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Did You Ever Love Me? Book Review: Can Rithvik singh turn heartbreak into a homecoming?

Did You Ever Love Me? by Rithvik Singh is a tender contemporary poetry collection about love, heartbreak, longing, self worth and learning to let go. Its greatest strength is emotional accessibility: Singh writes directly to readers who feel intensely and care deeply. The collection offers comfort without pretending heartbreak is simple, though its simplicity may occasionally feel familiar to seasoned poetry readers. Did you Ever Love Me? Have you ever loved someone so completely that, after they left, you were left wondering whether they had ever understood what they had been given? Not merely whether they loved you, but whether they ever noticed how much you loved them, how much patience you offered, how many small things you remembered, or how often you chose to stay when leaving might have been easier. There is a particular loneliness in that question because it rarely arrives at a dramatic moment. More often, it finds you while you are doing something completely ordinary. Yo...

The 18 questions tag

30th may,7.49 Pm.Friday
Lest this blog ever suffers from inactivity, here is another tag,picked from a wordpress blog.
1) Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it…
No scar as such, a pencil lead, next to my nose.

2) What does your phone look like?
Great,simple and usefull. Its an old nokia,i don't even remember the model,but its said, it is waterproof.So rough tough and simple.

3) What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Ram naam,ek Onkar,My sketch,a useless certificate,an article published in a newspaper,loads of printed and handwritten quotes,posters of cars,calendars,photographs,air conditioner,etc etc etc.

4) What is your current desktop picture?
It changes every week, currently,kissi angrezzi model ki lagi hui

5) Do you believe in gay marriage?
Unki marzi...who am i to say anything

6) What do you want more than anything right now?
A companion

7) What time were you born?
10.10 am sharppp

8) Are your parents still together?
Yeah. [Ghatiya sawaal nai tha kya?]

9) Last person who made you cry?
NO comments.

10) What is your favorite perfume / cologne?
sabhi vadiya hunde ne, no particular fav.

11) What kind of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?
Black hair, brown,hazel or black eyes, green bhi chalengi..grey and blue thodi strange lagti hain.Thats it.

12) What are you listening to?
Jab jab teri soorat, film jaanbaaz

13) Do you get scared of the dark?
Na na,chance hi nai.

14) Do you like painkillers?
Depends,if they can demolish the root cause, fir to theek hai,but most of them,don't do that, so avoid. Waise i don't like allopathy medicines.

15) Are you too shy to ask someone out?
yeah!!! basically jisko bi kiya, everyone refused, zero success rate you see :D Also that person will be my good friend, so dosti ka bhi kachra ho jata hai.

16) If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
Aloo chaat, ice creams, choco biscuits. etc etc etc loooongggggggggg list hai.

17) Who was the last person/people who made you mad?
Long list again.

1 8) Who was the last person who made you smile?
none

18 people i am tagging for this one.So here goes the mammoth list.

Pankhuri,Ankeita,Shaista

Alvia,Rashi,Vimz

Sheetal,Sahefa,Nidhi

Osin,Abhilasha,jan

Sukanya,Himanshu,Khusboo

Gauri,Khayati,Somalee [ these three can do this on My musings itself]



Comments

ABey tu kitne tags karta hai...dimag nai dukhta tera?kuch aur b kar.brng variety..bura mat maniyo....chal maan le..hak banta hai..hehehe.
Gauri Mathur said…
Gud yarr..aise hee intresting tags karte raha karo..it brings soo much fun,,.:-) aur kitna sab jane ko milta hai sab ke barein mei..:)keep on doing tis my dearest friend..:-)

maze aate haii.:-)

God Bless u!!!:-)
take care:-)
Tushar Mangl said…
Thank you for your kind words
Girls.
:-)

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