Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal

    Girl Child Circa 1983 Mumbai, the era I was born, the time a girl child was frowned upon. A squalling baby, unsightly and hairy, far from a fairy, jilted and spurned. Howling...

Poems By Marjorie Sadin

    Gift What do I want? I want to be the tide hugging the sand. I want to lose the lunatic shadow. I want to get drunk on...

Poems by Vipitha

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh * 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...

“Rome” – Poems by Marina Kazakova

    1 Are we, or are we not? Are we, or are we not alone? How can you hide from what is always in you? How can the rain...

Poems by Ardra Manasi

    Chemistry After a long day at school, my mother smells of chemistry labs – rotten eggs, lemons and vinegar, of wonders born from test tubes. At home, noble gases,...

Poems By Elza Neelima Mathew

    The Cellar of Forgetfulness It seems I don’t have the cellar of forgetfulness… He who gauged it right for the sky, for the earth, and may be...

Poems by Prathap Kamath

  Burnt down forest It is bad when about sixteen years of life lie like a patch of burnt down forest – black, charcoaled, ash-bordered, ...

Poems by Sanjeev Sethi

  Two Views Chronicles I cached in encephalon were cliffhangers needing to be newscast as lading of hush-hush leads to easement. To undress emotionally to a couldn’t...

Poems by Michael Angel Martin

Cholina  When my mother dies I learn I never knew her. But she told me two stories, two girlhood miracles.   At ten she saves her family from a crocodile stalking in...

Two poems by Dawn Bratton

    Sweet Oblivion Sweet, sweet Oblivion, master and creator of my fate it is you I am seeking, it is you who has been seeking me it is...

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