# Discerner of Words

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2025/12/24/discerner-of-words/
- Published: 2025-12-24T01:33:21+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Daiarisa Rumnong[⌊A sample cover of the book: sky-blue handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Discerner-of-Words.jpeg)
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Pages:** 114 **Year of Publication:** 2025 **Price:** ₹400 **ISBN:** 978-81-985733-
7-7 (9788198573377)

_**About the Author**_
 Dr Daiarisa Rumnong is Assistant Professor in the Department
of English at St. Mary’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya. She believes that poetry 
holds truth and power. She is humbled by the wisdom of words, imagery, metaphors
and all that language can encompass. Daiarisa sees poetry as a sacred gift which
is to be experienced with the eyes of the soul, and not to be trifled with.

_**Teaser**_

_The Well_

What a surplus stock of tears one holds.
 They may hide in sorrow. They may appear
in joy. They are the moss-covered river stones I try to manoeuvre. Alluring in their
round existence, unmoving under a sheet of ripples.

In the space made pure by pools
 of word and sun, love and loneliness. If it is 
man or woman, the same well is moved. A well who breaks into a jigsaw of roles. 
A well who laps against scars and wounds. A well who sings of perpetual impulse.

What moves you?
 Please deliberate. Chew those bones and transpose them onto paper
for a scroll of sticks and stones to roll out.

The nuance in the pitch of truth.
 A truth who tells us we are inheritors of imperfection.
A civilization propped up by its trees whose bridges are wisdom-roots poised and
grounded. Its rivers swelling, shrinking, persisting to retain structure. Its caves
who outline subterranean light exposing storied earth.

May rain-tears pause you
 as they stir jigsaw breaths, as they appease scars and
wounds, as they stride undulated impulse.

_**Contents**_
 50 poems spread across 8 sections

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