Poetry

"...Fill up the earthen bowls with water for birds..."

"...all of every autumn gathers up in you..."

"...confident, alert, intelligent, captivating..."

"I watch her clearing wilted flowers from her garden..."

"...Something sparkling in the fleeting night..."

"...I have learnt by heart its spelling..."

"...After all these years he still remembers her..."

"...a blank page dirty with eraser marks and tiny shavings of rubber..."

Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at EPFL, Switzerland. He is a Poet, academician, researcher, author of nine scientific books, and a former Editor-in-chief (1999-2019) of the international scientific journal “Optics and Lasers in Engineering.”

"...playing some shacking tunes for tonight..."

"...searching for Truth, gathered in forums..."

"...And I intend to live that way Until my day is done..."

"...Foolish stories of impossible love..."

"...a shrunken frailty wrapping an unending soul..."

"...His words were like magic and beauty..."

"...powerful currents that propel you forward, do not belong to anyone..."

"...In college she found a taller world..."

Kushal Poddar is a journalist, father, and the editor of 'Words Surfacing.’ His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.

"...to unravel the mysteries of the moon and the sun..."

"...you smile again at your Texan image of old fartdom..."

"...they crave what I discovered long ago, then threw it away..."

"...to be on time, to be off to somewhere..."

"...searching both for inner and for outer ways..."

"...I will reach my destination ..."

"...love stories sprout from the inscriptions on tree trunks..."

"...even so, they were better than nothing..."

"...too malevolent to be caught..."

"... masters of both configuration and color..."

"...During the small hours of darkness, memory unbuttons herself ..."

"...Next door the big dog emptied his water bowl..."