RAIN IN THE SUNFLOWER FIELDS

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Letters and Truths of Immortality

I still have all your letters Safely kept between the pages of my favourite books So that when I re-read them for the millionth time, I...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 3, 20212 min read

Let Go

Things that start beautifully in sunflower fields End in rainy dark alleys at midnight, lips sealed Love that is found in warm niches of...

Kartika Jamdar

Sep 26, 20201 min read

Not Built to Be a Warrior

"What business do you have here?" I'd been foolish enough to ask "I'm here to be a warrior," she replied I scoffed. "A warrior?" "Yes."...

Kartika Jamdar

Sep 19, 20202 min read

You Honestly Love Me So

Each time you walked out that door, Your footsteps getting fainter and fainter, My heart always fractured in a different way When I heard...

Kartika Jamdar

Sep 8, 20202 min read

The Kind of Guy

He was the kind of guy that leaned over the balcony's edge to scare you The kind of guy who had 13 tattoos, all in the places that hurt...

Kartika Jamdar

Sep 1, 20201 min read

Goodbye

I always used to hate it When the guys in movies/shows said "I hate saying goodbye." It was so cliched and so overused I always spat at...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 29, 20201 min read

Dear He Who Will Always Wait For Me

Dear He Who Will Always Wait For Me, One question. Two people. Six words: Will you get lost with me? After all I've learnt, And after all...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read

An Ode to Friendship

I remember the last time they met, How tears streamed down his face When she had said, “I don’t even remember myself, how will I remember...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read

We're All Bad People

We are all bad people; That’s what we have in common We have all wronged people, And not cared an ounce We have all felt pride, Until it...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read

Until We're Told to Go

Under the moonless sky at 1 am, Wearing a costume made of sin, I’m sitting where I shouldn’t be, and waiting to be told to go. Broken, as...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read

Call it Love?

I know it’s been years since we were together, But I’ve never stopped speculating That we’d given it a name as twisted as love, We’d have...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read

Somewhere--A Tale of Love Across Europe

When I spoke of Paris, they scoffed at how clichéd it was When I talked of sunsets in Rome, they laughed at my young poet’s heart But...

Kartika Jamdar

Aug 27, 20201 min read