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
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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...
“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...
