Hide and Seek My dears, once I will playWith you, of something strange at sight.Your Father doesn’t know when is that dayBut definitely, once we will play,Once, maybe, after the twilight. It’s of elders’ a cunning gameWith children, like you, with girls with frocksGame of servants and of masters, the same,Game of birds, of flowers,…
Lacustrine So many nights I hear the rain,I hear the matter cry again…I’m lonely, and my thoughts may drainTowards the dwellings lacustrine. And it’s like sleeping on wet floorboards,A wave keeps hitting me’n the back —I shudder in my sleep and reckonI did not pull the drawbridge back. An historical void is stretching,I find myself…
King Crypto and Laplander Enigel Sad minstrel, much steamierthan good old wine served at the weddingBy the groom’s father given thereWith bags and ribbons, tinsel weaving, Of all most stubborn minstrelA grand old song still tries to sing,Sing of Laplander Enigel,And Crypto, the mushroom-king! You, guest with quest!Your feast, my tongue did burn and sting,I’ll…
Divided… divided between humilityand disastrous egosreceiving in the plexus his owngroan reflected in wordshe – a precious spicetaken out on special daysfor the hunt on the platter –reminds youwhen it is not the case:I am the poet! . împărţit… împărţit între umilinţăşi orgolii dezastruoaseprimind în plex propriulvaier răsfrînt de cuvinteel – un condiment preţiosscos de…
The Boar With Silver Fangs A Prince from Levant in love with the huntingthrough dark forest’s heart was making his way,For finding his path through the bushes hard fighting,was playing his bone flute and to his men he’d say: Let’s go for the hunt in the deep wildernessthe hunt of the wild boar with silvery…
Rice Pudding in the Praterstrasse We were living between heaven and hell literally,we were slender, nervous, we’d silenceeach other with a silky tenderness,we’d wipe our nightmares,we’d make our beds, our boots,we’d go skating on goddamn ice of life.Sometimes we’d notice reality.Then something would squatin the darkest corner of the houseand would begin to whimper in…
A Crumb from the Copious Spiritual Feast of Romanian Poetry Maria Magdalena Biela has published two books of Finnish poetry translated into Romanian and two books of short stories and poetry in English. She has done MA in French and Romanian languages and literature and BA in the Educational guidance field. She lives in Finland.
Translated from Sindhi by Lajwanti. K. Jaisinghani and Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla I myself am Punhoon, O sister this I have not forgotten I don’t turn my back on this truth,tell me what other I would be In Kutch and BamboreIt is I who dwellswhere else should I journey? People say you have many AashiqI, myself…
Original Story in Hindi: चीख: धीरेन्द्र अस्थाना The Scream, Translated by: Bhuvendra Tyagi The moment shone like fear in deep darkness was when I was told that Kunni had left the house. Has gone? Where has he gone? How did he go? How can Kunni go from home? There were questions that surrounded me from…
Excerpts from the Epic Hindi Poem Kamayani (Translated from the original Hindi into English by Usha Kishore) _____ Excerpts from Canto I: Chinta (Thought) On Himalaya’s spiring summit……………sheltered under shadows of stone,the lone man, with tearful eyes,……………discerned the swelling deluge. Below was water, above ice;……………one fluid, one frozen.One elemental prime – call it……………what you may,…
. Kedarnath Singh was a Hindi poet, critic, and essayist. He received India’s highest literary honor, the Jananpith Award, and the Sahitya Academy Award. His anthologies include Srishti Par Pahra, Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Yahan se Dekho, Akaal Mein Saaras, Baagh,Tolstoy aur Cycle and Matdaan Kendra Pe Jhapki. Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is…
Born to Argentine parents in Sala Capriasca in 1892, Alfonsina Storni received part of her education in Switzerland, while spending her working years in her country’s capital of Buenos Aires. Storni was familiar, if not a part, of early 20th century modernism, though she has often been characterized as uniquely postmodern. Early influences include…
