The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...
In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds
an...
Poems by John Grey
We Risk TakersIt's snowing in the city.I dig your car outso you can risk your lifeon pot-holed black-ice roads. You're on your wayto making sureyou...
Poems by Aditya Shankar
PlaceIf you walk the streets of the citythat I write about,you would call me a liar.The broken wall,no more a playground ingressor a sunset...
Poems by Blagoje Savic
Translated by DanijelaTrajkovic
Sleep Condition
shadows of what has been done
did not disappear
think with your heart
religion is not based
on evidence
but on checking
there on the same branch
oblivion...
Poems by Rony Nair
Heb-do
look onward on homing gulls,guns arriving in somnolence.your poet mourns his twin tower ebb,while wordsmiths mash six adverbs a breath.with tepid rafts one sees...
Poems by Tanja Bakić
Translated into English by Peter Stonelake & Tanja Bakic
The Last Sworn Virgin of Montenegro1
That August dawn, when the Sun
Had just risen into the firmament of...
Poems by Gary Beck
Fleeting
Summer ended,
the last butterfly
does not migrate,
lands on sheltered tree,
expires, a brief life
without knowledge
of good or evil,
only touching
those who noticed.
In My Lifetime
When I was young
I...
Poems by Obren Ristić
Translated by Danijela Trajković Afternoon in the SuburbCrying cries and hoarse musicon the radio from a nearby houseLast move of a roosterreflection of the axand...
Poems by Jovica Tasevski–Eternijan
DarkBlack angelsThrough the foundations of the fortressBurrow (the green ladderIs thrown into the desert) The light crown boils overGreedy raven sows onto itDark air (rotten basketsАre filled...
Bamboo – A Poem by Sumana Roy
BambooWe like things without bones.We like things that dissolve inside our mouthsthe way life seems to have dissolved into this world.For death might not...