Poems by John Grey
A Rose by its name only
This is it –
a rose,
not quite pink,
not quite yellow,
but both at once,
and red and white besides.
Awed by its beauty,
sniffing...
Poems by Eve Dineva
My New Home’s Inhabitant
Dusty sunlight crawls
flat on the wall
skipping the cracks
or falling deeply inside them.
My eyes catch the edge
of this lazy, auburn...
Poems by Robert Ronnow
Home SchoolingNovember and April
when the trees are first bare and last naked
have become my favorite months. All the food eaten
except last rose hips and...
Poems by Sreekala Sivasankaran
Easel
Schizo and Phrenia
Two people in one room
Both like each other
Both hate each other
So when an easel was gifted to Schizo
Phrenia objected
I...
Poems by Kalyani Bindu
The interrogationYou carried the holocaust hidden in a cup,
like a wolf as it would a howl biding
its time.Need I remind you that my buoyancy...
Three Poems by Sukanta Mandal
That Person
I am the person of famine
I am the person of humiliation
I am the person of curses
I am a person with many sufferings.
You can...
Five Poems By Jaya Abraham
Stolen Shorelines
The azure waters
Lured me to the shores
The vivacious waves
Washed me to lands unknown
And the men on the shore,
Filled my plate every evening.
Like a...
Poems By Elza Neelima Mathew
Black
Black is a color, they say!
How can it be true?
Not absorbing
a single color that falls on itself,
Without even a casual embrace,
Letting them fly free,
Leaning...
Poems by Ninko Kirilov
Something
I want to tear the sky
with someone's eyelashes,
to fill the puddles
and drink them dry,
eat mud with virgin blossoms,
ferment the new alchemy
of the skill of...
Haiku by Richard E Schell
On snow covered path,
a lonely soul seeks shelter,
finding only strangers.
*
Spring’s awakening,
bringing winter’s final days.
Life begins anew.
*
Foreboding forest,
days cold and dark as midnight.
What secrets...