The last time they saw her, she had her melon-red dupatta lightly draped around like an ominous melody. Her eyes had the shine of newly polished diamonds; as if she had just seen something out of the sky. That wasn’t the only day when she looked so intrigued about everything that crossed her path. Neela… Continue reading The Moon’s Dahlia by Rehnuma Siddique
Month: December 2018
Impact of Indian Classical Music on La Monte Young’s Drone Music by Imran Firdaus
Abstract As per the title, the aim of the research report is to explore and examine the relation and impact of Indian classical music on drone music concept via La Monte Young’s practice and state of contemporary ambient music. La Monte Young is recognized as one of the early minimalist and experimentalist composers in post… Continue reading Impact of Indian Classical Music on La Monte Young’s Drone Music by Imran Firdaus
Poems by William Ruleman
The Judgment of Paris Some fool falls for a femme and finds Old friends and kin have changed their minds About his mind and character. “What on earth made you choose her? We see you have made a tragic mistake.” But this minion of myth would make The same decision again… Continue reading Poems by William Ruleman
Poems by Chador Wangmo
Paw Prints in My Heart A small bundle of black Wagging his pointy white-tipped tail Conquered my heart When I was five. “No strays!” My mom had yelled Little did she know how I felt Knowing he wasn’t mine to keep. Cardboard boxes and old gunny bags On my tippy toes I… Continue reading Poems by Chador Wangmo
Poems by Adefolami Ademola
god, too, is bisexual one sweltering saturday, when the verdant sky still had its translucent light god woke, aroused, groggy from creation and craving the luscious feel of masculine touches he created, in his own image, for his sexual orgies a man, blessed with the handsome features of supreme beings and the gift of… Continue reading Poems by Adefolami Ademola
Poems by David Subacchi
A Secret Revealed They asked who you were But I didn’t know; A classical beauty Sculpted in white Looking down Over the pool. For a while we swapped Names of ancient gods Half remembered From school days, But there was no agreement; The sun burned Until everyone Entered the water To cool… Continue reading Poems by David Subacchi
Poems by Simon Perchik
No Title * Without a father or a mother this silence longs for home the way far-off rocks come by to soothe you bit by bit and stay turn your gravestone pointing east where west should be, round and around smoothing the Earth for the wind over and over writing your name in… Continue reading Poems by Simon Perchik
Poems by Scott Thomas Outlar
Scrambled Equation Maybe she was just better at advanced forms of mathematics and quantum mechanics than I was, but I could have sworn with all my heart that forever meant something else entirely. Transcendent Language Love between poets is a power that pours from beating hearts to create rhythms of divine… Continue reading Poems by Scott Thomas Outlar
Poems by Iris Orpi
Love Me Vintage There is always time for beauty, for kisses and for getting lost forever in the circuitous side streets of sequins and sepia. I have devoted myself, see, to these mason jars of sunshine and stained glass windows that remind me a little of the way gentleness colors the silence when you… Continue reading Poems by Iris Orpi
Poems by Linda M. Crate
when i lost you love doesn’t always have to be a tragedy, but it seems i find the knives of imperfect mates that twist and whirl inside of me like a wicked dark magic; i wish i could find the right chemistry to heal my bruised and broken heart—but there is no potion nor… Continue reading Poems by Linda M. Crate