Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Felino A. Soriano writes



Sedentary Fathoms
                              |section three|

  The way these bodies
                        lean,
   interactive
            angles.  And
 as the mother pulls
the daughter into
   positional embrace, a/all
  father/s pulse and 
interact with fathoms alive
     in the joy of familial
   decimals moving home in
  -to the whole of determined
       affirmation

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 The Embrace -- Estefan Gargost

Narayanan Nair writes



ON LIFE & LAUGHTER

Life is an odd mix
Of sorrow and laughter.
Sorrow at the earthmates
Languishing in want,
Denied, deprived, lost, 
Abandoned in hunger
For flyover, dam, port, 
In development spins
By crafty leader dudes, 
Pocketing piles of dough.
Worse still are some,
Bullied, threatened,
Shot bloody down for
Views against a creed!
But one truly shudders at the
Violated, slit, annihilated,
Tender buds of tomorrow
Barely out of our cradles!

Do laugh at the follies
Of cosmetic displays
And hollow eloquences
Of political dons. 
Hoping against hope of
Fascists in waiting!

Do have a hearty smile
If  you share your bread,
Or chip in your mite for
A roof over the heads
Of bare forsaken bros.
Or free, and wake, them up,
From the stranglehold of dope
Under a gloomy lonesome sky.
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Sintesi Fascista -- Alessandro Bruschetti

Santosh Bakaya writes



THE FOG
PART TWO

Section 17 


The fireflies stopped flitting, the birds their trilling.
The tension was killing, the screams blood chilling.
Cold radiated from the earth, gone was the mirth.
The air smelt of malevolence and of painful dearth.

The trees went mute, the forest went back to sleep.
Then rippling laughter resounded in the forest deep.
As two figures emerged from behind the trees 
And broke into dance, playfully sang the breeze.

Hand in hand by the river bank they danced.
From behind the pine tree, I watched entranced.
The moon was like a seraph, sublime and serene.
Stars twinkled and winked like voyeurs keen.

A sudden gale hit them with malevolent ingenuity,
Spitting airy expletives and curses with impunity.
Soon the trees were in its tempestuous embrace,
The gale like a man armed with a sinister mace.

When the sun peeped from behind a cloudy veil
I thought I again heard a blood curdling wail.
Or was it my fertile imagination playing tricks?
 I tried to shake off this scene of a weird mix.

Tendrils of mist here and there surreptitiously looked.
They were like lost ghosts and had me hooked.
I sprang up from the ground, eyes still groggy.
The sun played peekaboo from a sky still foggy.
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In the Fog -- Tran Tuan