Books are always burnt before / humans are put into the gas chamber - / A prelude. A Starter.
Tag: poetry
The Lost Identity
I don’t know / What sorrow could have / Made their heart so heavy / That the light was sucked / Out of their eyes
Swamy and Friends: A Poem by Keki Daruwala
Remembering Father Stan Swamy, SJ (1937-2021).
Confessions of the Murderer of a Poet
An Instagram poet writes about how using social media to manifest talent can have a harmful effect on mental health.
Gandhi: A Poem
Those that killed your body / Are dead in the soul. // They are the leaves that fall, / You the trunk, the root, the soil.
It’s an Old Story, Ma
This poem speaks about the different shades of a queer person and the fear he goes through.
Some Happenchance Bliss
A poem about a happenchance encounter with the beauty of poetry that most of us miss in our demanding daily life.
How Bob Dylan Used the Ancient Practice of ‘Imitatio’ to Craft Some of the Most Original Songs of His Time
Because Dylan draws from songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But this view has been colored by a distorted understanding of the creative process.