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Tag: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places

‘Space Paths’ by Pramila Venkateswaran

2nd July 20202nd July 2020  Pramila Venkateswaran

In our final poem from Usha Akella’s Flora and Fauna series, Pramila Venkateswaran encourages us to look upwards and contemplate the magical, ‘unseen paths’ above the terra firma.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Flora and Fauna, Matwaala, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, Usha Akella

‘Cypress’ by Shamini Sriskandarajah

27th June 202027th June 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

In Shamini Sriskandarajah’s short and beautiful poem, ‘Cypress’, two people sit under the quiet warmth of a leylandii tree reflecting on past moments of togetherness.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Cypress, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Flora and Fauna, Poetry, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Trees, Usha Akella

‘Maiden’s Tears’ by Olivia Rosane

21st June 202022nd June 2020  Olivia Rosane

In Olivia Rosane’s enchanting and evocative rites-of-passage poem, ‘Maiden’s Tears’, a young woman realises her own inner power and strength when encountering a small wildflower in an open field.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Maiden Tears, nature, Olivia Rosane, Poetry, Rite of Passage, Usha Akella

‘Elegy for a Sunflower’ and other poems by Sophia Naz

13th June 202014th June 2020  Sophia Naz

Sophia Naz’s lush and imagistic poems describe the fallen splendour of a wilting sunflower, the passing of a season and a desolate landscape of leafless redwood trees.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, nature, Poetry, Sophia Naz, Sunflowers, Trees, turncoats, Usha Akella

‘Three Notes to Blue Jays’ and other poems by Zilka Joseph

26th May 202026th May 2020  Zilka Joseph

In her two poems, ‘Three Notes to Blue Jays’ and ‘So Much’, Zilka Joseph’s words take flight when describing the dazzling brilliance of a Blue Jay and Hummingbird in the open spaces of Michigan.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Birds, Blue Jays, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Humming Bird, Matwaala, Michigan, Poetry, summer, Usha Akella, Zilka Joseph

‘Under the 400-Year-Old Ponderosa Pine’ and other poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

17th May 202019th May 2020  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s poems offer a solitary space for readers to meditate on nature’s quiet truths, a locus in which to reorientate the self and speak in a new language of trees, birds, waterfalls and winding valleys.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Environment, PoetryTagged: Cary Mirriam-Goldberg, Copeland Falls, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Ponderosa Tree, Prevernal, Usha Akella

‘This is Lime, this is Gul Mohar, this is Mountain laurel’ by Usha Akella

12th May 202022nd May 2020  Usha Akella

Our Poetry editor, Usha Akella, recalls her time studying for an MSt. in Creative Writing at Cambridge and considers how the flora and fauna of the city inspired her writing and helped her navigate and connect with a new place.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Environment, Lucy Features, My Cambridge, PoetryTagged: Byron, Cambridge, Daffodils, Dev Patel, Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Lime Trees, Lucy Cavendish College, Madingley Hall, Poetry, Ramanujam, Romantic Poets, Usha Akella, Wordsworth
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