The second section named 'Were We Holding Hands?' talks about heartbreak, love and melancholy, unborn children, the past and the present, the ugliness of love and the beauty of it.

The first section named 'Autumn Infinite' talks about poetry and being a poet, how the poet's family looks at the poet, beliefs and traditions in a family, a broken family, domestic violence and how it affects a child in the long run, death and the relationship with parents, lessons learnt in life, dreamers and dreams. This collection has been divided into different sections. *Excerpt from the poem ''Courage: Making Sure with My Actions That My Mother Knows Her Prayers Don't Work'' Consider a blooming rosebud and the universe closing itself into it.'' You can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest or Twitter world opens up to you in grief, swallows you. In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.Īmidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world.

His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.Īkif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016).

The Feeling May Remain by Akif Kichloo