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-…

When Silent Love met with Boasting Vanity

A long time ago I got used to living with My open wounds, The last withered while I was staring at the sunset In the middle of the fog. Yes, you told me so many times About your suffering, How your heart shrunk Fisted in bleeding red While your eyes tasted The salt of the…