A Raindrop In Your Desert – 2nd version of an improved poem thanks to poet Donald Standeford’s collaboration

I am a dew drop in your desert You are a pearl in my ocean In this groaning world It’s either dust or turbulent waters. You’d die of thirst I’d wish to die in a raging flood But long ago the flood found me By deceit I was swept away By this neoliberal world. Unveiling…

The final departure 2/2

Part 2 Kyrta’s mother had written a long text to be read at the ceremony. Nonetheless she said she was unable to read it aloud. Kyrta knew no one else would be able to do it. The text was all about her father’s life story. It seemed so important for her to pay him this…

The final departure 1/2

Part 1 You will not always enjoy the company of the people for whom you care most. Some of us will die sooner, others later. That illness took Kyrta’s father away too soon but he died peacefully and without any suffering while she and her mother were taking turns to hold his hand. The words…

Afloat

Upon the highest cliff something awakes Below is the turquoise-blue ocean glare While the sun reflects on its silent waves A butterfly rises up in thin air   My wings felt the warmth of a cloudless sky I breathed the air and found pleasure, yet My heart was afraid of flying too high A sudden…

A Review of Polyamorie – A Book by Sina Muscarina

I think this is a very well written book. It has a clear structure and the research has been done methodically. It gives evidence that monogamy is a social construction serving to the kind of society we have created mainly in our Western culture. This social construction serves our capitalism system, which is interested in…

Confidence

With ebbs and flows like sea and lake waters the ground was trembling, magnificent earthquake confidence was at stake. Wanted to do your best so never felt at rest you are too self-demanding so confidence faded. Too much self-exigency leave me please, let me be tell it now. That parent, sister, brother, that relative of…

A Review of XXL – A Book by Aditya Shankar

I have greatly enjoyed reading this book. Aditya Shankar’s language is highly elaborate, versatile, philosophical, thought-provoking, and full of beautiful imagery and wordplays. The topics the author explores are highly varied and intermingle with each other. These are the four main topics I have found in the majority of the poems and flash fiction: 1-…