By: Bruce Levine Take your dog for a walk – even if it doesn’t help, your dog will appreciate it.Read a good book – always a good choice, assuming you have one.Watch television – probably an oxymoron and probably not…
By: James Aitchison Empty the heartwithout love.Empty the soulwithout purpose.Society buildscruel walls,society celebratesinjustice.Strength rises fromthe steady soul,the calm andunhurried mind.Know that power restsin your detachment.
By Mitali Chakravarty The buoyant chatter in avian voices was so loud that thepark walkers were silenced.The treetop was screaming out the city’s violencethat only birds could observe through the day.Would they now debate, discuss, and advise policy measures? (‘Parliament…
By: Suchoon Mo 1 The soundless misty rainthis stillnss of night is mine 2 I have two desiresmay I give you one of them? since I met youI need only one 3 she has no faceneither does the wind she…
By: Bruce Levine Filling the void Of eternal dissolution Evading the cavity Of human dislocation A parody of civilization In a hand-held box Glorifying nothing The emptiness thereof A synapse shorted A circuit-breaker broken A complex evolution Darwin rebuffed The…
By: Pallavi Manoj Dixit The Shared Path Life is a fast-moving race,Where everyone’s on the run.Can we lie to ourselves and claim,That we’re different from everyone? We’re just like the rest in this chase,Holding on to our own pace.When we…
By: Mayumi Yamamoto No Chance Shall I tell you about the onewho came before you? She enjoyed a carefree life,and used to ramble aroundthe house with abandon,never felt the need to beon guard. She’d curl up and sleepwherever she loved….
By: James Aitchison Consider the power ofthe limitless mind,the broadest sweep ofcomprehension.Knowledge brings glisteningnewness and light.The earthly plane evaporatesas nothing more than mist,revealing all things infiniteand eternal.They are, in truth, the onlyreality worth seizing.
By: Maryam Iftikhar You are close to me,like the brightest star in the sky.But when I lift my finger to touch it,a devastating truth breaks me:even in this world,I’m still a million stars away from you. Tides of longing sweep…
By: Bruce Levine Shadows of mountains parade over valleys within. Streams resemble arteries, sustaining life, as trout evading anglers reveal cascading thoughts of life and death that society proclaims meaningless in movies: Hollywood’s refrain. Cheaper by the dozen. A cartoon…