Malayalam Poetry : Kalpatta Narayanan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 3
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by David Lohrey
Heavens to Betsy or Ivanhoe
The big city is on fire but not here.
Why must we live like bears
when we could be as proud as...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 10
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to the very end
learning the grammar of love
my only duty
examine me, i’m ready
...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
Stargazers’ night
The sky spreads
A vast canvas of dreams
The street sleeps
Moon, the big mom
Paints silver
Across my window.
Aldebaran, ardent follower
Steals a wink,
At the Pleiadean...
No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
Review by Lynn Alexander
When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...
I will Run I will Live – A Poem by Rimli Bhattacharya
I will run I will live
His words rang in her mind –
“I never loved you” .
She closed her ears,
To...
Photo Haiku – By Gabriel Rosenstock
Photos by Mahesh Balasubramanian
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1.
Jai Mahal
will it too vanish
like the last bird of evening
2.
sitting
outside one's door . . .
known as sitting meditation
3.
we will be
as birds...
Silent Farewells – By Ra Sh
When things start leaving you
they don't say bye.
Silently, they leave in a row.
My dad did not say bye
when he died.
My mom did not say...
Poems by E. Martin Pedersen
3 Hours in the Pediatric Ward
babies crying
but not my baby, she’s okay
each mother's eyes full of empty
fear for their creatures
but they're not my baby's...
Poems by Gabriella Garofalo
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Not now, not in this room,
Too many clouds, waves, rowdies and easy nights,
So they’re giving up the whole shebang,
Those desecrated skies where she would...
