Wingword Poetry Competition 2025

By Sharada Shyam Sundar

One last time,
her eyes flitted across the stage,
to where her phantom audience sat.

By Shriparna Biswas

In the depths of night, what do you long for most?
I hesitate... love, I whisper.
Love where I am cherished for all that I am, in the fullest sense of the word.
Love where I am left alone.

By Nitya Mongia

I dance,
a moth to your flame.
If only a scorch could drive me away, I would be long gone.

By Tia Sharma

In the face of danger, they stand tall,
Their valor is a beacon answering destiny's call.
With their hearts ablaze and their spirits high,
For the love of their motherland, they touch the sky.

By Advita Kesavan

Never a moment boring shall arise
Every passing second will be a surprise

By Paridhi Poddar

The sky shifted the flame on the stove, rising and falling
into colours now claimed by mortality; none our own today.
Our center is all the same, a school on holiday, deserted,
an aquarium decorates the entrance with fish swimming aimlessly.

By Alakananda Sur

In the dark, none to see her scars,
For all she had to do was comply—

By MP Anand

In Bangalore, once called a pensioner’s paradise, where beautiful gardens bloomed, now stands a city—India’s booming Silicon Valley—where silicon dreams hum, and code weaves the fabric of tomorrow.

By Chiranjeet Saha 

My teacher, my mentor my perpetual guide,
Thank you for being there on this joyful ride.

By Snigdha Bhowmik

Nowadays I am fine.
Yes, I am fine,
lost in the lies of life.

By Manasa Reddy Chichili

Once I was a little girl
Far too small and far too alone

By Zeenat Khan

I am a shadow of my mother,
Reflecting the brown shade of her eyes. 

By Shaivi Dabadi

What is mind? We all ask 
An entity which tries to understand and shape everything 

By Sanjay Taneja

चमकता है आइना दिखता है सूरत
क्यों नहीं दिखता यह हमारी सिरत.

By Kaivalya Mahesh

In the quiet woods where I once stood tall, 
I feel the changes, the softest call

By Arjun Das

I stood in a deluge
and wept and wept
till my voice was unheard.

By Spurti Aluru

Hollow.
The reins to reign the marionette I once was — a phantom.

By Atharva Rewatkar

When you shall leave, far away from me,
I'll stare at souvenirs 'neath a weeping tree.

By Deepak Kanoujia

Water
is a scarce resource,
not like love
which is plentiful, abundant, and immortal...

By Parvez Kumar

In starless night,
Dreamless sleep,
On sunless day,
Alone I weep.

By Avni Agarwal

Words fail to escape my mouth,
As I try to speak, my voice feels heavy, and my eyes feel weak.
Something bothers me, I just don't know what.

By Prabha Kumar

We miss living in the moment.
We live thinking of the past or the future.

By Shubhangi Daga

High hope to find real love,
Wrong places to find the above.

By Aadya Kanchan

The brine breeze dances in my nose,
Waves crash on the shores,
Sand crunches beneath my feet,
As the winds carry a fleet.

By Himabhri Tewatia

Oh no! He fell down again,
Only a fool can be so blind to the truth.

By Tanisha Kindo

The day might not be how I wanted,
But I'll always have a reason to thank.

By Nandini Joshi

"Check for Monsters Under Your Bed!"

I don’t see them—

By Mahima K

I loved his eyes, deep brown and endless, like two hidden worlds
drawing me in with quiet secrets.. his heart was the same..

By Syona Rajput

I wonder if my father raped my mother.
On their wedding day 

By Karunakara Kudupu

When one goes through the loss of a loved one;
It's natural to think, “Why did this happen to me?”