• June 10, 2016
  • Neelam Saxena Chandra

Hero Worship

This verse is about Neelam’s search for a hero, an icon, in her teenage years. When I was a teen, I was often asked, “Who is your hero?” I...
  • June 10, 2016
  • Shernaz Wadia

Once I met Life

A poignant poem by Shernaz. During the passage from birth to date I once encountered Life on the way She beckoned. Urged me to engage in the moment I...
  • June 9, 2016
  • Lily Swarn

Sweet Peas / She Came

Sweet Peas Here are two evocative poems by Lily for Different Truths. Cloying cinnamonic caressing scent of sweet-peas Wafting  across the  moss green expanse of gambolling meadows Bamboo grasses...

The Last Reunion

A group of five friends had formed the renowned band, The Pentagonal. They had met in the Darjeeling home of their two friends, now married, after 10 years. All...
  • June 9, 2016
  • Sudeshna Mukherjee

The Age of Seasons

Sudeshna celebrates nature through the myriad moods of seasons in these verses. Spring Young shoots spruce up dressed                      ...
  • June 8, 2016
  • Maya Khandelwal

Melancholy

An inward looking poem where Maya talks about the dynamics of creativity, how it’s not easy to write about melancholy. I wring my eyes, tighten my jaw lines, and my...