Joydeep Singh is a 16-year-old poet whose words reach far beyond his years. A dreamer rooted in both science and stardust, he navigates the world with a pen in one hand and a galaxy of emotions in the other. As a thinker, STEM enthusiast, and builder of imagined worlds, JOY crafts poetry that dances between the boundaries of fantasy and reality. In Storm’s Verses, he unveils a universe where language becomes magic, emotions become constellations, and silence speaks louder than thunder. His voice is new, fearless, and unforgettable — an artist on the rise who writes not just lines, but legacies.
The Literature Times: Storm’s Verses is filled with fantasy, myth, and emotion. What inspired you to merge poetry with world-building and original lore?
Joydeep Singh: I have always believed poetry is more than emotions. Even our surroundings are pieces of poetry, everything can be turned into a poem. Before I fostered this love for poetry, I started with science fiction and fantasy. It’s been one of the most influential things for me during this journey, that pushed me towards merging fantasy with myth and emotional themes. Even right now, many of the poems in the collection are directly inspired from the Novel series I’ve been working on.
Sci-fi and fantasy have always held me captive, they breathe through me, shaping how I write and what I dream of, which further lets me breathe life into myth, create universes from mere metaphors, and invite my dear dream-bearers, my readers to wander through the realms I dream of.
I often say this, that this world was never made for me, so I forged one for myself. I went through lots and lots of books but still couldn’t find the one made for me, so I started writing my own, forging my own world, that’s where all the inspiration comes from.
The Literature Times: You created a new poetic language, Noctherin, for this collection. Can you tell us more about its origin and how you use it in your writing?
Joydeep Singh: Noctherin- it isn’t just a language; it’s an echo of the ancient gods and celestial forces in my poems. Noctherin was born out of my love for language, cosmic lore, and mystery. It was primarily created for poetic prophecies, and holds significance in my ongoing Novel project, too.
Noctherin flawlessly fulfills the need to say things English couldn’t — not because English lacks beauty, but because some emotions, prophecies, or echoes from other worlds demand a different tongue, a different language. It’s a poetic language literally sewn together with the threads of sounds of time, fate, and forgotten powers. It’s built for emotion rather than explanation.
Where English is linear, Noctherin bends time. The chronology doesn’t work here; its words aren’t bound by tense. They exist before and after they’re spoken. It uses haunting, gentle syllables, often with harsh breaks that feel like spells or ancient warnings. Even its grammar serves the cryptic: a sentence can mean different things depending on how it’s spoken, just like magic spells. It depends on various other factors like what precedes it, or even what hasn’t been said yet.
I use Noctherin alongside English so readers feel something beyond comprehension, like hearing the wind whisper a secret you can almost understand. And often, it rhymes with English in ways that feel unintentional but meant. That’s the magic, the two very different languages don’t clash; they resonate with each other. One gives clarity, the other gives mystery. And together, they speak in thunder and silence.
The Literature Times: Many of your poems feel like ancient prophecies or lost relics. Do you see your work more as storytelling or soul-speaking?
Joydeep Singh: See, I look at my work through a lens of mystery. Everything around us could be framed as a poetic expression, that’s the boon of language, and our creativity. As of my verses, the structure usually tends towards storytelling, but the purpose is solid, which is soul-speaking.
I’ve always been fascinated by prophetic writings, how words hold the power to not just predict, but shape timelines, to echo into the future like forgotten spells. Just like that, aligning with my personal interest in these types of writings, it actually reflects in my poems.
The whole idea behind my poems is how everyone has a storm trapped in themselves, that they just have to unleash, and just like I did, the storm roars. I believe, the storm inside me has always been raging in the quiet hush, and I just found a way to put it out. Every poem starts as a story, but ends as an echo of the storm. Every verse by the Storm is a prophecy, a possibility, and a lost relic.
The Literature Times: What does the metaphor of a “storm bleeding ink” mean to you personally?
Joydeep Singh: Ever since my childhood I’ve been greatly invested in language and literature. During my middle school years, when generally most of people find their conscience, and try to figure out themselves in one way or another, I found this, poetry. It felt as if whatever was raging inside of me, rumbling inside of me, that inner thoughts, that late night woven stories that never saw the sunlight and got lost somewhere in a corner of my mind, all this deserves to be laid out in some way.
It was when I got into 9th Standard and my Hindi language facilitator at my school gave me an opportunity to lead a team towards the creation and release of a school magazine. He trusted me in a way that made me so sure of myself that I could forge whole realms. Started off with Hindi literature magazines I slowly shifted towards English literature, especially poems and story writings.
