Poetry

"Tastes like chicken but like everything else it's not..."

"...an Abyss where only darkness rules..."

"...she denied with: no, no, I just feel very free..."

"...I am everywhere, stealing others

"...dapper as a gentleman at cards..."

"...We needed each other for survival..."

"...He took great pride in showing us the art of rodent disposal..."

"Walked towards the death while God was sleeping, Utterly disillusioned and impotent..."

"...Morning rays give birth to freedom and hope..."

"...whenever emotions conquered the wall of reason..."

"...Her dialogues are puzzles of ennui and violation...

"...he told her something silly about his whereabouts..."

Guna Moran is an international poet and book reviewer. His poems are published in more than 150 international magazines, journals, webzines, newspapers, anthologies and have been translated into thirty languages around the world. He has three poetry books to his credit. He lives in Assam, India.

Tim Heerdink's poems appear in various journals and anthologies. He is the President of Midwest Writers Guild of Evansville, Indiana.

"He was once my best friend..."

"... a package being dropped off for storage..."

"...When we don't like the path we're on and can't find a way off..."

"...Death says nothing at the door...."

"...the effigy is broken, the marble decaying...

"...On the earth people died and Mass graves were dug..."

"...reminiscing of bedside time with her in hospice..."

"...you were so good at believing your own lies..."

"...To them she was fun, friendly, and frank..."

"...Why such pain on such gentle people?..."

"...the madness lingers on, dragging my body along the streets..."

"...a final message from the front, a last hurrah..."

"...tricks of prussian blue and cadmium red..."

"...No one sees out. But something sees in...

"...Unexpected the end races to the ground..."

Dr. Shailja Sharma is a psychologist and a poet, practicing in Texas, USA. Apart from her scholarly publication, Dr. Sharma's poetry has been internationally published in peer-reviewed literary journals, literary magazines, and radio shows.