My Woman's Story
By Umme Kulsum in Romance | Reads: 259 | Likes: 0
We meet up at our balconies. It’s almost midnight. I had a bad day. We need to talk. I need to talk. ‘I did the dishes today. There was this one iron pot. I finished a quarter bottle of soap, scrubbing it enough and got calluses on my fingers..,’ she says. Now she’s showing   Read More...
Published on May 3,2020 09:40 PM
Carpe Diem
By Kamlesh Kaltari in Poetry | Reads: 256 | Likes: 0
Carpe Diem (Making the most of present time and little thought to future) Free-spirited, I live in the moment and rejoice;  Try taming me, swear it isn’t a wise choice; No surrounding is good enough to settle me at one place; I am a wanderer who travels at a varying pace. Come rain, come  Read More...
Published on May 11,2020 06:32 PM
Born again
By Malika in Poetry | Reads: 256 | Likes: 0
It's time to be born again  To deconstruct the self I Isolate to elevate  The chrysalis is my armour It is pulchritudinous outside I'm sure A dreadful battle I fight inside My organs are now matter They no longer matter I am still breathing  How I don't know Caspases devour me I am st  Read More...
Published on May 21,2020 06:17 AM
An Open Letter to the Universe.
By Chris Mathew in Poetry | Reads: 255 | Likes: 0
To the begining, and end of everything. To the eternal being, always there. You loaned me a feeling of having someone. Never alone, but my own clone. You made me believe in myself. And gave me the power to manifest. You told me there's nothing wrong in wanting alot. That if I desreve, then it's con  Read More...
Published on Apr 25,2020 12:21 PM
Lost and Found
By Keerthana in True Story | Reads: 254 | Likes: 0
When she was born, she was not welcomed When she grew up, she was bullied. Her parents thought 'to discipline is to hit and abuse' 'to discipline is to neglect' so that she learns moral values Little did they know, this tarnished her self image.  She was struggling for an Identity The more she   Read More...
Published on May 1,2020 09:29 AM
It's been a while
By Nandini Chakrabarti in Poetry | Reads: 253 | Likes: 0
Closed in the cage,with my dreams dying a little each day,my feet lay coldand my lips are chapped,my mother screams at me,while the kids play,my shoulders overburdened within the circle of life each day.Is the grass still green?I haven’t looked out of my windowand it’s been a while,cigar  Read More...
Published on Apr 5,2020 11:45 PM
That day !!
By Ravioli in Romance | Reads: 252 | Likes: 0
       She was on her way back to where she belongs to since three years ago. Even thought she loves to be around her family pronitha prefers to live away from them . For her tat was a cooked up reason that can make them miss her more.she believes, the life away from them has mad  Read More...
Published on Apr 28,2020 04:59 PM
My mother is taken granted
By sravani in Poetry | Reads: 251 | Likes: 0
You are huge and limitless,o lady!  But I was told I’m the king of this land. You are pleasing and beautiful. O lady!  But I was told that’s to serve my purpose. You have many children. O lady!  But I was told human race is the greatest. How stupid I couldn’  Read More...
Published on Apr 22,2020 10:18 PM
If nights were never to end.
By SQ in Poetry | Reads: 238 | Likes: 0
If nights were never to end Then I'd drown myself into my thoughts Thoughts portraying my emptiness A void which is yet to be filled Choices that I made throughout my life Replaying in my head  People whom I loved way too much Or maybe not enough Forever in a conflict of saving myself Or the pe  Read More...
Published on Jun 6,2020 12:14 PM
Coin of the Realm
By Anupama in General Literary | Reads: 237 | Likes: 0
I woke up with a jolt. “Last stop!”, the words rang through the speakers. They were anchoring the ferry. The snack cart inside was doing its final round. I was quite full from my lunch but I couldn’t resist the whiff of freshly baked treats. Gluttony gets the upper hand when I&rsqu  Read More...
Published on May 12,2020 02:30 PM
ThankYou
By Mayukh in General Literary | Reads: 235 | Likes: 0
It was hardly a year that I had met Oliver and we decided to get married. I was twenty six then. Oliver was twenty eight. Even though we had known each other for almost a year, a new found closeness developed, fueled by the happiness that comes with a wedding, new people, new friends, and new e  Read More...
Published on Apr 3,2020 04:44 PM
Quarantine
By Anshul Sarsiya in Poetry | Reads: 234 | Likes: 0
Vacant avenues devoid sphere, Aghast human incurable fear, Lightless morns lifeless nuclear, Globe recites the end is near, Valor saviors yet adhere, martyr fighting against spear, Happiness en routes as darkness clear, Hey! earth dispose out drear.  Read More...
Published on Apr 20,2020 03:19 PM
Covid19 during World Book Day
By Dipsikha in Poetry | Reads: 221 | Likes: 0
As I sit quiet and look outside my window, A hurricane of thoughts flow, of the mundane daily household chores, Welcome to the quarantine era, I sign! And then, my eyes fall upon my bookshelf gathering dust, books purchased during my travel to my favorite places..  I let not my mind wander; And  Read More...
Published on Apr 27,2020 07:27 PM
COVID - 19 Heroes
By Thomas Roberts in Poetry | Reads: 217 | Likes: 0
As I retire for the night and go under the sheet, But kick it off, switch on the fan unable to bear the heat. Then try as I might for the rest of the night, But cannot fall asleep, With Covid-19 running in my mind, I try to start counting sheep. Now in my mind these unruly woolies all begin to scat  Read More...
Published on Apr 23,2020 11:17 PM
The Welcome Rain
By Michelle Gomes in Poetry | Reads: 212 | Likes: 0
The smell of petrichor  Fills the air. I breathe in deeply My lungs full of their fair share. Raindrops splatter  One by one And then in mighty torrents They come down Bringing respite  From the sweltering heat Cooling the mighty earth With their every beat.    Read More...
Published on May 25,2020 03:22 PM
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