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Rohan Banerjee's avatar

Lovely post (and poem), Karthik. I have great admiration for people who can write poems. It has always seemed like an intimidating venture to me. I suppose the first step to remedy this is to read more poems. Do continue sharing your poems with the world. They can help the likes of me!

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Karthik's avatar

Thanks so much, Rohan! One step at a time. I will start sharing poems from now :)

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Natasha Badhwar's avatar

Thank you, Karthik, this is the perfect Sunday read. Sundays are for poetry.

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Karthik's avatar

Thank you Natasha! Yay I'm glad it made your Sunday! :)

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Sanobar Sabah's avatar

It's funny I would come to this when I posted a 'poem' too! Karthik, poetry mere bass ki na hai lol! But, what you shared above makes me wonder why haven't we read more poetry from you?! Please keep sharing!

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Sanskriti Bhatia's avatar

Such a beautiful, beautiful piece, Karthik! What an ode to poems and the power of poetry :)

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Supriya Devarajan's avatar

“Sometimes, writing that essay feels like I am overexplaining myself. Whereas, I could have expressed myself in the few lines of a poem and got done with my day’s work.”

Such a simple and wonderful explanation for what a poem does! Thanks Karthik!

I want to add to the east- west poem😀. In school we used to say “ North or south, there is no doubt, that east or west, our school is the best!” We believed this was super sophisticated poetry!😀

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Karthik's avatar

Whoa! I had thought about it in school - whatever happened to North and South? Finally, mystery uncovered! Thank you, Supriya :))

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