Poems by Aditya Shankar
Place
If you walk the streets of the city
that I write about,
you would call me a liar.
The broken wall,
no more a playground ingress
or a sunset...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
Malayalam Poetry : K.R. Tony’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 15
Translated by Aditya Shankar
The history of modern Malayalam poetry is a narrative of continuous innovation, gradual emancipation from...
Poems by K. Satchidanandan
A House called Sorrow
Sorrow is a house,
its walls painted yellow
and ceiling green with fungus.
It has many rooms, from melancholy
and pain to anguish and...
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...
Two Ancient Sumerian Elegies in English – By Tikva Hecht
Author's Note:
These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...
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...
Malayalam Poetry : Mangad Ratnakaran’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 5
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by Arya Gopi
A Roofless Home
Melancholy is a pallid sparrow
on an allamanda flower.
The heaviness of its alight
on a petal is unbearable.
Madness is like baby gravels
in a wild...
A Poem by Goirick Brahmachari
Chores / What is a perfect line?
It’s not about the pace
Not about this race, or how one must slowly learn to earn some disgrace;
Why...
