55 poems in Hindi and English illustrate the astounding voices of love, strength, and expression arising from the alma mater of experiencing life as some of us - who observe with helpless keenness, with a lot of life to feel on our chest and bones.
Stop To Smell the Roses' attempts to help you split open to all the living we’ve experienced together as inmates of life.
Embrace the roses and their thorns,
Take along what life offers and move on."
If poetry is the solace that ignites our shared truth as the flame; as moths, we keep drawing into it, into each other - sharing love, strength, and expression.
क़ैद करने की कोशिश नहीं है ये शब्दों से,
गिरफ्त कहाँ ये हमारा लम्हों पे?
हम तो आज़ादी लिखते हैं अपने पन्नों में।"
Stop and Smell the Roses' is an attempt at justice to the sheer joy of reading, writing, and being lost in the acts.