Poetry

Malayalam poems; translation

No Word Will Be Comforting Here & Other Poemsβ€” Desamangalam Ramakrishnan

Translated from the Malayalam by K.M. Ajir Kutty No word will be comforting here There is no distance between Dadri and meThere is no distance between the Ahmad of there and meIt was only yesterday that…...
Mercury Marvin Sunderland- English Poetry

Apple Cinnamon and Other Poemsβ€” Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

Apple Cinnamon i packedone bowltook the lighter& lit Β  took a deep breath & exhaledthrough my nose then eyedthe partially-burntdollar-cost jointresting in light ashes of the dollar store ashtray the resting thumb lighterwith the geometric illustrationof…...
turkish poem kucuk iskender

Every Poet’s Fate Is Sealed By A Stroke Of Their Pen by küçük Δ°skender

From his initial years, küçük Δ°skender was hailed as a poet who, by rebelling against the settled norms and forms of poetry, disregarded the boundaries that traditionally mark off different genres of writing. The poem published…...
Sunoco Gas Station

Sunoco Church and Other Poemsβ€” Morgan Boyer

Sunoco ChurchΒ  Fuel gauge empty, fiery words filling the backseat:It's time for a pitstop.Just like church,no one comes to a Sunocobecause they want to.It’s a place filled with miserable, empty peopletrying to evade eye contactwith other…...
Existential Crisis

Instead of Turtles All the Way Down and Other Poemsβ€” Ace Boggess

Instead of Turtles All the Way Down Perhaps the world rests in an ambulancewithin an ambulance inside another, and so on,each moving from crime scene or accidentthrough an abysmal citythat might be a bolt…...
Dog, Puppy

Between Usβ€” A Poem by Indrani Tuli

Between Us... We were at the picnic spot, near the rivulet,Everyone was busy, talking about his pet.The tummy was full, now journey back to school..."No one makes a fuss, go and board the bus!"The…...
Poetry april

Sand Worm and Other Poemsβ€” Sambhunath Chattopadhyay

Five poems of Sambhunath Chattopadhyay, translated from Bengali by Kingshuk Sarkar...
Poetry april

A Poem for All Those Unwritten Ones and Other Poemsβ€”Kamal Vora

Translated from the Gujarati by Pratishtha PandyaΒ  A Poem for All Those Unwritten Ones 1. Having realized thatit is not true that poemsnot written downdo not existthe poet is devastated.He takes the ornaments offhis written wordsand…...

Let’s Take a Selfie with Time and Other Poems – Saroj Bal

Translated from the Odia by Dr. Snehaprava Das Let's Take a Selfie with Time Come, DevLet’s take a selfie with TimeLet’s stretch our tongues longerTo lick the ice creamBefore it melts and trickles downTo…...