Everyone is masked You can only see the eyes No face visible Who is staring who isn’t You don’t know why the curiosity The world is playing hopscotch Jumping like a jack in the box Then vanishing again Now here, now there Like the virus It travels from […]
Month: October 2021
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The great divide between haves and have nots is never wider then at Christmas, when the wealthy celebrate on their super yachts with epicurean pleasures, while many huddle in pubic housing without heat, amenities, each day a struggle to endure poverty, while only a few can better the lives of […]
The Object
I am an empty vessel a perfect, blank canvas for a city like this, to project anything and everything right onto my taut skin until you have whatever image you want. Shiny, fresh, new, malleable, crimson, hunter green, blush, marigold, lost, seeking, searching, finding anything and everything you want […]
God Takes Away My Mother
I love my mother who left me a few years ago, due to a serious illness. I recollect her lovely smile and unconditional love with tears in my eyes. Our hearts were broken when she left us and went to God’s home. It was very difficult to survive at home […]
The Awakening
by Deepanshu Srivastava Navaratri is a major festival held for nine days every year in the honour of the divine feminine. The two folk dances Garba and Dandiya are played by men and women during these nine days. Garba is a dance form of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Malwa region of […]
Lizard Tounge Soup
By Terence Wynne from Camillus, NY, USA
Odorous Whirlwind
Like a splash of water with thunder Ideas collapse on the lap of cruel Whirlwind hit wasteland of intolerance. Corporal punishment upon Morbidly unconscious them Deterred revival Of beautiful tomorrow’s sunshine. Trodding the path of segregation Fierce and frightening Yelling from the crown Dries up the bloodstream of […]
Over the Moon
Then I was over the moon, when asked her; “Will you marry me?” and she didn’t say anything, Just smiled and blushed! ~ Dr. Shailesh Gupta Veer Fatehpur, India
The Rainbow
Standing on the edge of the horizon Straining my eyes To see any ship or boat To cross the vast, blue ocean, Searching far and wide And finding none, Shuffling my burning feet In the blazing sun I closed my eyes To avoid the glare And muttered a silent prayer […]
Tender Branches of Separation
I had found you lying on the jagged and unforgiving streets, stagnant, like a reminiscing shadow of the moon on the weary waves of the sleepless sea; blisters of loss on your chafed skin shaping memories that’d always stay, layered, overly feeding, your malnourished branches with the undying kernel of […]