Table of Contents

The Beauty All Around Us                                                                                                       11

Lighting up the World                                                                                                               12

The Nightingale of Melody                                                                                                      14

The Art of Listening                                                                                                                  15

Tasting the Earth to the Sky                                                                                                    18

When the Sun Set                                                                                                                     19

The Battleground                                                                                                                       21

Because We Can                                                                                                                        22

Haven                                                                                                                                           24

Quiescence                                                                                                                                 25

Golden Sunshine                                                                                                                        26

Have You Ever?                                                                                                                          27

A Wishing Tree                                                                                                                          29

(Not So) Green Plants                                                                                                              30

Nature’s Best Friend                                                                                                                 32

The Lordess                                                                                                                                33

The Flight of Silver – White                                                                                                     34

Dawn                                                                                                                                            35

Flame of the Forest                                                                                                                  36

Free to Fly to Be                                                                                                                        37

Cacti                                                                                                                                             38

Sound of Silence                                                                                                                        39

What Makes Us Feel Special                                                                                                   41

For you                                                                                                                                         42

My Brilliant Little Companion                                                                                                 43

A Merry Gathering                                                                                                                    44

Do you Remember?                                                                                                                 45

Aged With Time                                                                                                                        46

My Mother                                                                                                                                  47

The Best Place for Love                                                                                                           48

A Better World                                                                                                                           49

It’s Okay to Cry                                                                                                                          51

Found?                                                                                                                                        52

Confused                                                                                                                                     53

The Physical Map                                                                                                                      54

The Star You Are                                                                                                                        55

A Handful of Words                                                                                                                  56

The Eavesdropper                                                                                                                      57

The Last Doll                                                                                                                               58

There Might Be A Time                                                                                                            59

 The Lonely Loner                                                                                                                       60

A World of Despair                                                                                                                   61

Flickers of Hope                                                                                                                         63

What Could Go Wrong?                                                                                                          64

Forever Beautiful                                                                                                                       65

I wish I could                                                                                                                               67

The Scariest Stuff                                                                                                                      68

The Journey of Life (just a different kind)                                                                           69

Reach High, Reach Out !                                                                                                         71

Magic In the Stars                                                                                                                     73

Confinements of the Night                                                                                                     74

Pitch Black                                                                                                                                  76

A Starry Smile                                                                                                                             77

The Night Owl                                            &am

Born in 2005, Ananya V. Ganesh’s love for books started at a tender age and she became a voracious reader over the years. She first began writing at the age of 7, letting her imagination take shape in the form of numerous poems, skits and short stories, leading up to her becoming a published author of ‘9 Chocolatey Bites’, a short story collection in 2016 and ‘Dancing Kites’, an anthology of poems in 2019.In her free time, one can usually find Ananya reading, writing or deciding how to mismatch her socks, blissfully unaware about that ink blotch on her nose.