One Poem by
Diti Ronen
First Quarter: Crescent
Once there was no earth, the universe was bare
and all my sides were luminous
and my face was luminous and my eyes were luminous
and the soles of my feet were luminous
and even the spot where the soles of my feet stepped was
luminous
And I wasn't capable
of even the slightest waning
of even nearing the awareness of waning
and from the moment there was awareness of waning, waning was
formed
Later there was earth
and in the power of its orbit came the crashing sickle
like the falling of the meteor in the Big Bang
And the hour of my birth was the hour of my death.
Translated from the Hebrew
by Rachel Tzvia Back
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Four Poems by Rodrigo Verdugo
Chilean Poet
ON SATURDAY
They embrace even podrir the Sun
*
CONTINUITY
It was born of a portrait of fog unmentionable
Waves lit this voracity.
The foundations of the day went on to the blood
The cities remained white Watched the halves
of the same body in different coffins.
**
SINCE DESPERATE with YOU To Diana Camacho B.
If this night the eternity risks in our blood
And before that I the deciphering covers your body
Do you remember that in spite of only fixing the ardor of a
chest to him the forest was ours?
Since desperate with you
The waters turned us indelible
And the days and the nights they are kept as incomplete falls.
****
LIMPSE
Behind of the glasses
I remember my first oncesto with the light.
All that tenian a name of fish deshacian
Never volvio to having the day the depth of a sign.
Of the book " Watched Knots ".
A Poem by
S.Heramb
Some thoughts on ‘thought’.
Thoughts are what we see the world through,
Thoughts are what we think the world is.
Thoughts make us think, the world's changing,
Thoughts are what we all are!
Thoughts create, thoughts destroy,
Thoughts feel, thoughts see,
Thoughts love & thoughts hate,
Thought is what matters,
& all matter is thought!
Thoughts are what we think,
Thoughts are what we feel,
We rise & fall by thoughts,
& rise again ......for thoughts!
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A Poem by
Gary Langford
Hold You True
Summers sleep on your skin.
You dream of being lifted from trouble land.
Your accounts refuse to empty you.
In your heart is a measurable pain,
one you believed could never be there.
You fiercely rub your forgetful eyes.
I hold you close as I can,
almost as if you cannot be touched.
I will remain a passing thought.
You think you are a dark cloud.
We will split up in lightning, not love,
in the garden of habit.
I am determined to last.
We can never get to know each other,
in spite of being old flames.
You laugh bitterly, frayed and small.
I mostly talk to myself,
sitting with you at the morning table.
You have turned me into a crow,
trying to cut my beak off with a sob.
In spite of the cuts, I hold you true.
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A Poem by Nirmala Pillai
COCK CROW AT MUMBAI.
Dawn breaks-up
The sour curds of grey clouds,
Fuming membranes of sounds
In the city-bowl everyday.
The seepage spreads down
The metal throat of clocks
Metal cocks crowing sunrise.
They grease open my eye lids
Serrate the nerve-ends,
Dragging up the empty eyes.
Caught in a split dream
The Quartz soul chime
A lost rural dream.
May be a real cock-
From the instant building-workers
Adding cells to the octopus city.
Misguided cocks of the streets
Crowing in the small hours
Losing sense of time.
The eternal burning lights
Brightening the sleepless sky
With its noon-glow
Mocking the dandy birds.
To crow at the oddest hours
Without dawn or dusk
Caught in a bad dream.
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A Poem by Usha Kishore
Bhanjaran
This woman of the desert,
with bangles sliding on her
shoulders - walks on the
sands...
Her anklets whisper sweet-
nothings to gathering
storms; her water pot,
laden with dreams...
The dunes softly echo
aching sighs of lost love;
sands that sing camels
to sleep, rend her heart...
A finger of moonlight, turns
the face of the earth and a
distant oasis shimmers with
a vision from a time beyond...
A song takes wing on a
lone ravan hatha and
fires burn in the horizon -
a voice beckons from afar...
She hears his horse
rearing into the night air -
she is a flame that has
burned brightly for her moth...
His robes rustle in the
passing wind and as she
gathers strength to take
a first glimpse of her
dark eternity in golden
light, her waiting tears
tumble into the cup of
his extended palms...
