To Find my own Word
Duska tries to find her own word, her own voice, as all poets and writers do in this verse. Countless poets have already told ...
Lock and Key
A love poem composed as duet by two poets, Leepsha and Mahapatra. Fate changes It changes to give you back what you lost And what you – as you...
When a Child Dies
A heart-wrenching poem by Duska. For Nikola When a child dies it’s wrong to weep every sob ...
A Drive through the Clouds
Ipsita celebrates the beauty of majestic hills wrapped in a veil of light drizzle. Imagine the hills As twilight descends And the clouds come down To settle on the...
What Then?
(After Yeats) An evocative poem by Muddasir “He must grow a legendary man,” His chosen teachers thought at school. He spent his life according to a youthful plan. ‘What...
Weeds
Shernaz celebrates nature in this evocative poem. we bloom invisible, undesirable among seemingly well-laid out ornamentals; you wage war on us wanting our annihilation we are not an anomaly...
The Missing*
A heart wrenching poem about missing tigers by Moinak, as awareness against illegal poaching of the wild cats. Every year they are going missing, From Parks, Sanctuaries, From registers as...
No Homecoming Ever
Three perspectives of an evocative poem by Mamta. A dinner thrown as farewell The guests lovingly swell Ambience, menu perfect The bar too well laced The mood quasi-festive A...
Dead Soul
Here’s a dark enigmatic poem by Urooj. I stood on the hump-backed bridge With my arms hugging my dead soul… In the clear moonlight, the swirling waters beneath were...
Maya / The Backwaters
Here are two poems of Lily. The first one Maya is a tongue-in- cheek view of the various illusions of life. Her second poem, The Backwaters, transports us to beauteous Kerala....