Rasha Assaid Ahmed

Rasha Assaid Ahmed is an award-winning Syrian poetess and she is a  founding member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. Her name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Rasha is the author of many poetry collections and she won Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

Rahma Innab

Rahma Innab is a Plastinian poetess and she is a member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and the International Prose Poetry Society. Her name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. She writes in Arabic and English.

Omer Haider

Omer F Haider is an award-winning Syrian poet and he is a  member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Omer is the author of many poetry collections and he winned Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

Maram Attya

Maram Attya is a Syrian poetess and she is a member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and the International Prose Poetry Society. Her name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Maram winned Tajdeed prose poetry award.

Imad Theeb

Imad Theeb is Syrian poet and he is a member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Imad has a lot of poetry collections printed in Syria and abroad. He writes in English and Arabic.

Hassan Almahdi

Hassan Almahdi is an award-winning Iraqi poet and he is a founder member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Hassan has a lot of poetry collections printed in Palstine and abroad and he winned Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

Fareed Ghanem

Fareed Ghanem is an award-winning Palstinian poet and he is a founder member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Fareed has a lot of poetry collections printed in Palstine and abroad and he winned Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

Aadel Kassim

Aadil Kassim is an award-winning Iraqi poet and he is a founder member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Aadil has a lot of poetry collections printed in Iraq and abroad and he winned Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

Kareem Abdullah

Kareem Abdullah is an award-winning Iraqi poet and he is a founder member of the Tajdeed Literary Institute and a member of the International Prose Poetry Society. His name appeared in Tajdeed literary magazine and Arcs magazine for prose poetry. Kareem has a lot of poetry collections printed in Iraq and abroad and he winned Tajdeed award for prose poetry.

I WILL NEVER KNOW THEIR RUIN by Linda Crate

I WILL NEVER KNOW THEIR RUIN

Linda Crate

I like being in the creek, feeling the cool water wash away painful memories and paint me in the same hues as the beautiful creek gems; everything is green and blue and every shade of gold that isn't arrogant—in that moment, I am told who I truly am; daughter of the wood, Valkyrie of love and light, queen of dreams, divine entity of magic—And now that I know who I truly am. I will not let them take me my voice or power. I am divine and I am sacred and I am powerful; they will not erase who I am from my knowledge or my history— I will shine on wearing the immortal wings of the phoenix, fashioning myself from chaos from the ashes; I will never know their ruin.

Linda M. Crate's works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies both in print and online. She is the author of six published chapbooks the latest of which was titled More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019), a microchap, and the novel Phoenix Tears (Cyzkmate Books, June 2018).

YOU ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL by ANWER GHANI

YOU ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL

ANWER GHANI

Yes, nature is beautiful but you are more beautiful than nature. Yes, the city is spectacular but you are more magnificent than the city. When you break my loneliness with your crazy clamor, life has another taste. When you sink my body with your dewy fields and wet grapes then the moments becomes more magical. You do not know how beautiful the evening is with you, you do not know how desolate nature is without your sweet voice and you do not know how cold the city is without your lovely  warmness. I love nature and I know that there is magic, but these winter streets and these low lights, make your face more bright, And these high-rise glass buildings and the bridge over which we sang, I imagine if there was no bridge here, how would we recite our poems? Look at the big hours, the  big squares and  the big markets, they are charming but they are without you becoming dim. Luxury restaurants, luxury hotels and luxury jets leave unforgettable memories. Do you remember that? All of this makes life a different magic and a different taste, and you are, in the midst of all this, more beautiful than nature and the city.

