a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam
a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam a maiden’s heart broken we bury here in the grave; we bless her and wish her god speed and that she leaves all pain here on earth and we pray that all blessings be hers as she goes forth to meet her one true Lord in Heaven a […]
a laugh song by Raj Arumugam
a laugh song by Raj Arumugam laugh a day laugh it now laugh as loud as you want; it shakes up your body lets good things flow through your veins; don’t think about it just laugh a minute or laugh a day laugh long as laugh-time you and I come let’s laugh ha ha ha […]
a gentle day by Raj Arumugam
a gentle day by Raj Arumugam easy and smooth the day comes and goes like a falling leaf or a graceful cat on the roof; perhaps like drops of dew drip drip drip gently into the lake of time below; dawn morning midday afternoon evening sunset dusk twilight night and I’m left in quiet and […]
a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam
a delicate beauty along the shore by Raj Arumugam the sky hangs over her and the waves come near; and the delicate beauty walks alone pensive, self-absorbed and distant by the shore what is in your mind pale beauty? do you sigh over wasted time and the pain of distance shores? what is in your […]
Virtuous Love by Rajendra Ojha
I love myself, so I love you I know meaning of love. But Listen before thinking me mean, I am not being mean, rather being factual; And showing you the world that is actual From deep inside my heart, I think about this issue. I’ll think again and again, One, Two, Three, Four, Five- Till […]
Tidy by Ralph Angel
Tidy by Ralph Angel I miss you too. Something old is broken, nobody’s in hell. Sometimes I kiss strangers, sometimes no one speaks. Today in fact it’s raining. I go out on the lawn. It’s such a tiny garden, like a photo of a pool. I am cold, are you? Sometimes we go dancing, cars […]
The Unsound Utterance by Raju Baruah
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The Storm by Rainbow Reed
The Storm by Rainbow Reed On granite rock, The woman sat. Damp hair trickled down her back, Azure highlights glimmering, Golden curls shimmering. Seaweed sparkled; waving wildly White foam horses rear and pound, Surging through the rocky mound. Crashing against the sleeping stone. Woman sits and Stares alone. Black cloud glares, Fog horn blares, Lightning […]
The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
The isle arose from swirling mists, Slicing through the broken skies, Lurking beneath the whitened waters, Dark hungry fangs of piercing stone Impatiently waiting for their prey: A trawler beached on Mystic Rock. Darkened creatures with heads of foam, Shake seaweed hair and madly moan. Watch wood crash into surging tides, Splinters fly, while the […]
Spiritual Memories of Mother by Raj Napal
She bore me, she nurtured me, and she cherished me. Danced with me in the rain, cried with me when I was hurt. Cooked hot meals on cold wintry nights, tucked me warm at night. Cared for me always in that warm nest of her love. A warm blanket, a shield against all things bad. […]
Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed
Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed Silently, they stopped to stare, At the freak with raven hair, His eyes rings of Dante black, Angry looks burnt through his back. Strange black clothes flapped in the air. Flying back to darkened lair. Primrose Close, closed its eyes, Abnormals were despised. Close people; pillars of good, Bedrock, of […]
Prayers by Rainbow Reed
Jimmy Choos’ stalked across the floor, Ripping, clawing against the antiqued oak, Stuttered, stiffened; listened to deep silence Then slowly circled, nowhere once more. The gold straps coiled around her calf’s, Winding, binding, painfully twisting… D. and G. suit clinging about her, Her grey silk blouse rustled in the breeze, While around her stalk, staccato […]
This by Ralph Angel
This by Ralph Angel Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding city, and our lives, as I lose track of them, are the lives of others derailing in time and getting things done. Impossible to make sense of any one face or […]
Man in a Window by Ralph Angel
Man in a Window by Ralph Angel I don’t know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get repaid with humiliation Luckily friends rally to my spiritual defense I think they’re reminding me I mean it’s important to me it’s important to me so I leave […]
Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel
Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating songs of indigenous wildlife. Mockingbird on the roof of the Gun Shop, scrub jay behind the Clear Lake Saloon. And when she darts into a drugstore for a chocolate-covered […]
Online Lover by Rainbow Reed
City sounds screamed and swirled, Sirens raced through neon world, Shutters shook, while ghost trucks sped Lewd vacant sign flashed deep red. Her laptop buzzed and flickered, While angry parents bickered. She stared at the screen entranced, Red electric shadows danced. Angry voices drifted near, Pa sailed in on wave of fear, “Switch that off!” […]
One Day You Will Miss Me.. by Rahul S
My love is not supposed to miss you Like the Tom misses the Jerry every time.. It’s like a clock; we are in the same perimeter But we can’t stay close to each other. One day you will miss me, And it will be same as missing your shadow.. You will miss my talks, And […]
Of Love and All by Raja Mannar
on a sunny day, i asked a passer-by “what is love?”, he gave me a stare and continued walking away, may he not know what love is, so, i went to a saint and asked the same he replied “love is all around you, take a look” i found this a task worthy of me, […]
Mother Teresa by Raj Napal
Believed in the Lord, devoted life to helping the impoverished. Set up missionaries of charity to help the hungry, disabled and infirm. Prevented them dying in streets of Calcutta as were nourished. Whole life, a fight to save Government’s abandoned human germ. Great woman, walked with God in salvation of remnants of human cruelty. Drank […]
Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
How much she lives in me with me or without me,she is full of life An incomplete man caught in cold strife but, she lives in me like a dream alive! How thoughtless, careless I have been spreading the naughtiness around she whipped me tough, with her eye lash without a whimper or a sound! […]
Journey with God by Raj Napal
