JOHN IRVING CLARKE The sycamore sapling sited on the curve of the carefully chosen soft grass verges route in the park. Twice the scene of a near-hit as the cycle wobbled the bend, foreshadowing a cartoon image of a man chasing…
Another New Colossus
Poetry
Poems for Rising Ten
ROGAN WOLF A new collection of 25 English poems for children has just gone online. It is new in more ways than one. Each poem is carefully matched with an original abstract painting by an artist called Rachel Stevens, who…
Germain Droogenbroodt’s The Road of Being
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT SMART PHONE In the waiting room sits a large number of travelers. With one notable exception, all of them are busy with a little thing called smart phone that fascinates them all the time. With two thumbs at…
The death of children
RICHARD BERENGARTEN It is the death of children most offends nature and justice. No use asking why. What justice is, nobody comprehends. What punishment can ever make amends? There’s no pretext, excuse or alibi. It is the death of children…
The Blue House – Five more unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 6 Winter is back And it reminds me of myself Before I met you. 7 The house where we had lived for years it was now empty and deserted without a piece of furniture. We walked on the…
Follow the Anxiety of the Wind – Five unpublished poems by Max Mazzoli
MAX MAZZOLI 1 …therefore let’s go back to the shadow of the branch Or let’s follow the sharp scent of drunken flowers Next to the stone, an improvised altar, To cross the talkative time of silences To forget the gossip…
Prayer, prophecy and poetry: Richard Berengarten’s Changing
SILVIA PIO The I Ching (Yijing) or Book of Changes is the oldest of the Chinese classics and was originally conceived and compiled as a divination manual, a handbook for fortune tellers. It is believed to be one of the world’s oldest books…