Month: August 2018

A HOLOCAUST EXPRESS. A Poem by Milton P. Ehrlich

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I drive alongside an 18-wheeler loaded with lambs on their way
to Chuck’s Custom Slaughter in Dixon. Halal slaughter welcome.
The lamb’s melancholy faces protrude from bars in wooden cages,
as if to plead their case from as they eye-ball every passing motorist
for one more day of roaming in the bucolic pastures called home.

I’ll never eat another lamb chop.

Milton P. Ehrlich, Ph.D. is an 87-year old a psychologist who began writing poems after the age of seventy. He has published many of his poems in periodicals such as the Toronto Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Mobius, The Chiron Review, Samsara, Blue Collar Review Cartier Street Review, Naugatauk River Review, Taj Mahal Review, Poetica Magazine,Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times..

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

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Lost Window. A Poem by Fabrice B. Poussin

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Mystery is grand in the old barn,
seeking your way through lost treasures,
misplaced identities of days long gone.

A forgotten window remains hidden
below corrugated panes, half rotten boards,
between darkness and obscurity.

Eyes to the two sides of a complete tale.
in slumber of deep decades under the dust
of lives only it keeps in its memories.

The mirror of two souls in a-temporal gaze
speaks only to the accomplice of the one
who once sealed its fate in an unlikely safe.

Time capsule in paragraphs of broken dreams,
in cobb webs, as in a shady shroud,
its fractures will never heal, signatures of the past.

I carry the remains to light, as if to resuscitate a pal,
another self in the stories frozen, immobile,
and to chance upon images of those now lost.

Fabrice B. Poussin

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry,
his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography
has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

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Not Happening. A Poem by Ananya S Guha

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Lovely the way it happens
lovelier the way things don’t happen
in an acrobatic murmur
I saw dissent in a storm
a cup in wither in the morn
the battering of life is simply
an aroma, things happening
not
so, bolster fashion
there is in it the mythic,
the epistolary, then the
giants will look at the other way
a whodunit? a whodunit of the
whodunit?
Don’t know that surprises melt into
laughter, then anger
I am a bit composite now
after writing a poem.
They do not know it is laden
with color and tears
drinking a few beers
and the way this happens
actually, come to think of it
in slow sterile responses
( punctuated with heavy breathing)
should not.

Ananya S Guha

Ananya S Guha has been born and brought up in Shillong, India and works in India’s National Open University, the Indira Gandhi National Open University. His poems in English have been published world wide. He also writes for newspapers and magazines/ web zines on matters ranging from society and politics to education. He holds a doctoral degree on the novels of William Golding. He edits the poetry column of The Thumb Print Magazine, and has published seven collections of poetry.

Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

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Fragments from My City of Sorrows and Joys. A Poem by Mohammed Moussa

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I’m in love
with my city of sorrows,
with every joy of it—
the morning scent of sea,
the motley blues of its sky,
the laughter from coffee shops,
the screams of a cab-driver,
the gossip of old women,
the smell of dank alleys.
 
There, along crumbling walls,
muralists hope to eternalize their dreams,
while aging souls sit in their doorways,
drinking strong-tea at noon
and reading their fleeting present
in the day’s news.
 
A brown-eyed girls stares from a window.
 
A small boy returns from the sea with fish.
 
I walk through my streets,
among scars of old losses,
the rubble of broken lives.
 
How do I say farewell
to those memories?
 
I feel cold.
It’s getting colder.
 
My dear city
I have to say goodbye.
I’m tired of your losses,
of your sorrows,
even of your joys.
I’m tired of hope.
 
 

 
 
My name is Mohammed Moussa. I’m a spoken word poet from Palestine. I earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature and now I work as a journalist, translator, and English language trainer. I’m passionate about writing poetry, it is a safe river where my feelings and emotions can flow peacefully. Through poetry, I express what I feel and experience, I write to convey my experiences to the outside world. Recently, I wrote a poetry book titled.” I Was Born in Gaza,” about my experiences during war-time. Living in a besieged city and occupied country has taught me to snatch the sweetness of life from of the bitterness of miseries.
 
 
 
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)

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