Anwer Ghani is an award winner poet from Iraq. He was born in 1973 in Babylon. His name has appeared in more than fifty literary magazines and twenty anthologies in USA, UK and Asia and he has won many prizes; one of them is the "World Laureate-Best Poet in 2017 from WNWU". In 2018 he was nominated to Adelaide Award for poetry and in 2019 he is the winner of Rock Pebbles Literary Award and the award of  United Spirit of Writers Academy for Poetry. Anwer is a religious scholar and consultant nephrologist and the author of more than eighty books; thirteenth of them are in English like; “Narratolyric writing”; (2016),“Antipoetic Poems”;( 2017) and "Mosaicked Poems"; (2018),  and “The Styles of Poetry”; 2019.

LIFE OF A CYBERNAUT by Ian Fletcher

LIFE OF A CYBERNAUT
Ian Fletcher

I am a cybernaut existing in virtual reality; a netizen, not a citizen. Social media my ersatz society connected in permanent disconnection. The me yet not me; a digital spirit soulless every moment recorded, photographed, posted, projected, commented on abstracting at the very point of potential experience a double take. All events non-events reproduced in public narcissism. Self-reflecting simulacrums of consciousness traces remaining buried in vast databases hosting. Infinite seas of information that when I disintegrate and die who never really lived will preserve electronic fragments of a pseudo being that never attained identity.

Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Ian has an MA in English from Oxford University. He lives in Taiwan with his wife, two daughters and cat. He teaches English in a high school. He has had poems and short stories published in Duane’s PoeTree, Tuck Magazine, Best Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, 1947 A Literary Journal, Spillwords Press, Dead Snakes, Your One Phone Call, Schlock! Webzine, Short-story.me, Literary Yard, Indian Periodical, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A Story In 100 Words, Poems and Poetry, Friday Flash Fiction, The Drabble, and in various anthologies.

You’re my Salve and Balm by Walid Boureghda

 You’re my Salve and Balm
  Walid Boureghda

The heart is bleeding words that I find it hard to unveil. Thoughts are squeezing up my mind; they have left a myriad of scars in every corner of both my heart and soul. You are the only one in this life, dear, who can cleanse my wounds and be such a balsam salving my sighs. So please, darling, come to me; my yearning for our romantic tryst is killing me softly – Only you can bring me back from the edge of death.

Walid Boureghda is a 39 year-old Algerian poet, working as an Administrative Executive at Sonatrach-Agip Group. He holds a B.A degree in the English Language and Literature from the University of BATNA in Algeria. He draws inspiration for his poetry from his unceasing love of his beloved wife. He also writes about spreading peace over the world and dispelling hatred and bigotry.

Erythra Thalassa! by Joseph S. Spence, Sr

Erythra Thalassa! 

Joseph S. Spence, Sr

Your coral reefs relax minds many. I touched your stimulating surface at Sharm el Sheik. You looked so royally blue reflecting the moon at night, such a wonderful and calming view, a simmering—red sunset! You rocked I hummed. You were kind to Darius of Persia; helped Alexander the Great, and Augustus of Rome. Bonaparte wasn’t kind when he claimed to have captured you.

Sitting here running my inquisitive hands over your warm and soothingly splashy soft surface—stimulates. You are balmy and misty. My hands sink below your blue curvy and rolling waves, your response—a ripple!

Moses had a big splash when he liberated Israel from Egypt. You opened and helped him across your midst, such an Exodus. You saved a nation—Yam Suph!

I shall return to relax with you. Take a snorkeling dive below your splashing surface while smelling the spices of medieval times resting in the depth by your tectonic plates. With the red rising sun on the coast of Eilat, in a glass-bottom boat I will relax, while fishing on your calm blue and historical surface. 

Will your name ever change from red? 

Until I see you again: Moisture the touristic Gulf of Aqaba. Quench Sinai’s watery thirst, and flow well—Red Sea!

 

Joseph S. Spence, Sr., is the author of seven poetry books, and invented the poetry form and style, “Epulaeryu Poetry.” He’s published nationally and internationally in many forums. He has taught at Bryant and Stratton University, and retired from the U.S. Army as an officer. He’s a Goodwill Ambassador, and has received many poetry awards from a variety of sources.