Wingword Poetry Competition 2024

Welcome to the community blog of DelSlam. Here you can read truthful writings on things that matter in our lives. Share your thoughts in the comments section.

The Dark Cloud

The Dark Cloud

By Anjali Hembrom

Sometimes I don't understand

Kashi

Kashi

By Debashrita Roy 

Deep through the winding lanes of this city to the meandering sound waves from the ghats

A POSITIVE START

A POSITIVE START

By MEENA PANNEERSELVAM

Every Sunrise tells us
There will be a light in the darkness

I am feeling anti-establishment today

I am feeling anti-establishment today

By Harleen Kaur  

I dreamt of this, for years on end

I see you

I see you

By Dwijisha Katkar  

I read signs
In soft whispers

The rest of the story

The rest of the story

By Ananya Pandey  

That cliche gesture,

A sun inside my chest

A sun inside my chest

By Mohit

I've never been beautiful

Surreal

Surreal

By Hushbana Khan  

I was a beautiful wandering soul

कौन से अल्फाज लिखूं

कौन से अल्फाज लिखूं

By Sanchita Bajaj 

आज कल तहरीरों पर ज़ोर है दिल-ए-नादां का

Reasons To Remain Or Deb, Why Did You Live?

Reasons To Remain Or Deb, Why Did You Live?

By Debabrata Sahoo 

Because the rain came down and washed away my sadness.

കറുംബി

കറുംബി

By Rani Premkumar  

കറുംബി

Limerence

Limerence

By Samarth Bhatkar

Your touch, my cheeks, a sense of serendipity

Cacophony

Cacophony

By Srija Mondal


Wake from your ecstatic lucid dreams

Around the Death of July

Around the Death of July

By Shejal Tewari 

Sweat drips down my mother's spine

Act I

Act I

By Binati Arora

If you’re anything like me, you’ve given up your art on a platter. Dying little deaths in the hope of making new pieces from fresh wounds. 

We the Women

By Vamaxi Maheshwari

To all those people in this world
Who talk of women empowerment,
I would like to ask

कहतें हैं सपने

By Mrudani Deosthali

कहतें हैं सपने
सपने ही ज़िंदगी
ज़िंदगी खुद हकीकत जाने नहीं

Stop. We have had enough

By Vibha Verma

On way back home her spirits were high;
So young and bubbly, she was full of life.

sweet, raw confessions

By Priyal Didwania

What if I wanted to explore the honeycomb of revelations lathered in your mind? Get lost in the sweet mess, taste it, and marvel at the lusciousness of your thoughts. 

(Live)liness

By Tia Thakkar

Blow the heaps of dust,
The dust on pictures,
Pictures our lives click for us

Garland of Jasmine

By Sristi Pramanik

On a typical spring morn,
during my dilly-dally
in the apartment lawn

a memoriam

By Avni Jain

I don’t want to carry the life 1
I’ve lived on me anymore,
I no longer want to be the sin of my memory 

Do They Really Mean It

By Jay Urmode

How are you?

People ask,
Do they really mean it,

Eternity of Love

By Banie Wadhwa

Rusty orange skies,
Intermingling with the snow-capped mountains
As if the earth and heaven had met

Dad

By Peehu Jaiswal

Dad you chose alcohol
And gave up walking me down the aisle
Or to teach me how to ride a bike

Those wrong lens

By Bijita Sharma

They see nothing—
no, they are not blind.
Rather, nowadays they are overseeing

Tale of Demise

By Saloni Raj

The dread creeped up my bloodline,
When he creaked open the door,
And stole my innocence

Tongue/s

By Shyamasri Maji 

A temple dancer in Konark smiles at us
You adore her flower breast 

The journey of a stick

By Arjun Sharma

Far away, In the forest of ‘Tricks’,
There lived a family, a bundle of sticks,

LA TOMBE DE GAIA

By Sahima Mittal

Marvel the world above and below,
Beneath me sits the shallow core of this barren land