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Tag: childhood
Childhood: Gloriously Found and Tragically Lost
When you are a kid, you feel life as you know it is the only kind of life out there. You feel safe and content. What we lose when …
Playtime
This poem is a stroll down the poet's memory lane, reminiscing about her son’s enchantment with the natural world as a child.
The Terrible Secrets of Growing Up
'Maybe all of life is yearning, to feel the same way you felt at 13, never knowing that sometimes dreams wilt away in the heat.'
Unwombing the Mind: A Review of Kala Ramesh’s ‘the forest i know’
Poet Kala Ramesh's book of tanka verses offers a unique vision into the compound experience of womanhood.
Moongazer
A poem on the nostalgia that often haunts us all our lives — a lost childhood and lost innocence.
How To Be Gentle, to My Son in the Past
This poem is a vocalization of the internal and external voices that played into the poet's body as she interacted with her newborn grandchild.
Depression Through the Eyes of a Naive Child
The person that I loved and adored the most in the world was suffering, and I was a helpless onlooker.
Will the Real Parent Please Stand Up? Why It’s Not Okay To Use Our Children To Heal
Every time my daughter comforts me, I am unintentionally giving her a raw glimpse into adulthood and causing trauma that she may not even realise until later.
