Tag: Poetry

Ishtar Understands Me – Tima Alshuaibi

Throughout times of doubt, I often think about Ishtar  An ideology that had preceded Western mythologies She who was split in half to create Ares and Aphrodite She…

Keep it as you wish – Riptiva Roy

Plant your roses facedown in the dirt, let the stems offer only their teeth to the sun a jagged greeting, curious bait for the passerby. Let your gardens…

Anatomy of an Exit – Riptiva Roy

You are a master of low frequency hums, those vibrations that foretell fracture long before the glass shatters. I don’t need to open my eyes to know that…

The Self That Remains – Riptiva Roy

I have walked inside myself and found corridors that twist without end, where echoes do not die, they multiply. The eyes I carry belong to every gaze that…

Submerged – Riptiva Roy

I once watched water hold the sky  with such tenderness I forgot its  slow bruising drifting by,  the fever rising in the clouds,  the small tremble of dusk. …