Category: Art
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The Origins (Zara)
Read more: The Origins (Zara)the origins remain under- neath your coarse, blue, over- grown nails which brought to life twenty mango saplings and two mangosteen trees in our back yard and scraped the ground when ridden with grief upon the death of a kitten dearer to your heart than the earth, wherein lies your treasure and reward, where one day…
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I have my father’s feet (Sruthi Ranjani)
Read more: I have my father’s feet (Sruthi Ranjani)I have my father’s feet. Not a pretty sight, you see… Visibly veined, large and unwieldy Not nimble, like a girl’s would be. Cracked heels, chipped nails And scars of mosquito bites Add to the wretched suntan That no sunscreen ever fights. Pretty shoes with bows? — no, They are but a forbidden paradise; For…
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Hop
Read more: HopLest An arthritic memory Of trees And barebacked mates Creep up her tendons She shall In a whopping Crescendo of habit Resign Her hind limbs to The splayed meanings Of this game of Hop. Feet shall, Over conditioned jerks, And falls, work, Lest She be swept over By her being That need be fed And…
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Love at first sight (and in retrospect) (An essay by Keerthi Purushothaman)
Read more: Love at first sight (and in retrospect) (An essay by Keerthi Purushothaman)Chosen as Editor’s Pick of the Day (Essay) on WordPress Discover – 13 June 2017. “For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and another city which you…
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Stripes (by Charcoal Masks)
Read more: Stripes (by Charcoal Masks)Her lashes swept furiously against the plastic that magnified her vision. Magnified only slightly. But magnified, nevertheless. The lashes were tinged with salty water. Some water had traced itself quietly down her cheeks and into the sides of her mouth. An eager tongue popped out of mouth to receive the salty droplets. Salty. The rest…
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Corpse of the Soul (A poem by Shivoham)
Read more: Corpse of the Soul (A poem by Shivoham)Once nubile, pulchritudinous body, Now lies shrunken, pale. Fastidious creation now seems shoddy, Bare, without an ornate shell. You say, nothing left, it is dead. I ask, is it over indeed? Your answer, Yes! Don’t bang head. I look, sad, your eyes bleed. Banjara, they say, the Atman. (Banjara=Sojourner, Atman=Soul) It comes and goes, ever…
1–2 minutes
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A Friend, The Wind and some Memories (A poem by Ram Bragadish)
Read more: A Friend, The Wind and some Memories (A poem by Ram Bragadish)Oh my friend, The dearest of the lot, Do you remember the wind? The way it made us smile, With catastrophic intentions. The way it caressed our ways, And made us forget, The sweat and the blood stains. Nature’s organic rebel at work, Whispering thoughts into people’s heads, Providing them with a very convincing…
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Books (A poem by Pritam Majumdar)
Read more: Books (A poem by Pritam Majumdar)a wall of books between us – a few dead authors turn summersault in their graves I would never know what earthly smell they had when they made first love, in which world what water they broke when they made ecstasy books don’t care about these forceps panting, prosthetic words emotions sanitized in a painting…
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Transcending Narcissist Me. (A poem by Shivoham)
Read more: Transcending Narcissist Me. (A poem by Shivoham)I think so much, I can’t write, It’s because this “I” isn’t right. Replacing “I” with “This self”, For the fact, this ego, cannot help. This Self is Great, people said. Those were it’s beauty and head. Its Body grew strong handsome, and Mind collected ransom from people stunned. One day, s/he smiled and refused…
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I (A poem by Nila W.)
Read more: I (A poem by Nila W.)I involves truth, The genuine bash of darkness, The undisputed inability to articulate, The desperate weakness of a haunted inside. It carries all the injuries of being, The existential dementia of Bats squeaking upside down. Spiders weaving their webs in the corner, Pigeon poop and the stench, Beetles crawling domestic in their eggs. I…
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