# Earth by the Edges

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/09/earth-by-the-edges/
- Published: 2018-07-09T21:22:42+00:00
- Author: shuktara

5/5 - (1 vote)

**Author:** Devina Kapahi[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Earth-by-the-Edges.jpg)
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Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
178-6 (9789350451786)

_**About the Author**_
 Devina Kapahi was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. She 
received her MA in English literature from Canning College, Lucknow University, 
and a Ph.D. from Lucknow University. Her special areas of interest are poetry, fiction
and children’s literature.

_**Teaser**_

_Grief_

I watch an orange beetle, orange as lipstick,
 smooth powdered wings, slick navy-
tipped beetle, on the green lime leaf; butterflies, painted lady, tiger and anonymous
tiny lemon-yellow, swing daintily on delicate long-stemmed wildflowers growing profusely
on the roof next door, rusted red by the monsoon rain, bowed down by the weight 
of butterflies, and I, by the concentrate of grief, and this aimless suffering. 
Far away in a water-hyacinth-choked pond, a motionless flock of long-legged herons,
like long white buds arise, a living bouquet, and in a time of sleep come overwhelmingly
to me, a sense of loss, of sadness, of too many years, passing too swiftly, the 
vividness of flame-coloured nasturtiums burns brightly, seasons dawn, orderly and
riotous in turn but the logical conclusion of a woman’s life passes me by.

**Contents**
 48 poems

## Comments

### By: Shashi Bharadwaj

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/09/earth-by-the-edges/#comment-36
- Published: 2020-12-05T18:38:28+00:00

Profound… Great to meet my classmate through her published work , after more than
four decades …
 Congratulations, Devina !

### By: shuktara

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/09/earth-by-the-edges/#comment-37
- Published: 2020-12-07T14:59:54+00:00

Thank you for supporting her work!

### By: Kuldeep

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/09/earth-by-the-edges/#comment-38
- Published: 2023-05-24T00:36:58+00:00

What an unexpected surprise

Congratulations

### By: Shuktara

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/07/09/earth-by-the-edges/#comment-39
- Published: 2023-06-26T18:24:03+00:00

Thank you for your message; hope you will read her book!