Below the cloak of clouds Under the canopy of stars Over and across the lake The swing with the wind spars I go back in the time To my childhood days When we were so carefree And gleeful always Right now there is no breeze The swing is hanging still […]
Month: June 2020
Identity
If they stop and ask you who you are Give them no reply Let them search you for your identity You have none Free souls do not belong to any religion Caste, creed, gender- nothing matters You fly beyond these boundaries These demarcators of triage, these high-risk zones If they […]
Keep It from Beating
Staring at the vastness of nowhere Silent tears from the hearts are Swiftly making their way to the Windows of the soul. Mind can be amazing at times but mostly overpowered by the heart No matter how painful It keeps on beating. If only everything can be thrown in a […]
I Want to Breathe
Choked I am , want to breathe On this earth fresh air depleted One or other count Nature flummoxed Squeezed voice needed to breathe; When wolves on open street howl Silenced lamb must be at foul No matter whatever be skin colour Lamb ought to be punished as ever. Entire […]
If You Want
Call me naughty if you want my pranks blink off and on touch contours of your demeanour make you elbow out hovering gloom caffeinated insomniac state for sure my quiet tip toe akin to a danseuse’s step reaches your writhing heart like a metaphor splashes freshness…silences fanatic furore Call me defiant if […]
Living With Corona
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
Quality Control
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY, USA
A Beginning on Rock Beach
(Dedicated to Pondicherry city and its people) In an amorous evening fall over the fierce bay the deep-dim-out in sky and love on shores Lover hood congealed an oath of eternal intimacy Pampered by jazzing winds and waves In a maiden Confabulation to entwine the emotions; erotic and […]
The Sunset Hues
By Anuradha S. Bannore from Vadodara, India
Pandemic and Tea-Laborers of Dooars (India): A Dysphoric Situation of Social Disparity
By Arghya Das 25th March 2020, a Corona cornet alarmed, and the lockdown (first period) of 21 days started in India after a short declaration by our noteworthy Prime Minister. The pandemic named COVID-19 or CORONA virus infection has become the most atrocious experience for every person and we have […]