RICHARD BERENGARTEN Twelve propositions 1. The word anthology often means a ‘collection of poems’. This usage blends two ideas: a ‘gathering of flowers’ and a ‘gathering of extracts from writings’.[1] In other words, an anthology is conceived as a kind…
Two poems from women’s world Silence Does my silence Fill the gaps Where your fingers poked holes Into your beautiful being? Does it alleviate your pain your sorrow your guilt? Then I will be silent. Does my silence Ooze out…
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…
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…
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…
Paola Musa’s poetry Barumini (Nuragic fortress, Sardinia) You could have loved me among the silent fortresses of our unknown ancestors. Now bitter is the meantime in your eyes. No verb, then, among the olive trees. No scroll, save the wind.…
SERKAN ENGİN According to the school of imagist socialist poetry, poetry is written in poetic images, not in individual words. But what is poetic image and how can it be created? The description of the “image,” according to the philosophy,…
