Poetry

"...a stern upholder of precision..."

"Since he met you..."

"...a line on which patina time will mark..."

"...I hear the calm 'pattering' these days..."

"...I touched her for one last time..."

"...A summer of blacktop memories..."

Yucheng Tao is a Chinese international student based in Los Angeles, where he studies songwriting.

Sriparna Mitra is a poet and writer from Kolkata, India with a Master's degree in English Literature and Language and a B.Ed. She has also qualified for NET JRF.

"...I moved North in a heartbeat to the Fillmore..."

"...Life syncs with vagary vicissitudes..."

"...she looks for two things..."

"...Love is an easy memory mansion..."

"The vision in the mirror illustrates reflections..."

"...Bold and brilliant, Lovemore Tshuma is our cultural icon..."

Kate Hill-Charalambides, originally from London, enjoys triple nationality: British/French and Greek Cypriot. She lives in Alsace where she works as an English teacher and studied at the University Jean Jars in Toulouse. Some of her work has been inspired by her voluntary work for an association which helps the victims of human trafficking.

"A commoner never becomes king..."

"...It does not shimmy or shake..."

"...the bright morning you gave me, and your life too..."

"in between seasons beneath this luminous pewter sky..."

"...they laughed louder and I was embarrassed..."

"...police arrived again to take his flesh in custody..."

"...The benign smile at the doorway..."

"...silence of strangers at a bus stop..."

"Fawn trails a doe..."

"...why do you deceive yourself...?"

Shikha S. Lamba is a jewelry designer and poet living in Hong Kong. She is the co-editor of an online magazine, "Coffee and Conversations".

"...advertisement eight inches in front of my face..."

"...another Sunday spent resting reminiscing..."

"...Night stars dish out judgment..."

"...I do not want to have to ask..."