Snata Basu

Snata Basu is a writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her poetry has appeared on numerous literary platforms including The Opiate, Visual Verse: An Online Anthology of Art and Words and Small World City.

Devi

The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom, 

1m ago

Look out the windows

In the blanks of muddy moonlight

2m ago

Dawn of new(?) air

But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths

3m ago

Raw Magnolias

This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant

5m ago

Sleepy ghost flight

You have made ice out of my heart;/ we were once nothing–you brutalise me

8m ago

palestine is my grieving mother

rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where  women like me plod one day at a time,

9m ago

There is no water if i’m on water

I am put away impulsively like the totems on a modern alter 

10m ago

Small dreams

On the heart of a place where heather blossoms, Dreams of scattered bodies and burnt heath Against the walls where children live

1y ago
October 12, 2024
October 12, 2024

Devi

The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom, 

August 24, 2024
August 24, 2024

Look out the windows

In the blanks of muddy moonlight

August 6, 2024
August 6, 2024

Dawn of new(?) air

But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths

June 8, 2024
June 8, 2024

Raw Magnolias

This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant

March 21, 2024
March 21, 2024

Sleepy ghost flight

You have made ice out of my heart;/ we were once nothing–you brutalise me

February 10, 2024
February 10, 2024

palestine is my grieving mother

rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where  women like me plod one day at a time,

December 30, 2023
December 30, 2023

There is no water if i’m on water

I am put away impulsively like the totems on a modern alter 

November 11, 2023
November 11, 2023

Small dreams

On the heart of a place where heather blossoms, Dreams of scattered bodies and burnt heath Against the walls where children live

October 21, 2023
October 21, 2023

The Divine Feminine

I look in the mirror, and the tides start turning,

September 16, 2023
September 16, 2023

The colour of revolution is red

And along with our bodies, the rage keeps on, / we chafe and bleed and clot and steer; / we go mad and nude