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The Journeys We Make

By Ekasmayi Naresh

“Undeniable is the pleasure
of the journeys that spurring speedometers measure… Yet all in the hunt for a destination most dear
to meet one’s own reflection with a smile.”

Journey

By Aalia Jagwani

Sometimes the most memorable travels are the ones we take within ourselves. Read about one such journey, and dialogue in poetry.

ACCUSTOMED TO THE DARK: LIFE IN A PANDEMIC_NIGHT SKY AND CITYSCAPE

Time in a Pandemic: The Strange and Familiar

By Shivani Chunekar

“There is nothing more comforting than realizing, time and again, that we all ask the same questions.” Read about the familiarity of darkness and the habitual stillness of life in a pandemic.

The Willow

By Preeti Kathuria

A poem about the still and mundane existence during quarantine, until it’s disrupted by the presence of a certain plant near the window.

Revolution

By Aalia Jagwani

The word ‘revolution’ redefined to fit a new understanding of it. To go beyond what the dictionary says it to be, to create your own meaning.

Heart Spoke Up!

By Tanvi Ghotage

Groundbreaking isn’t just about the big things in life, sometimes the small achievements and milestones are just as worthy of earning the term ‘breaking ground’.

Color Me Dead

Femme fatale is taken to a new level with this dark, mysterious personification of a Gemini Female: and her adventures on a murderous night.

Time, watch, watchglass, or a pocket watch in a gloved hand

Time Through Tinted Lenses

A poem about the spectrum of living, growing, and thriving – all through life, through time in multicolour as colours turn to metaphors.

The Heavens

Couple a boring Applied Mechanics with a particularly imaginative wandering mind, and you have a beautifully descriptive poem about Heaven!

Enchanted escape

By: theriptidemagazine April 20, 2020April 20, 2020

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A beautiful poem on the enchanted feeling brought on by love

Never Give Up

An inspirational poem reiterating that no matter what happens, never give up. You’re a fighter through and through, and there’s a strength within you.

Yellow

A poem inspired by the colour yellow. It takes us through sunrise and the meaning it holds for the writer as well as the reader.