Marjorie Bruhmuller Quebec, Canada My camera cannot emulate the crisp white blocks along the shoreline across so much sea, the blue so deep it fills you— peoples’ lives strung along the shore like pearls. Soon they are your family, and you are theirs. They wave from under lush trees— olives in their fingers, baskets on…
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Costa Rica Haiku 2011
Ian Prattis Canada Day One – April 1 Nine mist laden guardians geothermal travel volcanic rim Las Pailas Day Two – April 2 Strangler vines holding aloft dead trees still screaming rainforest rhythm Day Three – April 3 Waterfall La Cangrela high mountain goddess pacific casas sustain Day Four – April 4: Sacred Chant Retreat…
The Nobody Child
The caterpillar
The Bright Drop
Inside Passages
Charlotte Lenox Philadelphia, PA USA 19104 I. No roads led in or out of Juneau, sealing off a silent city from a silent world. Traffic never clogged its only highway. Houses were vacant, the cars and boats in their driveways still bright and shiny. Yet, somehow, Brown Bear Groceries was always well-stocked with food that…
The Jigsaw Puzzle
M. David Hornbuckle Alabama, USA The sun. It’s been one of the hottest days of the year, mid-July, but the sun is finally starting to descend behind the tree line. The laundry is clean. The dishes are clean. The kitchen and bathroom floors are mopped. Everything has been dusted. The shower curtain has been replaced…
The Dalit and Non-Dalit Women Autobiographies
Yeshwant Madhav Radhakisan Woman from Maharashtra was introduced to education which was her path to literature. The Marathi Autobiographies translated to English are the examples of the two different perspectives of Upper caste women and Dalit women. The critical reading of ‘I Follow After’ (Laxmibai Tilak) and ‘The Prisons We Broke’ (Baby Kamble) focuses on…
English Giant Poets in First World War
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Keith Barnes (1934-1969) Tahir Mehmood Poetry! The gift of God, Poetry is the best way of expressing oneself and when a soldier writes poetry in war by describing the realistic scene of war it becomes a master piece. There are good reasons for looking at these two English poets together. Both…
The Road To Wigan Pier: Labyrinth Of Poverty
Dr. N R Sawant George Orwell was the social rebel, and the ardent liberal. He personally experienced the pangs of the downtrodden. He toiled his whole life and career for their emancipation from their oppressors. He used his talent against injustice and totalitarianism. He aspired for common decency embedded in Democratic and Ethical Socialism. He…