SILVIA PIO She saw the bottom where the water was sweet, surrendered her body to the waves she feared as a gift, and dreamed the dreams she had kept to give as presents wrapped with indecision (and you used to…
Mrs Prufrock used to sing
Poetry
Walk with the Mahatma
SILVIA PIO (edited by) “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.” —Mohandas…
Colour-Blind Romance and other poems
STEPHEN WILSON Colour-Blind Romance after Lorca’s Romance Sonámbulo How can I love what I cannot see? Green, green, I love you green. Sun on a woodland canopy, how can I see what can’t be seen? Green bird on an olive-branch,…
A Synchronistic Experience with a Blue Butterfly
The book-length sequence of poems entitled The Blue Butterfly was conceived when Richard Berengarten took the photo below on 25 May 1985, outside the Memorial Museum at Šumarice, on the outskirts of the city of Kragujevac in central Serbia. The museum commemorates a…
Of Animal and Other Meetings
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From Of Animal and Other Meetings by Rogan Wolf, Portugal Prints 2017 High Moments I have seen owls I have seen eagles. We have held meetings of high moment in the same ecstatic world. We have…
Gabriel Rosenstock & Debiprasad Mukherjee: Mural World
DEBIPRASAD MUKHERJEE Life is always like a painting—you draw, you erase … Historically, people used painting as an abstract expression of moments lived. Paintings on walls across the globe continue to be the portraiture of people’s social structures, the mirrors which reflect their…
Poets from the World, Melyssa G. Sprott, USA
MELYSSA G. SPROTT Winterlust Oh, how I miss the frigid kiss of winter upon my skin! The cold air, that wind in my hair, a chilling frost gets in. To hide from yet hold, that bitter cold such a…