Welcome...

hi - I am so excited about my new blog!! I have spent an hour designing it.. as if it were my very own home.. and in many ways it is far more important to me than my home, because it houses my thoughts and opinions! and now I shall tell you a little bit more about myself..

I have been writing since 2004.. under my original name.. but in the interest of anonymity.. i have closed my original blog and started this new one.. under an assumed name, meenakshi.. it happens to be my religious name, and also the first half of the name of my grandfather! - so my request to you is to address me as such in your comments.. 

as to the name of the blog.. firstly, it is so hard to get a meaningful name in blogspot.. unfortunately.. secondly, i am reading georgette heyer right now and liked her her powder and patches title for the rhythm in it.. and thirdly, i realized that while powder denotes all that is external and influenced by society, poetry connotes all that is internal and influenced by the soul.. and i thought that given these are the forces that mostly influence my writing, I will name my blog powder and poetry!! hope you will continue to follow me in my journey and appreciate the reasons for my making it open and anonymous!

I am already loving my pen name and I hope that under the auspicious omen of this name, my writing will flourish!

urs,

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