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The Departed Chapter
"Your memory always took a proper shape in my heart, a place vacant only for you, like a dye pouring into water making marble paper."
Abdul Wasey Khan Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan
Red
"I see red now — the colour of truth I tried to hide."
Avni Devlal New Doon Blossoms School · India
दिल के टुकड़े — Pieces of the Heart
"I handed the key of my heart to a thief."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School · India
Beyond the Smile
"She shrunk, spoke in signs, / All because of the lies."
Shrinikka B Yuvabharathi Public School · India
Guman — गुमान
"Are you real, or merely an illusion I created? / That is the only question I carry."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School · India
Maybe This is Growing Up
"it's how to carry unfinished feelings / without dropping everything else too."
Ranveer Delhi National Public School · Gurugram, India
the place I crawled back to.
"as if every wound in me / still believed mercy lived there."
Yuktha P.L Christ University · Bengaluru, India
Ordinary Devotions
"she tells herself this is not pretending. / just… arranging."
Aaranya Narayana Vidyalayam, Chinchbhuvan · Nagpur, India
Tera Zikar — Your Presence in Every Word
"You are like the fragrance of rain / That cannot be seen, / Yet is felt in every emotion."
Samprita Badhei Sambalpur University · Odisha, India
Hiraeth
"Covered in white sheets, my sorrow — / please let it slip my mind, and I'll make it."
Samridhi Priya Delhi Public School, Ranchi · Jharkhand, India
ਉਡੀਕਾਂ — Longing
"There is not a single night / In whose dreams you do not appear."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · India
Hawa da Paigam — Message of the Wind
"Love has undone many Ghalibs before me."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School, Ferozepur Cantt · India
Kaise Bayaan Karun Meri Baatein…
"You are my confusion, and the resolution hidden within it too."
S.smita Sayaanaa Independent Literature Student · Odisha, India
I Found the Nectar in My Mind
"It dims, it dims, shines the grimmest grim / It's in, solely in."
Ishita Roy Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Dum Dum · West Bengal, India
Waiting for Rain
"But still / I sat there waiting / Knowing it will rain."
Rishika JECRC University, Jaipur · India
What It Feels on the Other Side
"You choose what feels easy, / Not what feels real."
Shrinikka B Yuvabharathi Public School · Coimbatore, India
यादों की महक — Fragrance of Memories
"The farther I drifted away from you, / the more your memories became entwined with mine."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School · Punjab, India
To The Moon
"Someone shields them from the human eye, / Someone so divine."
Krishnapriya PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Belagavi · India
My Part of the Story
"But I'm still hoping / That someday I'll stop nodding."
Shrinikka B Yuvabharathi Public School · India
I know one thing, You'll never stay
"I'll be the night born from evening, / I'll stay with the light you'll provide me to shine."
Shruti Soni Poornima University · India
An Earthly Mist
"These hurdles are hard to cross. / And so is the river."
Aaradhya Chaudhary New Doon Blossoms School · India
The Genesis Of A(I)
"Here I am, the intangible human, / Whom you love to hate the most."
Debabrita Dhar India
Flesh over Flesh
"the craving for finality / mistaken for / flesh."
Sriyukta University of Lucknow · India
Mulberries
"some burst like memories now — / smiles we never knew were temporary."
Shaunak (Aeon) Pathak Vellore Institute of Technology · India
This Is Not Our Last Goodbye
"The walls whispered goodbye, / I hugged the pillars and cried."
Riddhima Negi St. Francis School, Indirapuram · India
Pluvial Resurrection
"The falling drops kissing the warm, waiting earth. / Dusty paths turn dark and fragrant."
Anubhuti Baral Rajendra University, Balangir · India
Glory
"Maybe the winner and the so-called lost / Both light the same cigarette at the same cost."
Kanak St. Francis School · India
Dove: A Monologue
"You write with my whites, your chapters / What if nature collapses minutes within?"
Ankitarani Deep Rajendra University, Balangir · India
Special
"Like dust can't stop falling for the books in the shelf / Like flowers cannot resist the sun"
Aratrika Burdwan Model School · India
The Little Girl
"She was the moon, with no tide to pull. / Her chest echoed like an abandoned hall."
Sharanya Dan Burdwan Model School · India
Hasrat-E-Deedar
"a door with a lock / yet lost its key / a key only restored by its دیدار"
Abdul Wasey Khan Abbottabad Public School · Pakistan
Silence Between Generations
"He gave me a vibrant smile, / Silence burning through a thousand miles."
Akshita Ashok Hall Girls' Higher Secondary School · India
After you
"Not everything lost is meant to leave,
Some memories are how we breathe."
Eknoorjeet Kaur St. Joseph's Convent School · India
a spurious chat
"you remain. / if not a being, a program. / feeding on our lives, our resources, / our affection."
Sophia Passar Napa Valley College · United States
The Season of Unasked Questions
"I have learned to hold silence the way water holds the shape of its last container..."
Priya Mehta University of Edinburgh · Scotland
Diaspora, Interrupted
"My mother folds distance the way oceans fold coastlines — always taking something back..."
Amara Diallo Sciences Po Paris · France
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