October by Lydia Towsey
OctoberPizza bruschetta gold dress Rioja
Autumn is here and Winter forgotten
Walking through town arm in arm with a lover
Moon in the sky and leaves good...
Five Years Ago by Manash Bhattacharjee
To Fady JoudahI was waiting at the platform
For a train to Calcutta
In...
The Daylight Comes With Me by John Darwin
Leave the world alone and close the door,
seal this room from everything outside,
nothing else exists but these four walls;
we have eight hours and five...
The Veil by Manash Bhattacharjee
She walks past the wave
Of curious glances
An apparition eluding
Light and desire
Everything she hides from
Trembles in her body
She remembers the lures
In every street
But no street...
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...
Poet in Delhi by Manash Bhattacharjee
Can you rinse away this city that lastslike blood on the bitten tongue?~ Agha Shahid Ali
Delhi,where parrots liftthe weight of tombs,poets offer daggersto deepen...