Other day in a corner Sharply I looked for no onlooker Then pulled my wife nearer And asked, Oh! My dearer Please come closer Let me give you a kiss As I often did Always when I was younger She blushed but harshed You Oldie! you are seventy Don’t be […]
Month: June 2021
In the Mirror, Our Graves – A Review
by Tapas Bandopadhyay One rainy afternoon, when the monsoon is still young and nubile, when the air is still panting on the declining slope of the second wave of the pandemic, I get a call from an unknown number. I am expecting a delivery of fruits and vegetables. What I […]
Cute As a Button
by Brian Fox from East Meadow, NY, USA
The Fate of Taiwan Will Decide the Future of the South China Sea
by Mark Antony Rossi The South China Sea is bordered by the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. China is also a bordered country and has become an aggressor by using its economic might and military prowess to claim nearly the entire South […]
Remains
The cottage remains The myth of love still lives in the heap of straw and amongst the beads of a broken necklace The footsteps cutting through woods are deep and solid despite the rain through the years Life is walking on them rather slowly due to a tangled “Dupatta” […]
A Trip to A Tea Garden
I started my trip early in the morning to visit a tea garden in Assam. I reached the banks of the river Brahmaputra and entered the tea estate, where I saw ponds, hospital, grazing lands, temples, and farmlands. This tea garden had everything for the people living there as their […]
Crossroads
It’s a tormenting night, tonight, as the lightning cracks over the skies of grey, Flaked by the towering, withering trees and their branches in a tryst with heaven, The wings of the birds as they fly away to nothingness, the vivid imagery of peacocks dancing, The gusts of winds that […]
When Looking Back Leads to Failure
by Mark Antony Rossi I’m not the traditional introverted writer. Speaking, unlike most, comes naturally to me. Perhaps it’s because I am confrontational by nature. Maybe it’s because I was born in New Jersey. I may never know the answer since the question is less important than the ability to […]
Kintsugi
Life long quest to find her own self, bleak long journeys which ended in cul-de-sac. Then the epiphany struck her, she found her own self in the darkness under the moon’s twilight, the silhouette reflected her own grieving poetic self. She painted the white pages of life with her sorrows […]
Celebration
It was just the beginning of Less love and more distraction, Then the final straw came when I got his marriage invitation Struck hard, it broke my heart, I didn’t know what to do, Pulled myself up and decided to go Treating the invite as a billet- doux. […]