Native Land
Relentless atrocities on native land harden the spirit, burning away empathy until…
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From ULR
Issue 9 – Violence
Autumn
Your gentle gaze, like autumn leaves, heals war's earth, a quiet rescue from loud history.
June 15, 2023
No more telltale signs of the war’s touch
on these forests of October,
the gouged earth manicured into gardens.
I’m thinking the rescue of your hands,
the brown leaf of your eyes
covering the wounded ground.
Elsewhere, abandoning bereft lovers
heroes are marching off
to history’s drumbeats.
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Robin Ngangom
Robin S Ngangom Born in 1959 in Imphal, Manipur, He is a bilingual poet and translator who writes in English and Manipuri. His first collection, Words and the Silence, was published in 1988 and since then, he has published two more volumes of poetry and a book of translations. He was invited to the UK Year of Literature and Writing in 1995, has read his poems at literary events in India and abroad, and his poems have appeared in several prestigious anthologies and magazines. He also co-edited two significant anthologies of poetry from Northeast India