Sometimes ponder why the sky looks blue You force me to read your books. As you warn me from reading others. I’m wondering have you ever looked at the sky, at the bushes on your way, or at the sand and soil. Look at everything again. Sometimes stand under the rain till it washes yourContinue reading “4 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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Violining. a poem by Catherine Zickgraf
Violining Gusts blow wild sky off its clothes line, and fog soaks into my coat. I lift the gate latch, enter under a canopy of greens and into the courtyard. I stay this January in Carmen de la Victoria, the stone and oak guest house of the Universidad de Granada. Halfway up the river valley,Continue reading “Violining. a poem by Catherine Zickgraf”
2 poems by Jameson (Jason) Chee-Hing
The World Is Not Right The world is not right when It is not just Do not forget us we have no voice tell the world about us the voiceless…the enslaved…the displaced…the imprisoned To the poets and writers do not forget us give words to our plight tell the world We are in the re-educationContinue reading “2 poems by Jameson (Jason) Chee-Hing”
2 poems by Lela Hannah
Fractured I. Childhood I’ve tried too many times to wedge myself into an electric socket, an Alice in Unwonderland, insisting on existing in places that can never accommodate me. II. Adolescence Multi-talented is defined by being able to cry and eat ice cream without swallowing tears. III. Adulthood I make glass figurines seal the cracksContinue reading “2 poems by Lela Hannah”
3 poems by John Brantingham
On the Edge of the Marsh Ginny and her husband have a farm here at the edge of the marsh, a place my grandfather, a dairyman all his life would have felt at home. They have cows and grow corn, strawberries and asparagus, and they listen to great blue herons grawking to each other acrossContinue reading “3 poems by John Brantingham”
3 poems by Marc Isaac Potter
Time Pairs of little bare feet Running across the Kentucky Bluegrass, Children laugh as they run, Showing off their new Easter clothes. Pappa pops a beer In the hot pool and chugs this one too. Momma is in the house Peeling carrots while Auntie Cleans in another part of the house. All is being readiedContinue reading “3 poems by Marc Isaac Potter”
Oh Lord… a poem by Sabyasachi Nazrul
Oh Lord… Oh Lord… I have cultivated paddy in your land. I have also cultivated onion, garlic, ginger and tomatoes in another land. I cultivated fish in the pond and gourds in entresol by the pond. Good yield, I got good paddy in the field. I packed one years worth of paddy to eat withContinue reading “Oh Lord… a poem by Sabyasachi Nazrul”
3 poems by Carl Scharwath
Telos Two evening lovers’ echoes In you forgotten dreams And memories of essence. Touch wordlessly in a greater optimism. Waves of summer morn Under a cloudless sky With flickering lights of desire. Turning like a dancer alone on the stage of life The collapsing leaves turn After their first death and sleep In the placeContinue reading “3 poems by Carl Scharwath”
4 poems by Susmit Panda
After-Dinner Walk On The Terrace If only I could set things straight, I might. But I am spent! I miss my family. Has brother left the building for the night? The sink is chockablock, the TV’s bright And muted, roaches raid the cutlery. If only I could set things straight, I might. Isn’t it time?Continue reading “4 poems by Susmit Panda”
Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. a review by Sue Burge
The Strange Egg – Kirstie MillarIllustrations by Hannah Mumby(The Emma Press 2023)Paperback ISBN: 9781915628022 £10 “’Doctor, I had a terrible dream. In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw what you will do to it.‘ A woman is faced, month after month, with the birth of a strange egg. Her doctor asksContinue reading “Kirstie Millar’s The Strange Egg. a review by Sue Burge”
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