A Potion to Heal and Kill
Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...
Festivals of Lights from Around the World
Most cultures and peoples celebrate the festivals of lights. Anumita reveals many traditions, which are basically same. ‘Tamso ma jotirgamaya’ of the Hindus find echo in the Biblical ‘Lead symbolises ignorance...
Misfit
A sense of belongingness keeps us rooted. Some people, though present physically in this world are absent mentally. They are the misfits, feels, Sailasree, in this verse, in Different...
Just Friends
A poignant and intense poem about yearning and wishes. A poem with strong submerged love, by Sushmita, in Different Truths. That winter night,You should have stayed on,With me through,Instead...
Three Ways to Protect Yourself from Cold Weather
Ritambhara tells us three ways to protect ourselves from the coming cold, exclusively for Different Truths. During the winter season, the first and foremost line of defence is to...
Uncertainty
An evocative poem by Arun, in Different Truths. The best of my efforts Gets me naught; All that's tough Becomes no more so. A delightful day Leads to...
Distance and Destined
Here’s a love poem from Lata, in Different Truths. Far away from your city, sitting beneath the stars, my impatient heart and sensible mind were fighting a deadly war.One...
The Ultimate
A sensuous and erotic poem by Amrinder, for Different Truths. Soaring of passions like Powerful winged birds. A cataract of pleasure Cascading over flesh. Grim determined pursuits Without civilised...
Harmonised
An evocative poem by Elsy, in Different Truths. They moved into an abode new by the railway line when she was nine. Sleep became alien as chugged the...
Time for Retiral
Retirement calls for many adjustments in life. Mamta celebrates it in verse, for Different Truths. The shrill alarm bellThe acid refluxOf tightrope walkOf panic hasteDays, months, yearsAt home and...