Do you want my hands / Will they be enough to keep you warm

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 23 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Olives

A review of ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’ (India Penguin Classics, 2023) by Mirza Ghalib, translated by Maaz Bin Bilal

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 22 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Flag

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 21 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Tire

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 19 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: True

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 18 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Rubble

Words have crashed onto your shores

Kissing strangers only feels good

Your gaze, a dagger, cuts through me

I needed to de-escalate.

It is impossible to distinguish when, but I think My loss of faith coincided with your arrival

"Love" did not have me at 'hello' Nor does it cure the cries

'Rise': Sehri Tales selections, Day 16

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 15 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Library

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 14 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Double

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 13 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Ease

Am I allowed to hold on to you? / But you are waves of serendipity, / Moving forward in each clutch

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 12 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Total

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Resist