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- “I’m going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.” ― Jack Kerouac
- “Poets and anarchists are always the first to go. Where. To the frontline. Wherever it is” — Giannina Braschi
- “Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality” — James Joyce
- “The poet is the priest of the invisible” — Wallace Stevens
- “Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air” ― Carl Sandburg
Indian Poetry
First Published by RædLeafPoetry-India 2 poems archived/Published on 03.01.2015 We are, but our ‘Drop your and your drop your ticket to afterlife,’ my grandmother told me when I was young. I remember the big Almirah at our place, like those of our neighbours’ and their...
World Poetry
The Angle of a Landscape Blackbirds pluck the trees, throat bloody notes through limbs and eaves. Such radiant violence. The sky, a nacred sheet. The forehead of a hill cracked open so the ghosts rip free. A height once whole, a peak from which to see. Between the curtain and the wall rusts the...
Poems from Tibet
SOMEWHERE I LOST MY LOSAR Somewhere along the path, I lost it, don’t know where or when. It wasn’t a one-fine-day incident. As I grew up it just got left behind,...
Poems from Middle East
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it –Valdimir Maiakovsky. Palestine, You ache in the marrow of my bone, You ache in the...
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