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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Beautiful, Anagha. I love the dualities you discuss as well. The way you combine words stirs up all kinds of feelings. It’s very powerful!

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you Mike! And I'm glad you noticed the dualities; I wanted to make space for it all.

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Don Boivin's avatar

Your poetry is fresh and alive!

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you Don! As is your writing :)

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Berkana's avatar

❤️

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thanks for reading <3

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Messy Poetry's avatar

Thanks for sharing this Agatha 🧡

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Ash Kilback's avatar

the orange heart of summer,

a new breeze entering 

through the split skin

🧡

we just had two days of nourishing rain this past week & I felt the freshness of clarity it brought with it too & the uplifting of all things waiting in the cocoon of their buds waiting to bloom. Beautiful!

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Here's to more nourishing rain and clarity! Thank you Ash <3

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Sea's avatar

“All of this exists together. The beauty and the violence. The icy breath of loss rides on the furrows of every cool wind…”

It’s so cool of you too point out your luxury of shelter, and the show how the rain cuts both ways. A beautiful read, altogether! ❤️

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you Sea, I really appreciate it <3

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Ted Holzman's avatar

Really nice. There seems (to me) to be a lot pain imagery. (And I thought April was the cruelest month!) Blades, cleaving, rashes, splitting. It brings to mind the ungentle birth that we mammals suffer. I like it a lot. Blooming and coming alive is so hard after a winter's sleep.

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Yes! I did want to incorporate a more brutal imagery and try to make it co-exist with all the tenderness of may; the rain and flowers and fragrance. I'm thrilled that it came through! Thank you for such a close reading Ted; it means the world.

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Glenn Brigaldino's avatar

poems make the days more meaningful, thanks

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

I really appreciate it Glenn!

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Thomas Rist's avatar

Another lovely poem, Anagha. Interested to see you considering those for whom the rain is harder, too. I have often felt that way about snow here. It falls with silence and is transforming. But those without homes suffer and the incongruity has stopped me writing sometimes. Thank you for the shout-out, meantime. I’m glad you liked my poem.

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thanks for reading and commenting Thomas. And your poem was lovely!

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Briana Elizabeth's avatar

Beautiful work, Anagha!

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you Briana!

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Libby Lamb's avatar

This transports me to Spring after a long winter in the UK (currently living in Australia and so we are going into Winter).

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

I am so glad the poem was able to transport you to another time and space!

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Mohika Mudgal's avatar

love love love the way you talk about rain

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you so much Mohika! I'm so happy it stood out to you.

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Hagemann's Studio's avatar

The orange heart of summer- lovely!

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you for taking the time to read this piece!

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roger hawcroft's avatar

Your poem is evocative and layered. I empathise with the thought and feeling it expresses. I commend you for it, as I also commend what I perceive to be views that are caring, compassionate and appreciative of nature, whether it is in good mood or bad, (from a human point of view), for without one we can't have the other - a lesson it is useful, in my view, for all of us to learn. (Not that I will for bad to come - it is perhaps the wrong word, "unfortunate', 'undesirable', 'ill-timed' or some such may have been better expression. Unfortunately, I don't have your way with words but fortunately, I have yours to read.

Thank you.

Take care. Stay safe. ☮️

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

This is such a thoughtful comment! Thank you. Always makes my day to know that people are reading and engaging with my work with so much care.

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Brian Funke's avatar

Lovely poem…what part of the world do you live in? Here in the Midwest US, we haven’t had oppressive heat yet, but it’s coming… ☀️

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you Brian! And I live in India; almost of all of South Asia has been heat-wave stricken for the past month, but the monsoon is hopefully on the horizon. In any case, I hope you make it through the incoming heatwave as comfortably as possible!

And thank you for reading and dropping a comment :)

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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

This is so beautiful. You capture the clarity of the air after rain so well.

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Anagha Smrithi's avatar

Thank you LeeAnn! So happy it resonated with you.

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