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Poem: loss

  By: Linda M. Crate   maybe it’s your loss but it feels like mine all i know is we are meant to be together intuition, i guess; as the grass knows to grow and dew knows to fall birds to…

Poem: The Beggar

By: Adreyo Sen You don’t need to look away till you realize she has your sister’s eyes. It’s the blackened, tear-smothered, matted-haired, haggard smell of your sister’s shame that follows you slyly as you drive by.   ******** [Adreyo Sen,…

Poem: The Living Room

By: Adreyo Sen It rained. My living room smelt of the damp. The flowers were trapped in their silences. Outside the living room that was the street was destroyed. The gathered came away. The kettle was locked back up. The children…

Poem: A Lost Way

By: Kousik Adhikari You came running Splashing your eyes, Covering your face With the blue handkerchief Of some unheard design, Reminding me of the earth Out of black hole, ‘Oh! Can’t you hear me?’ It was a terrible afternoon At southern…

Poem: This Forbidden Sea

  By: Kousik Adhikari I used to say often ‘There’s no dream for us’, You bend your ivory face With a half serious smile, The room is a world With finer walls and no common Windows, did we know then? It…

Poem: Me and You

  By: Bamgbose Gabriel  In your fears And tears I share When you ache I break When you are grieved I am bereaved I bear your curse And your shame – My cross of crucifixion – Because you are the…

Poem: The Glow After Afterglow

By: Fredrik M Zander Yesterday’s saturation’s all a memory now, And the promise of this shining day Seems to have left me jaded for a moment Before I took my eyes where I put them, In compelling grass, Outside the…

Poem: Hansel And Greta

By: G David Schwartz I live in Cincinnata I have all my life Mostly anyway And now here with my lovely wife She is a handsome woman Except when she calls me Hansel. Hansel! That just ought not be I…

Poem: I Just Sit Here Thinking

By: G David Schwartz I just sit here thinking Why are there so many bees and why is there snow And where are my keys I do sit here and think It is difficult to blink Or break glasses when…