Peivand Zandi Malaysia The moon is down Iran I breathe the last days To the breaking relation Let’s hang the self Contained earth… Let’s swallow the growing silence… I can feel the cold faith of a warm skin The shallow deep desire of mine Counting steps to the bright destination.
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Memorization
Michael Dickel Jerusalem, Israel Clove memory lingers, jasmine overwhelms, the half moon in a blue sky falls and a hot sun rises. You stand over by the railing; jazz musicians play. I stand watching a river through a camera; hikers stream by. A rainbow over the highway holds a flock of storks in its arch;…
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Anthropomorphism of River Narmada: A Cultural Study of A River Sutra
Bhasha Shukla Sharma Head, Department of Humanities UIT, RGPV, Bhopal. (M.P) Introduction: Wendy Doniger O’Flaharty (1973) accepts Levi-Strauss’ definition of myth –‘myth is a kind of collective dream expressing unconscious wishes’. (pp.14). ‘One consequence of the symbolist development in literature has been an increasing respect for the symbolism of primitive man, and specifically for the…
An Orchestra
K Pankajam Tamil Nadu, India Breeze blows music sift itself through the bamboo shoots. While trees rustle their harps, the earth starts to sing. Watching the leaves playful tufted feathers of thistles take to dancing. In the ensemble ambiance exulted A conglomeration Symphony perfect. I realize I have become a song in the concert
Oh Paladin
Thomas Pelto Connecticut, USA Golden tresses tumble From beneath the shimmering helm Chiseled chin barely visible behind the visor Above which peer a pair of steel grey eyes that see right through Piercing any man’s armor Like flash of blade sharp and true, mirrored In her polished panoply Commanding presence A stunning charisma not one…
Silent Witnesses
Kushal Poddar West Bengal, India Two old men sit at my beginning and my end, closed eyed, descending down their blind staircase. What does blindness mean if they do not see me staring into their eyes, salvaging the moment they saw- my mother tilting her head toward my father’s shoulder as her water broke then…
Major Trends in Post Independence Indian English Novel
Ashok K. Chaturvedi Associate Professor of English Govt. S.L.P. (P.G.) College, Morar, Gwalior (M.P.) The entire history of Indian English Novel can broadly be divided into two periods—pre-independence and post independence. The pre-independence period witnessed a slow growth of Indian English novel since the publication of Bankimchand Chatterjee’s Ram Mohan’s Wife in 1864. The novelists…
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Remembrance
Uzoechi Nwagbara Wales, United Kingdom Journeying from a sense Thoroughly overawed By frittered earth & clobbered space, Streaming from memory – Draped with incendiary shells by SHELL: By the unsolicited foragers of our heaven, And – Invoking a panoply of mnemonic snapshots Melancholically sated With the cruel hangman’s snare & noose, Our space Reminds all…