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poems by Usha Kishore)
A poem
by Evan Costigan
An Ode to Rain
Rain
what a wondrous state
you are
wrung and wrenched
from ascending air
you gather up
in great blobs, scurry
off gutters and gullies
or fall as an army
of hundreds
and thousands:
angled arrows
that boil, bubble and fizz
an orgy of midges
on this lake's rabid skin
to trampoline out
circular cymbals
to the tune tickled
off eight milk bottles
or a child's xylophone
played low
you spit like phlegm,
teem, drizzle, drip
and drop
splash and shower
but limestone laps
you up
you take shape
in varied vessels,
meanings in coming
contexts - now you
overrun the green
sprung boards
of eucalyptus and I see
bell-bottomed tears;
their transparency blots
then swirls
the inkwell
stain of love.
Evan Costigan is an Irish writer whose work has appeared in
Words on the Web, Boyne Berries, Crannog, Revival, Outsider, The
Sunday Business Post and The Irish Times.
A poem by Sunil Sharma
Tongues Cut Won't Stop Some
Tongue severed
And
Taken
Is no answer
To the questions asked,
My Lord.
Whenever, I will be reborn,
---And sure, I will be reborn---
I will be asking the same
Questions to you
Again and again.
Till the time---
I grow fully
Human
And demolish---
In single sweep,
What is
Inhuman
In us all.
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Sunil Sharma)
A Poem by
heidi webb
[untitled, set of three]
and one hollow abdomen
the death of strings
of absent wheat grass
even god could break a promise
for, who can sustain a burning field?
no one can stop all fire
as if fire were the only spirit left
and the ennui covered secret woven maps of war
who would go home to a tomb?
no one calls from a tomb .
there is an end even to light
to a sign's gift of speech
----
the trees are fremd
as strangers are cool and untouched
as a wilderness might be
so other
is the sky other to the birds?
or contained in it?
the spouse is within the spouse
just as a room contains
its own interior
and a peasant family
the inner land that seeds its own
future
----
tell me, how does one guard the light?
-----
Heidi Webb is a human rights activist and poet.
copyright 2009, heidi webb
A Poem by
Sonnet Mondal
Livelihood
I watched from my sea hotel sipping tea,
A group of fishermen toiling in the sea-
For the sake of their livelihood-
Which has been passed to them from their parenthood.
Up in the sky a scenery was brushed
By the anonymous evening painter who paints the vast.
All visitors were engrossed gazing at that,
With soundless throats that have been numbed
By the tranquil, enchanting, sketching of Gods thumb.
But it was insignificant to the men catching fishes-
As A Portrait is null to them than Daily dishes.
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A Poem by
Maria Elena
Blanco
LOVE POEM
to my husband
personify with you my favorite verses,
for instance, feel my feet like small fish in your hands
while lolling on baudelaire's balcony or watch your icy look as
sculpted
by verlaine in nevermore and then, after the storm, tread slowly
arm in arm on
the snow along our viennese park with a caressing crunch, like
the soft steps of night,
feign to be someone other imagining another you, you whom i
would have loved, oh you who would have known it: inevitably,
still and always baudelaire, or find you in nerval a gloomy,
widowed, disconsolate prince in your abolished fortress, or
decadently romantic in azure-haunted mallarme, hypochondriac
laforgue
imitating the moon waxing or waning or, height of pleasure,
sublimate
quevedo's dust and lie naked, entangled, you the poet, i lysis,
relishing the ash of phoenixes: quincunx, quintessence,
chiasm, to live out vicariously in your tongue the
best hundred poems of the language
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A Poem by
Sanghita Sen
Thus
spoke Eve…
I was asked not to look at the tree
Where knowledge grew.
The instruction to Adam was also the same.
One day we both touched the tree
Ate the fruit
Received knowledge forbidden.
Adam was banished from heaven
I was banished too.
I was given an additional punishment
Of tremendous pain at childbirth.
In sex Adam was privileged, in spite disobedience
My pleasure followed pain.
I obeyed you -
I obeyed Adam -
For his spared rib.
For seeking the knowledge forbidden
For seeking the knowledge for the privileged
For leading Adam to it.
We both came down to earth
To create a world of our own
On our own.
Our world of togetherness
Our world of partnership
Our world of equality.
With time equality changed into inequality stratified;
Eve, the partner was turned Eve, the subordinate
Adam wanted me not look at several other things
Adam followed the norm created by you.
I made to obey Adam since then.
Eden is no longer mine
And the world belongs to Adam.
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Sanghita Sen)
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