Month: February 2021

Fiction

The Last Sampan

by Steve Carr  The gentle waves of the Yellow River tapped against the sides of Wang Wei’s sampan, producing shallow reverberations, like fingers drumming arrhythmically on the stretched animal skin of a tanguu drum. Along the docks that lined the river banks of Zhengzhou, the tiny white lights hanging from […]

Poetry

Rebuild Girl To Lady Today

Dame in red is the bride to be; Lots of dreams and passion dwells within, Orthodox perception heartily followed, Schooled subject, Focus self on low; Chilled all dreams and avert to glow, Fear of the mysterious world froze to rim. Worldly ignorance besides to trim;   Embarked into anonymous world; […]

Poetry

Pain

Asking me the outlet Is my heart hiding from the body. I have understood that my aching gets fixed by the soul unseen And not by my heart. I have sheltered pain of existence, unseen worldly desires and A question of seclusion always talked about. Like a silent radio, I […]

Poetry

Meanderings…

The streets of the dark Winter night cradled Sleeping bodies huddled Close, close as ants On an ant-hill seeking Warmth from the proximity Of each other’s thinly clad Forms and figures The misty air meandered Through the pavements gray Compelling the little urchins To embrace their limbs Tightly to their […]

Poetry

I love You Kishah

Most misty, yet beautiful is the life With you, O dear Pamela   If life give us chance to become we Beyond the senses, O’ my darling, I pray thee   Traveling on the same tract, we are so close Yet, so for away thy soul, hath I can’t feel […]

Poetry

When You’re FAT

When you’re fat you lose your name, When you are fat and ugly  you lose your confidence, When you are fat and tolerant You’ll be bullied, When you are fat and inferior You  get into depression, When you are fat and grumpy You’ll be made fun of, When you are […]

Poetry

एक प्रश्न

मैंने देखा है अपने पिता को दिसम्बर की कड़कड़ाती ठंड में , पानी की धार से जूझते हुए तनिक संकोच नहीं मुझको , देश के प्रधान सेवक से पूछते हुए अन्नदाता रो रहा है , आपका जमीर सो रहा है , 21वीं सदी में क्या ? घोर अनर्थ हो रहा […]