Uncut Poetry

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.

Episode Date
The Love of an Ordinary Life
Jun 27, 2026
When You Lose the Lover but Not the Love
Jun 20, 2026
Hale, Fall & Spring (of you & I)
Jun 13, 2026
Walking into the Morning's Wisdom
Jun 06, 2026
Replay - Let Me Sit Beside You Quietly
May 30, 2026
A Home Which is You
May 23, 2026
Naked, My Love
May 16, 2026
This light like love
May 09, 2026
Before Beauty Takes Its Toll
May 02, 2026
A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself
Apr 25, 2026
Closer to Death. Nearer to God.
Apr 18, 2026
Marriage Made Me a Philosopher
Apr 11, 2026
The Long Now of Us
Apr 04, 2026
A Child Mulling on Life Beside the Sea
Mar 28, 2026
The Art of Living
Mar 21, 2026
Memories of Peppermint Mocha
Mar 14, 2026
Lunatics in Search of Peace
Mar 07, 2026
The Ironies of Love
Feb 28, 2026
It Takes Time for Love to Find Comfort
Feb 21, 2026
Where We Start & Where We End
Feb 14, 2026
Replay - When Did You Say?
Feb 07, 2026
The Sound of a Man Falling
Jan 31, 2026
The Lives of Others
Jan 24, 2026
The Space Between Our Words
Jan 17, 2026
A Poem as a Gift for a Girl With No Confidence in Herself
Jan 10, 2026
I Think I Can Be An Adventure With You
Jan 03, 2026
Stealing Beauty
Dec 27, 2025
A Love Letter from a Frustrated Husband to an Exasperated Wife
Dec 20, 2025
Let There Be Fewer Stories This Winter
Dec 13, 2025
Going Home
Dec 06, 2025
When We Know Love as Found
Nov 29, 2025
The Valentine Shore
Nov 22, 2025
A Primer on How to Deal With (Being) Hurt
Nov 15, 2025
May Your Journey Be Gentle & Safe (as I see a gorgeous eclipse)
Nov 08, 2025
Moving Tapestry of My Awe
Nov 06, 2025
Are All Lovers Pilgrims?
Oct 25, 2025
Replay - Letting Go (a childhood song)
Oct 18, 2025
Finding Home in Places We've Left Behind
Oct 11, 2025
When it Rains, Love Slips
Oct 04, 2025
Lovers Who Synchronise (& those who don't)
Sep 27, 2025
Just Be Air
Sep 20, 2025
Waiting
Sep 13, 2025
So Tonight That I Might See You
Sep 06, 2025
The Morning After
Aug 30, 2025
Finding Myself Beyond You
Aug 23, 2025
I Heard The Other Day
Aug 16, 2025
I Have Watched You Make the Ordinary Holy
Aug 09, 2025
Let Me Sit Beside You, Quietly
Aug 02, 2025
Lemonade at the End of a Buzzing Day
Jul 26, 2025
Do Wait For My Ashes
Jul 19, 2025
Luck by Chance
Jul 12, 2025
On Falling & Failing
Jul 05, 2025
When We Meet Again
Jun 28, 2025
En route (how I encountered war)
Jun 21, 2025
Survivors
Jun 14, 2025
Tell Me, Tell Me, How a Tear Was Born
Jun 07, 2025
Here We Are In The Years
May 31, 2025
When Did You Say?
May 24, 2025
Will We Ever Trust The Skies Again?
