nature played on us. After the 10th, it rained on the 16th- just enough to lower the temperature. This poem is a stream-of-consciousness poem that came […]
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 – Adapting
“Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line […]
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PUBLISHED : When we can do nothing else, we wait
My poem, ‘When there’s nothing you can do, you wait,’ is published by the Rebelle Society. This poem is for all those who have waited at some point in life. You know what you went through as you waited for the minutes and hours to pass. And though you told yourself that you had no […]