Malayalam Poetry : N. Prabhakaran’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 2
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
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...
Four Poems By Kevin Casey
Chemistry
We mix, though a true solution eludes us:
at best we blend in suspension, debating
as to which is the solute, which the solvent,
until one...
Poems by Robert Wexelblatt
Daydream
If I could play the piano and speak Italian
I don’t think I’d do anything else, not
if I had Bill Evans’ hands and Mastroianni’s voice.
If...
Malayalam Poetry : KA Jayaseelan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation - 1
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator's Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...
Poems by Aakriti Kuntal
Snapshot of an afternoon
From the blunt white eye
of mid-afternoon
protrudes an airiness
An invisible,
continuously morphing,
ductile sense of relief
Flowers perch above the breeze's invisible ear
Immersed in a...
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...
Poems by Danijela Trajković
Return
You arrived in the valley
at eight o'clock in the evening
and found me sitting next to the hearth
which I had been keeping alive...
Poems by Vladimir Baboshin
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Lovers
You're silent again ... but you could at least
Wave. It's probably cause we both know.
Only afterwards our words are like a...
Trivandrum Portraits : Poems by Rony Nair
The first three poems represented here are from a body of work that I began in 1995 and will finally see the light of...
