Poetry

"Not all politicians are leaders..."

"What if the Internet is an android's dream..."

"...Masters daydream about nice marvelous songs..."

"...I vacuumed away the trace of your tracks..."

"...Why do man's bones remain?..."

"...Destroy this home, not caring about future generations..."

"...thoughts of where this woman and I have been together..."

"...I will sing, not knowing which raga or lullabies..."

"...what can be lovelier than its love?.."

Dr. Chayanika Saikia is a geoscientist by profession working for a national oil company and lives in Noida.

"...uneasy sleep beside the ocean..."

"When the blank screen wins..."

"...maybe because you had no idea who Isadora Duncan was..."

"...miraculous sidesteps needing minute logic..."

"...singing a song stolen yesterday..."

"...delicate orchids stare in contempt..."

"...He says he is going to make a movie..."

"...time reaches through weighty errors and trial..."

J.R. Barner is a writer, teacher, and musician living in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Taken from the poet’s upcoming book titled, "The Birds That Never Learned To Fly: We Have No More Tears", poems touching on such issues as critical energy challenges bedeviling South Africa and Zimbabwe, mounting frustration and disgruntlement of the citizens, and the beauty of nature.

"...A chariot arrives, slows down and then disappears..."

"...Only myriad of chances..."

"...Bereft of All daytime glitz..."

"...some smoke and smoulder..."

"...They attacked my birthplace and crushed my heart..."

"...real people on their way to their real jobs..."

Taken from the poet’s upcoming book titled, "The Birds That Never Learned To Fly: We Have No More Tears", poems touching on such issues as critical energy challenges bedeviling South Africa and Zimbabwe, mounting frustration and disgruntlement of the citizens, and the beauty of nature.

Rocío Iglesias is a queer Cuban-American poet. Her work has appeared in various print and electronic publications and can most recently be found in Firmament Magazine and Brave Voices Magazine. She lives, breathes, and works in Minneapolis, MN.

Mini Babu is working as Associate Professor of English with the Dept. of Collegiate Education, Govt. of Kerala and now working at BJM Govt. College, Chavara, Kollam, Kerala, India. Her poems have featured in anthologies, journals and magazines.

"...Death still comes in the shadow of grief..."