May 17, 2025
Sometimes Life Leaves You Alone
May 10, 2025
Living Inside a Wound
May 03, 2025
As Summer Finds a Beginning
Apr 26, 2025
Return to You
Apr 19, 2025
Elegante Solitude
Apr 12, 2025
I Come With Mud
Apr 05, 2025
I Said I Love You First
Mar 29, 2025
Assisted Suicide
Mar 22, 2025
I Call Myself a Poet
Mar 15, 2025
Last Legs of the Day
Mar 08, 2025
Tenderly
Mar 01, 2025
Love Actually (more & mess)
Feb 22, 2025
Sometimes We Remember So Hard
Feb 15, 2025
I Would Hate To Be That Man
Feb 08, 2025
Waiting for My Flight to Chennai at the Kolkata Airport
Feb 01, 2025
Walking Into The Winter Sun
Jan 25, 2025
Perpetrators & Victims of Love
Jan 18, 2025
Different Ways in Which You Can Fail to Say Thank You
Jan 11, 2025
The Stranger In Me
Jan 04, 2025
I Have Often Thought About God
Dec 28, 2024
The Happiest Couple You Will Ever See
Dec 21, 2024
I Heard That You Just Set Off on a Journey
Dec 14, 2024
In Memory & Mist
Dec 07, 2024
Why I Disagree With The Moon
Nov 30, 2024
Replay - Those Days of a Lost Summer
Nov 23, 2024
Dawn in Hampi
Nov 16, 2024
That Dull Boring Place Called Life
Nov 09, 2024
An Ordinary Poem On Love
Nov 02, 2024
That Ordinary Lie
Oct 26, 2024
Before Bruises Become Wounds
Oct 19, 2024
Whilst Looking at a Newlywed Couple and Thinking of All Our Years
Oct 12, 2024
I Have Been Thinking of Life Again
Oct 05, 2024
Home Tonight
Sep 28, 2024
Quietly Yours
Sep 21, 2024
Recalibrating Dawns
Sep 14, 2024
I Can Sense Her Loneliness
Sep 07, 2024
Old Friends
Aug 31, 2024
The Party is Outraged!!!
Aug 24, 2024
Memories of Sex Addiction
Aug 17, 2024
Old Poems for Old Loves
Aug 10, 2024
What is Loss, She Asked Me
Aug 03, 2024
Living Tragedy Forward
Jul 27, 2024
Bella's Meadow
Jul 20, 2024
Her Breasts as Shelter
Jul 13, 2024
Musings as I Step Into the Morning (Leaving a Lover Sleeping)
Jul 06, 2024
A Meaning Without Questions
Jun 29, 2024
Punctuation for Lovers
Jun 22, 2024
Replay - The Improbability of Wishes
Jun 15, 2024
Grief Strikes Where Love Struck First
Jun 08, 2024
Dreaming of You
Jun 01, 2024
Life for Rent
May 25, 2024
The Art of the Lonely Good Deed
May 18, 2024
Politics on the Dining Table
May 11, 2024
Adventures in Two Worlds
May 04, 2024
Adrift (on parents and lovers we survive)
Apr 27, 2024
In Search of a God
Apr 20, 2024
Lovers as Witnesses
Apr 13, 2024
Things We Gather
Apr 06, 2024
A Legacy of Kindness
Mar 30, 2024
Coming to Your Side of The Bed
Mar 23, 2024
Replay - In the Drift We Will Find Our Certainties
Mar 16, 2024
Tracing Shadows On Your Back
Mar 09, 2024
And The Crowds Roared, As The Music Rose
Mar 02, 2024
Mr Hoskote, have you visited Kashmir recently?
