সাগরে তরি – মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত
হেরিনু নিশায় তরি অপথ সাগরে, মহাকায়া, নিশাচরী, যেন মায়া-বলে, বিহঙ্গিনী-রূপ ধরি, ধীরে ধীরে চলে, রঙ্গে সুধবল পাখা বিস্তারি অম্বরে! রতনের চুড়া-রূপে শিরোদেশে…
Nov 3, 2026Tag
Sea
7 writings
The Bell at Saltmarsh End
by Philippa Brackenbury
A retired history teacher agrees to write the parish guidebook. Then, at low tide, she starts hearing the bell of a church the sea took in 1607.
Nov 1, 2026
Ariadne, Afterwards
by Danae Kritikopoulou
A long poem in Ariadne's voice: left asleep on the beach at Naxos by the hero she saved, she wakes to the wine god walking out of the sea. She knows how his kind of love ends. She goes to him anyway.
Oct 31, 2026
Sumbisori
by Jeon Yu-seul
On Jeju a sea-woman's breath has a sound. My grandmother taught me how to make it. On my first dive, I heard one coming up from below.
Oct 27, 2026
Give Us a Ladle
by Haruka Nishimiya
The old fisherman knocked the bottoms out of six ladles with a hammer and a nail, and told me what to do if the sea asked politely.
Oct 26, 2026
Saltwater
by Thalia Kouremenou
A Naxos evening after a day in the sea: salt drying on skin, a red towel, and a lover who wants to taste the whole Aegean off one shoulder.
Oct 26, 2026
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife
by Bronwen Llewelyn-Hart
Ninety-six steps to the lantern room, a husband who writes "All well" in the log every night, and an assistant keeper who arrives with the spring boat. Pembrokeshire, 1897.
Oct 23, 2026