Poetry from Mirta Liliana Ramirez

Older middle aged Latina woman with short reddish brown hair, light brown eyes, and a grey blouse.
Mirta Liliana Ramirez
Heart
 
To my heart 
they have hurt him 
hundred times.
 
Treachery 
tore it apart, 
The deception 
shook him. 
disloyalty 
made him bleed... 
But nothing 
he annihilated him. 

With pain he beat 
and again 
but he did not succumb. 
always 
reborn 
showing me 
that exist 
beautiful things 
by which 
it's worth living. 

The ones that hurt 
must be left behind 
as experience 
that I must not repeat.

Mirta Liliana Ramírez has been a poet and writer since she was 12 years old. She has been a Cultural Manager for more than 35 years. Creator and Director of the Groups of Writers and Artists: Together for the Letters, Artescritores, MultiArt, JPL world youth, Together for the letters Uzbekistan 1 and 2. She firmly defends that culture is the key to unite all the countries of the world. She works only with his own, free and integrating projects at a world cultural level. She has created the Cultural Movement with Rastrillaje Cultural and Forming the New Cultural Belts at the local level and also from Argentina to the world.

Poetry from Mahbub Alam

Middle aged South Asian man with reading glasses, short dark hair, and an orange and green and white collared shirt. He's standing in front of a lake with bushes and grass in the background.
Mahbub Alam

Vow

The world is a vow
To keep our promise to the Creator
We have our beauty of eyes
Inner and outer
The sight around
What teaches us?
To learn and obey the plan made for us
Our daily performance
Who is not charmed?
From the beginning of our birth 
We have gradually felt a sense of love and to be loved
Love for the self and standing before the mirror
For the sky and the stars twinkling at night, my dear, a soft call
What a vow to each other and for all!
Cultivating in our hearts in the field of work
Though broken frequently, so what?
We have come here with a word so touching, Vow. 


Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh,
12 January, 2024.

 

Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home and abroad. His English writings have been being published in an International Online Magazine - Synchronized Chaos from America for seven years. 

Poetry from Elmaya Jabbarova

White woman with long black hair and a black blouse with flowers on it.
Elmaya Jabbarova
Long live Azerbaijan! 

Your circulation is moving, 
Your flag is waving In its original place. 
Long live Azerbaijan! 
You are a savior, a hero, 
You are this day of the past 
In the hearts of our people. 
Long live Azerbaijan! 
His love, his love, 
Nation, people, 
When you carry it. 
Long live Azerbaijan! 
The world has sympathy, 
To his just judgment, 
There is fire in your coat of arms, 
Long live Azerbaijan! 
You have a geographical location, 
Scandalous fate, 
To the east of the aspects, 
Long live Azerbaijan! 
Thankfully, in the world, 
There is - in addition to the state, 
Within countries, 
Long live Azerbaijan!

Elmaya Jabbarova was born in Azerbaijan. She is a poet, writer, reciter, and translator.
Her poems were published in the regional newspapers «Shargin sesi», «Ziya», «Hekari», literary collections «Turan», «Karabakh is Azerbaijan!», «Zafar», «Buta», foreign Anthologies «Silk Road Arabian Nights», «Nano poem for Africa», «Juntos por las Letras 1;2», «Kafiye.net» in Turkey, in the African's CAJ magazine, Bangladesh's Red Times magazine, «Prodigy Published» magazine. She performed her poems live on Bangladesh Uddan TV, at the II Spain Book Fair 1ra Feria Virtual del Libro Panama, Bolivia, Uruguay, France, Portugal, USA.

Poetry from Graciela Noemi Villaverde

Young light skinned middle aged woman with long reddish hair, reading glasses, and a pink shirt.
Graciela Noemi Villaverde
UNSCRUPULOUS
 
Hope buried 
Under the rubble of ignorance 
Gray cries 
Screams that make you laugh 
Laughter that is scary 
Values: discarded 
The sky cries while the afternoon dies 
At which bend in the road He lost her? 
When did the magic leave him? 
A trumpet sounds under a voice of command 
Will fulfill your destiny as an opaque rite 
Earth man 
Fool man 
Unscrupulous
Sneaky hail about a pink laugh 
Man of trembling intelligence overshadowed by her folly 
Apologize for nothing 
And screams making only noise 
She is a region of echoes 
Plastered rose that is filled with pure air and is reborn, the next day
She can feel the elements and spin 
With them
She can go from repose to dreams and from dreams to eternity 
Yes she is poetry and a thousand times choose to be 
She can lose herself in hers center without losing the essence of it, 
Throbbing like her blood, wandering like a cloud 
Earth man 
Of false arguments of misunderstood philosophy  
Stay in your loft of hypocrisy and miss what for the last time made him feel alive.

GRACIELA NOEMI VILLAVERDE is a writer and poet from Concepción del Uruguay (Entre Rios) Argentina. Based in Buenos Aires She graduated in letters and is the author of seven books of poetry, awarded several times worldwide. She works as the World Manager of Educational and Social Projects, of the Hispanic World Union of Writers .UHE World Honorary President of the same institution Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is a commissioner of honor in the executive cabinet IN THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, of the UNACCC SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA CHAPTER.

Poetry from Maja Milojkovic

Younger middle aged white woman with long blonde hair, glasses, and a green top and floral scarf and necklace.
Maja Milojkovic

Brother and Sister Abroad

In the Tunisian village,

I met a white-skinned Arab with Phoenician blood imprinted in his genes.

He wears a red cap with black fringes, it was the cap of my ancestors.

He was sitting on the floor on a carpet of rich colors,

And I recognized the Serbian Pirot pattern on them.

How can I say that he is my brother by blood,

When few people know that the Phoenician script is the same as the old Serbian script.

