Belated
/…eight year old skin is purple,
the colour of blackberries
lacerating on our courtyard floor
under the season’s impetuous…
By Basudhara Roy
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The World of Words
/…a whole new world out there
where words are hung around for you to choose them
Making something out of those suspended words is a fashion there,
fashion in the new…
By Sushant Thapa
Read More“O Muses! What Is Genius?...”
/A sonnet that waxes philosophical on what is the nature and/or purposes of genius.
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…is genius? Is it born?
Or is it taught? Why do some possess it?
And some do not? These questions are…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreSmall World
/…was looking at a raindrop as it paused upon a leaf
Reflected on its surface, clouds and sky with trees beneath
The world around me captured by this glistening, dewy sphere
Within its lower arc the mossy earth and ferns showed…
By James Geehring
Read MoreKirigami
/This is about the mind of man. Neither the language nor the instrument matters in life. What matters is the outcome, the substance of thought, the practical output that filters through one's mind.
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…you smear affection in glue?
Shake the pillars?
Dissolve the melanin…
By Utpal Chakraborty
Read MoreThat Phulkari Hand Embroidered Silk Linen Saree
/…followed those peacocks on that saree of yours
How they spread their rainbow colored wings
And danced to the tune of that shepherd boy
Who rested at the fringe of a lake beneath a sprawling…
By Moinak Dutta
Read MoreShattered In The Storms
/…about life and where it goes
It's been a long tiring hardworking journey
But still it feels like it has stuck in its beginning
Trying to climb but falling and…
By Moin Uddin
Read MoreBook of Beauty
/The poem points out the social hypocrisy in the appropriation beauty, and the history of biases on the basis of appearances.
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…color d’you prize,
Obsessed with…
By Maitri Verma
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