grief
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Poems April 16-20
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. Timeline Straddling two worlds separated by time, I wait for reality to sink in.There is something ridiculous and soothing about this incessant rising and ebbing of tide and time.Lulling us into making plans.I stand and watch,out of sync in this new world I inhabit, Continue reading
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Lessons Learnt
from something as implacable as grief There is a reluctance in me to write. Rather baffling, given that writing provides me more relief and clarity than any other form of therapy. Often, I don’t even understand what I am feeling or thinking, until I write it all down. Part of my writing journey is to Continue reading
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Take Grief Out of The Closet
(This was a post shared on my Substack account in July 2024.) I want to write about something that has been bothering me for a while. Elizabeth Stone had said, ‘Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your Continue reading
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Almost a Year!
It is almost a year. In the last one year, time has flown, crawled, and downright stopped! I can count on one hand the number of times I have been away from her, since she was born. The longest was for five days, that one time when I went on a trek. And here I Continue reading
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An Update…
It has been more than three months since I last posted anything out here. A lot has happened since that post. I have lived a lifetime and died a million deaths. Over the last few months, I had shared glimpses of my daughter’s and our journey as she fought a rare and aggressive sarcoma called 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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