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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Why do things happen? Why do I think? Why can I feel? Why do I get hurt? Why are the people who
surround me the way they are? Why do I bleed? How do these powerful phenomena exist? Why is
there so much beyond our comprehension? Why do I find weakness in my vulnerability? Why do I
forget faces? Why do we yearn?
All these questions and no answer. The poem is not a question. And neither is it an answer. It is to
process these questions without asking them in so many words.
Manya J.
I have always been fascinated by storytelling and poetry just literature in its entirety, it just....captures you, you know? I started reading at a pretty young age too, started taking it more seriously with getting into novels after my little Roald Dahl phase especially Matilda. But, poetry. I got to that pretty late, like quite recently in fact, till then I would write stories and thought they felt too naked? Like I wasn't ready to be so descriptive yet, I wasn't ready to complete an entire novel and publish it. I started writing poems after I read some that my friends showed me of theirs and of people they knew. And I was utterly engrossed in reading them and continously kept asking for more. Eventually, I wanted to write my own poems, and I couldn't get anything I wrote to feel like poetry, so I read more established poets' works, obsreved how they wove their words and moved around the languange. Then I finally wrote it, my first poem which is in here actually, 'Yearn' I had no idea I was capable of writing something like that. I was so shocked at my own self, since it is also not exactly a very short poem, one of my longest in fact. And that is how I became a little too obsessed with poetry, because I was hiding enough and also communicating enough at the same time, and it felt so controlled and flowy you know? In this process I somehow have lost touch with storytelling in prose, and I will get back to that. Atleast that is what I tell myself, because gosh! Writing poetry is adictive.
