Five Poems by Sreekala Sivasankaran
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Blank as I am
I retrieve my forest
Off the light
All the light
Black as I am
I am the night
My crying songs return
Without body
A vanambadi*
*Skylark
Love alone
They were...
Poems by Paul Tristram
There Is No Running Away From This
No, do not ‘Pull it
out of the Fire’
… let it Burn.
Scars are made
from Collision
not Avoidance.
Life Experiences
… Teach...
Poems by T. J. Masluk
Final Things
In the den is an empty chair. Late sun blesses a well-worn
Persian rug. Farther off through weathered pane, I stare
for hours...
Two Poems by Ivan de Monbrison
Prose Poems
1.
A long time ago, before Absence, there was Time, that is the one of Life lost, as all lives are.
But, in the meantime,...
Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal
Prose Poetry
1
What You Missed That Day You Bunked Gazala Teacher’s Class
Miss Gazala explained how to stand still and watch the wind tickle the trees...
Poems by Marc Manganaro
Emerald of your Eyes
the promise
of all good things:
not the deep lived-in greens
of June and July, all fanned out, nor of
late August or September,
the start...
Poems by George Freek
As clouds pass by
As willow leaves fall,
it’s like a kind of grief,
but not a particular grief.
It’s for everything we see,
for the evening
succumbing to a...
Three Poems By Swati Moheet Agrawal
Joy
At lunchtime I bought coffee rasgulla tiramisu,
it made me smile.
I unveiled the box and shared it with M and V -
they got quarters and...
Poems by James Croal Jackson
?
God’s question
to the universe?
Silence
Final Cut
You’ve become a stuntman
boom camera car hurtling toward
(you try not to think about it–
getting older the pain locks
in the physical...
Verse for Older Children – By Gabriel Rosenstock
Author's Note:
From time to time, literary forums such as LitHub take a look at verse for children, that is to say they take it...
