Petals & Embers: Poems by and for the Ruminating Mind

By Teertha Anil

Petals,
full of promise of life
may yet grow, from the
Embers
of a dying fire.

There is both desolation and delight, melancholy and might, in the author’s life, in people, in things of substance. Petals and Embers captures the anger, anxiety, love and every other emotion and colour in the spectrum of life.

Ranging from topics of violence against women and mental health to deeply personal emotions, this collection of poems covers it all. Experience both the petals of merriment and an ember-like melancholy between these pages. Some lines can be more relatable than others, but there is something for everyone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
• Release date: Jul 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9789354389269

Teertha Anil

The author is an ambitious, out of place, chronic daydreamer. Her name is Teertha and she is 21 years old. She is from God’s Own Country – Kerala, but at times, feels particularly godless. She has struggled with her mental health for almost five years now, though it has in no way affected her passion for life. She prefers to be called ‘distinct’, not ‘different’. She has very recently developed a love for English classical literature and Milky Bar. She has dabbled with love, the ceremony of getting a college degree, and of course, with being society’s idea of perfection and has failed miserably in all of them. Now, she is grappling with living and in doing that happily. And so far, so good.

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