I’m dying to not leave you first
Class notes my appetite expanded with him. food was his love language. the fancy juicer saw his impulsive, almost untameable hunger. i am...
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- Jan 27
I wish we never run out of tomatoes
On Sunlight and Tomatoes The winter sun is forgiving today, and you are julienning the tomatoes in the kitchen. There is something in the...
- Jan 25
My childhood is a train to Kerala
This Town at every turn a fire burns in this town crackling with old newspapers, turning pink the palms of those huddled around it i...
- Jan 24
How beautiful it is to go grocery shopping
1. Ode to Grocery Shopping how beautiful it is to go grocery shopping: walk past boxes of peach and plum, tumbling over one another in...
- Jan 6
If God is anywhere, He’s in Music
If God is anywhere, He’s in Music. He must be. Perhaps a prayer then
to bring us back— to how we used to be. (Poems by Arti Jain)
- Oct 31, 2022
The Sparrows Have Left and other poems by Adarsh Sathyan
Keepers Of Faith "Mother, you remember perfectly that God is a thief." -Agha Shahid Ali We shall meet again, beyond the last frontier By...
- Sep 20, 2022
Where are the surviving poems hiding (Poems by Abhijeet Singh)
August Sonnets 1. this room is smitten by agalloch nothing placed above me except loneliness nothing is untouched by the body fever rises...
- Jul 21, 2022
Rain Poems, 2022
As you wait in anticipation
of the rain to stop,
Dressed in yearning skin,
My tired fingers are writing this poetry for someone.
- Jul 5, 2022
The longer I stay away from you, the more my skin sheds itself, Poems of Mahlaqa Batool
did you know if you stay hungry long enough,
your brain cells start to cannibalize themselves?
just like how the longer I stay away from you
- Jun 25, 2022
The little kid is now writing poems of the woman he could be, Poems by Harshit Jalan
1. The little kid and the woman he kept inside. I wanted to write about that little kid who bloomed his own flower on his hand by...
- Jun 22, 2022
Loneliness grew like cavities in the teeth of earth, Poems by Shailja Bahety
Loneliness is a flower
grown beside a graveyard
that isn't ever carried to our homes
and never smelled once
despite having fragrance.
- May 28, 2022
Nameera Anjum Khan: Fighting Islamophobia, one poem at a time
"The crowd shouting slogans of the massacre of Muslims at Jantar Mantar. The statement of Assam's Chief Minister on limiting the rise of...
- May 4, 2022
Love language and other poems by Shrutee Choudhary
Love language When I was all of nine, I met a boy for the very first time. It was the pure affection, his borderline obsession, his...
- Apr 25, 2022
Water has memory, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen
Rivery (Reverie) by Erfana Ripples, oysters and fishermens' hats We were river colours back then Moving to and fro Always wanting to dive...
- Apr 24, 2022
At the moment of letting go I fell facing the sky, Poems of Yang Shan-Tsun
Self-immolation Visons entangled with lacrimal glands A small piece of the condensing lens swiped from the left eye to the right Fingers...
- Apr 21, 2022
The Sudden Movement of the Objects, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Thirteen
Kutch, January 2001 by Farida Rangwala A misty winter morning, The cups filled with warmth Waiting to be gulped, The giggles floating in...
- Apr 21, 2022
Where do we get our dreams from, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Fourteen
Confessions of a Drunk Sunday by Saheen Rahman i am torn between wanting to love my life and wanting to hate it. an obese monkey in...
- Apr 21, 2022
A Litmus Test of Indian Democracy, Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Thirteen
A Qabr of Loktantra by Nameera Anjum Khan Day 13, almost 10 PM I have taken another breath. Alhamdulillah. God wants me to live. My...
- Apr 18, 2022
Read me our constitution to sleep, three poems by Ananya Aneja
1. Childhood? As a child, I used to chew paper, As an adult paper chews me seeking an apology. When love triangles mantled cinemas Now I...
- Apr 15, 2022
A Poem for your Aadhar Card Poems from NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twelve
Good citizens have nothing to hide by Swati Tewari Being 14 in 2009 was much different than it is today I had no concept of privacy as a...
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