I cage you in memories with shackles of melody under blue skies of serenity. I sing you in heartbeats with pink lips of blood inside vessels of soul. I preserve you in verses with freshwater of Jehlum in verdure; spines of deodar I walk you by Kashmir with fantasy of […]
Month: July 2020
Walls
He, charming and amicable She, cloaked in mystery He, blithe and cheerful She, battling unseen demons. He was a bright Sunday morning And she, a tempestuous October night. Irascible and difficult was she, And as fate would have it, He liked a challenge. Taken away by her subtle beauty, His […]
Say No to Suicide
Agitations, frustrations, depression , Are quite common in my expression , I am under tremendous pressure of suppression , So I decide to quit and end my creation. What a worthless one you are? Thirty, neither own a house or Car, Men of your age have gone so far, What […]
War
When a war breaks out The misery which had been lurking in a corner comes out It showers upon us the incessant rain of despondency The perpetrators of these wars are people who are hard as nails And who take measures that always fail So many casualties Just because of […]
Corona’s Summer Vacation Plans
By Dr. Anuradh Sistla from Hyderabad, India
Kaleidoscope in Nature
Damn! That selfish Turquoise parrot detected delinquency and grumbled at perceiving me awake and alive And chimes as its toes bang into wonky wooden window bars Bound by stems of English ivies Situated in crocks at floor While pecks its leaves outspread For quelling my half ripened sleep Yesterday […]
Vacuumed Emotion
My heart was veined with a blank page You filled my vacuumed emotions With your subtle rustling jingles…. You had promised to stay away But, my loving hypnosis pulled back thee Through my robust longing grips…. Your gleaming tears was molting But, you got my rigorous vicinity As urged by […]
The Partition
The partition of India was sad, Except to some who were mad, With foreboding racial fanaticism, That did away their power of skepticism. They were a recalcitrant minority, Who out witted the silent majority, To whom partition of their mother, A worry, yet another. Go back to history, You would […]
Quacks, Charlatans and Covid-19
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal If you want to start a career as a Spiritual Guru or a Baba, as we call them in India, then this is the country for you. It can be the most rewarding career and you can have it all if you are successful in […]
A More Perfect Union
by Mark Antony Rossi The Great Democratic Experiment that is America is in historic jeopardy. The enormous legislative strides Americans made as a country (and at the cost of many lives I must add) are now being rolled back one by one. The cause of stopping racism and reforming policing […]