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THE FESTIVAL OF FIRE – MYSTIC POETRY FROM INDIA

Only ten percent of our life and time is ours We are absorbed in people we love or hate We are possessed by passions Of love and jealousy. Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poems Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited

AIRY NOTHINGS – A MYSTIC POEMS FROM INDIA

Rendering the body too as sacred Love accords a local habitation And a shape to emotions Which were, otherwise, just airy nothings. Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poems Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170

Burning Candle – A Poem from Assam, India

She is a burning candle of profound and magnanimous love Leaving behind the disdain and contempt of windy night Shakil Ahmed, a renowned poet from Assam state of India, shares his poem Shakil Ahmed was born on 31st January 1969 at Badarpur, Assam, India. He completed his master’s degree in English Literature from Assam

The Paradoxical Civilization – A Poem from Nepal

Destroying the natural home of those wild, These social creatures build artificial homes— For ‘wilds with congested borders, and say without shyness; Helping the voiceless— opens the door— to Heaven. Rajendra Ojha, an eminent poet from Kathmandu, Nepal, the Himalayan country, shares his poem Rajendra

Peace – Poetry from Greece

Peace, So rare in this planet Since the existence of the humans Quiet was a privilege for few. Eva Lianou Petropoulou, an author and poet from Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization, shares her poems Eva Lianou Petropoulou is an awarded author and poet from Greece with more than 25 years in the literary field, having