PRATIBHA SAVANI
Author Feature - September 2021
Everyone has a journey, so here's mine....
I'm Pratibha, a poet and artist from the UK. I never knew I was writing poetry when I first started to write. Pouring my emotions out onto paper, when I was struggling with eczema as a teenager over 20 years ago, which affected my mental health, which, at the time, I didn't realise. Writing it down helped and so my writing began as a student. I would re-read them later, amazed with the rawness I had written, knowing one day, I wanted to publish them, to help others facing similar situations. Fast forward to October 2020 and I finally published these poems into my debut poetry book “Tangles + Knots", a journey of hope and self-belief, intertwined with my mindfulness art and mental wellbeing themes.
Since my book release, I have been active on social media, whilst learning about the world of poetry and publications!! I got back into writing again that same year (March 2020), during the UK Covid lockdown, publishing online on Cosmofunnel. I discovered I could still write! It helped me build my confidence and my poem "Night" won the April 2020 contest. Recently, my poems have been published in two anthologies - "Jane Austen: thoughts and opinions" and "Peace and Love Inks Around the World" and I have gained recognition for themed contests on "The Passion of Poetry” facebook group, such as coming first place for "Hands of Time."
This August, "Tangles + Knots" was the featured book for the "Garden Book Club", a global online event. My book was truly embraced within this group and it created an amazing positive vibe and adding colour to my mindfulness art was enthusiastically received, giving my book its total uniqueness. I actually got back into drawing again, creating the cover and artwork for my book, starting with the "Tangle Tree of Life" (back cover) and then the other illustrations followed in the same style, with the leaves and flowers representing our ability to grow and move on.
I am inspired by nature, science, spirituality and art and mindfulness continues to play an important role in my explorative writing, with my Instagram page, of bite sized mindfulness quotes on "Pratibha Poetry Art". Between working part time in education, being a busy mum and planning a little mindfulness book, I still enjoy the freedom of being creative and writing in my sketchbook without any lines or rules!!
“We are all extraordinary in the ordinary things we do”
With Love, Pratibha x
https://www.instagram.com/pratibhapoetryart/
FEATURED BOOK
FEATURED POETRY
DREAM ON
I see it so clearly and I believe it is real
Yet I cannot deny
This is a figment of my imagination
However, dreams create something special
Some hope and a road to walk on
It is like the unconscious world
Is speaking to you about
Your next move in life
It is like seeing the vivid pictures
In your head before it has even begun
But then again
The other purpose is of escapism
The fantasy world
Lives on in the dream world
As it can never be in reality
It can in the figment of my imagination
It would be amazing to leap into
The dreamy unconscious world
Anytime I desired
So that I cannot tell from fantasy and reality
They submerge together
And exist to complement each other
You see the dream world can exist in the real world
If you let it
So let it
MIRROR MIRROR
“Mirror mirror on the wall
I see you looking at me
And I do not like it at all!”
“Mirror mirror on the wall
You are an illusion
I hate you all!
Don’t reflect on me
Because that reflection
Is not as real as me!”
HOPE
The strength to go on
To face my troubled mind
To face my delicate skin
To reach deep inside
And pull out my soul
So to slap me across the face
The realisation
To wake up now
And see what you’re doing
The strength to fight back
And change the future
Forever
Reclaim your life
And bring together new hope
