Vol: 2 Issue: 1
February 2015
UNDERGROUND
FLOWERS
What we Are Looking For
We are looking for poetry. Unpretentious, lovable stuff.
Anyone can try us.
We'll keep looking for poetry all the Year round.
To reach us, click our submissions Page or email
Your attachments to
undergroundflowers14@gmail.com.
ABOUT US
We are the underground flowers. We bloom with a rare fragrance, underground. We belong to the Orchidae. Rare, colourful, fragrant, for all time.
They who need us, must dig for us,
and we'll perfume their lives forever.
Because we,
are the underground flowers.
Consultants:
Bibhu Padhi, poet, is poetry consultant for Missing Slate, Chiaroscuro, and others. Bibhu Padhi has published his poems internationally.
Tapan Kumar Pradhan, poet, has won Sahitya Akademi, and All India Poetry Competition prizes.
Prabhanjan K Mishra, poet, was President, Poetry Circle, Mumbai and former editor, POIESIES(Mumbai).
Gopikrishnan Kottoor, has won National prizes for his poetry. He founded and edited Poetry Chain
uninterruptedly from 1997 to 2007.
'
Gently the dawn held out to me
A golden handful of bird’s-notes.
Leonora Speyer
Where are the poems,
That like coloured leaves of Fall,
Hide in them birds of beauty, mystery, and song?