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Quotes
- “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
papers this morning I chanced upon notes made in Lahore on the Buddha’s sculpted footprints: two feet long, cracked and wrapped in hushed museum glow. (The right’s in Pakistan, the left in India, a cross –legged gift of the Partition.) Sandstone circa 2 BCE found near the mountains where...
World Poetry
The World is a Blank Piece of Paper Silence, whiteness, thin air craved the start of some story, for nothing existed, nothing grew- no song, no summer rain, no mythical being nor mad love, only silence and a blank piece of paper screaming for some ink to become the voice of the living...
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 horrifying...
More Poems
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Clearing- Priya Sarukkai Chabria papers this morning I chanced upon notes made in Lahore... -
2 poems- Tenzin Tsundue SOMEWHERE I LOST MY LOSAR Somewhere along the... -
2 poems – Shobhana Kumar odd man out five fluted stems three beer mugs... -
Roomful of Lakes – Jennifer Robertson This Lake is a 600 square feet 2BHK available for... -
Song of an Outsider – Goirick Brahmachari Shillong, in forlorn strangers you live in misty... -
To Dr. Ulfat – Huzaifa Pandit You are the dazed saffron tinge Of ripe rusty gentle...
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The Sixth Element – Nayanthara “You will marry an artist; One whose fame...
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Far from Chagall – Karthika Nair Montreal: Fall Tell me it must be the weather...
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2 Poems- Stephen Byrne The World is a Blank Piece of Paper Silence,... -
3 Poems- Max Babi Trauma Like being kicked awake from a...
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Intoxicated Steps – Shloka Shankar My heart skipped a beat as I waltzed hand in... -
PALESTINE, AN INNER VISION – Angelina Llongueras Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer... -
Delete- Ramanuj Mukherjee Delete, Reboot, Atomize Annihilation Inc. We...
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Bombay : A Paranoic Critical Landscape -Harish Nambiar Marine Drive at Oberoi’s feet The Arabian...
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Newly Married Get Ready For Their First Night –... From the previous day’s reception to the tying...
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Transition- Hiya Chatterjee I have lived in summers and winters In springs and...
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Rain and a Leonard Cohen song- Sandeep Kulshrestha I had two videos opened simultaneously one of an...
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A brief history of Springfield- Arjun Rajendran In the early years of the 20th century, a mob in...
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4 poems – Vinita Agrawal Looking for Love My hunger for love has started to...
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‘PUPPETS LIFE ENDS ON STRING’ – Anand... The lone surviving gunman of 26/11 was hanged...
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Transformation – Raksha Hegde The time gets pleasant when it drizzles on this...
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I can hear them Cry- Vijayeta Tirkey They hailed me with apathetic smiles, Their vapid...
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The Regret – Sourjya Das Note: This is a monologue of a soldier who had...
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Two poems- Joshua Gray WHY KRISHNA AND RADHA LOVE THE MONSOON In the...
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Jeeva- Ami Misra he was a living being and carried a tale from dead...
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Sharmada Shastry- Tonight +1 Tonight let us hold each other one last time like we were...
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Sawdust -David Wojahn Coming always from below, blade wail &...
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Around the corner from 193 Rye Lane, Peckham – Inua... - after London Riots. In the slums I’m from...
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A Night in Claremont – Ben Mazer When the wind goes down, and with it night surrounds...
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Fahredin Shehu- Love The past days of my virgin foremost-ness I summon...
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Summer Solstice Chant- Annie Finch The sun, rich and open, stretches and pours on the...
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OAKLAND – John Hennessy You told me you adored me from your grove of oak...
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In Kathmandu (Four from his Notes) – M. A. Schorr A Present -I (to my dear children and grandchildren)...
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Out Cry – Wang Ping Is the sky guilty of hail? The lion gazing at far mountains...
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VOICES – Veronica Golos I am working under the voices of fire. – Shareef...
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Chlorophyll of Poetry – Sachin Ketkar Icy green blood From the carnage of...
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DUSK RAGA – Philip Nikolayev (For Andy McCord) Just as the lonely, wicked, wild...
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Othello’s Path – Nabina Das Butterflies dropped dead from branches where they...
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Goin Tropo in Siem Reap – Martin Bradley Clouds in ten layers brought me inquisitively back...
RL Poetry Book Reviews, Interviews and more
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Jora Sanko (Joined Bridge) ed Kiriti Sengupta and Madan... -Linda L Ashok 03.05.2014 Published on Editor’s... -
Barely There (a book of short poems) by Yahia Lababidi -Linda L Ashok 10.05.2013 Originally shared at 1.20 pm IST.... -
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Girl Child Painting is visual poetry. For those who need...
Haiku/ Tanka/ Haibun
RL POETRY AWARD 2013 ANTHOLOGY
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I love reading poems unsnail from their shells when boiled at a certain temperature of loveliness… It’s an inexplicable joy to read good poetry on a Saturday evening, knowing that Monday is still far away. Also the fact that I have this opportunity to review Ten Thousand Waves by one of my...
