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Musings of Miss Yellow
Her heart beats for the love of her poetry and her poems pour at the command of her heart. She gives her poems life, and her poems give her heart a billion reasons to beat. Her best poems have the haunt of an early Tennyson or Swinburne giving hints of path breaking poetic genius. It is all in the making. Presently they are born of fantasies, and the imagination is child-like and pure. But Supriya will outgrow all that. As experiences come to her life, her poetry will gain from them. I’m sure, Indian English poetry will gain much from Supriya, if she remains committed with the positive energy and love for poetry that she shows with her poems in the present book. Her poetic sediment is fertile for fecund off shoots as in “The Tale of Tears”. Do these tears hold/just a particular amount of sadness,/or refract some stories untold?/Big and small/tender droplets/harmoniously crawl/with our chords of agony. The lines show an energetic poetic nucleus looking for its ultimate path to break into form. There are truly eloquent lines as this in “A Dot on the Horizon”: dusk's orange poison- that dot on the horizon, or Incandescence of fuming fireflies, now shines in shunned surprise in “Here and There”. Maybe, Supriya is now in the Alice in Wonderland stage of her poetry. But it is so much fun to be there and to share it with us. I will conclude associating myself with one of her best poems “If I have a daughter” and agree… If I have a daughter, let her song never come to a halt/she must agree to store them in her vault/and one beautiful night/let her wake to see the gift of her poetry glowing like/a firefly caught in a jar/that bears with her/the secret/to glow in the darkest hour.
-Gopikrishnan Kottoor (Poet, Novelist & Playwright)
-Gopikrishnan Kottoor (Poet, Novelist & Playwright)
- GenresPoetry
125 pages, Paperback
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Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
3 books54 followersI am a poet and writer, currently based out of Belfast, Northern Ireland. I moved to Dublin over two years ago from the Himalayas to pursue an MPhil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin. I spent the summer of 2017 in Antwerp, Belgium where I contributed to the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. I was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions 2018. I was the Poetry Editor of Trinity College Dublin's postgraduate journal College Green for the academic year 2017-18 and have worked in publishing sector and a photobook library. My poems can be found in two of my poetry anthologies, The Myriad and Musings of Miss Yellow, and other literary journals and magazines like The Bombay Literary Magazine, Madras Courier, Whiplash Magazine etc. I am currently studying for an MA in Poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast.
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February 26, 2016
In India, where everyone is rushing to write low standard stories, it’s refreshing to see the world through the eyes of a young poet. “Musings of Miss Yellow” is a collection of introspective poems by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal.
Her poems are full of sights and smells of the hills. I think Nature has been her ally.
It’s hard to classify these poems as they cover a lot of ground – love, longing, tea, coffee, nature, family. In “A Poem That Doesn’t Rhyme” she ponders: “What will I write? / When all my sorrow/ will have drained away.” She mixes emotions with nature in “Here and There”: Cheerful chuckling of the pine / slithers through the sassiness of mine. In the “Song for a caged bird” she prays for a bird that has lost his freedom: Unwillingly unable to spread his wings/ he waits for the death to stab him soon. “If I have a daughter” touched my heart as I thought about my own daughter. And “Postscript” provides a perfect ending to her collection as she tells what poetry means to her “The poems that I write to you/ are postmarked with dreams....For if you’ll crush them/ you’ll crush my dreams.”
There is certain rawness in her lines, at the same time they also reflect maturity. A sense of longing cannot be mistaken in her words. She is only 20 and 2 books old. Her love of poetry and her wanderlust is going to takes her places.
Her poems are full of sights and smells of the hills. I think Nature has been her ally.
It’s hard to classify these poems as they cover a lot of ground – love, longing, tea, coffee, nature, family. In “A Poem That Doesn’t Rhyme” she ponders: “What will I write? / When all my sorrow/ will have drained away.” She mixes emotions with nature in “Here and There”: Cheerful chuckling of the pine / slithers through the sassiness of mine. In the “Song for a caged bird” she prays for a bird that has lost his freedom: Unwillingly unable to spread his wings/ he waits for the death to stab him soon. “If I have a daughter” touched my heart as I thought about my own daughter. And “Postscript” provides a perfect ending to her collection as she tells what poetry means to her “The poems that I write to you/ are postmarked with dreams....For if you’ll crush them/ you’ll crush my dreams.”
There is certain rawness in her lines, at the same time they also reflect maturity. A sense of longing cannot be mistaken in her words. She is only 20 and 2 books old. Her love of poetry and her wanderlust is going to takes her places.
November 13, 2015
Musings of Miss Yellow is a collection of evocative poems by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal. Supriya’s poems are born amidst the mountains. They are resplendent emitting vivid shades of life and nature. Her use of ideal words is quite noteworthy which adds magnetism to her poetry. No doubt her poems are a result of her immense passion for travelling and sharp observing skills. The poems are beautifully classified under various headings.
