1
" Hanging conversations,
uncertain observations,
incomplete imaginations.
Unsent text messages,
unreplied mails,
undecided calls,
unattended places.
Unsettled pledges,
distant searches.
Some underutilized wages,
some unseen dreams,
sitting on dried leaves,
believing the unbelieved…
bidding adieu,
to the accepted,
how much she wanted to
do,
what was,
detested! "
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber , Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
3
" Identity is not the face,
Identity is not the trait,
Neither is it the success pace,
Nor is it the personality grace.
Let alone it being your cliché phrase,
Or did you think,
It’s some religious faith?
My child, it’s alarming that it’s none,
It’s even not tongue,
Then how can it be, what problems you have overcome
And the person you have become! "
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber , Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
4
" ...I day dream.
Therefore,
I am the queen,
of my thoughts.
Though thirteen,
I drift,
between,
one conception,
to another.
I create opinions,
liberate dilemmas,
assert convictions,
deal paroxysm,
create perfections.”
I am neither,
a thinker,
nor a,
perceiver,
I am a Day Dreamer... "
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber , Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
7
" I have a lot of,
unfinished poems.
And all of them are like,
some love affair,
that started too quick,
and died too young.
Each incomplete art to me,
is like a memory lane,
of an insane passion,
that words,
couldn't explain,
and colors couldn't contain. "
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber , Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
8
" During the late nights,
when my eyes are a little sunken,
and heart is a little full.
When my brain is a little poetic,
and soul is a little dull.
I pull,
my phone and scroll,
the Instagram.
At that moment I feel how I,
don't belong.
Not to this.
Not to this, which is everything
perfect and everything bliss.
The uphill battle,
the tough grind,
the donkey work- we all do.
and we all want to decline.
We end up opening Instagram,
to put up a false pretty ME,
and a fake perfect AM "
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber , Ginger and Honey: An unusual free verse poetry collection
