Two Poems – By Gavin Bourke
When The Old Man Got In
The yawning mouth
almost torn out
somnolent, listless
grimacing and worn out.
Broken cracked-lines and veins
an old pullover
with diamond-print patterning
and a dusty...
Five Poems by Thomas Piekarski
Magic Carpet Ride
The girl from Ipanema yearns
to make sweet love poetry
inside a shimmering rainbow.
And innate guidance directs
to a goblet...
Two Poems by Sreekanth Kopuri
Research Surrogacy
beware of the organ-trafficking of scholarship
Saraswati for sale!
It’s time she compromised
but too sacred and fertile for
the rising traffic of proxies,
we willingly queue for...
Five Poems by Akbar
Malayalam Poetry in English
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When the Bamboos Sing
Translated by K.C Muraleedharan
When, in the hall, drenched in qawwali,
The concertgoers, their fingers dancing,
Far off, in a hamlet,
A...
Two Poems – By Gavin Bourke
Captivating
In the first light of the morning sun and late in the evening, mesmerising luminosity
with features that simply amaze and astonish in equal measure,...
Poems by Sreeja Naskar
somewhere, a nest is lined with what i lost
there's a small hole the size of a nickel
in my heart. perhaps, smaller. perhaps, the size
of...
Poems by Ivan Pozzoni
Austrians Here are stricter than the Bourbons
The Austrian, of true Aryan stock, is very strict, does not charm,
achtung kaputt kameraden, demands maximum flexibility
so as...
Poems by Reed Venrick
Visiting Sartre Again
Well, Monsieur J.P. Sartre,
I come to visit you again,
After these 41 years—then
I was studying French over
At the “Alliance Francaise”
On Avenue Raspail, and
Now,...
Five Poems by Ivan Pozzoni
Hotel Acapulco
My emaciated hands continued to write,
turning each voice of death into paper,
That he lefts no will,
forgetting to look after
what...
Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal
In Pursuit of Myself
I barely know who I am
much less who anyone else is.
I draw and colour a little.
I doodle.
I hone my artistic skills...
