The essay tries to understand the experience of an expatriate poet, Sujata Bhatt, while arguing the fact that an expatriate author's experiences are not necessarily drawn towards a lost homeland, as argued by Salman Rushdie. The essay examines Bhatt as an expatriate Indian poet, and how she negotiates the issues of Diaspora: language, colour, culture, identity and homeland/s (both imaginary and real), her memory and her share of amnesia. Apart from language, the poetic universe of Bhatt's imaginary homeland/s centers around her parents, especially her mother. Memory, for that matter past, appears in Bhatt's poetry in surprising regularity. But the poet is not panic at the loss of her memory