Poetry

"...when retribution was the rule..."

"...We walk tightropes, balance with hope..."

"...the tint of time and grey houses..."

"...imagine a skeleton hammering ivory..."

"...let fortitude face any sword, axe, or fire..."

"...At the centre of learning and teaching is the learner..."

Dr. Elizabeth V.Koshy is a Professor in English Literature at Dr.A.B.Telang Senior College, Pune, India.

"A few years ago, I retired from a thirty-five year career in hospice counseling, when I began writing poetry. My poems are influenced by my patients’ journeys, the compelling beauty of nature, and the human condition."

Gregg Norman lives and writes in Manitoba, Canada. His work has been accepted by numerous poetry journals and literary magazines.

"...inscriptions from a heavenly hand fall on you..."

"...obeying the speed limit like it's scripture..."

"...cannot be cornered into compromising situations..."

"...Plague is in the air..."

"...the grey of winter was about to be buried..."

"...famished farms in Gwanda are howling, lowing..."

"...the journey takes something away from us..."

Memories in haiku

"The warmth of welcome imbues the church..."

"...He stumbles from the front lawn into the street..."

"She was all gold..."

"...because, on course, they all were bad..."

"...Smoothed just enough to tell a rugged tale..."

"...Where are Insizas waters..."

"...a beak-nosed craven twerp..."

"...Question your musings of gains..."

"...A three-meter board. nearly ten feet off the water..."

"...lit by the sun’s final rays..."

"...It is real, the dream..."

"...Late foghorns sing..."

"...right now and probably forever more..."