Women are the subject of most of my poems; I tend to portray with ease their clandestine and confined emotions, unsaid words and somewhere their suppressed voices from patriarchy. As Dr. Santosh Bakaya has rightly said in the Foreword for this poem of mine, this is an allegorical poem with hidden meanings and answers in the varied layers of it. This poem is from the anthology Arising from the Dust, that I proudly am part of and is one of the participating writers among the gem of some other brilliant writers. Published by Archaic House this is Meera Barath’s grand venture that she took a year back and the book is her curative effort.

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Monalisa Joshi is a writer and a poetess. As much she loves to write poetry, she also relishes in writing prose and fiction. She is presently working on one of her fiction book and writes poetry more often. She enjoys blogging and is quite active on social media platforms. She is an active member of an International poetry group called ‘The Awakening poets’ and also can be found on Face book and Twitter. Much of her writings and poetry are showcased in her blogs and can be visited at https://monalisajoshi105.wordpress.com/ and http://monalisa-wwwlisa.blogspot.in/. With a Major in English Literature she feels deeply inspired by Elizabethan poetry and Victorian women poet like Christina Rossetti and thus loves writing ballads and folklores. She is the Founder, Director and Chief Editor of a digital Indian Journal called ‘Chrysanthemum Chronicles’ and finds time for her writing amid the homely chores, her two sons, her husband and a beautiful family life.

She won third position in a short story contest held by Story Mirror in the year 2016 in the English Category. First position in writing a long poem held by the Enigmatic Magazine, and in the year 2018 her name was recognized among the top fifty winners under the prompt given by Author Anand Neelakantan of Bahubali fame organised by the Write India Contest, Times of India. She had won third place in Word Smith Award in a Short Story Contest organised by Asian Literary Society in the year 2019. In 2014 her first poetry book “Stirring Spoonful of Emotions” was published by Cyberwit Publishers. In 2018 her second book of Poems and Musings with the title “Terracotta Dreams” was published by ‘Become Shakespeare’ and her third poetry book “The Devil’s Wife With Words Beneath her Cranium” was published in the year 2019 by Authorspress. She has an Audio Novel to her credit called ‘Calcutta Pudding’ which received great appreciation from the literary fraternity in India.