Downpour of Divinity

Chitrotpala Chaitali Dash

Sambalpur, India

Chitrotpala Chaitali Dash is currently pursuing her M. Tech in Biotechnology and hails from Odisha. She has co-authored in various anthologies and is a published author of the book "Songs of the Cherry Blossom", which is a potpourri of musings, emotions, and heartstrings. Chitrotpala is a nemophilist, who finds solace in poems, musings and a cup of tea. When I was thirteen years old, she read a poem "Because I could not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson. That was when the poetry bug bit her. Dickinson is her all-time inspiration and her poems inculcated a deep urge in her to start writing poetry. So she used to write pages and pages of poems in her long lost diary. Then somehow she lost touch with poetry for some years. It was in the year 2020 when her heart struck a chord with poetry once again. Apart from Dickinson, some other poets whom she really admires are Robert Frost, William Blake and Sadhvi Vrinda Om to name a few. If poetry is a drink, then Bhakti and Sufi poetry is her nectar. She really loves to read poems of different saints and mystics like Mirabai, Janabai, Akka Mahadevi, Kabir, Rumi, Bulleh Shah and the list goes on. She believes that writing is a soulful affair that helps us connect with our higher selves, and transforms us in the long run. In other words, poetry is a spiritual healer for her. The poems she writes are mostly based on themes like human emotions, nature, spirituality and bhakti poetry. She is a crazy lover of trees and woods. They form an integral part in most of her writings.

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