Writing provides us with an opportunity to share our innermost feelings, it provides an escape from the realities of our everyday life and is exactly what Odeshwar ‘Nickalos’ Mobin was seeking when he decided to start writing poetry.
Though still in his infancy stages of writing, Nickalos has been making a difference in the lives of those who read his work. The 20-year-old Berbician never envisioned a life where writing would have played an integral part of his development but now he cannot envision one where it did not.
In order to understand how his passion for writing was honed, one would be taken back to Nickalos’ English Language classroom in the Skeldon Line Path Secondary School. It was there that his teacher figured that she had a star writing pupil on her hand.
“I became motivated to start writing after I finished school. But it actually started when I was in school and had to write a short story for English class, the teacher was so overwhelmed that I was encouraged to take my writings further.
Although I was motivated then I never took up writing seriously but after I finished school I sat down one day and started to frame a poem. Its something that I fell in love with and ever since I have been blazing the trail,” he said.
An avid cricketer, Nickalos related that while growing up it was somewhat restricted since the area in which he grew up was one plagued by all sorts of societal ills. This resulted in his parents restricting his interactions with others and he spent most of his time reading or playing cricket.
This led to him excelling in his studies and is now a third-year Public Management student at the University of Guyana Tain Campus.
Going back to his writing, Nickalos said that he had written extensively but always fears to release those pieces because of the judgmental nature of some people.
He accepts the fact that he is a novice when it comes to being in the writing fraternity and as such he is now in the beginning stages of releasing his writings to the public.
He wants to be able to inspire those that are willing to tread the same path that he is on.
“I often imagine myself in situations and ink my feelings on paper since I am a person that experience much difficulty in expressing myself orally.
Whether it relates to nature, love, childhood or whatever the topic may be I imagined myself in those scenarios and also write from personal experiences.”
“I also try as much as I can to put everything in its simplest form so that any and everybody can read and understand what message I am trying to convey to them. From the words, expressions and structure I try to do it very simple so it can be easy for everyone to read and picture what they read.”
For Nickalos, poetry rescues him and conveys every little feeling he has. His end goal is to publish an anthology of writings so he can take his followers on a journey, the same journey that he has been on. He wants to open himself and allow future readers to experience every failure, success, sadness, happiness and triumph he has been through.
“I would term my style of writing very simple with little or no technicality in it since it’s intended for everyone to read and understand.
I think poetry is a great rescuer for persons to express their thoughts, ideas and feelings.”
