Nassira Nezzar participated in many international anthologies. She is also a famous reciter. She recites poems in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, and other languages and publishes them on her YouTube channel.
As a shadow. Just as the ribs within our chests Keep breaking, again and again, As the Bargis devour the harvest And leave the fields stripped bare,
Trees stand wounded Upon the breast of nature.
Has anyone ever imagined Such an unfamiliar world Upon the sky Or upon the earth?
Life is a sorrow that stretches through time.
And yet, it grows.
Along the basin of life, How much it carries with it— How many memories, How many unspoken burdens Flow through its depths.
Still, it befriends the sunlight. It shimmers and smiles In the flowing breath of the wind.
It awakens love. It awakens sorrow.
And still, it sways, Gently, from side to side, Scattering glimmers of peace From the corners of its eyes.
It keeps growing upward, Higher and higher, Rising beyond its branches, Beautiful in the fullness Of its own existence.
At night, The birds sleep soundly Inside their cages, Undisturbed by the darkness.
This tree is a world, A world within another world—
Just as within a human being There dwells the human mind, An unseen world Within the world we see.
Life moves within life.
A dawn— A whole universe of light.
A night— An arrangement of sleep, A quiet realm of rest.
And yet, Why does light fail to break On certain mornings?
Why does sleep never come On certain nights?
The lives that disappear One by one from our lives—
Why do they remain strangers Even among the things we know?
Just when a hand rises To rest upon the forehead, The furrows of thought unfold,
And yesterday’s bloodshed Floats back Before our eyes.
Sorrow seems to crawl, Slowly, across the ground.
Sorrow seems to crawl, Slowly, across the ground.
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh 17/09/2026
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 the 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 published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.
Once when he was in grade ten in 1990, his Bangla letter was selected as the best one from Deutsche Welle, Germany Radio that broadcast Bangla news for the Banglalee people. And he was given 50 Dutch Mark as his award. They would ask letters from the listeners to the news in Bangla and select one letter for the best one in every month.
From 17 to 30 September, in 2018 he received a higher training in teaching English language in Kasetsart University of Thailand for secondary level students through a government order from education ministry.
On 06 November 2015 he achieved Amjad Ali Mondal Medal for his contribution in education field by a development organization in the conference and felicitation function for the honorable personalities at Rajshahi College Auditorium.
On 30 December 2017 from West Bengal in India he was declared a ‘Literary Charioteer’ in Bangobandhu Literary and World Bango Conference and they awarded him with a Gold Medal in their International Literary Conference and Prize Giving Ceremony.
In 2018, he achieved Prodipto Lirerary Award in Prodipto Literary Conference at Kesorhat, Rajshahi for poems in Bangla literature. He received honorary crest from the administration of Chapainawabganj District Literary Conference and Cultural Function in 2021 and 2022 consecutively.
His poems have been published in many international online magazines such as Juntos Por las L Raven Cage Zine, and Area Felix. His poems have been translated and published in Argentine and Serbian, and he participated in many international online cultural meetings.
Do not seek peace only in the sky; it begins where one heart chooses not to hurt another.
It begins with an outstretched hand, with a word that heals, with a door opened to a stranger, with a heart that does not ask where the other comes from, but what pain they carry within.
Love knows no boundaries, no color, language, or name. It is the light that finds its way even to the most weary heart; it is the warmth that remains when everything else fades away.
And humanity… is seeing the human being in every person, hearing their silence, sharing bread, hope, a kind word, and a piece of your heart.
Because the world does not need more walls, but more bridges. It does not need more hatred, but people who know how to forgive. It does not need louder voices, but hearts that know how to listen.
Let us plant peace where fear has taken root, love where there is pain, and light where there is darkness.
And if one day a child asks us what we gave to this world, may we be able to say:
“We gave you a hand when you needed one, an embrace when you were alone, hope when everything seemed lost, and above all, we gave you love.”
Because in the end, we will not be remembered for what we possessed, but for what we gave.
Peace is a choice. Love is strength. Humanity is the greatness the world needs most.
