Articles, Poems, Stories and Musings by women, for women
Posted on March 13, 2013 by administrator
Modern society has become increasingly mobile, and Americans cite multiple reasons for relocating. Some move to secure a job in another part of the country, but others are transferred by their company. Sometimes, the relocation is compulsory. Foreclosure and sudden job loss are common triggers for moving. Personal reasons for relocating are extremely varied, and [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2011 by Aakancha
The moon is redeemed in another sky this aeon,too short for redemption impregnated with illicit desires the oceans a fugitive of the land the house is naked windows no longer open on the outside the heart of charcoal is sooted with goldust it beats no more it rattles all this is too insignificant to excite [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2011 by Aakancha
An intrusion is a breach And an intruder is a convict That’s the way it stays No allegory can make it less juvenile What if you’ve gone too far And now what’s intruded Is no longer in front of you But within This is the point which dries up my soul I have given up [...]
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Posted on January 6, 2011 by Sneha
The day was gloomy, when I waited for you. My heart cheered when I saw you, the first time you showed up after days so long. You were tall, with a bag and when light gleamed you’re your naïve face, spirits went free and the dove swarmed away, no more peace to my quiet soul, [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2010 by Sampada
It starts. He looks at me, And I try to smile. He smiles back. He thinks of what else to do, And finds nothing. He smiles again; It ends. Memories… You look at me, And I try not to smile. You smile back. You think of what not to do, And find something. You smile [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2010 by Shadan
PEEPPP….. PPEEE…. DHOOOOOSHSHSHSH…… PEEPPPEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!! All around the vehicles are screeching… I must cross the road… Damn! Where’s the signal?? I can hear the honking all around me… must cross now… Why in the world my sandal strap’s coming lose now???? I step on the road… and the signal turns GREEN… the vehicles advance…. menacingly…. I [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2010 by Tazein
The pink feathers of the early dawn, creeping up stealthily to sleeping forms, entering the ken through shadows of dreams, cheating dark visions through rays of hope Pink feathers,the phoenix, of the dying dark, pink feathers slowly etching the new days mark, giving more heart to the fires of hope, lighting meager joys with specks [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2010 by Aparajita
To what you are inside you must do justice, for what you are inside, is an eternal bliss. Do not even try to metamorphosis For all you will be left with are pain and a stinging hiss For whom do you do this, those callow people right there? For a second they do, but beyond [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2010 by Tazein
He wouldn’t look at me. The vestige of the body he found so alluring, once, has become a grody apparition-dreaded and vapid. So like a crumb of bread, jilted and forgotten for weeks on end, beneath the table. I move and stand behind him, sometimes beside him and then stymed and frantic, in front-in his [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2010 by Tazein
Autumn 1952, a dawn. There was a delectable nip in the air. A mellow wind was blowing across the barren fields, with no particular intent of reaching anywhere, while the winding dirt path took on an ethereal look in all that fickle, unsettled dust and sublime chaos. On such a pre-dawn, my father as he [...]
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