Poems by Sreekala Sivasankaran
Easel
Schizo and Phrenia
Two people in one room
Both like each other
Both hate each other
So when an easel was gifted to Schizo
Phrenia objected
I...
Poems by Rajesh Chithira
Translated by Jaya Anitha Abraham
The girl called Isis*
The child on the shore
Writes about the sea
She is not afraid,
That the maiden wave might
Erase the first...
Poems by Peycho Kanev
Dark Off
I am still in the old dingy neighborhood,
waiting for the skies to turn into cashmere.
Ice-cream trucks play baroque symphony,
and the brown kids outside...
Poems by Prathibha Nandakumar
Paint me a forest
First, I said I am a kaleidoscope.
If he turned me around, he could
discover changing patterns and colours.
He said he...
Poems by Mini Babu
I am a Store
I am a store open for sale.
The takers marvel at my deals,
and the goods offered for sale.
At times, an acquaintance passes,
“How...
Poems by Bobby Parrott
Breath of a Flower
in a Broken Bassoon
As a baby I had no head, just an open window
to peer through into my self. See, back...
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 John Grey
Touch and Shine
Sinuous sun lowers like a bucket
into the well,
to rise again when earth’s turn
pulls the...
Poems by James Croal Jackson
How my mind functions on a given day dictates the way my poems are presented. Sometimes I'm scatterbrained and my poems are jarring. Other...
Poems by Taylor Dibbert
House of Cards
Getting married
Too quickly
Means building
A life inside
A house of cards
And then everything
Falls apart
And things burst
Into flames
And he hopes
That he'll
Always remember
The...
