Aaliya’s evocative poem on DifferentTruths.com beautifully captures the raw, internal conflict between a poet’s shattered dreams and emotional healing.
When was it ever tranquil inside a poet's heart
There lies the carcass of cherished dreams
And here are scattered splinters of hurtful words,
the tender fragments are still sore...
Sublimity of passion, its picturesque canvas,
is wrecked
At the threshold of streaming emotion,
There sits an old sage within my heart, comforting
a little wounded me!
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Dr Aaliya Mushtaq Baba, PhD (Department of English, University of Kashmir), navigates the intersections of politics, philosophy, and autobiographical writing. She has been engaged in literary academia across three universities in the region for over six years. An accomplished poet, her work has appeared in Miraas, Sheeraza, Kashmir Lit, English Studies in India, and Setu (Pittsburgh, USA). Her poetry also finds a place in The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within/Indian Women’s Voices and Love and Longing: An International Anthology of Poems. With the recent release of her debut collection, Ode to Silence, her poetic voice continues to resonate through literary landscapes.
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