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Uncut Poetry

Uncut Poetry

Written by: Sunil Bhandari
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 Sunil Bhandari is a poet by compulsion. He says he survives in this world because he can get to write poetry. This podcast is of his poetry.Copyright 2020 All rights reserved. Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Relationships Social Sciences
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  • The Lives of Others

    The Lives of Others
    Jan 24 2026
    We have to step out of our lives to see what is in the great beyond. Often just outside our gated communities are worlds we know nothing of, lives being lived in ways which we cannot conceive of. Rich, varied, textured, tumultuous. Often beautiful because they are unfiltered and often bleed; frightening because they are so raw. When we encounter these lives, these stories, we are aghast at their truths and trajectories. They are so rich in their lived-in textures that our own lives seem bland and empty. That's why I love talking to strangers. For their tales and their lives. Each person is a universe, a cornucopia of dreams and desires, often of unrelenting courage, often of failure, anguish and hope. We are woven together through our common place on earth. However much we might think ourselves as special, we are purveyors of the same resources, prisoners to the same gravities, trying to make our lives out of what we have been bequeathed, trying to make more out of what we've got. And when we do this interaction, we are twice blessed - one, when we give the grace of understanding the other, and when we lay ourselves open and vulnerable with own stories. We all want to do well. We all want to do better. But when someone shares tales and hope with us, we are part of the same family of humankind. If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on how a life is made of so many beautiful things -
    • Lemonade at the End of a Buzzing Day
    • Just Be Air
    • Stealing Beauty

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    Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - Winterland by Frank Schroeter Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/winterland Licence: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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    4 mins
  • The Space Between Our Words

    The Space Between Our Words
    Jan 17 2026
    Why don't we have honest conversations with the ones we love the most? Why don't we listen - really listen - without comments, without reply, without retort - when they attempt to tell us what hurts, where it hurts, and how the hurt devastates them. So much of the pain we cause, and we feel, is avoidable. Not because we don't tell enough - but because we don't listen enough. The smallest of things becomes intractable, our understanding of what things mean have no relationship to what it actually meant. We don't clarify, we conclude, and are damned for it. Bridges which connect love become chasms, and we stand at both ends and wonder - what happened, how did two beautiful people find their worst selves in the relationship which mattered the most. If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on the dissonance in relationships -
    • A Love Letter from a Frustrated Husband to an Exasperated wife
    • A Primer on How to Deal With (Being) Hurt
    • Lovers Who Synchronise (& those who don't)

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    Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - Sehnsucht by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/sehnsucht Licence: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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    4 mins
  • A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself

    A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself
    Jan 10 2026
    Poems have a way of showing truths and making us recognize what we are often blind to - that the best we have is adequate and the worst we think we are can also be beautiful. There is so much we lose out to life because of our fears - of what we think we are, of what others might think we are, of what the world thinks when we fail. The sad truth is - nobody cares. Everybody is immersed in their own stories, and beyond a flurry of gossip, have scarcely any mind space for anybody else. Only the ones who care for us, are the ones who feel for us, in ways which are genuine and true and beautiful. And when they hold us close, in spite (and often because) of what we are, we become the beauty they see in us, we are rendered marvellous, we see the infinite in ourselves because that is the core of us - the boundless possibility, the opening of a flower inside us, the feeling of being with the divine, of being blessed. And all because someone found us worthy of time, of attention. Of a sliver of love. Maybe a poem. If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on how we blossom into the person we should be -
    • Lemonade at the End of a Buzzing Day
    • I Have Watched You Make the Ordinary Holy
    • When We Know Love as Found

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    Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com The details of the music used in this episode are as follows - Feelings 2 by Frank Schroeter Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/feelings-2 Licence: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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    4 mins
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