I’m Phaguni, a writer and poet from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. A student still learning, a dreamer still growing. I write because I feel deeply, and in every word, I try to give a little back to the world.
English
Because sometimes silence speaks louder than words. There’s a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is easy it’s just sound entering your ears. But listening? That’s presence. That’s slowing down enough to catch not just the words, but the pauses, the hesitations, the things left unsaid.
English
Grief found me before I could name it, and now I see it in everything, everywhere, all the time the unwritten letters I never sent, windows I left unopened despite the wind calling my name, the roads I refuse to take because they all lead back to you. In the
some mornings, my inner child whispers: you are a paper boat, folded with wonder, floating in wild rain. hold me close, even when storms pull at your own edges. and I nod, as I wrap her in my cardigan of thoughts, promise her bedtime stories even when sleep tiptoes away.
They ask Why are you so quiet? as if silence doesn’t scream in softer tongues. As if the museum of my feelings hasn’t been echoing in empty halls for years. I write in the language of sighs, in pauses between breaths, in the trembling hush before sleep. My