A daughter reflects on her deeply intertwined life with her mother, her strength, sacrifices, evolving beliefs, and unwavering support through illness, divorce, and loss. From caregiver to dependent and back again, their bond remains unbroken, an enduring source of healing, resilience, and love that sustains them through life’s hardest storms.
This poem portrays a mother as a silent, enduring force who absorbs pain and hardship to protect her child. Despite her own wounds, she remains strong, loving, and constant. The speaker expresses deep gratitude for her mother’s sacrifice, seeing her as a shelter, healer, and the foundation of her strength and dreams.
A mother of a special child lives a quiet, relentless resilience. Through exhaustion, doubt, and unseen struggles, she continues to show up every single day. This Mother’s Day, we honour not perfection, but her courage to stay, to try, and to never give up, even when it’s hardest.
Growing up on Lata Mangeshkar’s gentle love, I learnt devotion and restraint. But Asha Bhosle awakened a different truth – love could be bold, playful, sensuous, and self-assured. Her voice permitted me to feel deeply, desire freely, and embrace a fuller, more unapologetic version of womanhood and love.
A candid late-life reflection follows a fiercely independent woman confronting her long-standing need for approval, revealing how unexpected reactions to personal success reshaped her boundaries, expectations, and relationship with her own joy.
A reflective narrative explores subtle workplace inequality through everyday assumptions, revealing how polite questions and quiet expectations shape women’s careers, choices, and opportunities in ways that often go unnoticed.
A reflection on unlearning the social conditioning many girls grow up with, celebrating women who challenge expectations, redefine roles, and inspire others to claim their space with courage and conviction.
A slice-of-life vignette that observes the gentle flow of a weekday morning, revealing the unnoticed details that make up everyday domestic life.
Through vivid imagery and quiet reflection, this piece examines the contrast between the calm rhythms of daily life and the unsettling questions that linger beneath the surface.
Theme for 2026 When I sat down to write this piece, out of plain curiosity, I googled the theme for this year’s Women’s Day. It
