Author Archives: Spriha Dharan

When you spend money like mangoes on trees When you clone the fruit of happiness To conquer Depression’s deathless beasts’

I once thought his gaze Was unafraid  Bold and brazen  Breaking waves I was completely blind To his ebony eyes How did I not realize the lies That were tucked deep into the ether Of those two I- rises Still, you would lure me in with the silent kisses The tsk of your lips againstContinue reading “Till It Was Too Late-“

Note: this poem is inspired by “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks. I typically don’t enjoy reading romance novels, but certain sections of text were especially profound and beautiful. It would be impossible for me not to write a poem about it! She is a stranger caged in the body Of a woman Her frail armsContinue reading “Day and Night”

This life is so rich It’s a golden tapestry That catches on my hands and gnaws away at my torn skin It sows seeds into the sutures of Earth’s Endless sky And falters like a baby dove Just learning how to fly Sometimes it plummets Sometimes it soars The gushing waterfall rivets me as itContinue reading “On the Human Experience-“

This life starts out a mellow song Birthed from the destitute threads of a Dandelion’s cry It starts with wishes upon a star And ends with the crow’s melancholy goodbye And still our arms tremor like leaves Under the thunderous rainclouds of sorrow Sometimes we must be reminded that we only got one shot AtContinue reading “One Shot-“

When your footsteps are mere apparations Treading the scorching land before you And your olive skin drips With beads of sweat Underneath the sultry sun When the glass orb of destiny Rings with the bitterness of finality And you stare in shame in the shaking mirror Mourning the person you’ve become Must you coast alongContinue reading “How Do You Write Yourself a Future?”

When my eyes are half-closed, The fairies tiptoe on their Pointed shoes and delicate wings They tap me twice with their enchanted wands And drag me downwards into a world of reality I drown My mouth gasping for air as they Dunk me repeatedly in The frozen water My body condensing with every motion, AsContinue reading “A Gilded Fantasy-“

How did you know The words that crawled like ants Beneath this silk skin Spun like a spider’s web Made for catching flies Without ever letting them in How did you know there was more than the Pineapple juice That trickled like from my lips down to my chin Luring insects from afar On paperContinue reading “A Thank You to Poetry…”

My mouth tingles with the taste of cloves A bittersweetness trickles down my throat My arms reach out to the extensive shore Begging for all that I will never endure I watch as Tantalus thirsts for his elixir Knowing that I am unable to fix him And as my throat parches like hills of sandContinue reading “The Grains of Man-“