Existential Threat : Poems by Thomas Piekarski
Existential Threat
How do we expunge turpitude
of onerous ogres who would subvert
our hard-won independence?
How so...
The Song of the Melancholic – By Rimli Bhattacharya
The Song of the Melancholic
She sat,
She wrote,
The song of the melancholic.
She knew –
No one will read her,
The world is buoyant today.
But she –
She...
Desperate Seeker – Poems by Gary Beck
Oops
Before the internet
idiots were shunned
as soon as they brayed.
Now the world wide web
lets world wide dolts
babble endlessly,
bully viciously,
clog the electronic flow
with meaningless drivel,
hiding behind...
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
The Lone Transmuter
On most days
she is soft curled Medusa
her locks big animated S-es
insistent question marks
buoyant ends curving
into snake-eyed C-s
inky chocolate in the shade
haloed red...
Poems by Shubham Agarwal
1.
the still air cools down
breathing heavily
the window is a vessel
holding the evening
what calls out
forgets
counting the numbers
one after
the crowd jeers for the unnamable
lying upside...
Poems by Robert Wexelblatt
Oneirology
A dream from this morning, a lecture dream.
For once, there were no jokes, no digressions
or asides, not even one for instance.
My...
Malayalam Poetry : Ashalatha’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 6
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by DS Maolalai
Toujours toujours
it's saturday afternoon,
hot on a long weekend
and here I am
walking up clanb. st,
watching
as the traffic knocks dust off the air
like...
Four Poems By Edward L. Canavan
how close
false moves
undermined
by truth
the heart knows the lie
a little better each time around
falling one way
burning the other
the unwavering certainty
of loneliness to follow
but nothing...
Five Poems by Rony Nair
An Actress dies At a Wedding
One by one they pass away
leaving you and me, apart in tether.
measuring gauges of feeling once imbued.
weighed holdalls....