Feb 24, 2024
Maybe, a Little Kindness
Feb 17, 2024
Replay - A Home as an Open Dream
Feb 10, 2024
I Like The Ordinary Life
Feb 03, 2024
A Sense of Her Tenderness
Jan 27, 2024
The Woman You See
Jan 20, 2024
How a Poem Finds Itself
Jan 13, 2024
Your Body is a Truth
Jan 06, 2024
What Stretches in Front
Dec 30, 2023
Letting Go (because I’m alive)
Dec 23, 2023
Replay - The Complexity of Simple Lives
Dec 16, 2023
Changing Your Address (on marrying & moving homes)
Dec 09, 2023
Birthday Musings of an Ageing Man
Dec 02, 2023
Replay - The Things We Become When We Leave
Nov 25, 2023
Of Love (& other bouts of sadness)
Nov 18, 2023
The Tragedy of the Other
Nov 11, 2023
Mornings (as entry points to life)
Nov 04, 2023
Love as a Snack
Oct 28, 2023
What I Miss is The Tender Moment
Oct 21, 2023
Loneliness (oh these rains)
Oct 14, 2023
Darkness
Oct 07, 2023
Balancing Beginnings
Sep 30, 2023
Why We Should be Happy With Berry Jam on Table Edges
Sep 23, 2023
Across The Universe
Sep 16, 2023
Living in a World Deficient in Hugs
Sep 09, 2023
Damaged Bulbs in a Parlour
Sep 02, 2023
A Cynical Old Man Acknowledges His Birthday Very Grudgingly
Aug 26, 2023
Minor Earth Major Sky
Aug 19, 2023
I WIll Leave The Last Line For You To Fill
Aug 12, 2023
The Grace That We Give
Aug 05, 2023
On Growing Up (that haze of sunshine & dust)
Jul 29, 2023
My Mother is Full of Water and Ready for Sonography
Jul 22, 2023
Of Rain-Engulfed Rooms and Lovers in Spate
Jul 15, 2023
Yearning (and other things we carry in the journey)
Jul 08, 2023
Memory Keeper
Jul 01, 2023
Replay: Favourite People (Who We Love and Leave)
Jun 24, 2023
Miles Apart
Jun 17, 2023
One Quiet Woman is Much Like Another
Jun 10, 2023
Compatriots of Trust
Jun 03, 2023
If I Commit Suicide
May 27, 2023
Finding Home in Broken Places
May 20, 2023
Replay : Come When The Heat Of Noon Has Still Not Dimmed
May 13, 2023
I Fell In Love With You (Again) Beside The Tin of Sardines
May 06, 2023
As We Meet Again At The End of The Day
Apr 29, 2023
When Words Despair For Stories
Apr 22, 2023
Gather Me
Apr 15, 2023
For The One Who Found Her Silence
Apr 08, 2023
Letting Go (A Childhood Song)
Apr 01, 2023
Tenderness in The Pause
Mar 25, 2023
Dysfunctional Families (and other joys)
Mar 18, 2023
This: One Grace
Mar 11, 2023
Aaschi
Mar 04, 2023
Finding Ways To Survive (Each Other)
Feb 25, 2023
Replay: Lose A Lover Not A Friend
Feb 18, 2023
The Love Story of An Accountant & A Poet
Feb 11, 2023
For Nothing More Than A Look Of Me
Feb 04, 2023
Ruins Have Permanent Flames
Jan 28, 2023
She Held His Hand As He Drifted
Jan 21, 2023
No Revolution Is Complete Without A Ruined Soul
Jan 14, 2023
The Comfort of Her Being
Jan 07, 2023
Falling Into A New Year
Dec 31, 2022
The Truth of Lies
Dec 24, 2022
Let Life Break Your Heart
Dec 17, 2022
A Guide To The Difficult Art of Life (Whilst Making Love)
Dec 10, 2022
How Can I Remain Calm
Dec 03, 2022
The One Who Left (Herself Behind)
Nov 26, 2022
Infinite Tenderness
Nov 19, 2022
The Life & Times of a Song
Nov 12, 2022
In the Winter of Our Relationships
Nov 05, 2022
And I Know These of You
Oct 29, 2022
Such are Such Days (or the days I make love to her)
Oct 22, 2022
Ceremony of Longing
Oct 15, 2022
The Passing of Autumn
Oct 08, 2022
Finding Parking Lots (for Love)
Oct 01, 2022
How I Stumbled in My Search for Eternity
Sep 24, 2022
When I Hear the Whistle of a Passing Train
Sep 17, 2022
On Some Additions to Introspective Psychology
Sep 10, 2022
Flutter
Sep 03, 2022
Of Bodies in Bed & Uncertain Joys
Aug 27, 2022
For Anyone Who Bleeds
Aug 20, 2022
Windblown Om
Aug 13, 2022
Let Everything Else Be, Let It Be
Aug 06, 2022
When Breath Becomes Air
Jul 30, 2022
One Morning, The Ants
Jul 23, 2022
Favourite People (Who We Love And Leave)
Jul 16, 2022
Dancing In The Rains
Jul 09, 2022
And She Waited For My Call
Jul 02, 2022
Difficult Child
Jun 25, 2022
The Things We Become When We Leave
Jun 18, 2022
An Onanist’s Guide to Loneliness
Jun 11, 2022
A Garden of Departures
Jun 04, 2022
Waiting For a Storm
May 28, 2022
The Tragedy of Seeing Life as a Broken Enterprise
May 21, 2022
In The Drift We Will Find Our Certainties
May 14, 2022
Come When The Heat of Noon Has Still Not Dimmed
May 07, 2022
What Do I Leave Behind?
