Poems by Robert Beveridge
Climb
Tired biceps flex, fingers
struggle. Hours
of darkness, of rope.
Still no light above.
There is a deep attraction
in relaxation, the power
of...
The Barren Womb – A poem by Rimli Bhattacharya
Three corpses lay in front of the mother,
Tiny ones, they are lifeless,
Once upon a time each one spoke to her,
Now speaks...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...
In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds
an...
Poems by John Grey
We Risk Takers
It's snowing in the city.
I dig your car out
so you can risk your life
on pot-holed black-ice roads.
You're on your way
to making sure
you...
Poems by Aditya Shankar
Place
If you walk the streets of the city
that I write about,
you would call me a liar.
The broken wall,
no more a playground ingress
or a sunset...
Poems by Blagoje Savic
Translated by DanijelaTrajkovic
Sleep Condition
shadows of what has been done
did not disappear
think with your heart
religion is not based
on evidence
but on checking
there on the same branch
oblivion...
Poems by Rony Nair
Heb-do
look onward on homing gulls,
guns arriving in somnolence.
your poet mourns his twin tower ebb,
while wordsmiths mash six adverbs a breath.
with tepid rafts one sees...
Poems by Tanja Bakić
Translated into English by Peter Stonelake & Tanja Bakic
The Last Sworn Virgin of Montenegro1
That August dawn, when the Sun
Had just risen into the firmament of...
Poems by Gary Beck
Fleeting
Summer ended,
the last butterfly
does not migrate,
lands on sheltered tree,
expires, a brief life
without knowledge
of good or evil,
only touching
those who noticed.
In My Lifetime
When I was young
I...
Poems by Obren Ristić
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Afternoon in the Suburb
Crying cries and hoarse music
on the radio from a nearby house
Last move of a rooster
reflection of the ax
and...
