Poetry

"...the memories of the world will be completely vanished..."

"...we will echo it around the world..."

"Gulal" is a Hindi word. It is colored powder with which one smears the other during Holi, the Festival of Colors.

"...Unpaved like a road in need of immediate repair..."

"if ever there was a beautiful brook, then she is the one..."

"...listen to commentary about hate and racism..."

"...You come from a place where moon swifts to mirth..."

"...study the faces of the aged..."

"...guilt stricken on the cold kitchen floor..."

"...I can still conjure up the fear..."

"...The tree branch we took back from the lakeside..."

"The hum of the universe and the mother I loved..."

Moinak Dutta is presently engaged as a teacher of English in a government sponsored institution. Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies and magazines.

Dr Sutanuka Ghosh Roy is Assistant Professor and Head Department of English in Tarakeswar Degree College, The University of Burdwan, WB, India.

Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe. His work has been archived at Yale University.

"To blanch is to whiten, to bleach..."

"From the core of my existence comes out the sigh..."

"...Floodwaters sweep life's detritus downstream..."

"...to death against my broken heart..."

Jeannie E. Roberts has authored six books, and is poetry editor of the online literary magazine 'Halfway Down the Stairs.'

Mark Anthony Pearce lives and works as a Receptionist in Bristol, South West England. In 2016, he appeared as Joseph Stalin in the music video 'Let's See The Sun Sink With Fatigue' for Bristol-based band 'Repo Man,' Directed by Sam Wisternoff.

"...my wardrobe can no longer hide me..."

"...Tell the wind not to drive me again..."

Lopa Banerjee is an author/poet, editor and translator living with her family in Dallas, Texas, but originally from Kolkata, India. She has taught courses in Creative Writing at Richland College, Dallas and Texas Christian University.

"...I am old in my dream..."

"...We all kill so easily, don't we?..."

"...The light is a different matter..."

Carl "Papa" Palmer of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, Virginia, lives in University Place, Washington. He is retired from the military and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enjoying life as "Papa" to his grand descendants and being a Franciscan Hospice volunteer.

"...the earth will be as transparent as a golden smile..."

"...to embrace those in the palaces and government halls..."