Bio
O.P. Jha's works appeared in more than one hundred journals including Rigorous, Mantis, Punt Volat, Discretionary Love,
In Parentheses, Shot Glass, Lothlorien Poetry, The Cry Lounge, The Odessa Collective, Backchannels, Homer's Odyssey,
The Broken Teacup, Poetry Pacific, By the Beach, miniMag, Iceblink, Infinite Scroll, The Rome Review, Tiger Leaping Review,
Wildscape Literary, Pineberry Literary, Valiant Scribe, Kelp, pulplit Mag, Gabby &Min's , Panorama , Quibble Quarterly,
Stone of Madness, Midwest Zen, Hoot, Balestra, Soul Poetry, The Haiku Shack Magazine etc. His poems appeared in anthologies
"We were Seeds" and "We are Resilient". He holds Ph.D. in "Translation Studies".
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O.P. Jha
for an oasis
In my dream I heard a fellow saying,
"War is over and grapes are so sweet."
I wandered all the day for an oasis
but it was nowhere in the Middle-East
In the evening
I asked a Date-Tree, standing alone
in the desert full of dunes of despair,
but it'd lost its voice
at the moment when the trumpet
of the war was blown again
with me there're some refugee children
whose vocal-chords don't vibrate
but their eyes narrate many epics of scare.