Poem on Social Media By Affaf Sheikh After the mist disappearedI met illusion of my perceptionIn the era of smart mirrorsbeing humanI saw my replicaGazed …
Identity
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Refugee Ship
By Lorna De Cervantes Like wet cornstarch, I slidepast my grandmother’s eyes. Bibleat her side, she removes her glasses.The pudding thickens. Mama raised me without …
Wise I
By Amiri Baraka WHYS (Nobody Knows) The Trouble I Seen) Trad. If you ever findyourself, some wherelost and surroundedby enemieswho won’t let youspeak in your …
Love Poem For A Wife I
By A.K. Ramanujan Really what keeps us apartat the end of years is unsharedchildhood. You cannot, for instance,meet my father. He is some yearsdead. Neither …
Autobiographical
By Eunice de Souza Right, now here it comes.I killed my father when I was three.I have muddled through several affairsand always come out badly.I’ve …
Dragonfly At My Windowpane
By Wole Soyinka Dragonfly at My WindowpaneSo when I offer me, a medium asThe Windowpane, you beat upon itFrantic wings against the unyielding tolerance ? …
Background, Casually
By Nissim Ezekiel I A poet-rascal-clown was born,The frightened child who would not eatOr sleep, a boy of meager bone.He never learned to fly a …
Unrevealed Silence
By Ramya Kalyan Under the stars that whine my melancholies,the frost gives me chills and hope.Night’s crescent descends down,brimming and dousing my hollowness with faith,lightening …