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Metaphors of life
Nandini Sengupta-Specializes in writing poetry, articles, and short stories. A dreamer, nature lover, and avid reader.
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
For hundred years
I will not sleep for hundred years for the raging soul aspires to be poetry of your endless nights a dreamer of your dreams. I will not...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Bubble
When everything seems meaningless and rubble, when you are floating in a bubble, consider you are in trouble. When the heart denies the...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
A Date with Life
I embrace you in open arms in pain and in laughter in joys and sorrows, as I falter mapping the paths broad and narrow. With heavy feet,...
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Nandini Sengupta
- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
A Poem
Words convulse emotions digress, we are at loss, as how far to progress-- at times it feels like stopping here at times meandering ways,...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min
Breaking Free
Let me break the rules for a day Let me run in a slow motion like that in a movie Let me fly in a parachute on one rainy day Let me slide...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Feb 19, 2022
- 1 min
Offering
The one string of Ektara the Baul plays in reverence, with his index finger in place: the strain of his devotion reaching miles and...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 26, 2022
- 1 min
Dance of creation
On the parched earth does she touch her feet, with closed eyes she joins her hands, in absolute subjugation to her Lord she dedicates her...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 23, 2022
- 1 min
Sandy tales (part 2)
The sound of your anklets caressing the heated sand, The playful wind wiping your tears before they touch the rusty land, bring them to...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 23, 2022
- 1 min
Sandy tales (Part 1)
Our story spans thousands of years for aeons we have loved, Your footprints lead to the threshold of my abode. As the dusty dunes sweep...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 13, 2022
- 1 min
Lore of thy song
In the autumn of the day when the crimson of the sun merges with the indigo sky, when raag Yaman reverberates with the sweet essence of...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
Freedom of Silence
I prefer to be silent for now Silence is all I seek; The unaccountable images swirling around, I want to pause them for some relief. The...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
The Incognito
The irreconcilable distance traversed from the known to the unknown, familiar faces turning strange, the ink which once dotted the...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
The deserted house
That house stands there for ages on end- It's deserted and lonely, No human forms or shapes inhabit it anymore. Its crumbling walls and...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
Therefore, I am
Fumbling through those leaves Of the book I devoured, I endeavored to search my very lost soul- the purpose of my being the reason for...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
If stars were candies
I wish I could peruse your mind into the recess of my heart, where myriad stories find its own epilogue. I wish I could jump uphill...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
The black boat
The little black boat was there for long ferrying commuters to and fro; The oars were used by familiar cold hands, The boat made of wood...
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Nandini Sengupta
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
Spring Delights
As nights give way to days, Darkness translates into the sunlight, Despair radiates into rays of hope, Frosty winter precedes joyful...
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