Poetry

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…...

Arachnid and Other Poems – Dee Allen

Arachnid She's not hard-wired for predation.Mating, then killing,j ust ain't her thing.Her instinct is more creative. Red and black, roaming spider,A black widow, mind you,crawls from one open mic to the next,endowed with gifts…...

Stories we Tell and Other Poems by Richard Luftig

Stories We Tell A bullshitter is not hostile to the truth but is merely indifferent to it-Harry Frankfurt. This is the God’s- honest truth,my father would saythen tell a story and us kidswould believe…...

Poems by Mohammad Rizwan Bhat

1 On the edge of a terrace,Stood a woman-Desolate, distressed and dismayed,Even these may fall shortTo sketch her state.And numerous violent stormsPerturbed her mind. With her heart poundingAs loud as thunder, sheGathering a mountain…...

House and other poems – Bharti Bansal

House Sometimes my aunts sit around the stoveAnd talk about their husbands in shy whispersWhile they talk about countries and their fall in another roomThis is how it has been ever since I was…...