And perhaps, if each of us lights even one small light, one day there will be so much light that darkness will have nowhere left to hide.
Shahriyor qizi was born on November 28, 2006 in Kashkadarya region. She is currently studying at Turan University, Department of Philology: Language Teaching (Uzbek). She works as the deputy director of Karshi Medical College.
She is a recipient of the National Hope Badge. Several of her articles have been published in international journals. Articles from Turkey’s “Fountain of Knowledge”, Germany’s “GERMAN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL” and the article “Science and Education” of Uzbekistan, “Today’s Youth and Reading Issues” is published in “FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE STUDIES”
Published in scientific journals and conferences. His creative works include the story “Gift” published in the republican spiritual-educational, social-popular publication “Inson Manafati”.
In the Kashkadarya newspaper “Oha”, the poem “Bolaylik soginchi” was published, in the creative magazine “Umid uchquni” the story “kushcha” was published, in the foreign newspaper “The Diaspora Times Global” the creative sample “Men shaytonni kordim” was published, in addition to the poems “Maqsadim yolida”, “Yana bir yoshishmin kutlamakan”, “Nogoh ruqorarmiz” were published on the website http://Synchchaos.com , and the poem “osmonim mening” was published in the foreign magazine “Raven Cage” (ravencagezine@gmail.com ).
Holder of B1 Certificate in English and Turkish, Founder of the “World Behind the Page” project at Karshi Medical College. Member of the “Leader Girls Club” at Turan University, a group of active girls. In addition, she is the captain of the “Mushoira Club”.
She is regularly engaged in scientific and creative activities, prepares scientific articles. She is interested in reading books and poetry. In the future, she aims to become an accomplished specialist in her field and always bring gratitude to her parents.
Then be friendly, at mystical site, as always did before on every night
I waited for her, I was used to that
Wouldn’t mind if she could have come and remained quiet
She had to show a big heart, she knew I would placate her, saying forget and forgo sweetheart
I knew she would stay, to show her sneaky smiles
Would just be teasing, pretending her arrogance for a while
I would enjoy as she often acted like that in different styles
She would be in jolly good mood, after a hug and a passionate kiss in moonlit night
We would sit for hours and have lovely chat for whole night
Suddenly I looked at my watch and got alarmed
I was lost in my thoughts and time so quickly passed
Why my love has not arrived, what has forced her to stop
I was upset, saw Red Moon, now fully emanated at sky top
I got up started running towards her house, with superstitious thoughts
She was sitting on a bench in her lawn lost in her thoughts
She raised her head with tears in her eyes rolling down
She disclosed, she was engaged to her uncle’s son that night
By the will of her parents and she kept quiet
I did not believe in superstitions, never in my life
Blood Moon occurred only due to lunar eclipse
When Earth come in line between the Moon and the Sun
Who came in between me and my love
I quietly returned back to see the Red Moon at the sea shore
The Red Blood Moon was glowing more, teasing testing my patience, raising my emotions much more
That night lasted for another few hours, its effects would last for whole of my life, how could I ignore
Anwar Rahim was born in February 1951 and hails from Gilgit Baltistan- Pakistan. A University Graduate in Economics and Political Science, served also as Major in the Army as “Group Testing Officer” in “Interservices Selection Board” for selecting candidates for Armed Forces Training Academies, Army, Navy and Air Force. A veteran turned poet in 2016, found my birth muse and vibes by narrating my inner-self, after my retirement from Armed Forces.
The poetic journey is short but I feel poetry has taught me much more than I could have learnt in any education institution. My literary performance fetched me, global awards from Gujarat Sahitya Academy – India in 2020, 2021and 2022.
National Poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazar ul Islam birth Anniversary award 2022. Order of Mohatma award by Lasosyanyos Lar San Frontyer an International Art Society recognized by government of Seychelles.
Order of Shakespeare medal 2021 by Motivational Strips, world most active literary forum. Participated in virtual V Eurasian Literary Festival- 2021 at Istanbul, Turkey, UHE Festival International 2022 in Portugal and virtual Festival Paper Fiber in Greece.