Apr 30, 2022
The Complexity of Simple Lives
Apr 23, 2022
Those Days of a Lost Summer
Apr 16, 2022
The Complex Algorithms of Giving
Apr 09, 2022
He Made Lasagna Before He Left
Apr 02, 2022
Blood & Light in the War Zone
Mar 26, 2022
In the Darkness of Our Autobiographies
Mar 19, 2022
Lose a Lover Not a Friend
Mar 12, 2022
Sounds of Living and the Dead
Mar 05, 2022
Midas Touches Himself
Feb 26, 2022
Uncut Poetry Salon featuring Soul Poets Kashiana & Indran
Feb 24, 2022
A Summery Love Story (in the middle of winter)
Feb 19, 2022
Finally Home
Feb 12, 2022
I Never Wanted Parts of You Which Were Easy
Feb 05, 2022
New York: Concurrently Schizophrenic.
Jan 29, 2022
Capturing the Feeling
Jan 22, 2022
Who Do You Choose to Become When Alone
Jan 15, 2022
Stopping by a Café to Drink a Poem
Jan 08, 2022
New Year Special! Top 5 of Uncut Poetry!!
Jan 01, 2022
The Slant of the Winter Sun
Dec 25, 2021
A Home as An Open Dream
Dec 18, 2021
I Am a Residue of Life
Dec 11, 2021
The Improbability of Wishes
Dec 04, 2021
When the Evening Drift Brings Him to Me (for Dad)
Nov 27, 2021
The 101 of How to Praise (someone you love)
Nov 20, 2021
When the Goddesses Depart
Nov 13, 2021
In the Softest Sunshine of Winter
Nov 06, 2021
The Door is Unlocked. I am Awake.
Oct 30, 2021
Crimson Flowers in Jallianwala Bagh
Oct 23, 2021
The Final Good-bye (or Why Lovers Decide to Die Together)
Oct 16, 2021
Searching for Coffee in Jaipur
Oct 09, 2021
Finding Souls Between Their Legs
Oct 02, 2021
Lost Atlas of Belonging
Sep 25, 2021
These Darned Long Distance Relationships
Sep 18, 2021
Why Don‘t You Make Love to Me Anymore?
Sep 11, 2021
It Takes a Long Time to Arrive From Not Very Far Away
Sep 04, 2021
Hope is Merely Fear With a Poor Choice of Lipstick
Aug 28, 2021
Uncut Poetry Salon featuring the Poetry Busker Ryan Tomlin
Aug 21, 2021
The Power of No
Aug 14, 2021
Love is an Unreasonable Yearner
Aug 07, 2021
Bringing The Storm Home
Jul 31, 2021
Uncut Poetry Salon featuring the Award-Winning African-American Poet Katerina Canyon!
