SAKSHI NARULA

Earlier this month I self published my last poetry collection Bad Poetry and This Loving. This book is a memoir in verse, it has things said and unsaid…to my children, to my parents, to my lovers, to my readers and fellow poets. Every writer wants to write a book that they want to be remembered for, this is that book for me. For most part of my 20s and 30s, I became a product of my circumstances and the world we live in. I was always uncomfortable in my skin and in the life I was given and leading. Me writing poetry is a sort of a rebellion, it’s me saying I want to own and be who I am. Do I sound morally grey in my poems, great if that is what you take from it, do I sound depressed and sad, maybe I was and that’s okay too. Would it be so bad if I was both, aren’t we all at some point? I heal my heart when I share a verse, I heal many when I share my story, my scars won’t remain hidden. I inspire when I become more and more me. love myself more when I am bleeding words and honoring my truths. I am able to give more love and light when I can look into the mirror and not feel any shame, a word that defined my whole life but not anymore. What you will see in these poems is a woman being exactly who she was born to be

Bad Poetry and This Loving, will take you on that journey and more. I hope you can connect with the poetry in this book, through the past, present and the future me, in your own little way. Loneliness is not a choice, it is a human condition, a shoeless winter no one prepared you for. All of us have to go through it at some point, most of us live with it. A black hole, a void, a starving. I filled up mine with poems. All the poems in this book progress from darkness into the light. I sat still in despair and pain, waiting for the light and like butterflies they found me. I hope you are able to see that I am not the source here, I am just the portal. Poetry is divine to me.

Leaving you with music and the links to the book. The book is available only as a Hardcover and an ebook.

Be kind to yourself, stay in your peace. Protect your soul.