I have faith as God is there with me, in darkest hour of despair and in gloom of depression. Lifting me out of dark pit so can live each day with hardy-courageous heart. Positive in all my endeavors so there is no dejection. I don’t let hatred and blame infest my mind. Only God can […]
It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen. A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman’s lips and whispers. Someone stumbles. Someone curses. Someone hoses down the pavement. We must have made a mess of things again, all fuzzy black and white and […]
In Every Direction by Ralph Angel
In Every Direction by Ralph Angel As if you actually died in that dream and woke up dead. Shadows of untangling vines tumble toward the ceiling. A delicate lizard sits on your shoulder, its eyes blinking in every direction. And when you lean forward and present your hands to the basin of water, and glimpse […]
I Thank You, Mum by Raj Napal
I love you, Mother. You made me strong. You taught me God’s Prayer. Not yielding to wrong. You led me along a virtuous path. Anytime I strayed from that line. You held my hands tight and led me to His Hearth. His Fire and Glimmering Flame was His True Sign. Mum, your tearful shouts of […]
Hope for a New World by Raj Napal
Nothing means anything, just endless hollow moments. Paralyzed and frozen in time’s activity, reality a dream. Human activity and ambitious endeavors, an empty event. Disorder created in Society’s rules in the governance of their realm. Drive sane people to drink and drugs, spinning in their metropolis. Drive a young woman to commit suicide when they […]
God Cut the Cord by Raj Napal
Text, emails, phone calls waiting for that link to my soul. Incessant, persisting, lingering thoughts of being with my love every hour and every day. Ignored, left isolated in the icy cold winds. Body, soul, heart and spirit shattered. Lover’s essence, the blood in my veins, that beauty, the diamonds in my mind. Images of […]
Even Because by Ralph Angel
Even Because by Ralph Angel Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can’t and don’t remember the step that kicked up dust and left this planet—you’d give up even more now. Because the body itself—the heart’s not dead but deeper, wrapped up in […]
Dinner Date by Rainbow Reed
Silently he stalked, Where the nameless walked Patrolling midnights beat With heavy, dragging feet. Creature of shadowland Lawman, with gun in hand. Fog smothers everywhere Shrouding the killing lair. Evil prowls the dead street; Echoes of muffled feet, Silently, people past, Dripping hearts, racing fast. Poster on shop window peers, As photo fit face leers. […]
Dews of Silence by Raju Baruah
The city is sleeping On the lap of the street beggars We are searching for a cup of tea The river is melting with the moonlight Fragrance swimming with the shadows of trees You draw the dews of silence Lantern of love quivering with the kiss of breeze Soundless song just rolling down With the […]
Catching the Rain by Raj Napal
I catch the rain, speckled – droplets of life on my skin. The pure water that instills life in our beings, soul, our kin. I catch the rain on my face to feel the wetness in the heat of the yellow sun – in that brightness. I embrace the dark wet earth as it envelops […]
Blame by Raj Napal
Blame that little word that is a bloody stake. The spark that stabs and ignites the fire of guilt. Festering hatred and flooding away love in its wake. An emotion that is filled with hateful tears and makes life wilt. Cast away blame and immerse in the yellow sun of redemption. So the flowers of […]
Better Be by Raj Napal
Better be a joker than a depressed man Better be a kind and compassionate man than an evil man Better be a good man than a bad man Better live in the now than live in the past Better be courageous and full of balls and fire Than be a wimp living in a straw […]
Be Prepared by Raj Napal
Be prepared for the loss of your health and heart. Life will never always be and it changes in whole or in part. Be prepared to lose the love of your life. Love can be corrupt and not always true in strife. Be prepared to lose your job and house, government and employers are fickle […]
An empty photo album by Raj Napal
Dad picked up this cheap photo album at Winners. Brought it home, looked at it as he sipped whiskey and rye. Felt empty with all the hollow wallets for 500 pictures of memories. Then his imagination became ripe with pictures happy sad and wry. Album sat in his study lonely with no memories just hollow […]
To Youth by Sarojini Naidu
Long have we dwelt together, thou and I; Together drunk of many an alien dawn, And plucked the fruit of many an alien sky. Ah, fickle friend, must I, who yesterday Dreamed forwards to long, undimmed ecstasy, Henceforward dream, because thou wilt not stay, Backward to transient pleasure and to thee? I give thee back […]
The Soul’s Prayer by Sarojini Naidu
“O Thou, who mad’st me of Thy breath, Speak, Master, and reveal to me Thine inmost laws of life and death. “Give me to drink each joy and pain Which Thine eternal hand can mete, For my insatiate soul can drain Earth’s utmost bitter, utmost sweet. “Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife, Withhold […]
The Illusion of Love by Sarojini Naidu
Only a transient spark Of flickering flame set in loam of clay – I care not …since you kindle all my dark With the immortal lustres of the day. And as all men deem, dearest, you may be Only a common shell Chance-winnowed by the sea-winds from the sea – The subtle murmurs of eternity. […]
The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu
Our shining loads to the temple fair… Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted circles of light? Lustrous tokens of radiant lives, For happy daughters and happy wives. Some are meet for a maiden’s wrist, Silver and blue as the mountain mist, Some are flushed like the buds that dream On the tranquil brow of […]
The Snake Charmer by Sarojini Naidu
In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume, Where the clustering keovas guard the squirrel’s slumber, Where the deep woods glimmer with the jasmine’s bloom? I’ll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey, I’ll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white, To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens Thread with mellow laughter […]
The Queen’s Rival by Sarojini Naidu
Around her countless treasures were spread; Her chamber walls were richly inlaid With agate, porphory, onyx and jade; The tissues that veiled her delicate breast, Glowed with the hues of a lapwing’s crest; But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed “O King, my heart is unsatisfied.” King Feroz bent from his ebony seat: […]