Three Poems by Jaya Abraham
Story of a brooch
Every Saturday evening
My grandmother was busy
Ironing her whites crisp
Scolding me with every fold
For inheriting her husband's
Dark skin and dark thoughts.
Folding her...
Poems by Gavin Bourke
The Lighthouse, On the Green
Thomas Taylor’s, phenomenal gift,
to his father, a mock lighthouse,
not facing, seas, or oceans, but
endless, fertile, green fields,
hunts, races, grazing sheep
and...
Four Poems by Arvilla Fee
Can I Get a Refund?
eyes blurry from lack of sleep,
a toddler up at o’dark thirty,
snot and tears and tug-of-war
over a pair of shoes,
a pop...
Poems by Ratheesh Krishna
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Shifting house
When the neighbouring home
was demolished
the Gods leapt out first
and took their seats in the jeep.
The aged ones...
Three Poems by George Freek
(Author's note: The below poems were inspired by early Chinese poetry)
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Lost in the Vast Cosmos (After Liu Yong)
The sickle moon is a false
smile in...
Poems by Colin Ian Jeffery
Apple tree
There is an apple tree, old and gnarled
At the bottom of my garden, again in bloom
On which in childhood my brother and...
Malayalam Poetry : Nazimuddin’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 25
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Poems by Ranjith Sivaraman
Cloak of Solitude
When her eyes are blank and cold
When there are no ripples of warmth
When they are like a frozen brook in a new...
Malayalam Poetry : P. Raman’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 20
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Ekphrastic Poems – By Debasish Lahiri
Empty City
Full of my city,
I sit
empty.
If I could visit
all the places
where I had emptied myself
and rummage through
that dear rubble of hours
so many had cast...
