God is my witness He is my ride I’m his vessel He is my Ocean wide He is my Savior He is my Shrine I’m his lost sheep Lost in the wilderness of shame and surprise God is my witness I’m his tide He makes waves ebb and rise He makes dream, darkness, and sunlight …
A BLUE BIRD
A blue bird sings by the bank of the Seine The sonorous soundless silent silk she takes of off her beauteous buxom sensuous fairy body very gently and very cautiously to take a bath in the moonlit rill Where lily and lotus play with the ripples sweet serene The beauty beat The beauty breathe My …
THE SUPERMARKET CHRONICLES
by Qazi Mustabeen Noor Let’s get this straight; shopping is something we all despise. No, I’m not talking about getting things the average teenager could actually die for, say books, games or makeup. It’s really the sound of groceries that makes the hottest fashionista cum shopaholics cringe. But when mother dear unleashes her emotional blackmail and subsequent …
READING ON A DIFFERENT SITA (PART I)
An event of “Reading on A Different Sita” held on 28th June 2012.
READING ON A DIFFERENT SITA (PART II)
STRANGER
STRANGER A strange strangeness hang in the still air Still tree-tops steal subtly some starry flair Who’s there hiding to take me in the dead-man’s lair I cannot hide anywhere I see Him everywhere The strangeness silently stab me with its steel spear O sadness O despair O delight O decadence O daredevil devious drive …
LOVE YOU
I love you like the summer at noon I love you as you love me more and more Like a note of music musing in moon Like the blossoms of cherry pinkish purple blooming as muse I love you Like a dew Where the sun refracts its own hue Like a lily slim and tender …
GLORIA ANZALDUA: THE NEW MESTIZA HOMELAND CAST ME OUT
As a Mestiza I have no country, my homeland cast me out; yet all countries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover. (As a lesbian I have no race, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.) I …
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BE MINE
Come to me in sunshine Come to me in rain Come to me in pleasure Come to me in pain Breaking news 12 died 58 injured in the shooting of Colorado movie theater The Black Knight Rises as the innocents died Come to me in rain Come to me in sunshine Come to me when …
