Poetry

"...closed the door to the world, and left it to perish..."

"...not for ponderers nor slackers..."

"...I will meet you there, as I did promise..."

"... In the last days you may be found sleeping in the laundry mornings..."

"...as though witnessing some strange archaic ritual..."

"...no more self-humiliation meanings..."

"...No end or shore to her oceans..."

"...They call it PASSION..."

"...blinds filter sun light descending on the jacaranda tree..."

"...there have been a few I’ve loathed..."

"I'm Harshit Sahu and I belong to Indore, India. I'm a young undergraduate and a budding author as well as poetry enthusiast. I consider writing as my hobby and indulge in it whenever I can. I hope you would like my work."

"...she sees the provisions of my empty abode ..."

"...A gate ahead that overlooks much..."

"...Got some gall I think..."

"...manes waving in the wind like laundry or random angels..."

"...The auditorium of my mind has three sections..."

"...don’t come dragging me out of the mist..."

"...the mental health needs of the persons impacted by a genocide in Zimbabwe..."

Patricia Saunders teaches Vedic philosophy at Maharishi International University in Iowa.

Sanket Mhatre has been featured at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival and Glass House Poetry Festival. His first book of cross-translated poems, "The Coordinates Of Us" won the prestigious Raza Foundation Grant after been shortlisted at iWrite2020 at Jaipur Literature Festival.

"...a chronicler of vegetation unknown on earth..."

"...wind never moves their cattlemen’s hats..."

"...the assistant night manager lent me his gloves..."

"...whispering cowbirds wishing to be great horned owls..."

"...all day is worked to sunset strip..."

"...The machine is never satiated..."

"...Cameras are kept On hold. The director Is on leave...."

"... Adopted as a man of conscience, he spoke for the voiceless..."

Mubarak Said is the 3rd runner-up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines local and international.

"...ever self-conscious to its fate or hunger or necessity..."