Tag: poetry blog
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The Words We Murdered: A Poem on the Language We’ve Stopped Meaning
There is a grief in watching words you once loved become unrecognizable — hollow, overused, stripped of weight. This poem moves through the jargon, the wellness speak, the social media noise, and asks what we lose when language stops meaning what it says.
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Only the Thirsty See Water
A contemplative free-verse poem exploring an ancient Hindi aphorism — that only those who carry genuine thirst within them can perceive the water standing before them. A meditation on longing, numbness, perception, and the quiet discipline of learning to want again.