![]() ![]() ![]() “For the past couple of years Sikhi has been such a tender and powerful force in my life. Rupi also draws on her Sikhi as a life-giver and motivator not only in her writing, but in life too. The universe has so much to offer, and I’m soaking it all in.” These days, I find myself gaining inspiration from just about anything. Anything that forces me to really feel deeply, inspires and moves me to write. “Injustice was my first inspiration, suffering was my second, and love was my last. It became my tool of intellect.” Rupi went on to talk about what inspired her to write seriously. “For a woman who, at so many points was not physically strong enough to defend herself, writing became my weapon. Rupi came to find that words could be her best line of defense and she started wielding the pen like a sword. That form of expression, the ability to knock the breath out of someone’s stomach with a sentence, to me that was power.” Before this point, Rupi said that her body and heart “…was heavy with thoughts and emotions,” and she had not yet found a way to express herself. ![]() I was completely transfixed about how heavily their poetry moved me. “I was astounded by the way they were able to put all my intricate feelings into simple words. “Everything changed,” Rupi said. These poets gave her indescribable feelings, words. That is when she started reading writers like Anais Nin, Virginia Woolf, and Warsaw Shire. It wasn’t until November of 2013 did Rupi take writing poetry seriously. ![]()
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