Dubai Poetics Group
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To Be Free
To be able to speak one’s mind. ‘No!’ ‘I don’t agree.’ ‘I don’t like that.’ ‘No, I won’t!’ To be without excuses without explanations without apologies. Is that what it means to be free? To be able to express rage, in words that say just what they mean. And then… move on. No pent-up emotions Continue reading
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Morning Walk
I know we have not met. But I know you. Head held high, airpods in, Gap tracks on, arms swinging. Walking. Walking resolutely every day. Every day, before you reach the metro station we walk by each other. I am the one huffing by. Hidden silvery scars stretching across my skin Like a galaxy’s arms Continue reading
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And Then, There Is Grief
As a writer, I wondered… Can I create poetry that tore? What after all, did I know about pain too pure to bear, or grief too deep to share? What did I know? Indeed! I looked up the meaning of words that stood in for grief. Distressed, in agony, desolate, in purgatory, or drowning in Continue reading
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Melancholia
I have been busy focusing on completing what I hope is the final draft of my first novel. This basically means that I have let the blog slide. Apologies. This is a poem I had written recently, and was featured in the latest (25th) issue of Dubai Poetics. (https://dubaipoetics.com/edition-xxv) Melancholia By Binu Sivan (Click on Continue reading
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Dubai Poetics – Stay A While
My poem Stay A While has been published on the Dubai Poetics website. It is a website dedicated to poetry by those based in Dubai. Please do drop in and send some love our way 🙂 http://dubaipoetics.com/local-poetry/ Continue reading
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Acceptance
My first post for the year – :). An update into the last 21 days if you will. 2016 has been a ho-hum sort of year so far. Professionally I am doing well – enough writing and editing assignments to keep me busy. A bit too busy to be honest. But the world continues to Continue reading
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