zigzackly’s omnium-gatherum

Suketu Mehta in the NYT Dilip D'souza in the Washinton Post Naresh Fernandes in The New Republic (See also his piece on Jews in Bombay ...

Abide with me ; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the he...

Good poetry, I say, is never hard, Oh so easy, just look at me! Dante did struggle, as did the Bard And other writers of poetry, When compar...

In which we do keh-mukarni His pulse is racing, heart a-flutter, Into the night,, he pines, he's tense Does he expect a love letter? N...

Another anonymous submission, from the bashful poet who wrote this one . Day before I thought I found my calling With my first godawful poet...

by Annie M Mathews I slouched at my computer disconsolate My inbox empty as it was wont to be When suddenly there came a spate Of mail I gre...

The admiring masses have, no doubt, noted the variety of forms we, in our verse-a-tility (ooh, he puns too!) have showcased. This next one...

From a friend who prefers to remain anonymous. We wonder why. I have never been much of a poet, not I But this noble cause made me try For e...

Saved this in drafts and forgot to post it. Apologies, oh ye teeming masses. Many words worth I wandered lonely as a cloud With acid rain an...

Poetic forms are many today, like the ghazal Many poets I know, they say they like the ghazal I too tried many times to write one, They neve...