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Trying To: Publish a Poetry Collection. Week0 – Prep/Outline

Hi All,

For my first ‘Trying To’, I thought I would try something I have always talked about doing, but never did – . Publishing a Poetry collection.
After all, that is what this series is all about – doing things I only talked about, so why not start with something I have talked about the most.

Since my college days I have always identified Poetry as my distinctive feature among friends – something that I would bring to the table, something that I want to be known for, even though it’s something I have never really pursued seriously. Hopefully that will change with this series.

I always feel at a loss when thinking of starting a new thing – where to begin, what to do first etc etc. 

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Faith Crisis

I stand in a corner of an art gallery,
and with the corner of my little eye,
I spy,
the works of other artists’ fly.

I look at them,
with little inspiration, and more aspiration.
Aspiration to be featured like them in an artsy place.
To have people look at my name and take picture of it.

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April Fool

Of all the Options
I go through in my head
while lying awake in my bed,
‘Returning to My Country’
always made the cut…
Only until recently,
when the feeling of other-ness,
which some people talked about,
but I never believed existed,
manifested itself into Acts made and Bills passed,
for the likes of me to be purged from the land.
Forcing us to prove loyalty.
Scrambling us to provide documents,
proving that we indeed existed.

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Zakhm

Zulm ki is nangi baarish mein,
Jab Zakhm sar chadh kar bolega,
Pisalti saanson ke kinaare,
Honge jab honsle past,
Aankhon mein namodar shikast,
Aur hawa mein ubharte,
nashe se dhut sitaare,
gham ke afaq par jab pohanch jaayenge,
Tab is kamzor dil pe tum,
Marham lagaane aajana.
Warna to maut laazmi hai

-Zakhm, 6th December 2019

Sometimes

Sometimes,
I do stupid things
though not intentionally.
I get up everyday
and take some time to reflect
and regret

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