Poems By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal
Dead Bird of Chinatown
I remember the dead
bird in the streets of
Chinatown on College
and Broadway many
years ago. I wonder
where his spirit sings
today. Who took...
Poems By Elza Neelima Mathew
The Cellar of Forgetfulness
It seems I don’t have the cellar of forgetfulness…
He who gauged it right for the sky,
for the earth,
and may be...
Poems by Vinod Vellayani
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
What remains
I know you will
come up the hill
where days graze in summer.
So, pushing aside
all my busy schedules
I...
Three Poems by Ragila Saji
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Two breasts that came out of the woods
Two breasts
come out of the woods
to enter your dream.
You are...
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...
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...
Poems by Karthik K
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
As time passes, men do become tender
When babies are fed
they insist on grabbing
the spoon used to
feed water.
When I used...
Haiku by Richard E Schell
Await, silent ruins,
tales a thousand years untold,
Can we learn their message?
*
The circle of life,
can we find its true meaning?
It waits unknown.
*
A dark winter’s night,
A...
Poems by Rajesh Nandiamkode
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Gummy soil
Always
always
it sticks to the spade.
Most of my time
is spent in scraping it off
with a stick.
Whenever
the landlord comes
he...
Poems by Santosh Dharma Rathod
A Shirt*
I was reluctant, brother, to say:
“This summer vacation
Get me a shirt from a city.”
Lest it shouldn’t be
A command or a demand
Of a younger...
