Simrita Dhir | Author at https://www.outlookindia.com
Poet Simrita Dhir explores memory, sentiment, beauty, and hope in three conversation poems.
California-based academic and novelist Simrita Dhir writes three poems for Outlook.
Poet Simrita Dhir dives into childhood and teenage, compiling sights, smells, tastes, sounds and fantasies into four confine-breaking poems, free of structure and highly perceptive.
Nature and gardening serve as the poet’s muses as she contemplates life, each poem unraveling new facets of consciousness.
These poems address the idea of friendship, reminding us of how we are stronger from knowing that someone else believes in us and is glad we exist
These poems commemorate fatherhood by recalling childhood stories, bonds made over books and rivers, the onset of illness and the eventual loss of the father.
These poems bring alive images of twinkling jasmine flowers and purple geraniums; mynahs and mockingbirds; guavas and grapefruits to make profound comments on immigration and nostalgia; war and resilience, generosity and dreams
Looking at honeysuckle in the US evokes a moment spent in grandmother’s garden in India when Madhumalti vine drooped from the weight of its red blossoms. A trail creases memory, elusive like an unkept promise and searing like an unfinished dream.
When a monsoon-crazed teenager kisses his crush for the first time, its frenzied taste sends his adrenaline rushing for days.