Akila G.
Akila G. juggles the muse, work, home and an eight-year-old daughter. She has read at the Goa litfest, TedX, Sahitya Akademi and has been published in anthologies and online journals of repute. She is also an active member of the Twin City Poetry Club, Hyderabad. Her poem “Stains” was one of the ten shortlisted for the Womeninc Sakhi Award 2018 for poetry.
Poems by Akila G
Checkmate
This is how it rains.
A cloudburst
when you laugh and compete
with the spattering droplets
and I
harvest a silence
in a pair of pretentious shades
tears have long muted
consoled...