Poetry

"...Life can be a tangled jungle..."

"...an ancient text with wisdom of generations..."

"...day has spilled light over the skies..."

"...crooks are in the habit and business of nourishing, serving and spoiling themselves..."

Snehaprava Das, Prof. of English is a writer and translator from Bhubaneswar, (Odisha) India with three collection of stories, six of poems, and thirteen texts of translation of Odia texts in English.

"...Hunger has no age..."

I live in Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal in India. What I have seen so far is that my natural propensity to write mostly stems from an urge to paint vivid pictures of my personal experiences or things that I see around me."

"...A dream and the burden of a frightening morrow..."

"...I wait for your reaction..."

"...a self-proclaimed hotdog of the educated..."

"...long purple shadows sink out of sight..."

"...crooks slipped through the cracks like roaches..."

"...eight long ears, all cupped to listen..."

"I was buoyed up..."

"...What has become of you..."

"...the day eases into cobalt..."

"...Night’s great Grand Drape drags crystal stars..."

"You marry the person..."

"...laughing like hyenas and skipping down the sidewalk..."

"...within warm walls we all seek shelter..."

"We used to put on classical music..."

"... the simple sway of color..."

"...like a rocket volley of marshmallow cakes..."

"Football is a competitive lovely sport..."

"...hollow fairy tales..."

"...They talk about Gaza less and less these days..."

Jimmy Lisotto is a poet in New Hampshire. He believes that poetry is a medium that can connect people from all walks of life.

"...I watch myself stare into you..."

"... A liminal moment, the dusk..."

"It starts with the relationship..."