Hey, Swell, hope you had a great weekend and a lovely Sunday. Well, I wanted to wrap up my Sunday, sparking a conversation with one of our longtime Swellcasters, Teesha Aurora, who has, through her very deep thought provoking poems, really found her way to our hearts. Teesha is a 17 year old poet, philosophy enthusiast, and aspiring moral psychologist. She is a student of grade twelve and has been writing poetry since the fifth grade
Teesha Aurora
@teeshaaurora · 3:56
And in those events, my first inclination was always to go say a poem. And even for elocution competitions where, for example, we had to recite something about freedom fighters, my first inclination would be to convert their lives, the stories of their lives, into a poem. And I think I've always been very fascinated with how words can rhyme or how can you join different words together to create something complex and that sounds succinct and good
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:29
Have you seen a shift in terms of what you are inspired to write about over the years? How has your journey as a poet evolved in terms of your writing style, right? In terms of your approach to the subject or that particular feeling that you want to emote about through your poetry?
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 0:31
And I think the poem about the momos, it was just delightful, right? And so raw and so honest, right. Only as a 6th grader could have possibly written about. And I think it's beautiful starting from there to actually looking at the poems that you have here read out for us here on Swell. It's been a remarkable journey and hence my question about how your style has evolved over the last few years
Teesha Aurora
@teeshaaurora · 4:12
And with the pandemic, people began started talking about their own lived experiences, or more so, the things that we don't talk about in conversation enough, like fears, anxiety, trauma, and expressing them through the medium of poetry. So I think it moved from at least my feet moved from being much more romantic and soft and happy to collective experience of humanity with a vast range of topics. So there's this poem that I tell all my friends about. It's called the Orange Poem