Wandering with the Wind

Where other young people consign their thoughts and dreams to a prosaic journals, Merin Elizabeth Kuruvilla sees everything in rhyme –her thoughts, fantasies, what she reads, with whomever she interacts, all of it is recorded in poetry in her mind. Her present collection is a constant search –for a reality, for a challenge, for love. As the poet matures, she realize she has reached a crossroads in her life and she speaks of “waiting for an omen” … “not knowing what she craved”. Her powers of observation are keen. In “Sights from a Train,” she says, “And the world’s canvas shifted from monochrome in black and white”. Her feelings are sensitively expressed in her reaction to ” The Stray Dog” and what she feels is a betrayal, in “ The Triviality of a Friendship”. Sensitivity and poetry have been integral to displayed these traits in five previous volumes of poetry, published before she was 16. She has won several international awards for her poetry. These include: The International Haiku Competition conducted by the Japanese Airlines in 1992. The Poetry Competition organised by the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi in 1993.Silver Medal for the SICC in the Years 1994, 1995 and 1999. The Annual Gold Awards of the Silver Horse Awards Committee for the Years 1998. The Orpheus Fiction and Poetry Caf?’s Poetry Contest in March 1999. Thrice semi-finalist in the North American Poetry Contest in September 1999, Novemebr 1999 and January 2000. Her poems appear regularly in several literary magazines, as well as online magazines such as the Poetry Magazine, Freezone, Teenspeak and Renaissance. She has been a Gold Star Member of the Poetry Magazine since September 1998. Merin won the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Gold Medal in the Shankar’s International Children’s Competition in 2000 and was the semi-finalist in the North American Poetry Contest in February 2001. Presetly, she is studying medicine at the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.