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Thank you for participating! We know that poets and poems usually celebrate resplendence in the lushness of spring but this poem by Maggie Smith has a few gorgeous, vivid images of fall that we can't help but respond to very strongly 🍁

libtorchlight's tweet image. Thank you for participating! We know that poets and poems usually celebrate resplendence in the lushness of spring but this poem by Maggie Smith has a few gorgeous, vivid images of fall that we can't help but respond to very strongly 🍁

Resplendent



What a wonderful theme! Here is Polish poet Wisława Anna Szymborska's 'Love at First Sight', a paean to serendipity & destiny

libtorchlight's tweet image. What a wonderful theme! Here is Polish poet Wisława Anna Szymborska's 'Love at First Sight', a paean to serendipity & destiny

Resplendent



Ouch, but here you go: Jessie Fauset's 'La Vie C'est La Vie'

libtorchlight's tweet image. Ouch, but here you go: Jessie Fauset's 'La Vie C'est La Vie'

bitterness + unrequited love



We believe @adalimon's 'The Problem with Travel' answers that description very well :)

libtorchlight's tweet image. We believe @adalimon's 'The Problem with Travel' answers that description very well :)

Wistfulness



1 like = 1 poem based on your choice of theme/mood/image/feeling. Drop a reply with what you want!


Readers from all over the country share with us the books/authors they simply cannot get through despite quarantine-downtime journal.bookwormgoa.in/lockdown-proof…


"When the first twenty five days of isolation were announced, my immediate strongest instinct was to draw what I was feeling. The strangeness of it. The unstable sense of reality." Drawing the Lockdown - a (longish) graphic exploration by Alia Sinha. journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…


Lakshmi Karunakaran, a library educator working at B'luru's Buguri Community Library, an org that caters to children of informal waste-pickers, talks about keeping it alive during times of #COVID19 lockdown journal.bookwormgoa.in/the-library-is…


What does it take to make a children's book-club work during the pandemic? Jane Sahi explores journal.bookwormgoa.in/from-eye-to-ey…


.@ThejaswiShivan1 is here to make sure each reader has a loyal companion through the long days of lockdown. From New Yorker Cartoon Collections to Oliver Sacks, he has recommendations to suit every mood journal.bookwormgoa.in/reading-in-the…


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Delhi-based illustrator Alia Sinha has been drawing her way through the lockdown. Her diary touches on everything from the banality of rent concerns to the boredom of routine to anxiety over the state of the nation. Read! journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…

nay_yeah's tweet image. Delhi-based illustrator Alia Sinha has been drawing her way through the lockdown. Her diary touches on everything from the banality of rent concerns to the boredom of routine to anxiety over the state of the nation. Read! 
journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…
nay_yeah's tweet image. Delhi-based illustrator Alia Sinha has been drawing her way through the lockdown. Her diary touches on everything from the banality of rent concerns to the boredom of routine to anxiety over the state of the nation. Read! 
journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…
nay_yeah's tweet image. Delhi-based illustrator Alia Sinha has been drawing her way through the lockdown. Her diary touches on everything from the banality of rent concerns to the boredom of routine to anxiety over the state of the nation. Read! 
journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…
nay_yeah's tweet image. Delhi-based illustrator Alia Sinha has been drawing her way through the lockdown. Her diary touches on everything from the banality of rent concerns to the boredom of routine to anxiety over the state of the nation. Read! 
journal.bookwormgoa.in/drawing-the-lo…

We have a special lockdown edition of Torchlight for you! Inside you will find an illustrator's quarantine diary, stories from book clubs & NGOs as they adapt to the rigors of online sessions & more. Dig in! journal.bookwormgoa.in


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