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…
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…
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…
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…
Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. If It Be Your Will If it be your will That I speak no more…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Now we must think the unthinkable. The good people of America have elected one bad hombre as their president. But surely bad men before held the office without crushing it entirely in greedy hands; Rutherford B Hayes…
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…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE Tuesday was Tutti i Santi, All Saints’ Day. Schools, shops, and offices close for this annual day of solemn remembrance, families visit the graves of their forebears to leave fresh flowers, florists do big business in chrysanthemums,…
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.
SERKAN ENGİN We are the revenge of all oppressed, despised, ignored, exploited, beaten, insulted, neglected, abused, molested humans in the world, fighters for their rights with our poems and essays. We are the revenge of the Art of Poetry and…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) HAIKU Moon in morning dawn vain competing with the sun to create the day GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT Ithaca 16.9.2016 * COLDNESS Out of the dark tar-sea ascends the moon. Should you find now shelter my revered heart.…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) A Gentle Breeze from the East Seductive as poppy pours dawn its red over the lake a pleasure for the eye. A lukewarm wind from the East caresses gently the surface of the water causing a…
RON ROSENSTOCK A meaningful photograph is not a photo of something but is something in itself. A photograph that is only its subject matter is seen and quickly reduced to a memory of the particular subject. A meaningful photograph is so much more. As with a meditative and creative…
Dirty Old Town I found my love where the gaslight falls Dreamed a dream by the old canal Kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling…
Or, to be more precise, I am afraid of Muslims WAQAS KHWAJA I am afraid of Muslims I am afraid of Muslims Christians unnerve and alarm me Jews fill me with dread I fear Hindus I am terrified of Gautama’s followers…
