Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 4
1.
the flower seller is left
with her flowers
I am left with my poems
...
Four Poems By Oisín Breen
The Mulch
When we think of chimaera,
Of the impossibility of stasis,
And the consistency of change,
Of the annihilation of the zero point,
Perfection,...
Poems by J.R. Solonche
The Best Myths Are The Metamorphoses
The best myths
are the metamorphoses,
the ones that change,
transform, shift
shapes from one ordinary
to one more strange,
from one mere mortally
to one...
Poems by Vipitha
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
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Kissing a dead man
Will the world consider
kissing a dead man as a
Kiss?
A Kiss
when someone is in
senseless sleep
with drooping...
Three Poems By Anna Mary Haskal
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Head swarming with melancholy lice
Sometimes,
life imitates
the hair that cascades down
unknotting the tightest knots.
You cut it even as...
Malayalam Poetry : Kalpatta Narayanan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 3
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
2 Poems by Anusree Raveendran
I know how to strangle my emotions
I know how to strangle my emotions
And to bury them underneath the realm
I wrap the corpse and cleared...
Two Poems by Michael G. Smith
A Bodhisattva-in-Training Contemplates Self-Denial
i.
Only years later
did Ching An realize
burning off two fingers
would not lead
to enlightenment.
But two millenia before,
having left his father’s palace,
the Buddha figured...
Poems by Bogan Sankar
Translated from Tamil by Nakul Vāc
Prophet for Twisted Times
Afraid
I had put the wrong foot forward
I went back a square.
"Retreating not allowed for a...
Malayalam Poetry : Anwar Ali’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 9
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
