Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

Bio: Trix (SJ) is an online creator from India and has composed more than 300 poems in English. They are now letting the world into their poetry idle and welcome you to them. Anticipation A backpack bent and half filled sits in a corner. Its content remains uncertain and on the back burner. Clothes get added and then discarded, Hats and scarfs and beanies tossed asunder, Sunhats and cream clothes to match the weather, That never comes or becomes a matter. The world awaits, the heart waits, But every time anxiety is the heaviest weight. So the bag sits half folded and stretched, Its lock forever hung on hope, Dreams of travel and travelling dreams, Of sun fall, rivers, oceans and streams. Of pictures and sceneries that catch the eyes, That tug at the heart and make ambition shy. Maybe one day the bag will be filled full, Carried onto a ships packed hull, Dragged through pack or pecks of seagulls, Broken corners catching the unravelling wools. The dreams remains, the hope retained, a tr...

  Diana Rosen is an essayist, poet, and flash writer whose first full-length flash and poetry book, "High Stakes & Expectations", was released in spring of 2022. She has work forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys and The Reform Jewish Quarterly and recent credits in Pine Cone Review, Ariel Chart Literary Journal, As It Ought to be Magazine, and Al-Khemia Poetica . To read more of her work, please visit and subscribe to www.authory.com/dianarosen Crossing the Teesta River Over the Suspension Bridge The four of us are in the Indian-style Jeep. Devan, our driver, is at the wheel; our host, Rajah, next to him; Alexander and I claim the seat. I’m visiting Darjeeling to write about tea. Alexander is a German graduate student here to study biodynamic farming and insects for a degree from University. We’re off on a side trip to Sikkim where we will meet the former prince of an independent country that’s now a reluctant state of India. It’s already been quite an adventure. At one point,...