The poem ‘COLLOQUY WITH MY LIFE’ depicts how closely she observes the nature where she writes-
The brook kisses its tenants-
The big stagnant stones,
perhaps the thirsty remnants.
Their moist yearning so meek,
gets quenched by
the gushing creek.
Thus, they refuse to
move & rove.
‘A DOT IN THE HORIZON’ expresses that how she can create allegories using the images unveiled by the nature.
From coffee to black tea, from dough to doughnuts, from hiccups to granny’s glasses, from love to sadness; she has an immense ability to give birth to riveting poems through the nib of her pen. She is definitely a promising poet in the making.
The poem ‘COLLOQUY WITH MY LIFE’ depicts how closely she observes the nature where she writes-
The brook kisses its tenants-
The big stagnant stones,
perhaps the thirsty remnants.
Their moist yearning so meek,
gets quenched by
the gushing creek.
Thus, they refuse to
move & rove.
‘A DOT IN THE HORIZON’ expresses that how she can create allegories using the images unveiled by the nature.
From coffee to black tea, from dough to doughnuts, from hiccups to granny’s glasses, from love to sadness; she has an immense ability to give birth to riveting poems through the nib of her pen. She is definitely a promising poet in the making.
July 28, 2015
With a frolicking touch of melancholy and wonder, she paints fiction and verity together with an iridescent cluster of words and imagination. At twenty, the poetess of The Myriad comes up with yet another amazing anthology of poems — “Musings of Miss Yellow”, bringing to life every word with a sense of aestheticism. Enveloped in a blushing tinge of yellow and jonquil, the omnibus pleases and completes themes from love to parenthood to nature.
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back,” said Plato. Amusing is how Miss Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal has appealed to the deepest of hearts with the simplest of words. Inspired… rather amazed by the Indian poets, her poems magically apprehend the vibes which Toru Dutt and Dilip Chitre through their lines impart.
Supriya is not the nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. In “A Poem That Doesn’t Rhyme” she wonders: “What will I write? / When the veil of sunshine / will shoot the pattern / weaved by my breathe in the sky.” She writes not for a single group of readers but for them all. In “If I Have A Daughter” she contemplates: “If I have a daughter, / I’d take her on a walk / to the woods / and make her listen to the / inviting bickering of the broods.”
Being enlightening while simultaneously pleasing the readers is the art a laureate writer must possess. The poetess completes, “My poems serve as a map / of my dreams”, leaving us bewildered and told that them poems they are “postmarked with dreams”.
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back,” said Plato. Amusing is how Miss Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal has appealed to the deepest of hearts with the simplest of words. Inspired… rather amazed by the Indian poets, her poems magically apprehend the vibes which Toru Dutt and Dilip Chitre through their lines impart.
Supriya is not the nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. In “A Poem That Doesn’t Rhyme” she wonders: “What will I write? / When the veil of sunshine / will shoot the pattern / weaved by my breathe in the sky.” She writes not for a single group of readers but for them all. In “If I Have A Daughter” she contemplates: “If I have a daughter, / I’d take her on a walk / to the woods / and make her listen to the / inviting bickering of the broods.”
Being enlightening while simultaneously pleasing the readers is the art a laureate writer must possess. The poetess completes, “My poems serve as a map / of my dreams”, leaving us bewildered and told that them poems they are “postmarked with dreams”.
June 30, 2015
Supriya has grasped the very core of the ethereal substance poetry is made of. Her work is far ahead of her time, drawing inspiration from a myriad of thoughts, feelings & experiences. The imagery is vivid & the vocabulary is rich, making each poem a complex delicious sensation. For the lovers of poetry, the book is a delight.
She sees everything in a light that would not even occur to most of us. The poems understand human heart and do not fail to touch it with every syllable.
I am already looking forward to more books from her.
She sees everything in a light that would not even occur to most of us. The poems understand human heart and do not fail to touch it with every syllable.
I am already looking forward to more books from her.
May 11, 2016
Whether you think of it as a repository of melancholy or a fount of long-lost happiness, her muses are inescapably alluring. Perhaps, if you could dwell deep between the lines, you will know that it's not about rhythm in patterns or the mild anesthesia formed in between the sentences - it's about the story crafted in with such complexities, you can't help but assume what tensions in methods, what elasticity in her thoughts can make a someone write something as pure as this. The yellow, yes, that's the color she paints with her words.
July 7, 2015
Supriya does not disappoint anyone when it comes to poetry. In Musings of Miss Yellow, she's painted a beautiful scenery of inspiration and motivation. I enjoyed this poetry book. I believe you'll be inspired, too.
July 7, 2015
Beautiful, introspective poetry.
January 21, 2016
Beautiful book!
Supriya, I love the way you pen down your thoughts.
Supriya, I love the way you pen down your thoughts.
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