Uncut Poetry

I Should Have Loved More Wisely (They Say)

Happiness is found in extraordinary places.
The two who don't seem to ever match with each other, become the matchless couple. And The ones who tick every box, are the ones who find different paths and partners.
The alchemy of relationships is only a small-part nature and a large-part mystery.
But what is irrefutable to what lasts long - is the trouble each partner takes to figure out what hurts and what brings love. 
Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. 
Sunil Bhandari is a poet based out of India. His book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. His second book 'Of journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost' is just out. Both are available for Kindle on Amazon.

That Gorgeous Evening When You Left

Relationships always have departures. Temporary, permanent, simple, or heart-breaking.
Inherent in such partings is the inevitability of our heart's decisions. Sometimes it hurts - but there is a good which lies just beyond the realm of hurt.
And in that realm, a person departs, but love doesn't. 
The gorgeous music in this episode is by Sayan Mukerji.
 
Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. 
Sunil Bhandari is a poet based out of India. His book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. His second book 'Of journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost' is just out. Both are available for Kindle on Amazon.

I Surrender To That Feeling Again

Surrender is a strange word. It first and foremost denotes defeat. But couched in its shame are also intimations of survival, a love of life over demise, of abiding hope.
But, ironically, in love, surrender is the first prerequisite - it is love's entry point, the only way to live it's tumult, and survive it's caprice.

How Mothers are Nature's Return Gifts

The changing dynamic of relationship with our parents, in every age, actually defines who we are, & how we are changing.
 
Often we get to know them as the ones we cannot take for granted, very late in our lives. We learn that the only constant in the changing seasons of our moods and age, is their forbearance, their non-judgmental acceptance.
 
When the world outside & inside us is collapsing, they become our final and only refuge.

In The Nook (Special Episode)

We have a delightful little conversation with poet Riya Roy.
She has just launched a scintillating newsletter "the nook", which is choc-o-bloc with nuggets of wisdom, art, poetry and literary surprises of all kinds. We talk to Riya about her journey - and end with an amazing heartfelt poem by her.
"the nook" can be subscribed at "tinyletter.com/thenook".

Daughters Who Don't Listen (& Other Ways To Be Brave)

Khalil Gibran famously said "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow…”
 
So be there in the shadows of the lives of your children, as they find their way. Let them find their own ways to love, and be hurt....as long as they know you are there, a touch away, a call away, a look away. 

Not Making Love; Only Being In Love

So much of what we are, is defined by who we are with. And that truth is germane to what gives us happiness.
Society, norms, mores ignore that basic need which makes us complete. They concentrate on gender, forgetting that love neither knows borders nor restricts itself within boundaries. The first liberation, the first freedom starts with that realization, that acceptance.

Love's Night of The Long Knives

Relations are discoveries, found after arduous journeys.
 
Intrinsically, everything about love changes in time - the nature of love, the definition of love, the lovers themselves. Is it for good or bad? That can never be the question. Did you last the upheavals to reach the calm? That is the question. 

On Breaking Up (Without Breaking)

"My capricious love of many moons,
I wish I could meet you again -
there's so much of you I have inside me,
but out of so little of you."

We Looked Out Into the Fading Day

Clouds roll into every couple's life. Everything gets hidden - the planets, the shooting stars - nearer home, even fireflies go unseen.
 
The worst is when love's clear skies get hidden. Love goes blind, it flounders.
 
The importance is, of course, not in the clouds - because pain will come, scars will happen. The question always is - what overwhelms and what prevails.