In year 2022 received Culture and Free Press and Media award from “Sherine Abu Akel” from Syria and “Rabindranath Tagore” Award 2022 jointly from Motivational Strips and Department of Culture government of Seychelles.
From Republic of Colombia award for Poetry Peace and Culture with numerous awards received from other international poetry groups. My poems have featured in Anthologies, “Pakistani English Poets” and “Bouquet of Triple colours” of poets of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. My poems published in Anthology of SAARC countries.
My poems featured in NBM Bangla TV Bangladesh and in Daily Bani Asia – Bangladesh. My passion in poetry is to pursue genres, in Romance, Humanitarian issues, Environmental friendly concerns and Children rhymes.
In the painting entitled: “SOUL & SPIRIT” the viewer often identifies with the painter’s emotions, which depict religious, spiritual values, which at the same time become rational values for her.
“Beauty” for Sofia Fountoulaki aims at the completeness of her spiritual, moral and psycho-emotional world, where her plastic expression corresponds to the emotion she transmits to the viewer, who views the work with absolute silence, contemplation and absorption. The artist acts with the idea and the intellect, the moment she knows that in art there is not always imitation of nature.
That is, the expression of the abstract has nothing to do with the passive acceptance of the viewer, but with his active participation, in order to have the ability to understand the meaning of the work. This particular painting is characterized by its spiritual character. The composition of the work is simpler and is limited to two or three stripes of color in horizontal succession and two in vertical succession, where the painter tries to give the sense of the landscape, with the correspondence of sea, sky and earth.
The transition in colors is from one color to another without an end, but also without a beginning. In her work, both her technique and her psyche are not completely independent. She expresses human emotions in her palette, in order to create points of communication with the public, so that her work becomes accessible, understandable and acceptable to the viewer.
Dr. Stella Piperaki Art historian.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Sofia Fountoulaki was born in Chania, Crete, and lives and works in Athens. She is a painter and writer. She has studied Economics – Insurance, Administration and Management of Insurance Organizations at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).
She was an executive in the financial sector, from which she resigned to focus solely on Art. She has studied Art at the HELLENIC AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ATHENS and at the VACALO ART & DESIGN COLLEGE. She has studied Art History with the Art Historian and Theorist Mr. Pantelis Tsavalos.
She is the group’s visual arts director for UNESCO PIRAEUS & ISLANDS, a member of UNESCO TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES GREECE, the Association of Visual Artists of Greece APELIS and other selected visual arts organizations and associations.
She has organized solo exhibitions and has presented a sample of her work in a sufficient number of exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
She has been awarded for her visual arts work by the INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL OLYMPIAD IN DELPHI in 2022, UNESCO PIRAEUS AND ISLANDS in 2019, etc.
Indicatively, her works are hosted at the AGRICENTO Archaeological Site in Sicily, the Museum of National Resistance in Heliopolis, the Archaeological Museum of Chania, the VILLA RODOPI Contemporary Art Gallery in Argostoli, the Art Gallery of the Municipality of Chania, the Art Gallery of the Municipality of Cholargos – Papagos, the Orthodox Academy of Crete, the Museum of Popular Tradition of Kaminarata of Kefalonia, UNESCO PIRAEUS AND ISLADS, etc.
She has published theoretical texts on art and not only in the printed press, in electronic media, in collective volumes and elsewhere, such as in the Encyclopedia CHARI PATSI, in the historical publication PHILOLOGIKI PROTOCHRONIA, in “Window to Art”, a publication of the Philological Group of Greece, in the Literary Creation of the Union of Greek Writers, etc.
She serves as a Peace Ambassador at the World Literary Forum for Peace and Human Rights, an Alternate Board Member of the World Philosophical Forum and a Certified Citizen of the Earth, a Cultural Attaché of the World Organization for Cultural Diplomacy IACD.
She is a member of the Epicurean Philosophy “Garden of Athens”, the “Association of Friends of the Acropolis”, the Union of Greek Writers, the International Society of Writers and Artists, etc.
She is also a member of the Observatory of International Organizations and Globalization (PADOP), a member of the Political Association of Women PSG, etc.
