Animisha Saxena, United Arab Emirates's National Honour, September 2026
Animisha Saxena wrote the highest-scoring poem from United Arab Emirates in the Writory International Poetry Contest, September 2026: To the hurt, scored 72 out of 100 by the blind judging panel across five published criteria. The poem was read in English (Latin script).
To the hurt
To the hurt, the world is one big person. He expected him to be of better kind. He is now a much worse person, Gawking, look at me, father, I was your son. He takes his revenge out on him, bite by bite. Snares his anger on one big person, one at a time. Look at him, ripe- Thinking of arson, Thinking of himself As some grand person.
Every country's leading poet each month is named on the September 2026 National Honours. The contest is open to poets in United Arab Emirates and everywhere else: enter the current round, and every poem receives a score out of 100 and a certificate.