Priya Atiyolil is an American mystic poet, short story writer, artist, engineer, mathematician, finance professional, and businesswoman.

  • Old Poem III

    Do you remember the Eighteenth dream,where genesis and ruin through a rose convened– that day, our rekindled spirits in twilight wept,drunk with the rapture’s limbic, sweet attire,and your breath, half heaven’s, half where sorrow slept,bore me through Paradise, then down…

  • Jyestha

    He’s a hollow manstuffed barrenupstairs from his neighbor, Melancholyand a mile away from his cousin, Gratification He’s a hollow manhe feels for nothingbecause nothing. He’s…

  • Anna Karenina

    Desire is this forlorn hymnthat tolls and tolls before the knell. © Priya Atiyolil 2022

  • A Metronome

    The one who subdues the raw, unspoken tearwill wander lost, in lust, and in fear;to find is not for thosewho run from what is pure,…

  • Old Poem II

    I have a blood-shedding eye from the rim of that arched brow,of which the world sees many seditionsand of which I see my paradise and perdition– I’m the keeper of that prince of Benaraswho will soon flit away from his…

  • Old Poem I

    Let our cataclysms usher in the dawn and may the miasmas never brood nor spawn. Let imagination scale its fenceand absolve itself of its unyielding…

  • Life

    Where Zephyrs are to birththe Orage is to sojourn and Expiation is to death. Z.O.E. © Priya Atiyolil 2016

  • The First Waters – I

    Beneath the waves and behind the blind,the Kingdom waits, unmeasured and unconfined;its throne is coral, carved of shattered suns,and its law is the tide that…