Memory of the Future and other poems by Shelly Narang
Memory of the future Four pictures, now five of them This reckoning will never be still. Who is left here to catch the laughter, Flowing...
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- May 9
The Old Coffin-Seller and other poems by Abu Siddik
A Dark Little Figure Her eyes are the eyes of the old man Who is going to die right now. You can scratch and draw images on her skin,...
- May 5
Your love was sickeningly sour and other poems by Zinia Mitra
Your love was sickeningly sour
as you tinkled your long cocktail glasses
ice-cube cold, a slice of lemon
flavored my long skirt days
- Apr 30
NaPoWriMo'23 Day 19-20: What we cannot hear / Second thoughts before deleting a photograph
My phone scoffs like Amma,
Blinks twice disbelievingly-
Are you planning to let go?
You've aged 3 years,
It's a blurred one
- Apr 22
NaPoWriMo TTT x PoemsIndia : Explore the emotional Journey of Adulting
And just like that
In dreams & broken realities
We enter the threshold of adulthood
Waving childhood goodbye
Preserving the little child in
- Apr 22
The Final Smooch and other poems by Moumita Alam
algae have grown in open eyelids
the breasts have become the earth's timeclock
the quartz of their secretion has turned into
a moon on dark
- Apr 20
NaPoWriMo'23 Day 16/17: Neon Gods / I had a dream you won't understand even If I tell you
we keep bartering our faith in a mosque or a church when google shows 34,45,978 results for the word 'god'
- Apr 20
Waterworld and other poems by Arnab Bhattacharya
The fish,
Wandering about in the bluest depths
Of Earth, in wet heavens,
Unaware of the inevitable
End of the earth,
Arising out of furnac
- Apr 19
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Fourteen: Brief Heaven
what is it about mothers and the sad singularity of things they do for themselves? but i saw her laugh for the longest time and wipe
- Apr 18
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Thirteen: Meeting a poet outside their poems
i met a brilliant poet in an ordinary cafe
he writes poems on everything he ever loved;
but i can’t find a single one about him. so i write
- Apr 17
NaPoWriMo'23 TTT x PoemsIndia: Exploring the soul of your city through poetry
My Delhi fits me
like an oversized hoodie,
In its extremes of cold and heat,
we survive in solidarity
You will find balconies dripping with
- Apr 16
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Ten: Our silence lives in the bodies of others
The prompt is inspired by Ilya Kaminsky's Poem 'We lived happily during the War' The women in my family are without a home by Pritha Jain...
- Apr 16
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Nine: I have built speed breakers in my heart
love becomes a memory
in the blink of an eye.
so i have built speed breakers in my heart
for i want love to be slow with me.
i want love t
- Apr 14
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Eight: Haircut and Hair Coloring as a reset button
A Pixie Cut by Abshaar Saeed I sit in a radiant chamber with tube lights, many other lights some dull and some ephemeral like the...
- Apr 12
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Seven: Prayers walk in high heels
the prayers that remain unheard often go and bitch about god to the prayers that remain unanswered
- Apr 10
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Six: Orange
Song of sapphic orange juice by Aadrit Banerjee citrus blues on soft carpels, a tapestry of fibres weaved on them, lemon smell bringing...
- Apr 9
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Five: We are gift-wrapping the earth in plastic, but for whom
Buried Alive in Plastic by Arya Mohapatra One. Tangled with the acrid scent of burnt paper and wasted sap, the earth reeks of incinerated...
- Apr 7
NaPoWriMo'23 TTT x PoemsIndia : Women In Love
To be a woman and to be in love is exhausting by Antara Vashistha To be a woman and to be in love is exhausting So imagine when the two...
- Apr 5
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Three: Every Dead Thing is in need of more mourning
(Assume all trigger warnings) Until the mo(u)ring flickers in an oil lamp again by Shailja Bahety The red silk light escapes the oil lamp...
- Apr 4
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Two: Flowers at Night
Wildflowers like her by Nithya Vijay My mother loves her nights, Sitting on the verandah- Of our little house, Staring into nothingness....
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