Today, we present to you the young and dynamic team behind a rising Poetry Community page (instagram.com/silverleafpoetry) that promises good writing talents finding a platform to connect with people who value the Written Word. They put their hearts and souls into discovering what makes for good reading and are creating a poetry page worthy of admiration. Untwine Me is happy to share the SilverLeaf story and the fantastic people behind it.

“A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightenings five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.”
– Randall Jerrall

SilverLeaf wasn’t born as SilverLeaf; it was a seed of appreciation among four amateur Instagrammers for unexplored writers with a flair for poetry. It was sown for the very purpose of having it grow into a beautiful dais which works on the idea of having your, and your, and your back, one poem, one verse at a time.

With SilverLeaf, we aim to expand the reach of words to every individual out there, whether they’re in love or in pain, whether they’re happy, or hurt, because there are things coffee and band aids can’t fix, and that’s why poetry.

Albeit young, fresh and naive we have a vision and a plan, we’re working hard and fast. And through kindness and generosity, we try to bring about change, we strive towards showcasing the outrageous power words possess.

Also, Sundays at SilverLeaf are FunDays. Every Sunday, we bring our followers a contest, for them to push their boundaries, to interact with fellow writers, and to come across works so incredible they give us gooseprickles. We decide a winner, or have a Guest Judge decide it for us, to keep writers motivated and inspired. So far, we’ve had some amazing talents like Dr. Priya Dolma Tamang (@poetryandprosebyk), Pratishtha Khattar (@_paradoxandmetaphors_), Caroline White (@cwpoet) and Tuheena Raj (@wordsofworth) as our Guest Judges and their support amd faith in us have had is truly humbled.

And not only that, it is the tremendous support and love and participation from the entire writing community on Instagram that has helped us grow in such a small span of time, and for that we are immensely grateful.

At SilverLeaf, we don’t have a hierarchy. We’re all founders, we’re all curators.

Starting with Soniya Hinduja *@soniya_hinduja* from, Gujarat, India.
Shikhar Mahalwala *@soul_at_work* from Ghaziabad, India.
Sakshi Sahil Chavan *@the_meraki_space* from Kolkata, India.

(In a different great news, Sakshi’s debut novel “Mogra Blossoms” will be released soon, and we’re so excited about it!)

We, at Silverleaf believe that good poetry should always be given a chance, regardless of the popularity of the poet. Along with that we always try to interact with our followers in the most humble and cheerful way possible, for they are our real wealth.

At the end of the day, when a guy needs to apologize to a girl, instead of buying bouquets or calling her over and over again, it’s a pen he picks and it’s the time he puts into paper, and whether it’s some cheesy scratch or scribble that looks like a doctor’s note, there’s something incredibly beautiful and intensely romantic about that.

The SilverLeaf Team

Soniya Hinduja

Soniya Hinduja (@soniya_hinduja)

First a reader, then a writer.

I like who I’m becoming a lot.

I’ve always been a ponderer. Seeing too much, hearing to much, thinking too much. And it took me wanting to be a doctor to getting a degree in commerce and trade to realize neither of them was what I really wanted to do.

Writing came to me as gentle rain over barren land. (Okay, maybe it wasn’t that extreme. But I love monsoons and I wanted to use that simile.) Seriously though, that’s what it felt like when I first started writing and it’s been four years and I still think it was yesterday that I scribbled some real lame teenage emotions into my journal.

I joined the writing community on Instagram over a year ago, and I would be lying if I said it’s not the best thing that has happened to me so far. Instagram got me into writing poetry. Literally. I’ve always been big on prose, and not having to limit myself when all I want to be is outrageous with words, but the phenomenal writers on Instagram showed me how audacious poetry can be.

On other days, I read. Absolutely everything from Classics to Sci-fi, but YA Fantasy has got to be my favorite genre.

Shikhar Mahalwala

Shikhar Mahalwala (@soul_at_work)

A computer science engineer & marketing professional, I happen to be an observer of love. I surrendered to my craving for expressing myself when I started my Instagram page @soul_at_work while still doing my post graduation. A man of few words, I have a passion for sports and wish to meet Mahendra Singh Dhoni once in my life.

Sakshi Sahil Chavan

Sakshi Salil Chavan (@the_meraki_space)