National Honour · January 2099
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Arjun Nair
🇮🇳 India · leading poet of the nation's field
“Monsoon Ledger”
95out of 100
My grandmother wrote debts in rain,
each drop a rupee owed to sky.
The season pays her back in grain,
and teaches me how clouds comply.
From the judges
A tender inheritance poem where accounting and weather braid into one metaphor; controlled, warm, and specific.
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