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Write-erase

Write-erase

Write-erase & write

Till it gets engraved in my skin

Of felted memories & sadistic pleasures

I bleed

Red and blue

My nerves cry a soulful moan

I lie there with stain forever

Stain to cherish

Stain of pain

They tear the pages i wrote with my hand

Can they

Tear the moments i lived?

Can they

Tear erase undo each second

Can they? Undo

I am no joker

But i laugh on myself

Naive they say

I wish to be

Of the inhumanly ways of living

And cry

I m no kite

But i fly very often

Bird they say

I wish to be

Of the sailing ways in air define

And try

Write erase and erase it all

Destroy the nerves

But these marks will stay

Like memories of a fragrant clay

Mold them once again

I will. I will. Reshape. Regain.

Until then

You write erase

Cyclical style.

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Suchi Gaur
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Suchi Gaur



ABOUT THE POET ~
Suchi Gaur works with issues at the intersection of gender, health and technology at the grassroots level. She has researched the design and evaluation of communication tools for community communications, and the role of participation in bringing behavioural change towards women in society. Her passion for poetry dates back to school days where she recorded the events as mundane as school assembly, to as international as the 9/11 attack through poems. Writing in both English and Hindi, her poems reflect events that are lost in the empty spaces of night., She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to research the role of community communications at New York University in 2012-13 as part of her PhD program at Delhi University. A poet who lives on communication, she pens down her struggles of expression through words woven together.


Last updated February 16, 2015

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