Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
Three Poems by Megha Sood
Out of Sync
How the body moves
shatters,
into zillion specks of glass
powered and brushed
to its core
but still every speck of it
can pinch and draw blood
can...
Poems by K Satchidanandan
Translated from Malayalam by the Poet
Sculpting
A sculptor’s chisel
carves an image in the breeze
that carries the scent of wildflowers.
A boatman’s paddle, dark as night,
carves a...
Poems By Aneek Chatterjee
Silence
And I began to talk to flowers.
What is better, silence or eloquence,
I don’t know.
You preferred silence, but I wanted
to talk.
The difference lingered and ultimately
got...
2 Poems by Anusree Raveendran
I know how to strangle my emotions
I know how to strangle my emotions
And to bury them underneath the realm
I wrap the corpse and cleared...
Poems by Prathap Kamath
Burnt down forest
It is bad when about sixteen years of life
lie like a patch of burnt down forest –
black, charcoaled, ash-bordered,
...
Malayalam Poetry : N. G. Unnikrishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 14
Translated by Aditya Shankar
The history of modern Malayalam poetry is a narrative of continuous innovation, gradual emancipation from...
Three Poems by Aleena
Malayalam Poetry in Translation
Translated by Ra Sh
Transplorers
Some sugar spilled
when making coffee.
Ants with sharp noses
surrounded it.
The adults and the youngsters
carried it as per one’s...
Poems by Karen Paul Holmes
Teaching Mozart in Stone Mountain Prison
I didn’t know what crimes they’d committed,
those twelve guys glaring at me.
No female had taught there before,
so I wore...
Poems by Shubham Agarwal
1.
the still air cools down
breathing heavily
the window is a vessel
holding the evening
what calls out
forgets
counting the numbers
one after
the crowd jeers for the unnamable
lying upside...
