August Issue: Poetry Section

1. Letter from the Other Side of Silence — Stephanie L. Harper
2. Because The Deacon Couldn’t Sleep — Dina Friedman
3. One Day At A Time– Kavita Ratna
4. YOU ARE– Mahvash Mohtadullah
5. Gypsy Woman– George Bakola
6. For Angie– Rachel Ikins
7. Rise And Fall– Lynn White
8. Canary’s Plea– Agaigbe Uhembansha
9. The Lost Pages– Sabreen Ahmed
10. VOICES: Three Haikus by Daiypayan Nair
11. Lipstick– Kalpana Singh Chitnis
12. She Rides The Bus– Marianne Tefft
13. There Is A Desire– Trijita Mukherjee
14. My Inner Voice– Shailja Sharma

The Lost Pages— Sabreen Ahmed

There are no more

Roses in the Mughal Gardens,

Nor any trains  at Mughal Sarai,

Shahjahan is dead.

Will Taj Mahal  fade?

In a pale moonlit night

Akbar’ s ghost shall haunt no more

The forts at Fatehpur Sikri,

How long will the muzzein ‘s call will be heard from the Jama Masjid ?

The red marble stones of Old Delhi shall be painted black to sing the dirge of a buried Empire

lost in the pages

Of rewritten history..

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