Is this what poetry is? A question I have been asked often. Several words that are arranged in verses are put into a rhythm and rhyme. That's the basic introduction to poetry. For many, that is the end of the definition as well. But what I fell in love with was the emotions emanating from those words. The way a single line held multiple meanings. The layers I could peel back from each line, and the depths I could dive into. Poetry could mean different things to different peop

My Poetic Journey The first time I wrote a poem, I was five years old. It was a silly scribble of four lines about hills, that neither rhymed nor made much sense, to be honest. Yet, that is where my tryst with poetry began. The journey since then has been eventful, to say the least. Through school, I wrote constantly, filling up notebook margins and back pages with odd verses during class. Eventually, I began to use poems as an outlet for my pent-up emotions – I wrote every t