Write something bright for those who experience a thousand deaths each day.
Write some smiles for those whose pillows are moist with tears each night.
Write a few pure moments of love for those who could never call anyone their own.
Write a few droplets of soothing dew on their lips.
Write true happiness in their pounding hearts.
Write the fulfillment of unrealized dreams in their eyes.
Write floral bracelets of joy for their soft hands.
Write swinging earrings of solace for their ears.
Even if you write nothing else, dear Lord,
You must write freedom for them.

About the Poet:
Anila Bukhari is a Pakistani author, poet, and humanitarian Anila Bukhari inspires millions worldwide. Her transformative work promotes peace, education, and women’s empowerment. Her vision for a world where women and girls soar free, unencumbered by societal norms. Her writing and community service ignite hope, resilience, and positive change.

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Irises


There is an explosion of green life in the light.
This life extrapolates all its emerald green.
This life can be close to heaven on the right.
Love is a holy thing played in this world, a scene.

Then, all the colors of the rainbow can be seen
With different eyes detecting different shades.
Blue flowers are placed in a potpourri of green.
In the flowerbed, these irises are like spades.
 
They need reassurance, as Pantone would recommend 
This space of mysteries that no longer exists.
With pale neutral yellow tongs, they're in great demand.
With neutral yellow thoughts, they please the Queen of White.

Alongside darker colors, all these things can sustain
The balance of thoughts and need a background to pray.
The warm cadmium yellow can accidentally drain
The evil spirits; these flowers keep them away.

Van Gogh used such a small amount of indigo.
This color conveys mainly truthfulness and trust, 
While the emerald green looks like a piccolo.
Through this emerald, life can become a thrust.

Using the bright red against the rich blue background,
Van Gogh sent messages through his unique color,
The ochre's holy struggles ~ his ear without the sound;
A pure, thinking world was starting to discolor.

*These poems are inspired by paintings by Vincent Van Gogh

About the Poet:

Her works have been published by The Sybaritic Press, Silver Birch Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Dashboard Horus, Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women’s Arts and Writing Journal, Dissident Voice, Ellerslie Books, Journal of the Akita International Haiku Network, The Queer Gaze, PentaCat Press, Coin-Operated Press, Mayari Literature, Synchronized Chaos, Prolific Press, Oddville Press, Tuck Magazine, Southern Arizona Press, Republic Magazine, Phoenix Z Publishing, All Your Poems Magazine, and others published the poems of Marieta Maglas in anthologies like Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing and Art Featuring Everybody’s Favorite Female Sleuth, and The Cardinal Anthology Vol. 3.

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*This poem is inspired by a Dali painting

About the Poet:

Duane Vorhees is an American poet in Thailand. He is the author of THE MANY LOVES OF DUANE VORHEES; HEAVEN; GIFT: GOD RUNS THROUGH ALL THESE ROOMS;  MEMORIES ARE LINKED LIKE OASES; A CONSIDERABLE SHARE OF FELICITY: and THE WOMB AND THE BRAIN. He has taught various subjects in the US, Korea, and Japan and has dabbled in dishwashing, lifeguarding, acting, modeling, broadcasting, journalism, door-to-door sales, tool room management, and other activities. 

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Ocean 

An Ocean is beyond all imagination 
Boundless and unfathomable 
Like mother’s love 
Depth of the ocean is unnerving 
Sight of an ocean stirs up thoughts 
Sound of an ocean is music for the soul 
Waves are like emotions 
Calm at the surface 
Full of turmoil beneath
Horizon is just an illusion 
Like utopia 
Colors of an ocean is reflection of sky 
Like our society is reflection of our actions 
Ocean is a world in itself 
Rivers fear to lose their identity 
as they fall into the ocean
But only when they do 
They become the ocean themselves 
Oceans are exhilarating 
Nothing remains forever inside 
That’s the nature of an ocean 
Salt of ocean 
Brings flavour in life 
Sometimes to anchor 
You need to go to shallow water
Corals are beautiful from far 
Don’t get entangled 
Let the burdens you are carrying
Melt away in the ocean 
Let life flow with the waves 
Let the dreams sail in the ocean 
Let the ocean touch the soul
Let your heart be big like the ocean.

 COSMOS 

The universe swirls and twirls around us
The deep blue universe 
Millions of specks of light 
A   blinding explosive sun 
And a calming orb of night 
The universe swirls and twirls around us 
The entirety of the cosmos lies in what it seems 
to be circular 
The eternal universe and beyond 
Our karma 
Eternal cycle of cause and effect
Reverberates throughout our lives and beyond 
Though our soul is just a minuscule part of the cosmos 
Yet we carry the whole universe within 
The universe swirls and twirls around us 
The cycle of birth and death 
Cycle of seasons 
The formation of a star 
The ripples of water 
Droplets of rain 
A simple circle 
Yet asserting itself unconditionally 
Stable and unstable simultaneously 
The mysteries of the universe 
Are far and beyond imagination 
Either it is a circle or nothing 
What goes around 
Comes around 
The universe swirls and twirls around us 
The black holes 
Form when life cycle of a star ends
Nothing escapes from a black hole 
Circling in the cosmos 
If there be light, then there is darkness
Life is a cycle of everything and nothing 
What starts with circular molecule of life 
Ends into circular something
And the universe swirls and twirls around us.

*All the artworks along with the poems are created by the Poet Pallavi Jain

About the Poet:

Pallavi Jain resident of pearl of gulf, Bahrain for last 10 years, comes from India. Ex-chemistry professor is a bilingual poet. She says nature fuels her imagination and creativity. Multifaceted Pallavi has a distinctive personal style which emanates peace. Her poems reflect her exquisite personality. Her poems has been published in local news papers and in anthologies in India and UK. She is a self-taught passionate artist, home remedy blogger, eco warrior and works for various social causes. Her paintings are ambiguous, general, and abstract as the familiar world around us.

Instagram: bhoomi_our_land

Blog: ybrante.wordpress.com

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