POEM

The Scent of Rain Siddharth Dey The dark clouds cast its shadowBringing melancholy all around.Making my heart heavyWith the past

With a hoarse voice of an adolescent male
A slender waist dog
Strived to delve soil to make burial ground
Removing the grasses with paws

A mere spectator is all I am these days,
Watching people,
Watching dogs,
Watching moments,
Pass by

A heavenly gift I received on the day you were born.

The tumultuous sky suddenly becomes quite and calm.

I was dull, barren; Full of thorns was my land.

Memoir Shehnaz Islam Hands of clock’s tick ran faster than his time We stole moments And the drizzle made our

Rains Shaheen Akhtar Rains, you give me shelter From the scorching summer heat. Kids play with you and paper boats,

I have made a world of mine
with my thoughts and imaginations
where everything is good,
where every mind is pretty.
In this world of mine

Change is inevitable.
People, places,
priorities, tastes,
relationships, mates

Ghats’s engraved smut from river’s urges
Not all maidens are virgin
Beneath every truth, nesting ugly lore

Love has no alphabet , no reading book
It knows not how itself forms and takes the shape of Cupid’s arrow ?