Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 3
1.
even when not conscious
beloved, of my actions
i sought you all along
made...
Two Poems by Michael G. Smith
A Bodhisattva-in-Training Contemplates Self-Denial
i.
Only years later
did Ching An realize
burning off two fingers
would not lead
to enlightenment.
But two millenia before,
having left his father’s palace,
the Buddha figured...
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....
Two Poems by Kalyani Bindu
My Imagination of You
My imagination of You departs
like an impending recollection of a dream-
a narrative between shadows, colorless
with welcoming, stretchable dimensions,
lily shadows in...
Poems by Ramesh Dohan
Winter’s Chapter
In my garden
The flowers
have withered. Clouds
gather for snow. Wind
shakes the branches
My cat steps to a window
Wonders where mice go.
Perhaps he blames...
Every Sheath is Torn – Photo Haiku by Gabriel Rosenstock
Photography By Youngho Kang
1.
throbbing dawn . . .
everything becomes
something else
2.
when every sheath
is torn from us . . .
what then?
3.
before the filthy birth
of Time ....
“Cityscapes” – Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 6
1. Jodhpur
freedom fighters, beloved
did they fight
for polluters exchanging
sweet nothings on small screens
...
Poems by Duane Anderson
In the Eyes of the Carpet
Day in and day out
you walk across my face,
for that is the only part of me you can see
as...
Poems by Rose George
Powder Puff
The slender red needles
On the dark green platter
Tacked with hardknots
And stitched,
When I asked for the name
Said Powder Puff
And Laughed
Recalled the earthly declaration
That eyes...
Poems by John Grey
Love Anyone?
There's a love that adopts
to this technological society
like a third hand
from fancy microwave ovens
to a ten-foot-tall refrigerator
with double freezer doors.
It can pull back...
