Poems on love, loss, longing, learning - and about the way things are

Niharika Mishra Pande is an accidental poet. One day she found her voice and started writing poetry, she was eight years old when that happened.

She currently lives in Melbourne, plotting to run away to another faraway city while her knees do not creak. Her spirit animal is a German Shepherd, but on weekends, she is a dolphin.

She means what she says, and she often says what she means. She is a creature ruled by her heart, not by her head.