Losing one’s mother tongue to a foreign language is Love’s labour lost, opines Amitabh Vikram, presenting his thoughts through a poem.
For a woman, the sadness that comes with parting could be as traumatising as a snake twisting and turning in her belly. Sukrita Paul Kumar captures the feelings of a pregnant woman about to deliver her baby.
Lopa Banerjee presents the little wonders, the fumbling, the falling and the rising of a girl on her physical, psychological, spiritual journey of attaining maturity through a poem.
Ranu Uniyal writes a poem about a protective and tenacious mother and her daughter who isn’t courageous enough to speak up in a city steeped in bloodshed, lust and death.
A man observes a woman in the darkness of a movie theater, attempting to unravel the mystery that she is, in his own mind. Paresh Tiwari writes a poem on the unravelling while also touching upon how the entire movie is actually mirrored on the countenance of the woman.
A mother teaches her child music, even as he wonders about the future of the music that he is learning. Years later though, he realizes the worth of the music his mother taught him and the truth behind her words. M. Mohankumar pens a poem on the music lessons and the conversations between the mother and her child.
He is spellbound by the beauty of an unknown woman that he hastens to capture this epiphany in a photograph. But destiny has something even better in store for him. Nandagopal T writes a poem that tells you the story of how the photograph was born into this world.
Inspired by the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Sukrita Paul Kumar writes a poem on gender equality and liberation from gender identities.
A man is clearly smitten by the innocence of a young woman who he is in a relationship with. But what would be the fate of this relationship? Paresh Tiwari’s poem presents the man’s roundabout answer to the question, even as he attempts to justify his stance.