Jul 24, 2021
Heartbreak
Jul 17, 2021
Tea With Naomi Shihab Rye
Jul 10, 2021
Mother's Rambling Lessons on Life Imparted in Morning Walks in my Childhood
Jul 03, 2021
Extraordinary Life
Jun 26, 2021
Tenderness
Jun 19, 2021
Lovers of Broken Mountains
Jun 12, 2021
Of the Moon (and Other Things Which Don't Know They are Beautiful)
Jun 05, 2021
Making Love in a Cathedral on a Stormy Day
May 29, 2021
Meditations On An Evening
May 22, 2021
Call Me By Your Name
May 15, 2021
Vaccine (or Ways to Save Love from Itself)
May 08, 2021
I Carry Love in the Hearse of My Arms
May 01, 2021
I Think I Am In Love With You
Apr 24, 2021
Stories Which Survive
Apr 17, 2021
My Mother's Lines
Apr 10, 2021
A Morning Ramble on How Love is Rediscovered at the Bottom of Rubble
Apr 03, 2021
Kintsugi
Mar 27, 2021
The Sublime in the Ordinary
Mar 20, 2021
Fallen Flowers
Mar 13, 2021
Broken Ribs as A Barometer of Love
Mar 06, 2021
Chemo: As I Battle Myself
Feb 27, 2021
I Don't Think Poetry Will Save Us. And Yet, and Yet...
Feb 20, 2021
How to Hold Love as it Breaks
Feb 13, 2021
An Epitaph Made of Light & Air
Feb 06, 2021
Sipping Tea in a Rumi Morning
Jan 30, 2021
The Ageing of Love
Jan 23, 2021
When We Were One With The Stars
Jan 16, 2021
A Love Poem to an Office
Jan 09, 2021
Rediscovering the Flawed Beauty of Love
Jan 02, 2021
Let Them Bring Any Year
Dec 26, 2020
My Little Zen Warrior
Dec 19, 2020
Kripa (a blessing from a daughter)
Dec 12, 2020
Indian Summers
Dec 05, 2020
Seasons as Consultations to Life
Nov 28, 2020
The Girl Who Could Lose Everything For Hope
Nov 21, 2020
Love (then) Is Also Patience
Nov 15, 2020
How She Knew (that he was unfaithful)
Nov 07, 2020
In Which He Cries. And She Clears The Skies.
Oct 31, 2020
Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs Closed for You)
Oct 24, 2020
She's a Fierce One, My One
Oct 17, 2020
I Should Have Loved More Wisely (They Say)
Oct 10, 2020
That Gorgeous Evening When You Left
Oct 03, 2020
I Surrender To That Feeling Again
Sep 26, 2020
How Mothers are Nature's Return Gifts
Sep 19, 2020
In The Nook (Special Episode)
Sep 12, 2020
Daughters Who Don't Listen (& Other Ways To Be Brave)
Sep 06, 2020
Not Making Love; Only Being In Love
Aug 29, 2020
Love's Night of The Long Knives
Aug 22, 2020
On Breaking Up (Without Breaking)
Aug 15, 2020
We Looked Out Into the Fading Day
Aug 08, 2020
Lovers In The Morning
Aug 01, 2020
How To Make Love To A Haibun!
Jul 25, 2020
Love (After The Stories Are Told)
Jul 18, 2020
One Summer
Jul 11, 2020
Tea-a-Tete with Mum & Dad
Jul 04, 2020
Distances: Kaifi Azmi Ke Liye
Jun 27, 2020
Fear In A Prayer's Home
Jun 20, 2020
Map My Body, Lover
Jun 13, 2020
In Concert
Jun 06, 2020
Her Grace Without Notice
May 30, 2020
A Tragedy with Two Faces
May 23, 2020
I Can Be Your Poem
May 17, 2020
Departures
May 10, 2020
Yes..
May 03, 2020
Rediscovering Heaven
Apr 26, 2020
Coffee, You & Me
Apr 18, 2020
Calcutta - A Lover's Epitaph
Apr 12, 2020
The Importance of Faith in Love
Apr 05, 2020
Missing My Old Chaos
Mar 28, 2020
On Social Distancing (& Other Ways to Come Close)
Mar 21, 2020
A City Made of Our Sighs
Mar 15, 2020
I love you
Mar 08, 2020
The Immensity of Our Tiny Selves
Feb 23, 2020
Introduction to Uncut Poetry
Feb 23, 2020