Collection
Inch by Inch.
Small steps, repeated, become the whole journey
13 poems
These are poems for the long middle—the stretch between starting and arriving where most of the real work happens. Drips become floods, bricks become towers, sprints become marathons. Dr. Jindal returns again and again to the same quiet truth: that transformation is not dramatic but incremental, and that patience is itself a form of strength.
Inch by inch
Incremental effort as a force of nature. Scale shifts from inch to journey in four lines.
A flood begins
Natural imagery scales from drip to flood. Incremental effort as a force of nature.
Brick by brick
Construction as metaphor for persistence. Height earned through deliberation, not haste.
Each short sprint
Athletic repetition as metaphor for incremental growth. Each rep barely registers; the total transforms.
How long it took
Botanical imagery maps patience onto growth. The root does the quiet work the bloom gets credit for.
Grow I must
Growth framed as biological imperative. A sprout seeks the sun because there is no alternative.
Years Of Practice
Repetition as mechanism. The clock ticks indifferently until mastery arrives in a sudden click.
Seeds are in
Gardening as intentional living. Soil, light, and patience -- the conditions chosen, the growth surrendered.
And there
Personification of a seedling as brave explorer. Germination recast as an act of courage.
How much work
Repetition hammers the cost of achievement. Darkness stacks up until one breakthrough arrives.
You hike and hike
A caterpillar addressed directly. Miniature scale magnifies the stubbornness of purpose.
At long last
Patience literalized through fruit. The harvest arrives in surplus, not installments.
And with every
Walking as self-discovery. Each step narrows the distance between persona and nature.