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POETRY

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THE BLANK PAGE
    NAMITHA VARMA                                   

Challenged me.
It dared me to write,
to speak my mind,
to be poetic,
to break the silence.
But my mind remained
blissfully apathetic
to the screams
of the page before me.
The page dreams
more than my mind these days.
My world is stagnating
Along with my soul.

Namitha Varma is a media professional and a
self-proclaimed narcissist based in Mangalore.
She is a voracious reader, a music enthusiast
and an opinionated social observer. Her works
have appeared in Coffee Shop Poems and A Little
Poetry, and can also be found at narcissistwrites.
blogspot.com.

eFiction India | June 2014