By Tejas Kulkarni
What do you see in the sky when you look up? This poem captures the different things each of us views in the vast expanse of cotton candy white and beautiful shades of blue.
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Clouded by You
By Aastha Katyal Pant
A cloud can be a poet’s muse or a poet’s enemy. This piece is one of persistence despite the blues a cloud brings, and striving through it.
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A Tough Act to Follow
By Ekasmayi Naresh
A hauntingly descriptive poem about the gorgeously solemn experience and spectacle that is a circus, from surreal memories.
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The Show & The Goings-On
By Ekasmayi Naresh
A poem on raging storm and battle: transcending victories and losses, for even in death, the show must go on.
Read More![Perusing for a Passion: A Mosaic of All Things We Love (Yellow, Sunrise) [Original Artwork:sunrise Detail from "Living 2007", a mural at Bryn Mawr and Lakeshore Drive, Edgewater, Chicago]](https://i0.wp.com/theriptidemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-27-at-1.37.53-AM.png?fit=800%2C532&ssl=1)
Perusing for a Passion
By Ekasmayi Naresh
This poem gazes at the poet herself as a mosaic: a combination of all the little passion-filled endeavours and affections that make her whole
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My Rearview Mirror
By Krishna Advani
The following poem is on the deceptively rosy picture that the past often appears as in the metaphorical ‘rearview mirror’, seeming to be far brighter than the colours of the present.
CAUTION: Objects seem brighter than they appear.