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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’.

Have you ever been caught in the endless spiral of overthought? In this piece, Tanya explores that feeling with a beautiful journey of introspection. “We can’t let pain and trauma become so familiar to us that we forget that happiness is a choice.”

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.

The Autumn Leaf

By: theriptidemagazine October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

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He has been sculpted like a painter and painted like a sculptor. All the poetry is for him, for the dead Maple leaf, the thousand stanzas that a poet creates is just for him, the innumerable colors of life, of celebration, of sacrifice, that a painter’s brush creates, is for him. It is for the withered, surrendered, dead Maple leaf.

House of Horrors

A house, she had heard from others and read in storybooks, was supposed to be a safe haven. A place where someone was protected from all the misdemeanors and brokenness of this gruesome world. But the irony was, all of that existed in her house.

Home?

“Home,” she said once again. It didn’t sound like home from her mouth. It sounded like she was taking the name of a place that should’ve never existed.