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NaPoWriMo'23 Day Three: Every Dead Thing is in need of more mourning
Still Life with Skull, Leeks, and Pitcher by Pablo Picasso (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 and settles in the sky while the night shatters inside its glass and the dawn flies away with colours for yet another mo(u)ring. The world is what it doesn't seem to be. It is a pool ball on God's billiard table, who wears a linen maxi dress and is never drunk on prayers because she
Apr 5, 2023


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 21, 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 28, 2022
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