Poetry

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..."

"...Well, so we are!..."

"...Timbuktu’s treasure trove of early scrolls..."

"...I stall to scan those sweetmeat plates..."

Glenn Armstrong draws inspiration from the flotsam and jetsam of the American experience. He was equally at home at both CBGBs and a Buddhist monastery. He lives in San Diego.

"...magnificent and gorgeous like some ghosts..."

"...Trees on the far shore were invisible..."

"...those who long to be free and ferocious..."

"...somehow down the line I got lost..."

"...If you should ever come back..."

"...Will this begrudging journey ever end?..

"...walls where a rhythm beats nostalgia..."

"...We have been working through ages…"

"...birds witness desolate leaves at the onset of fall season..."

"...presented his license and wished himself good luck..."

"We’ve all cut our way through paths...

"... after 50 years in this country I might have to leave..."

"...Your soul is my spinning wheel..."

Uday Shankar Ojha is a professor of English at Jai Prakash University, Chapra, Bihar, India.

"...So many shades..."

"...what’s left is the present..."