Lock and Key Jiel Narvekar   I move from room to room. A feeling of dread, a feeling of gloom.   I search in drawers, in cupboards, in...

Creative Odyssey: Art and Verses Beyond Boundaries Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo   In a world increasingly defined by division, the...

ODE TO A WATER LILY Malachi Edwin Vethamani You stand singularly straight a whiteness among the green. Your petals unfurled now strike...

UNFORGIVABLE CULPRIT Naheed Akhtar Oh the self! Being hanging a little in the rare Like a child unwrapping chocolate bars Preoccupied...

A SMART MAN In my haughtiness Going beyond  My civilian fairness  I hide my selfishness Under the garb of my gentleness So conveniently,...

WAR The first word Babies said before they walk in Palestine Shame to this humanity How can you be happy When in the other side They are...

THE STAIRS   Thodhori V Baba I descended the stairs one by one, without the light of anticipation, heartbroken like branches in late...

THE DESERT LAND Farzaneh Dorri Whispered words, fall and gather, like rain, in the cracks and crevices of a parched mind; too few: fade...

White Cloud Francesco   Favetta Extinguished and silent wakes plough through the sea of memories and you white cloud twirl in your...

BITTER JOY Dr. José Luis López I must want a fictitious life because I have not known how to give love while time marches on I find...

SUNFLOWERS OF LIGHTS FRANCESCA PATITUCCI Sunflowers of light I saw a field of sunflowers under the immensity of blue skies. Soon the sun...

The Elevate Your Energy: A Transformative Book Signing Event By Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo   On Sunday, September 8, 2024, the quaint...

PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY BY INDIAN POET DR. JERNAIL S. ANAND   THE POET   When you read my poetry, If you see me nothing  Except me,  my...

MOTHER’S LIGHT GUIDES ME TO HER Barbara Leonhard I. To her wound. I descend into her balefire. Birth scraps a scar on my neck. I cleave...

A MOONLESS NIGHT   Collins Chibunna Nwachukwu There were days,  days when hunger silenced our thoughts,  thoughts of high density...

YET STILL  Prosperina Sarkar In the drama of life’s tale,   Layer by layer, complexities prevail,   Many struggles, failures set the...

BALLAD OF THE NON-EXISTENT Ivan Pozzoni I could try to tell you with the sound of my keyboard how Baasima died of leprosy without ever...

Rhapsody of Embrace Bello Micheal Oluwatimileyin   The sky erupted with flashes.  Gentle raindrops fell through the dark night, casting a...

Closure By Michael Lee Johnson   W ith age, my room becomes small — roots gather beneath my thoughts in bundles — exits are few. The purr...

WHITE SILENCE Kapardeli Eftichia Two worlds who accidentally   meet in the ignorance of the times build and shatter with the white of the...