Two Poems by Hurain Ghafoor
My Silk Sonnets
I move my arms slowly through the air,
And imagine them as something spindly,
Something wild and wondrous,
Do I romanticize myself?
Very...
“Rome” – Poems by Marina Kazakova
1
Are we, or are we not?
Are we, or are we not
alone?
How can you hide from what is always in you?
How can the rain...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 5
1.
will You forever remain hidden
appearing and disappearing
as some noonday moon
mistaken for a cloud
...
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...
Delta – By Aditya Shankar
Delta
Between me and my poem,
lines we wanted to tell each other, but never did.
Lines we never wanted to utter, but always did.
People we dreamt...
Poems by Devika Mathur
A Shadow
I am a woman of soft auburn dreams/ a soft noise that appears after a thunder/ you wish to dissolve my nectar into...
Three Poems by K. Satchidanandan
Women
One woman walks in a hurry sobbing,
A house with faded paint on her head.
One woman goes on waiting at
A railway station where no...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 4
1.
the flower seller is left
with her flowers
I am left with my poems
...
Three Poems by Lynn Alexander
Gunsmoke
Corralled in Mama’s car for church,
scratch paper in our pockets
for a showdown of Hangman
with my brother,
the fragrance of Juicy Fruit wafts
out from her open...
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
The Lone Transmuter
On most days
she is soft curled Medusa
her locks big animated S-es
insistent question marks
buoyant ends curving
into snake-eyed C-s
inky chocolate in the shade
haloed red...
