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Poetry is something I found like a hidden treasure, strangely placed somewhere inside me. Whenever I felt happy or sad, I found poetry to express and reached a state of equilibrium doing so. I guess its cathartic as well and a step towards making sense of who I really am and how I perceive the world.

Why do I write poetry? I want to de-elitize it. I do not want anyone to feel or think that poetry is an abstract work of art much beyond the understanding of every day people like you and me. Poetry does not have a class. It cannot be that something so beautiful would be made only to give pleasure or pain to a select few. I want you and me to read poems. And that is why I write in a language that you and I speak – a voice that is yours as well as mine.

Let me give a simple example. I am sure those of you who write poetry and take it seriously enough to read it out in public have faced it. You simply happen to utter poems and every one starts praising you. You are encouraged enough now to suggest “let me read out a poem that I really love” and suddenly the mood in the room changes. All of a sudden people are making excuses of how they would have to make a quick exit with an apparently honest promise of reading and listening to your poems with pleasure some other day. And that day as you have most certainly guessed never arrives.

What if we could change this? What if we could make poetry easily accessible to one and all? How? By simply making it comprehensible. By writing in a way that is so true to us, without making it a painful exercise at turning pages of the dictionary. This is what I attempt to do with this blog – narrate stories as a poem in a simple pattern of rhyme and invite you to read it – just like that . Do me a favor – tell me honestly does it make sense to you?