HER BURIAL UNKNOWN ~BY DIYA LEPCHA
She got those gorgeous brown eyes,
So deep that one couldn’t return, even if they tried,
Perhaps it’s due to the precious tears she cries.
Left with none to wipe her eyes.
Poems
WHEN WORDS CUT HARDER THAN KNIVES ~BY DIVYANSH SINGH
In a quiet corner of the world,
A boy with dreams, like wings unfurled,
His heart was light, his spirit bright,
Till words cast shadows on his night.
MAYA OF THE COUNTRY ~BY MILES LIMBU
देशको माया, साँचो प्रेमको संगम,
सपना र संघर्ष, एकै लहरमा बाँच्न।
माटोको गन्ध, हावा र पानीको साथ,
धरतीको ममता, हृदयमा समेट्न चाहन्छु।
THE PAWN ~BY MESHACH NYARKO
In life’s grand game, I’m born to play,
A humble pawn with dreams astray.
Others rise—queen, knight, bishop bold,
While I, a pawn, my fate unfold.
BEHIND THE SCREEN ~BY ABIMBOLA T. ALABI
It’s a game of let’s pretend,
Played behind the little screen.
Statuses, selfies, the texts we send,
I’m sure you know what I mean
TEMPORARY TRANQUILITY~ BY SAMIKSHA SUNWAR AND MANASWINI JHA
I’m just breathing in oxygen,
Why’s it got to be so hard?
All this air, trapped in my chest,
Like a noose tightening in the dark.
SUNSHINE AND HOPE ~BY VANDANA MARTIN
In the calm dawn of hope’s first gleam,
I was just a dreamer—a girl with a dream.
A world of colours, a canvas so wide,
With hope as my compass,
And nowhere to hide.
MARANATHA ~BY ANGELINA ROLSTON
Jesus,
Your immutable Holy Spirit,
Alongside that very long-awaited special visit,
Invisible-coloured tears shaped as raindrops oozing down,
Making the red devil satan a painted clown,
Your Majesty authority felt,
Like a hard strike on the leg from a belt
YOU ALONE ~BY GLORIA PRAKASH
As the dawn breaks, a new light shines,
Promises of the future woven in its beams.
Yet worries sometimes creep in like shadows,
Casting doubts that run so deep in our souls.
SEA IS A WOMAN ~BY GLORIA PRAKASH
Beneath the sky, where dusk meets the sea
A wild expanse of magic, untamed and free
The whispering sea moves, a steady refrain,
Like a woman’s gaze, her power to explain,
how she holds the strength of tides within her soul.