The Barakhamba Road/Tolstoy Marg Crossing

An odd, white handkerchief tied on his arm,
    he gets onto the metro at Vishwavidyalaya.

With a stuffed back-pack on her shoulder,
    she boards the bus at Shahdara.

In his grey track pants,
    he hails an Ola from Saket,

With her phone in her back-pocket,
    she climbs onto a Haryana Roadways bus.

---

The red glass bangles he'd bought yesterday
    reflect the winter sun; his fingers dance.

She pulls out a crumpled rainbow muffler
    and waves it to her from across the road.

He sees a small tear in the stockings as he
    pulls down the track pants but doesn't care.

At that Crossing she knows from the map, she
    sees a big crowd - and turns her phone to silent.

National Book Awards for Poetry

As the year ends, many list are published of "the best" books in all categories. Though no list is definitive or fits all tastes, one list to look at for good titles published during the year is the National Book Awards.

Here are the 2015 poetry titles selected.


WINNER



Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)


FINALISTS

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)

Ada Lim�n, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)



ON THE AWARD LONG LIST

Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler

A Stranger's Mirror by Marilyn Hacker

The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield

Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts by Lawrence Raab

Merry Christmas Tree Images with Christmas Quotes

Not to get technical... But according to 

chemistry, alcohol is a solution...

Treasure the moments 

that capture our Hearts.

The gift of a Cristmas is a precious 

reminder that we are loved.

No matter what I get 

for Christmas, you 

are all I really need.

Its christmas and I 

just wanted to say thank 

you and that.. Working 

with you this past year...

One of the most glorious 

messes in the world is the mess

created in the living room on Cristmas day..

I will honor Christmas in my heart, 

and try to keep it all the year.

Youth is when you are

allowed to stay up late 

on the New Year's Eve.

Middle age is when you 

are forced to.

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Ring of Fire by Mary Eliza Crane

At the wane of a long season
of heat filled yellow sky,
fire consumes mountain forests
infested, decimated by bark beetles
feasting in their own changing world.
I swim deliciously in a warmer river
without current, cringing at banks
so barren I could walk across.
The water is too hot for salmon
to return upstream and spawn.

Earth degrades to dirt, crumbles in my hand.

Early spring bloomed in a

Happy New Year Quotes with New Year Wishes Cards and Pictures

For every thing...

I thank GOD..

Here is A wishing that the coming year 

is A glorious one, that rewards all your 

future endeavors with success.

Learn from yesterday,

Live for today,

Hope for tommorrow.

New Year is the time to unfold New 

horizons and realize New Dreams.

May your neighbours respect you,

trouble neglect you,

the angels protect you,

and heaven accept you Happy New Year.

May This Year Become A Bed 

Of Roses For You My Love.

Rejoice evermore.

Pry without casing. In everything give thanks 

for this is the will of god in christ jesus concering you.

 As we enter the New Year together,

Lets resolve to appreciate the Love we 

share and watch it grow deeper.

Let gives A warm welcome 

to the Year cherish

each moment that the Yaer

shall behold so lets come 

together and celebrate

A blissful start to 

the New Year.

Both of them liked being out on Delhi roads

at dawn.

As they reached the DND flyover from Sarai Kale Khan
they could see a red sun over Okhla,

and as they went down towards Ashram, she said -
if only this Yamuna had a little life in it, no?

He got a little bothered
at this sudden, pretentious love for nature -

I have come all the way from Yamuna Vihar,
the petrol's almost gone,
and you're thinking of the river.

How many cities
will we move in this one city

to look for a place.


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Ravish Kumar