Nikita Gill

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Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poetry collections and plays offer a largely female readership the chance to recognise the value of their own experiences. Gill has written seven collections of poetry including Your Soul Is A River and Your Heart is the Sea, as well as the novel in verse The Girl and Goddess which highlights Hindu mythology. She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! Source 

Another Story

You didn’t like the last story in your life’s book,

so you wrote yourself another one. 

 

In this story,

you do not wear your body as an apology. 

 

Instead you wear it like a quiet revolution,

you carry the future in the back pocket of your jeans,

 

say girl, say glory 

each step forward is an amen

 

Published:

2022

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2025

Themes:

Agency

Body & Body Image

Faith & Hope

Womanhood

Literary Devices:

Consonance

the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

Couplets

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Extended Metaphor

a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem

Simile

a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”