THE EVER WONDERING STAR
Through the rainbow salt and the groveling rocks I’ll hold you for who you are Under the shade of sun that blinds, the crowd that mocks I’ll crave the ever wandering star The road to the highest mountain I’ll climb And pluck the richest seed They say it’s too majestic, twisted, too divine Upon hearing […]
RHYME IN TIME
Cloudy, rainy and thundering outside, Trees and birds are resting inside, Evening turns into dawn, And am writing this with a yawn! Missing, Needing and Caring, Love should be always be sharing, But this moment is being missing, Where as you should be staying. Your laughing, talking and screaming, Where am staring, While my eye […]
JUDGEMENTAL
I kept forth A step, Just the First step, It rang a thousand ears, Which were deaf a thousand years, Of all those friends, nosy-pocky relatives, -‘well my peeps’ Awoke a long lost society, With a sort of anarchy, Twitching mouths to smirking smiles, Started assessing, counting how many miles, Probably she would step before […]
ආතල් with Aarefa
The shape eke lockdown edition. Do you ever wake up, stare at the same four walls, pick up your phone, scroll through Instagram, see a pop up which says “you’re covered”, groan in frustration, close the damn app, just to mindlessly open it again? Because same!!! One of my really good friends is stuck in […]
A FEMINIST STORY
One day you’re 8 and you are cocooned in the embrace of your parents, they’re trying, desperately to keep you safe after hearing the news of another little girl being brutally raped. You’re now 18, trying to wear what you please, but instead you a receive a look which clearly says – you’re not leaving […]
SHATTERED DREAMS
Neither am I among the dead nor among the living. Tell me, what am I meant to do? Hearts were torn apart before they could be tied. Souls were separated in a chasm so wide. Destiny has taken my beloved away from me. How do I live each day? Without you, it’s a desolate bay. […]
SRI LANKA AUTHOR KANYA D’ALMEIDA BAGS GLOBAL COMMONWEALTH 2021 PRIZE
Pictured: author and journalist Kanya D’Almeida, Image courtesy of Google Images Sri Lankan author Kanya D’Almeida bags the best Short Story prize at a competition organized by the Global Commonwealth Foundation 2021. Kanya D’Almeida, Sri Lankan author, writer and journalist achieved global recognition for her short story “I cleaned the-” on the 30th June by […]