Six Snapshots of Social Life – By Robert Wexelblatt
Six Snapshots of Social Life
The conversation downstairs blurs, rises,
falls; politely meaningless exchanges
swiftly disperse. Up in the bathroom, a
woman weeps, checks the mirror, mends her...
Hellas : A Diptych – By Debasish Lahiri
Hellas
For Rafael Peñas Cruz
In spring
a god whose name
Olympus had forgotten
chose to fill rocks --
honed to whiteness
by Apollo's fingernails --
with the dream of a...
Poems by Colin Ian Jefferey
Howl down the screaming wind
Howl down the screaming wind
Stem gushing flow of innocent blood
Rescue souls lost from whirlpool's trap
Floundering lost amidst thunderous waves
Dashed and...
Poems by Nazeer Kadikkad
Interview
You ask me
Are you always inside poems
and why write so many of them?
You misunderstood me
I've no idea what poetry is.
I'm no different from what...
Poems by Duane Anderson
In the Eyes of a Sidewalk
Join me, along with my brothers and sisters
as you take your walk on our paths
lying along both sides of...
Poems by Sreeja Naskar
sickness
For dinner, I set two plates out of habit,
hunger shaped like memory. The table is smaller
now. Or maybe it's me, folding into the...
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...
