If Life Wore Polka – Dots

By Heer Nimavat

The 17 year old poetess of ‘If Life Wore Polka Dots’ is far from having a wise, grey streak of hair on her head. Yet, as she looks at the wardrobe of life, she can’t help but be in awe of the greys, all-blacks, florals, stripes, checks, and of course, polka dots, that are laid out for her. Her first anthology of poems is the personification of that very life. The poems are inspired reflections of her mind and heart. While some poems portray the surreal convolutions of her imagination, some embrace the worldly reality. Quite a few are critically reforming statements on society, ethics, discrimination and philosophy.

This book holds many a polka dots…may you find some of yours in here too!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Dec 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543707205

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IF

LIFE WORE

POLKA DOTS

HEER NIMAVAT

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Copyright © 2020 by Heer Nimavat.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Crossroad

Sudden Stillness

The Lady Doth Protest Too Much!

The Last Word

Columbus Of the World Within

Buffering

City walls

May I Please Start Again?

Beyond The Horizon

I Am Notre Dame

Camouflage

Himalayas

Dancing To Silence

Woes Of Being A Writer

Familiar’s Farewell

Grieving You

The Eyes Under The Veil

Live a Little

Adults

Little girls

Questions to Justicia

Home

A Woman In ‘Man’kind

Democracy’s Funeral

Nature And Mankind

Walk me Through The Winter, Won’t You?

Just Growing Up

Glass Towers

Mommy Fought For You

Mayfly

The Falling Chair

Dew Drop

Incomplete Stories

Only Human

I am a poet, but am I?

Just An Ocean To Cross

Mumma?

Souvenir

Right

Meant to be, Not meant to be

Superhero

You loved a Poet, My Love

Saree

The City lights’ Tale

When?

The Child Of Kashmir

Defining Poetry

The Phoenix’s song

The Wave’s Lesson

Ten Years From Now

At The Brink Of Balance

Life Beyond Me

Past Is Catching Up

What For?

Down The Memory Lane

Complete Ellipses

If Life Wore Polka Dots

This Book In Your Name

To my parents, Kiara,

And a not- so polka dotted life…

PREFACE

‘If Life Wore Polka Dots’ is a collection of poems written by the seventeen-year-old poetess, over the multi-hued phases of her life. Some poems are impacted by her real-life experiences while some are fragments of her imagination and ideals. A handful of them touch upon social themes like feminism, democracy, ethics and justice. Simultaneously, most of them reflect a deeper philosophy of life, love and death. Much like the meaning behind the title, the anthology describes the beauty of the ever-changing nature of life. May the polka dots begin…!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is a funny thing to say for a 17-year-old, but truly, so much of life has led to this book. Beginning with the little things, I thank Barbara Streisand’s ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ for waking up my dreams and I every morning. I thank Jonathan Livingston Seagull for its skies, Tuesdays with Morrie for its lessons and of course! Harry Potter for absolutely everything. I thank Forrest Gump and Finding Nemo for teaching me life. I thank every place I’ve been to, for making me realize the essence of ‘home’ and the unimaginable wonder the world is. I thank those who were there and those who still are. And more than anything, I thank words for being my companion for life.

Moving on to the ones who will definitely have a thing or two to say for being thanked after Tom Hanks and a clown fish: my