Tag: #separation

• Poem: How a mother feels

  

  My poem, ‘How a mother feels’ is posted on Destiny poets. Don’t ask a mother how she feels When a child leaves home the first time Not for a sleepover or the weekend or a week’s summer camp, or even an extended vacation But when a child leaves, I mean, like really leaves- to a…

  Smitha V

  March 25, 2022

  Poetry

  #child leaving, #goodbye, #life, #mother, #parenting, #poem, #separation, #Teenage

• Mumbai Diaries – 13 months – Nostalgia

  

  In the dead of night, I sit on my bed and type away. I’m not the only one awake at this unearthly hour – there are many more lights that are twinkling in the dark; in the houses across, shining like stars descended on earth against the blue-black sky. There’s also the incessant sound of…

  Smitha V

  August 28, 2019

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Dubai, #expatriate, #expatriatediaries, #India, #missinghome, #mumbai, #nostalgia, #nostalgic, #pain, #separation, Experiences, Poetry