Malayalam Poetry : Vijayalakshmi’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 28
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
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 Abhiram.S
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Backwards, backwards
I walk
backwards
backwards
stepping on words.
Reached somewhere.
I can hear a river.
Light scattered here and there.
Can’t see anything.
Sharp pointed lances
Race...
Poems by Merin Manjooran
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Rule
Octagonal land; Olive trees
grow thick on the borders!
Triangular lake with daffodils
hedging it! An octagonal...
Poems by Gili Haimovich
Like an Apology
Though my hands are beaten
Their ability to feel hasn’t been damaged,
But has darkened the ability to be accurate,
As when drawing on paper.
Shefali
I...
Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
Three Poems – By John Grey
When They Drop Like Flies
Dies suddenly…the phone rings…
it’s this one or that one…somebody…
the diabetic, the guy with cancer,
add them to the list of...
Poems by Askold Skalsky
Zero Point
I was not having an experience of any kind. (Adi Da Samraj)
Nothing has happened. Does that help? (Rainer Maria Rilke)
If you want to...
Poems by Galen Cunningham
Leveled, Beveled, the Lover
The people I love absolutely love to bevel my love.
The people I cannot help but love make me question
everything called love,...
Stuttered Budding in Six Poems – By George Angel
I write to my friend
who wears his indignation
like a paper hat
he thinks makes him
look ridiculous.
He says,
"Who am I to ask
others to listen to me?"
But...
