Verse for Older Children – By Gabriel Rosenstock
Author's Note:
From time to time, literary forums such as LitHub take a look at verse for children, that is to say they take it...
Three Poems by Tali Cohen Shabtai
I am Tali
I read prose only in the third person,
and only translated prose,
poetry, I also read in Hebrew.
I love Wislawa Szymborska, she copies in...
A Poem by Pawel Markiewicz
My dreamy manifesto under the starry sky – cometward
Attention: This manifesto has in itself a magic power and it can finally refute the communist...
Poems by Christopher Nye
Cat Convention
On the boardwalk outside the cat convention
promenaded marmalades and tigers,
Manx and Siamese, longhairs,
shorthairs, pampered ones
and moth-eaten urban survivors.
Many cat tails seemed to...
Poems by Alar Mani
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Suspicion
I see a man looking like a cop
At the junction.
He asks me
Whether I saw.
I ask...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
The Past
“Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is it water,
a slow wearing away
of a hardened stone?
Is it fire,
burning down the...
Poems by J.D. Nelson
the miller of the bee and the secret bee
to dream of spearmint and we laugh at the raisin hooks
saint sand that sandy and that...
Poems by Bogan Sankar
Translated from Tamil by Nakul Vāc
Prophet for Twisted Times
Afraid
I had put the wrong foot forward
I went back a square.
"Retreating not allowed for a...
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...
Four Poems by Kalyani Bindu
Author's note: These poems revolve around a set of disconnected issues/mentalscapes - a feverish confrontation of nihilism (You Monozygote of a Purpose), attempts to...
