Know Your Poet: Gina Gallyot

Gina Gallyot

Gina Gayllot is a full-time healthcare worker, part-time poet and writer and a believer in everything magical. Gina is also the Editor (Bahasa Malaysia) of the Delhiwallah Poetry Collective. She believes that great conversations carry the most powerful stories.

Her books include Full Priced Love: There's No Price Tag for this Love, Raw Earth: A Short Story, The Book of Stars, and Days of Corona, Moments of Haiku: A Collection.

She lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her short stories and poems can be found at alifelesslived.weebly.com.

Read Gina's poem Snow Groomers.

beneath the ache you feel for a distant memory

the hormone of darkness brings you sleep

of night shifts and snow groomers

dancing across the universe

of a velvet sky trimmed

with a chaotic terrain

where the sun sculpts the ice

on the equatorial line

passing through the furthest

reach of your consciousness

you count the seasons that float before you

as you turn towards the sun and touch the ice caps

the chaos melts into one final clap of thunder

Event Alert: 12 September 2020

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

This week, the Delhiwallah Poetry Collective and Poetry Sans Frontiers, invite poetry on Mistakes and Retakes.

Join us on 12 September 2020 (Saturday) at 7 pm IST and 9:30 pm MST.

Visit meet.jit.si/DPC1209.

Genealogy: Jashodhara Chakraborti

Photo Credit: Jashodhara Chakraborti

You may think I am a street dog, It's a description I defy When it comes to where I come from There's more than meets the eye. My ears aren't dog eared, No, no - you mustn't think that A great great grand uncle Used to be a fruit bat. If my eyes captivate you, I'd like you to know That my maternal grandmother Was part canine, part doe. When I nip downstairs in my trotters Rumours are rife That I used to be Anubis In another life. There's some labrador in me And healthy Indian pie But my home life is rather Bengali That I cannot deny. Between fish, sweets and siesta And Britannia Marie with tea I am quite the Bengali Bhadralok But for the lamppost pee.

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Jashodhara Chakraborti is the author of two fantasy adventures for Young Adults, The Wordkeepers and its sequel, Skyserpents (as Jash Sen). She is also a TedX speaker, a regular moderator at The Kolkata Literary Meet and an occasional columnist. Jashodhara discovered her love for funny rhymes during the lockdown. She will let you decide if she is a poet.