A part of me faced a spark to write a novel, and the other half was already into poetry by this time. Poetry, during that time felt as a side-hobby, but soon that transitioned into poetry being the main lane, and Novel writing just pushing it over and over. By that time, the storm inside me, was already bleeding ink. Even though it’s just a metaphor, but its meaning holds great depth. When someone is in a subliminal state, the surroundings start to blur out, the line between reality and imaginations start to blur, and that’s what happened with me. You don’t get to realise when the storm within you, the chaos-infused inner self wants more of this. The feeling of being expressed, the feeling of creating things, creating poems, and literary work. It all just amuses the mind, to write about pain, happiness, fantasy, time, cosmic mysteries, emotions, overall, anything that your mind wants to read, instead of searching for that everywhere it starts producing it. That’s when the storm inside you starts bleeding ink, the push, the drive behind writing poetic expressions, it all comes from within, it all comes from the storm inside you. I believe everyone has this raging storm inside them, just not yet unleashed.
The Literature Times: As a student of STEM, how do science and poetry coexist in your creative world?
Joydeep Singh: I describe the coexistence of poetry and science as one of the most truth-seeking and beautiful things in the whole world. Poetry and science both seek truth, just in different languages. Science generally defines the way everything works around us, how everything really happens, and Poetry on the other hand beautifully portrays it. Everything science gives you, awe, curiosity, knowledge. Poetry lets you express it. One of the main inspirations behind merging scientific themes with Poetic expression derives from my love for astronomy and tech, which also reflects pretty well in my book, too. How a whole section is about cosmic wonder and origins, and many of the poems delve into themes of technology and so on. Being a STEM Student I am taught at school through science how universe works, but again, poetry shows me how it feels.
In my world, constellations become metaphors, poetic devices become building blocks, nearly everything holds the potential to be an inspiration to write a poem, and every letter, every word becomes a whole universe.
The Literature Times: Being only 16, you write with remarkable depth. What have been your biggest emotional or creative influences?
Joydeep Singh: Age doesn’t define depth. Depth is defined by observation, thinking, creativity, and will power. I’ve always felt a little more than I was supposed to. Whether it’s a crescent in the evening sky, or just a goodbye, I’ve always noticed this subtle weight with everything, and I guess this sensitivity became the root of my poetry. As a 16-year-old going to a STEM school and rising up as an English poet, my mind is wired for both science and wonder. I think being a dreamer, and a thinker, gives me a unique, one-of-a-kind lens to look at the world through. I even see emotions like constellations, and even build logic out of chaos. Stories, music, loneliness, fantasy, myth, hope, late night brainstorming sessions, it all feeds my work. And maybe it is also because I didn’t really wait to actually “grow up” before expressing myself. Or we can put it this way, that I grew up a little earlier than everyone else. Our past shape our future, and our today is what we can control, we think, we act, and we feel. I just started writing when the storm inside got too loud to hold back. Currently that is my past, when I started, and I strongly believe it will affect my future, positively. The present, it’s all that I have, and I am making sure to get everything out of it.
I don’t think I write deeply despite being 16. I write this way because I am 16. The rawness of this age hasn’t been dulled yet, and I let that speak.
The Literature Times: If readers could take away one feeling or realization from Storm’s Verses, what would you want it to be?
Joydeep Singh: Anyone who reads a part of this book, even a single verse of the storm, becomes a dream-bearer to me. A subtle message to anyone who reads it is that everyone bears a storm inside them, as I said earlier, that anyone who has the courage to unleash the storm within them, can attain such calmness. The storms, they can speak beauty, they don’t haunt, they beautify.
Just a poet made out of stardust, writing about stardust, bearing scars, everything is worth writing about. Whatever shapes you, whatever affects you, influences you, whatever gives you peace, worths to be written about.
If you read every page from the book, you attain a piece of my soul. You start finding yourself, or you might get lost. I want every reader to take this feeling from the book, that their chaos, even that has a certain rhythm. The most beautiful thing in the universe is this, the rhythm, that’s why we love birds chirping, that’s why our heart beats in a rhythm, that’s why everything comes with a rhythm. The chaos, the storm, it’s not just destruction, it’s transformation. When the time is right, even silence can speak, and pain can write. Storm’s Verses is not just a book; it’s a mirror to your soul when it’s howling at midnight.
If there’s one realisation, I’d hope readers carry with them, it’s this: you are not alone in your madness — and it, too, can make music.
The Literature Times: What’s next for you as a poet and creator — more verses, more worlds, or something entirely new?
Joydeep Singh: To all the Dream-bearers, I just want to say that the storm will return. This time, not to destroy, but to transform. Storm’s Return, the second part of my trilogy, sequel to the Storm’s Verses is already in progress. This one won’t rage like the first. It will arrive softer, wiser — the kind of storm that doesn’t tear apart, but remakes everything it touches.
Behind the scenes, Universal Clash is starting to breathe — the lore is thickening, the gods are watching, and the world is almost ready to open its eyes.
Just like these projects, Noctherin is also evolving, from scattered celestial echoes into a language that feels prophetic and sacred. It’s becoming more structured, more alive, and deeply rooted in the mythos I’m building.
I just hope fate walks with me. I want to serve readers not just with more verses — but with entire galaxies, emotions, and legacies. And trust me… the ink hasn’t even begun to run out.
Thank you
All hail Storm’s Verses- the prophecy has just begun.
