Fear of Pandemic Pregnancy
Kumari Pokhrel Regmi Syracuse, USA The fear and uncertainty of the Coronavirus pandemic are all around us. As a front-line healthcare worker, my fear, stress, and anxiety have been heightened. […]
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Down to earth
Grace Chhetri An imprint of our bodies in the greenness of the land Inhaling pieces of the sun The warmth filling us up, tracing our bellies Until it overflowed from […]
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The waiting room of life
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak I am stuck in the waiting room of life And I still hear only these words: “tomorrow, just wait a little bit more, I am very sorry” […]
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Wings Clipped
Chris Bodor Florida, USA During the Summer of 1985 the beach began to beckon but instead I got my wings clipped. In one hand I held a high school diploma […]
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The Oldest Language
Govinda Rizal Language is the expression and exchange of thoughts. That definition fits the language of communication invented and used by human beings. However, the oldest language disentangles more functions. […]
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I am Whispered from Your Dream
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak United Kingdom I got lost with you my beloved like a water nymph in a forest glade dancing with an elf, barefoot on the grass listening to […]
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For a Cap of Cold Drinks
Govinda Rizal My story begins with a bottle of soft drink open in front of a university retail shop. Soft drink melts me every time the Sun hits me with […]
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Questions of Identity Among Resettled Bhutanese
Editorial Identity is often the subject of discussion and debate among the Bhutanese across the globe. Part of this debate and controversy is rooted in their contemplation of identity as […]
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Dying leaves
Shiva Dahal Kentucky, America If beauty comes from the divine thought, this fall is a grace If profundities come from sublime heart, this fall is a purest harvest Who would […]
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The Nobel Peace Prize, WFP and the Bhutanese Refugees
Background At approximately 11 am in Central Europe, a lady in a black suit stands outside the door of the conference hall in the Nobel Institute’s iconic building, located in […]
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Descend
Chris Bodor Florida, USA December descends while November disappears into the horizon Weather worn scarecrows know about the migration of snowbirds. The hands of the clocks tumble down the dark […]
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Migration and Writing
Editorial Migration has always played a significant role in carving the literary paths. May it be the ethos of developments encountered by the world in the post-colonial, post-industrial era, or […]
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Our Contributing Poet Honored
On the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day, Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak, a UK-based poet and one of our regular contributors, was honored with an award by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi in […]
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Bhutanese Poet Honored
On the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day, a 33-year-old Bhutanese poet, Shiva Kumari Bista, was honored with an award by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with Motivational Strips, a […]
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तलवार जस्तै शब्दहरू (Words like sword)
प्रतिमान सिवा ओहायो, अमेरिका अनुदित कविता (कवियत्री : Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak) हामी शब्दहरूद्वारा सुन्दरताको सृजना गर्छौँ समयले तिनीहरूलाई दूषित तुल्याउँदैन, अनन्तताले तिनीहरूको धारलाई मुठार्ने छैन तिनीहरूको सन्देश अन्धकारमा मशाल झैँ […]
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Embrace Every Day
Chris Bodor Florida, USA The morning coffee that you crave is now knocked over Wasted. Never tasted Soaked into the carpet of your car. The unused umbrella that you carried […]
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Reconstruction
-Tumbehang Limbu O Lord ! I want my eyes My tongue My hands My legs Right now, back. You deconstructed me And separated my sense organs For your […]
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Battle against COVID-19
Deepesh Subedi, BSN-RN-BC Tennessee-USA Dear friends, God has a reason for everybody to play a role in this world and it took me 27 years to find mine. Now […]
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An open letter to my facebook friend T. Gyelpo
Dear Tshering Gyelpo, Wish you good health. I am not your enemy. Neither have we had any old dispute nor any personal ego. Being a human, we should share our […]
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File Cabinet Full of Sins
Chris Bodor Florida, USA At the Good Friday service members of the parish wrote their sins on paper and one after another they nailed their confessions to the wooden cross […]
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Life hurts …
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak someone strapped your dreams so high up eyes are tired but can’t sleep at all a swarm of black thoughts penetrates the head everything around is stripped […]
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Secret of Rebirth
Dilliram Bista Australia Death and rebirth are no more than the process of Energy Renewal. Rebirth is taking place every second of every day in our day-to-day life, but we […]
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So tiny but so powerful
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak UK Our Mother Earth for a long, long time shows many signs to the humans that it is time to come to our senses. Floods, tsunamis, volcanic […]
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Poems of Welkin Siskin: Series 9
Welkin Siskin Washington, America 1) A Paradox Many things must be defied with or it may die As well as other things, or it may die. To let things be […]
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Poems of Welkin Siskin: Series – 8
Welkin Siskin Washington, America 1) Voices of Freedom O, could his voice be harkened, And his loving throat be swallowed; His speeches as a lesson be learned And his life’s […]
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The trajectory of exiled life- Baas dekhi punarvaas samma
Buddha Mani Dhakal Kentucky, USA Life is […]
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Poems of Welkin Siskin: Series – 7
Welkin Siskin Washington, America 1) To Net A Bigger Picture I pulled the feathers Of a shadow—the darker part— ignorance— the joyless life— Zeroing in on at nothing, Loitering, stranded […]
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House
Yati Raj Ajnabee Adelaide, Australia Until yesterday the house was so bare and subdued as hibernal flora forgotten by the birds flown off to hunt for prey in all direction […]
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Poems of Welkin Siskin: Series 6
Welkin Siskin Washington, America 1. To Think Further The time has come That love be universal Put together as humanity To let us undergo oneness. The time has come To […]
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Yesterday
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak/UK She stood by the window yesterday and watched as life went by today flowers wither in pots she does not squint eyes to the sun anymore shutters […]