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The Abacus

By: Shreya April 19, 2023

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A poem that explores the significance of time and place.

Words tangle us together like roots: a prose poem

‘Words bring us together’ – this poem is a response to this insight.

Paradise Lost (?)

By: Shreya February 7, 2023

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I wrote back to the infamous image of ‘paradise lost’ that has been doing the rounds since Milton. Enjoy!

Vermillion: A Poem in Honour of Durga Puja

A poem about the coming of Durga Maa, which is joyously celebrated in my home city of Kolkata and around the world.

Love keeps trying to open my eyes: a poem

By: Shreya February 26, 2022

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With love, Shreya

Mind Monsters Inc.

By: Shreya July 10, 2021October 2, 2021

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My mind has birthed some monsters, and I am here to share them with you. Go figure (see below): Parnika was one of my first creations, though I have only named her in hindsight – today. Parnika means small leaf; it is an alternative name for the Goddess Parvathi. She is a small leaf, the…

Self-Song – A Poem

By: Shreya April 14, 2020April 14, 2020

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Today is the Bengali New Year (Shubho Noboborsho or Poila Boishak). Since people from West Bengal mark this festivity as a time of auspicious beginnings, I thought that I should write a poem to mark a sacred beginning of my own creation.

Water-Forms Poetry Project: Final Poem

By: Shreya February 23, 2020

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A poem about water-forms.

Water-Forms Poetry Project – Part 1

Hello again, I’m back with (more) attempts at writing poetry and an update about starting Hilary Term (i.e. Term 2) at Oxford. Since I’ve been gone, I’ve been writing away for our weekly essays about everything including the lives of saints in Old English up until the modernist experiments of T.S. Eliot. I’ve taken up…