Month: June 2021

Poetry

Age is Just Not a Number

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 […]

Poetry

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”   […]

Poetry

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 […]

Poetry

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 […]

Articles

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 […]

Poetry

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 […]

Poetry

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.   […]