by Chaitali Sengupta The latest collection of poems by the Kolkata-based, bilingual, and well-known poet Gopal Lahiri has a very intriguing name, to begin with: “Alleys are filled with Future Alphabets.” When you turn the last page, you realize that not only is the name intriguing, but the poems are […]
Month: August 2021
Natural Ganesh Idol: Kiran’s Initiatives to Improve the Environment
by Priya Prakash Purandar (Pune district): Kiran Jagtap from Rajewadi village of Purandar would have been just another Ganesha idol maker but his unique initiative sets him apart. He makes the idols from cow dung and when these idols are put in a tub filled with water at the time […]
God Bless You
by Gil Hoy Jack’s favorite breakfast spot was “The Breakfast Club.” He always ordered “The Jock.” He’d been one in college. Egg whites, asparagus, tomatoes, and onions. Jack was older now but still strikingly handsome. Trim and fit with a sun-bleached, brown mane and piercing blue eyes. Jack had an hour to […]
Ode on Solitude
Sometimes a blessing, sometimes a curse Sometimes a hell, sometimes a paradise She is caressing me in multitude ways Sometimes a friend, sometimes a foe Sometimes a dungeon, sometimes a fowl She is always with me as a confidant Sometimes being a fathomless abyss Sometimes being a brook of elixir […]
Lives Pledged to This Republic Are Not to Be Thrown Away
by Mark Antony Rossi The World looks to America not because we boast about Freedom, but practice it with heart and good cheer. These two qualities are missing today upon learning more young soldiers have died for a land (Afghanistan) that was never interested in freedom in the first place. […]
Dusk and Dawn – The War Zone
Hidden under the benevolent beams of the sun The stars came spying on the sun and fell in the foot of the moon. Conveyed it is a wise time, the dusk. Sniffing the smell of war; the birds were flocking around. The moon and the sun were standing straight opposite […]
A Small Family
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY, USA
The Culture Of Authority
Think not .. You are born only for serving others You are responsible for their welfare You have to perform umpteen duties You have to organise & manage others Your work is only to cook, do laundry… You aren’t, a housekeeper You, my friends, are more than that Don’t ever […]
Skeletons in the Closet
As time becomes your foe The feelings die In the closet to lie The overcrowded skeletons Which you fought so hard, At the thoughts shuddered And those were the ones You pushed deep down to go. And they get tired of waiting To see you constantly hurting And want […]
True Love
God gives us a lot of things in life but if we disrespect it, then God takes it away from us. I realise that everybody is not lucky enough to experience true love in life. But, there are a few people who receive love as reciprocation. Trust and patience are synonymous with […]