I saw a young woman of unprecedented beauty on the cheeks, chin and forehead

I saw Vinča letters, the letters of our great-grandfathers.

I took off my hat out of respect, smiled at my brother and sister, and went on my way.

Maja Milojković was born in 1975 in Zaječar, Serbia.

She is a person to whom from an early age, Leonardo da Vinci’s statement “Painting is poetry that can be seen, and poetry is painting that can be heard” is circulating through the blood. That’s why she started to use feathers and a brush and began to reveal the world and herself to them.

As a poet, she is represented in numerous domestic and foreign literary newspapers, anthologies and electronic media, and some of her poems can be found on YouTube. Many of her poems have been translated into English, Hungarian, Bengali and Bulgarian due to the need of foreign readers.

She is the recipient of many international awards. “Trees of Desire” is her second collection of poems in preparation, which is preceded by the book of poems “Moon Circle”. She is a member of the International Society of Writers and Artists “Mountain Views” in Montenegro, and she also is a member of the Poetry club “Area Felix” in Serbia.

Poetry from Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa

Light skinned Filipina woman with reddish hair, a green and yellow necklace, and a floral pink and yellow and green blouse.
Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa

Virgin Hearts

So shall be of every virgin’s desire

To be a vessel of one that’s light of fire

The honor of a promise made long ago

For a new world, the old to go

How can one discern the lie from truth

Unless one opens eyes to the harvested fruit

So many words of love and honor

Which one brings peace which one horror

Once a Messenger came to show the Way

Yet many hearers still are led astray

Now we wait for His second coming

Our souls are we truly with Faith preparing?

Once the Messiah came as a babe in a manger

Second one as a King, should our hearts shudder

End for evil wars and inhumane anger

No more of strife, fear, death nor danger

Yet are we still of pure virgin hearts?

The Web

Caught in a silvery web

Caressing soft silky love

Gentle spider I wonder

So great and yet so alone

Caught in the sky’s dark night web

Passion felt not fear but love

Moon of the Sun do wonder

So great and yet so alone

Caught in a hurricane web

Thunders and rains that I love

A lightning’s line to wonder

So great and yet so alone

Caught in a romantic web

Deeper went the roots of love

Now all gone yet still wonder

So great and yet so alone.

Success

Courage is to do

what others often fear

Take the first steps

on a journey not clear

Perseverance is a

huge burden one bear

Keeps walking on

failures without care

Confidence in self

believing one can do

Doubts are ignored

without further ado

What means of success

but sense of fulfillment

Gaining own self respect

beyond what they expect

strength built on Trust

friends to have a must

feet stand on with Hope

hang on at end of rope

To be a true inspiration

Set goals for motivation

Rise above expectations

Humble in all situations.

Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa was born January 14, 1965, in Manila, Philippines. She has worked as a retired Language Instructor, interpreter, caregiver, secretary, product promotion employee, and private therapeutic masseur. Her works have been published as poems and short story anthologies in several language translations for e-magazines, monthly magazines, and books; poems for cause anthologies in a Zimbabwean newspaper; a feature article in a Philippine newspaper; and had her works posted on different poetry web and blog sites. She has been writing poems since childhood but started on Facebook only in 2014. For her, poetry is life and life is poetry.

Lilian Kunimasa considers herself a student/teacher with the duty to learn, inspire, guide, and motivate others to contribute to changing what is seen as normal into a better world than when she steps into it. She has always considered life as an endless journey, searching for new goals, and challenges and how she can in small ways make a difference in every path she takes. She sees humanity as one family where each one must support the other and considers poets as a voice for truth in pursuit of equality and proper stewardship of nature despite the hindrances of distorted information and traditions.

Poetry from Annie Johnson

Light skinned woman with curly white hair and a floral top.
Annie Johnson
From the Mists of the Moon 

From the mists of the Moon I was born 
Avalon remembered in a silky dawn 
Riding side saddle out of the Sea of Tranquility 
Soft, soft, pale silver light riding 
Shimmering silent and still. 
Oh, soul of the pale echoes 
The forgotten dreams of waves, 
Of motion, of eddies, the whirlpools 
Of becoming will. 
Carry me golden sea horse 
Into the valley and over the hill 
Galloping against the head wind, wayward 
With wild hair flying, 
Send me cascading downward 
From bright rainbows mounted 
Atop my bright majesty, dump me 
Into the sluice of sunbeams 
Rising to meet me 
Careening homeward to Earth 
In my quickening dreams. 

From the mists of the moon I come 
Riding the waves homeward 
Alee of my dreams breaking shoreward 
In the shadowy wake of morning. 
Homeward, homeward in dreams 
Of dawn and sunshine spreading 
Like a mantle of gold 
Worn only for best-day; 
Adorned with ribbons of stars 
All dripping of midnight 
I stretch out to dry on the beach 
Of high noon reality and breath. 
From the mists of the moon I come 
Giddy and girl-like, tiptoeing home 
Long after midnight, dreamily disheveled 
Hair tangled with the taste of night 
And the songs of a lunar prom 
Lingering on rose petal lips - 
I enter the house of day 
Pregnant with moonlight. 



Annie Johnson

 

Annie Johnson is 84 years old. She is Shawnee Native American. She has published two, six hundred-page novels and six books of poetry. Annie has won several poetry awards from world poetry organizations including; World Union of Poets; she is a member of World Nations Writers Union; has received the World Institute for Peace award; the World Laureate of Literature from World Nations Writers Union and The William Shakespeare Poetry Award. She received a Certificate and Medal in recognition of the highest literature from International Literary Union for the year 2020, from Ayad Al Baldawi, President of the International Literary Union. She has three children, two grandchildren, and two sons-in-law. Annie played a flute in the Butler University Symphony. She still plays her flute.