Gowri, an engineer, often imagines an alternate history in which she studied English Literature. What would her days have been like? Would she have grown to love words and their meaning even more than she does today? This poem captures her flights of fancy which are her escape from reality.
An escape that leads to an unexpected set of events in a young boy’s life…M. Mohankumar pens a poem.
In Parth Pandya’s poem, books come to the rescue of a man bogged down by life’s difficulties, and help him make his much-needed escape.
By pitting contrasting elements in a pair against one another, and by showing how any escape from the one to the other retains something of the former, Srinivas’ poem highlights the idea that to escape from any given thing is to be inevitably tied to that thing.
Indu Parvathi’s verse weaves in the theme of escape by capturing the scene at a park one evening.
When nature decides to strike, there is little one can do to escape her wrath. Even if one is lucky enough to emerge unscathed, there is little guarantee that life will continue to remain the same. Preeth Ganapathy’s poem is about one such ‘escape’.
Chandramohan Nair recollects the time in his youth when he could face life’s challenges with optimism, energised as he was by a talent for daydreaming.
As a man recalls his escape from struggle and penury, he is able to see relics of a number of good things he has unwittingly left behind while hastening his way out, things which make him reassess his choice of escape. A poem by Anupam Patra.
In Mohankumar’s poem, a sea captain speaks of someone else’s guilt on account of which he had to suffer.