Refugees by Manash Bhattacharjee
Refugees
I know a thing or two
about refugees –
As a child I heard father
say, “We were sleeping
in the place we thought
was our country, till
the siren rang...
Independence Day by Manash Bhattacharjee
Independence Day
(15th August, 1947)
The day had turned out to be
A feast for vultures
Every Muslim and Hindu body
Was Parsi in death
The gods fled the streets...
Exile by Manash Bhattacharjee
Exile
“I rested my mouth on your memory”
~ Yannis Ritsos, from Diaries of Exile
Night arrives like a cart
You push it with motionless hands
There is darkness
But...
Evening Light
Evening Light
Brave bat in a bowler hat
Blood shot eyes question
What time does this light
Depart?
The light descends elsewhere
Its shadow rising here
The bat changes into an...
Interview with Maggie Butt on ‘Degrees of Twilight’
Poet Maggie Butt talks about writing today, her style, and the themes that inform her stunning new poetry collection Degrees of Twilight. The poems in Maggie’s...
Haiku on Kathmandu Earthquake by Sudeep Sen
Kathmandu Earthquake
a prayer for Nepal
Gods came tumbling down
in Bhaktapur. Everest
churned — snow, debris, death.
Sudeep Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems...
Syria by Ghayth Armanazi
SUFFER THE COUNTRY
Suffer the curled up corpses of the tortured
Suffer the cluttered ranks of the bound and the beaten
Suffer the pleading eyes of those...