Marginalia
Poetry, essays on urban landscapes and built environments, and creative reflections.
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Where Stories Live
By: Muskan I walk past houses like chapterssome unfinished, some forgotten,some written in gold ink,some in…
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Papa, Will I Ever be Okay?
By: Manasi Agrawal Grief, is a weird thing, you don’t know when it might hit youWhen…
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A Letter to a Spring Long Gone
By: Neha Priyan Spring is the time for joy, the poets say—When blossoms burst like stars,and…
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To Those Who Never Knew Her
By: Neha Priyan If you believe my life’s a tale well-told,You’ve touched the cover — the…
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A Field Between My Past & My Future
By: Aiman Jabeen I sit in a field between my past & futureAnd I think I…
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Beautiful
By: Rabab Husain I am beautiful no matter what you sayI will stay beautiful as a…
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The Dinner
By: Rutaba Riaz I’m at the hotel where the reservation was made.I sit at the table,…
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Evanescence
By: Sahilpreet Kaur We know it’s not meant to last,Then why ruminate on the past ?Dirt-smitten…
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Blood Bound
By: Gauri Abhishek Kher Blood bound, tied down,The girl looks down at her hands stained red.The…
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The Chessboard World: Is Life a Game or a System We Don’t Control?
The metaphor of life as a game is widely used, emphasizing fairness and transparency. Games are…
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Small Town, Big Consequences: How Gossip Shapes Every Life in Middlemarch
George Eliot’s Middlemarch, serialized between 1871 and 1872, depicts life in a small English village. The…
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Whitman and Today’s Political Poetry: Who Inherits His Voice?
Walt Whitman is widely referred to as the father of American political poetry, a title that…