Tube Rose

Contributor: Nikhil Nath

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On the obituary
of a tube rose

the guided
missile

burns a hole
in the map

of Africa,
while coffee

waits in
a pot

memories and
reality

submerging in
a hurricane

of logic
swimming on rhetoric


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Nikhil has been writing poetry for eighteen years. He has been published in various magazine in India, the USA and the UK. Nikhil Nath is his pen name. He lives and works from Kolkata, India. “Write rubbish, but write", said Virginia Woolf. This is Nikhil's maxim for writing.
Allegro, Aji, Ink salt and Tears, Laughing Dog (Poem of the Month), Ehanom, Ithica Lit, Germ Magazine, Leaves of Ink, Linden Avenue and Pif Magazine have recently accepted his work.