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Poem: A letter to my Dad

By: Llaka Tshesane I hate the world for what it has done to you The tiny pieces of lungs the cigars has stolen from you The alcohol that fed on you and the stroke that snatched your life too I…

Poems: ‘Come in’ and ‘Inner Self’

By: Zunayet Ahammed Come In I am passing hard time In the pool of sorrows I’m drowning Everywhere I find darkness, pitch like darkness And the coldness of the wind A feeling of wilderness, bareness and infertility Consumes all It seems…

Poem: Under the Pseudonym

By: Aditya Malhotra We are soldiers Weary of pointing our gunnery At the pristine snow-capped mountains Bordering our land of peasants Hanging by their necks Where reviled women with mutilated bodies Lay unclaimed like prisoners of war And bellies of drowned…

Aloha’s Embrace

By: Aditya Malhotra What can one see staring at a mirror? * * * Am I the one picked up among skein Or looking at someone more alive? Who giggles seeing me chase my tail Warms up in mouth to mouth…