Poems by Asha B
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
The Gods in the straw hut
The night I had my first periods,
the Messiah and Krishna in...
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 J.D. Nelson
the miller of the bee and the secret bee
to dream of spearmint and we laugh at the raisin hooks
saint sand that sandy and that...
Poems by Michael Gessner
Tower of Aspiration
Death may come this evening.
I’ve been climbing a hill,
the knees of my pants are torn
from crawling, and through
the years I’ve had...
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...
Ekphrastic Poems – By Debasish Lahiri
Empty City
Full of my city,
I sit
empty.
If I could visit
all the places
where I had emptied myself
and rummage through
that dear rubble of hours
so many had cast...
2 Poems by Ruth Young
Thomas
You came in after dark
And stayed until early morning,
Creeping in softly as on tiny cat feet
To steal my heart away unexpectedly,
While I was washing...
Poems By Swati Moheet Agrawal
In His Light, I Learn How to Love
He is fragile
like a flower nodding gently on its stem,
looking as if the lightest zephyr
would scatter...
Poems by Karthik K
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
As time passes, men do become tender
When babies are fed
they insist on grabbing
the spoon used to
feed water.
When I used...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
Redial
I’m sorry, the life you have dialed
is unavailable. Please hang up
and try your call again later.
I sigh and go back to laundry,
dirty diapers, a...
