GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE VIOLIN OF THE BUSHMAN Weak is resonance of the sound a one stringed bent stick on an empty ostrich egg. Not an instrument for greater glory of whoever. Nobody else hears what the bushman fiddles…
Poetry
Tanka & Haiku
MICHAEL MCCLINTOCK from http://michaelmcclintock.homestead.com/index.html Tanka (短歌 “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
Let us go back to Piazza
JOHN IRVING CLARKE Let us go back to Piazza One day let us go back to Piazza where sun peers through mist and its brazen ascent is tolled by bells. One day let us go back to Piazza where racing…
Unsinkable little poems
Satish Gupta’s poems and drawings Water hardens into ice – a little warmth and it melts Our love solid as a rock, -but the stones are cold Passion does not drown desire Desire is unsinkable The master said, I haven’t…
Poets of the World, Pavol Janik, Slovakia
New York In a horizontal mirror of the straightened bay the points of an angular city stabbing directly into the starry sky. In the glittering sea of lamps flirtatious flitting boats tremble marvellously on your agitated legs swimming in the…
Dancing Winds
MARIA MIRAGLIA AGAIN It was about noon and we were sitting in the shadow of the willow tree on the left side of the house The heat made us talk of the weather and he asked me of the colors…
Life’s Ondulazioni
Pouring Milk for the Master With a limited palette her master painted her into a corner. A still life of a maid pouring milk captured like a butterfly on show. Pinned by the long days of balancing obligation and duty…