Omen

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Bizarre! The dream woke him up with a start. Such a dream will wake up any guy! A shudder passed through him. Dead of night—the howl of a stray dog added to the uneasiness. Was it a premonition? The Grim Reaper stared malevolently; neon sign lit up the urgent message on the billboard, at the interstate highway, his car waiting at the traffic signal, in New Delhi’s tri-junction at the Connaught Place:

Afghanistan in the name of power

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https://www.differenttruths.com/literature/poems/afghanist…

Pandemic pains stored inside

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All the pains Accumulated in the Voids, like the Chits in a glass, Aches Bottled…

The Eyes

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The glittering yellow eyesThe long snout freckled withWhiteness…

Corona Curfew

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https://rhyvers.com/corona-curfew/

Outsiders

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The Mumbai rain back-lit by the sodium-vapor lamps sweeping the…

Meditating Autumn

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The mix of light and gloom, fragility and cessation hypnotic: new vantage point emerges, the seasonal decay and assimilation in the earth, it all leads to another form and rebirth