Wingword Poetry Competition 2025

By Nazima Ansari
You held my hand when I was tumbling down, and placed me high — I respect you more than I love you, and that’s no lie.

Vaishnavi Singh 

I was born from mountain breath 
 I was innocent and had potential beneath,
 But then I grew and became a restless soul,
 Moving in my dynamic flow,
 

By Stuti Bansal, Her strength isn’t loud, it doesn’t demand, but lies in the wisdom she holds in her hands. She is the dawn that follows the dark, the peace that waits after the spark.

By Rakhi Sharma Aich, Why do the eyes still search, the heart still ache — when we know those in the lap of death never come back?

By Seeran Yasuran
The tranquil lake’s pacific and classic vibrations, the exotic islands’ unique components — are the natural celebrations!

By Mini Singhal
समझो तो बस बात है, न समझो तो पहेली — समझ को जो समझ गया, वही कहलाए असली समझदार।

By Mohammed Kabir Kolakkar

An early morning I went to a shore,
The rising sun, with the waves that roar,
Those fresh breeze covered

By Neetu Chettri
The coffee’s cold, the cereal untouched — truth be told, selling her heart to a demon was her biggest mistake.

By Punam JR
I am the walking wounded — I do not want to be. How do I detach it from this identity?

By Aniket Pathare

On the bench, I sit in solitude,
Watching the leaves,
green at first, now yellow,
spiraling down, one by one.

By Anu Joshi

Tall buildings with big gates and pigeon shit — clean and clean and yet nothing ever gets cleaned, not even the rot within.

By Geetanjali Sengar

तुम भी उसी मिट्टी की हो, जिस मिट्टी का मैं हूँ प्रिये” — जब शम्भू ने याद दिलाया, तभी माता ने चंडी बन दुष्टों का अंत किया...

By Anuradha Ketu
ना गुड़िया पहले सी हँसती है, ना रोती है — अब बस खामोश रहती है... और खूब चैन से सोती है।

By Sheela Varma

I am here, you are there....
What's in between?
A small gap, an impediment;
Or a chasm unseen??

By Rupesh R

I am thinking about you the way I think about breathing...
In the times of
A wandering mind
An anxiety's

By Ira Ghosh Nayak

I walk into the arena bursting with crowds
My heart beats faster as the cheers grow loud

By Sarang Gujar

Their whispers are forbidden, let alone their existence.
Bare smiles veiled, exposing the misogyny.

By Mansi Chaturvedi

Standing on the deck
As the ship took its stride
On the majestic wave that tried to create havoc

By Priya Ponugoti

She is the only inevitable.
Into her, we all one day stumble.
The dark princess of the universe,

By Hrehaan Shah

There once was a legend.
It was scary.
The paper it was written on is now thin and weary.

By Akshat Binani 

Migration is the movement of all living beings, 
On land and even over seas

By Rekha Karthic 

A stupendous reunion uncovered some myths.
The fragile, lanky classmate,
Went on to become a weightlifter.

By Faisal Habib

Somewhere in the crowd of selfish faces, humanity is lost,
Somewhere in cold hearts, its path is crossed.

By Suchitra Devi Potsangbam

Let me enter into this darkness,
this silence,
my alone-ness!

By Arpit Hatila

आओ पढ़े एक किताब
किताब मेरी जिंदगी
कुछ पन्नों में खामोशी

By Ruchika Sharma

Broken in will but unfathomably dark,
The treachery of life, the twinkle in the ether’s scars.
The dark is where I feign a laugh,

By Anik Dasgupta

I am the world’s greatest actor.
Do you hear me? The GREATEST.
The god of lies, the saint of sin.

By Shraddha Gupta Thakral

I am still trying to be understanding ,
Like how I have always been,

By Chelsea Ahluwalia

You were just a child, thinking you didn’t deserve love. And I— I was just a child who left before being left...

By Vijayta Agnibhoj

है सहर उजाले में,पर रोशनी में आने में वक्त तो लगता है ,
टूटकर बिखरे कांच के टुकड़े को समेटने में वक्त तो लगता है ..