GS&NS: Your poem has a prominent sound in its rhythm and rhyme. How does it contribute to the poem’s overall meaning or purpose?
Eshah: I wanted to keep a strong rhythm so as to mirror the ordered rhythm of nature. To have a feeling of repetition through rhyme and simultaneously have moments through words, constituting that rhyme, that can fill up those mundane days of routine through smallest things or thoughts.
GS&NS: As a female creator, what role does writing and art play in your life?
Eshah: Quite sincerely, art is something that anchors me to stay a bit sane. I think a female mind works in intricate details and connects things more powerfully; knowing more makes it worked up and detract easily from the thin line between sane and insane. Writing helps me walk that line as the repressions and suffering that play in a female's life culturally, pent up inside, come out beautifully in words.
GS&NS: What advice would you give to emerging writers? Another way to think about it: what advice would you give to your your younger self?
Eshah: Read more, even if you have an extra minute while stuck in a traffic jam, read. Write and write, without thinking about what will come of it, even if it's gibberish, no one will read the first draft; it does not have to be perfect! Bring your sorrows out in your art, don't sit and suffer. On a lighter note, poetry does not have to rhyme.
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