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A kiss on the wrist by Shrutee Choudhary
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 1 min

A kiss on the wrist by Shrutee Choudhary

on the night of our first encounter you gave me a kiss not on my cheeks or my hand or lips you kissed me on my wrist I frowned as you...
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Ashes, ashes we all fall down by Khatija Khan
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 1 min

Ashes, ashes we all fall down by Khatija Khan

A still from the film Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky surely, the earth is a wicked old woman who steals stainless steel bones to bury it...
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Moss by Sara Sethia
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 2 min

Moss by Sara Sethia

Three women by Amrita Shergill There is moss making love in graveyards. Last night I showed up there with a bottle of old monk to speak...
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The absence of a poem by Resham Sharma
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 2 min

The absence of a poem by Resham Sharma

Writer’s block: the absence of a poem The absence of a poem sticks in the underbelly of your fingers- fingers who don’t recognise each...
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Journey of a Poem by Aishwarya Roy
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 2 min

Journey of a Poem by Aishwarya Roy

Girl Reading, Vase of Flowers, 1922 – Henri Matisse My poem is lactose-intolerant. It’s a baker allergic to flour, A depressed comedian,...
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We’re too soiled with the notion of love by Shriti Chowdhary
  • Oct 2, 2021
  • 1 min

We’re too soiled with the notion of love by Shriti Chowdhary

Fluidity IV by Shirley Novak There are caterpillars in my mother’s gajra crawling towards her ears while all she feels are my dad’s iron...
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Laceration by Bhairavi Ponkshe
  • Sep 18, 2021
  • 1 min

Laceration by Bhairavi Ponkshe

Absence of Sound by STACY DAGUIAR Ask my name and I’ll utter a thousand words that only sound like it. “Do what is necessary,” they say...
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Troubled young boys grow up to be steadfast gentlemen by Mitra Visveswaran
  • Sep 7, 2021
  • 2 min

Troubled young boys grow up to be steadfast gentlemen by Mitra Visveswaran

Sad man by Prisac Nicolae Troubled young boys grow up to be stiff and steadfast gentlemen Wearing suits and ties and combing their hair...
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People live longer in our grief than in our remembrance by Antara Verma
  • Sep 7, 2021
  • 2 min

People live longer in our grief than in our remembrance by Antara Verma

George Frederick Watts, Found Drowned, c. 1850, oil on canvas, Watts Gallery, Compton I am addicted to grief- It’s not that I can’t do...
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Newspapers are a luxury in the hands of spectators by Resham Sharma
  • Sep 7, 2021
  • 3 min

Newspapers are a luxury in the hands of spectators by Resham Sharma

POSTCARDS / STEPHEN PUTNAM HUGHES AND EMILY ROSE STEVENSON The morning newspaper stretches its wearied arms between my fingers and...
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Weighing a girl, a woman and a mother
  • Sep 7, 2021
  • 2 min

Weighing a girl, a woman and a mother

Hiba Schahbaz’s Self Portrait / Weighing a girl Every day when the sun hides behind trees A girl rides past my house I look at her...
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I am a gunshot wound
  • Sep 2, 2021
  • 1 min

I am a gunshot wound

Girl Floating in Water by Ophelia i am a gunshot wound. two tablespoons of Rooh Afza does not calm me, it either lights me up like Wills...
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In the landscape of tomorrow, God is an almost dead man
  • Sep 2, 2021
  • 2 min

In the landscape of tomorrow, God is an almost dead man

Displaced Afghani Children at a refugee camp in Kabul / Photograph by Haroon Sabawoon In the playgrounds of tomorrow, happiness bleeds...
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Worshipping Poets by Simra Sadaf
  • Sep 1, 2021
  • 3 min

Worshipping Poets by Simra Sadaf

La Muse by Pablo Picasso “Talk to me about the poem you wrote to pass the unbearable. Tell me why you prefer the second generation of...
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The anatomy of a happy family
  • Aug 3, 2021
  • 2 min

The anatomy of a happy family

In my house, rooms are claimed in the name of things rather than people- sandook room, almirah room, AC room, mandir room- a steady...
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Pulitzer likes the rubble better than Paradise
  • Aug 3, 2021
  • 1 min

Pulitzer likes the rubble better than Paradise

Tired of writing poems of defiance Those that reek of blasphemy and fire Read aloud in a voice refusing to crack Here I shall not rebel...
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On six days out of ten, it does feel like home
  • Aug 3, 2021
  • 1 min

On six days out of ten, it does feel like home

There is a kid somewhere in the world, who feels guilty for sleeping, without feeding the doll. And there is this girl, who talks to a...
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Half of my dreams are soap bubble fallacies
  • Aug 2, 2021
  • 1 min

Half of my dreams are soap bubble fallacies

Soap Bubble Large Wabbelig Huge I. My god breathes in the smoke of a thousand incense And breathes out security That mothers with...
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This poem will make paper swans out of your discarded suicide notes
  • Jul 30, 2021
  • 2 min

This poem will make paper swans out of your discarded suicide notes

My mother asks me why do I ⁣ Give my poems names ⁣ Like wheelchair, a crutch, ⁣ an inhaler⁣ A one bedroom beating heart⁣ Why can’t i call...
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Love faces language barriers
  • Jul 30, 2021
  • 1 min

Love faces language barriers

So much of love is lost in translations. it spills out by the time it travels from one human to another. for the man at the subway has no...
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