The Song of the Melancholic – By Rimli Bhattacharya
The Song of the Melancholic
She sat,
She wrote,
The song of the melancholic.
She knew –
No one will read her,
The world is buoyant today.
But she –
She...
2 Poems by Ruth Young
Thomas
You came in after dark
And stayed until early morning,
Creeping in softly as on tiny cat feet
To steal my heart away unexpectedly,
While I was washing...
Malayalam Poetry : T P Rajeevan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 4
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
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...
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...
