Met a dear old friend after six years today. Everything felt like it was just yesterday. This warm, fuzzy feeling seems to get settled inside, as we keep meeting friends and family after months and years. We meet them with an awareness that the next time might again come after a long time. We meet with the love and condition of living in the moment. It is hard. Beating on your chest hard. Sometimes, end of the world hard.
Everything seems to be going round and round in circles. Covid goes and then comes back again. Hellos and goodbyes don’t seem to end. Every day we are processing one layer before another one begins. No pause. No breathe.
Yet, we know, we feel, we dream, we rest. What a blessing to be alive! What a world to live in with each and every kind. We give and we take. We wake up. We begin again.
It is better to be thankful for this life rather than disappear in thin air.
Published by Pranjulaa
Poet’s bio:
An Msc in Creative Industries (Management) from Birkbeck, University of London, I wrote my first poem when I was only 13 years old, and currently I hold a collection of about 800 poems. I was enrolled into Poetry College, Batch of 2019 in Mumbai, and have Msc in Creative Industries Management, from University of London (2015). My poems have been published on Poetry Nature, Poets India, Image Curve and Nocturne Journal, amongst others. An author to “Short and Sweet Story”, published at Storytel as an audio book, I am now working on my first independent book of poems. Recently, I won a cash prize for a poetry competition based on a painting organized by Arts Illustrated and NDTV Mojarto. You can read some glimpses of my poems on @poetrybypranjulaa
I continue to work as an independent art consultant and researcher while managing my venture, Pranjal Arts which has a private collection of around 200 Indian art paintings.
List of awards:
•Awarded Scholarship for Creative writing by Mayo College Girl’s School, Ajmer(2011)
•Represented Birkbeck, University of London at British Chamber of Commerce Conference in London, UK as Potential Leaders of the future. (2015)
•Venue Ambassador, Birkbeck, University of London (2015)
•Invited for the “Thrive” Conference on Arts fundraising in Bath, UK (2015)
•Awarded on International Women’s day for showing international leadership in the field of Indian dance and poetry (2016 )
•Awarded the Lions Pride Award during the international service week.(2018)
•Selected for World Governance Expedition to Russia, organized by Vision India Foundation (2019)
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