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How many times do I have to knock, before you remove the door between us?

- From House Of Stars And Flowers On Mars, Sakshi Narula

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Poetry Book: Bad Poetry and This Loving

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There is a beach house and the zest of summer on my tongue, there is a dog named Soul, the floor is familiar, I can walk on it at midnight without getting a stubbed toe. I know all the light switches, the doors, the windows and how the afternoon falls through them. It’s all golden like a movie, we are young and love songs make sense again.

-Excerpt from the poem There Is Love Here. Bad Poetry and This Loving, Sakshi Narula

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“What it is

It is madness

says reason

It is what it is

says love

It is unhappiness

says caution

It is nothing but pain

says fear

It has no future

says insight

It is what it is

says love

It is ridiculous

says pride

It is foolish

says caution

It is impossible

says experience

It is what it is

says love.”

― Erich Fried

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To be loud about the wars of the world

To be violently quiet about the ones within

To be a poet, to be a lover

To envy everyone unaffected by the love of everything

-Sakshi Narula

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BITTERSWEET

It is the winter of my youth. There are more grays in my hair than in the sky and here I am blooming like sunflowers from a heart-break. I grieved and mourned this love. For days I looked like a deconstructed murder scene. I choked your memories with a cushion in my hand and destroyed all evidence that could lead them up to me

But I am getting better, better cannot begin to define this bittersweet wisdom in my bones. It felt good to be a fool for a while, I was happy, I was high. It has taken me sometime but I have finally let go. I stopped waiting by the burnt bridges. It has been years since we saw eye to eye or shared a kiss divine. But this one’s not on me, this is one’s on you, only you.

- Lost, The Art of Staying Lost, Book 2, Sakshi Narula

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There is love here, there is lusciousness of poetry, no people. People are either poison or magic, either way they break hearts. But there is love here and Christmases and a library. There are possibilities, of joy.

- Excerpt from the poem There Is Love Here, Bad Poetry and This Loving, Sakshi Narula

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Of all my book covers, this one is my favourite. Hardcover/color interior- House Of Stars And Flowers On Mars. Also in paperback and on Kindle. Book design by me.

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Poems are out there making grief a little less heavier and saving lives.

- Sakshi Narula

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He didn't blink once or write back

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Freedom, freedom is poetry arriving on god's chariot to heal me, poetry arriving with medicine, every time I couldn’t fit in, every time someone called me ugly, every time I fell out of love, every time he couldn’t love me, every time I relived my trauma, every time I gave up on me.

-Excerpt from the poem FOR MIDLIFE AND THE MEN I LOVED, Bad Poetry and This Loving, Sakshi Narula

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Books are magic, aren't they?

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I removed my soul and set it aside to be read on a Sunday unlike today. Today my lonely is heavier than the earth and the weight of it has been killing me slowly. Time is birthing more time and I don't know what I want to do with the excess I already have.

- Sunday Poem, Bad Poetry and This Loving, Sakshi Narula

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How does a broken heart keep beating, how do people keep living with so much pain and grief? If that's not a miracle what is?

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You don't become a poet. The poems find you because you are one.

- Sakshi Narula

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I want bread and eternity and his children but I wonder, am I traveling in his veins as he ages and walks miles in mine, through the snow in winter and flowers in spring do I live in my lover’s soul, like he lives in mine?

- Excerpt from the poem IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE, I’M LYING ON BOB DYLAN'S BIG BRASS BED- Bad Poetry and This Loving, Sakshi Narula.

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An ocean of loneliness/are you trying to out swim the grief/A sadness that doesn't kill, a sadness that doesn't leave/Is there a pain you cannot name/A man who couldn't love you/A sinner to blame/A hunger no great meal or a great song can satiate/A birch that watches you self loathe from the window/a mirror that absorbs all your rage

-A Little Box of Fame, Sakshi Narula