Poetry

"... I’ll be there, beside you my love..."

"...The drink will be drank..."

"...We plod into a wall of total darkness ..."

"...They flew across the horizon..."

"...parading the loot is cheap, chilling and ill..."

"...insatiable hunger confronts the invincible faith..."

Zhihua Wang received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

"...What life was like within his skin..."

"...The world was a cage of sunshine and moonrise..."

"...They will not tell you..."

"...Hey, I am paying you, man!.."

"One morning deep in summer..."

"...the world’s first middle-ear <br> transplant using 3D-printed bones..."

"...dropping at terminal velocity..."

"...I reach out to the clouds..."

"...like Pacific waves anything but pacific..."

"...Buds bloomed, leaves fluttered— spring be or not..."

"...these better days we were taught about..."

"...Day has sent a search party..."

"...In your yawn, oscitancy meets its end..."

There isn't only one way to win...

"...stand still at the shore of TIME..."

"...Shouldn’t a home be as homely and convivial as the hug of hospitality?..."

"...imaginations made in dreamlands surged again..."

Almustapha Umar, a Nigerian poet based in Jalingo Taraba state, a member at Newborn Poet Forum and Hill-top Creative Arts Foundation Taraba chapter.

Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog "The Truth About Lies" but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and (increasingly) next door’s cat.

Jackie Chou is a writer from Southern California who has two collections of poetry, "The Sorceress" and "Finding My Heart in Love and Loss," published by cyberwit.

"...it took much longer than you expected..."

"...moments remain alive only in the mind..."

"best dark is under the blankets late at night..."