Ten Most Read Poets @ North of Oxford 2022

Ten most read poets as determined by the readership of North of Oxford for 2022

How Dreams Grow by Manasi Diwakar

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/how-dreams-grow-by-manasi-diwakar/

Layers of Blankets by Doug Holder

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/layers-of-blankets-by-doug-holder/

Pandemic of Violence Anthology II – Poets Speak

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/pandemic-of-violence-anthology-ii-poets-speak/

The Ballad of Morbid and Putrid By Sawyer Lovett

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/the-ballad-of-morbid-and-putrid-by-sawyer-lovett/

Pandemic of Violence Anthology I – Poets Speak

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/pandemic-of-violence-anthology/

Sisson’s by Eric D. Goodman

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/01/11/sissons-by-eric-d-goodman/

High Stakes by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/02/12/high-stakes-by-ryan-quinn-flanagan/

Two Poems by Susana H. Case

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/02/12/two-poems-by-susana-h-case/

The Game by Matthew Ussia

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/the-game-by-matthew-ussia/

Two Poems by Kerry Trautman

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2022/02/12/two-poems-by-kerry-trautman/

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How Dreams Grow by Manasi Diwakar

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How Dreams Grow

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First, it’s a hurricane of thoughts

Dreams flip like Dadasaheb Phalke’s*

moving frames–

girls lifting weights,

boys throwing javelins.

Stomach growls, expectations mount

By the candlelight, a vision, however blurred,

is sown. Roots break

barbed boundaries.

The tree grows tall. It shades

all who want, wonder, wander, alike.

Quietly, the pollens transfer.

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* Dadasaheb Phalke, father of Indian Cinema.

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Manasi Diwakar (She/Her) is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Tea For Two’. She has done her Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Technology and worked as a Technical Lead for twelve years before becoming a full-time technical editor. Her work has appeared in Women’s Web, Melbourne Culture Corner, Impspired, Literary Impulse, Wingless Dreamer, etc. She volunteers as a reader for Epiphany magazine and editor for Wingless Dreamer.

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