Entwined with rain and flower, in an endless dance.
Gracefully, the rain kisses the rose in the night,
Gently illuminating it with its droplets.
And the rose, like a lovestruck maiden,
Receives rain kisses with joy and a smile.
Love, like the scent of a rose in the air,
Softly envelops the heart, making it strong and tender.
In this union of nature and emotion,
We discover the beauty of love that doesn’t fade even when the rain stops.
Maja Milojković was born in Zaječar, Serbia. She is the deputy editor at “Sfairos” publishing house in Belgrade, Serbia. She is the vice-president of the association “Rtanj and Mesečev poetski krug”. She is the author of 2 books: “The Circle of the Moon” and “Trees of Desire” She is the editor of the International Anthology “Rtanjski stihopevi” One of the founders of the poetry club “Area Felix” from Zaječar, Serbia and the editor of an international e-magazine for creative literature and culture “Area Felix”.
Nidia Amelia García, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a writer and an active member of Juntos por las Letras (Together for Letters). She has participated in numerous virtual events in Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and elsewhere. She has also contributed to literary anthologies such as “Books of the Immortals” and “Anthology of the 50 Poets of the World 2022.”
Can you hold your own interpretation when the words become whip!
Let there be a silent void where the sound is a wall.
Candid confessions to trap lies,
Don’t indulge in lies in the back of your mind,
Doubtful in an epic story of how many solutions.
If one strength has to be stay to go,
However, let the thoughts of the mind remain unbroken within the walls of the mind.
A great insistence of great significance in discovering fruit.
Date: 08.08.2026
Amb. Dr. Priyanka Neogi is from Coochbehar. She is an administrative controller of United Nations’ PAF, a librarian, a CEO of Lio Messi International Property & Land Consultancy, international literacy worker, sports & peace promoter, dancer, singer, reciter, live telecaster, writer, editor, researcher, literary journalist, host, beauty queen, international co-ordinator of the Vijay Mission of Community Welfare Foundation of India.
Milena Pčinjski (Милена Пчињски) was born on October 28, 1986, in Prokuplje, Republic of Serbia, and currently resides in Ćuprija. She holds a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature. She is recognized as an international poet who writes in both Serbian and English. Her poetry has been published in numerous collections and anthologies of contemporary Serbian literature, as well as in international and online poetry compilations. Her poems have been translated into English, Hungarian, Russian, Romanian, Bengali, and Finnish.
She is a member of several book clubs in Serbia and regularly participates in literary events and poetry competitions. In 2025, she published her poetry collection Verses Imprisoned (Заробљени стихови). She works as an online English professor and also serves as a translator and editor for Area Felix, an international Serbian e-magazine dedicated to creative literature and culture. Additionally, she is a proofreader for the Association of Writers –SKOR, where she also serves as the President for the Pomoravlje Region.
Her collection Verses Imprisoned was awarded the Honorary Silver Diploma by the Orthodox Cultural and Artistic Almanac Arina NN in Nizhny Novgorod in 2025.
Milena is an honorary member of the International Advisory Board of the Academy of Farsala in Greece, as well as of the Global Literary Society, where she received a Certificate of Appreciation for „her excellent contribution to the Global Movement of Positive Literature” from Bhagirath Choudhary, the founder of the organization. She is currently preparing her second poetry collection.
It cannot be measured with coins or weighed on scales.
It is the root that, even if the wind bends the stem,
never forgets the sky toward which it rises.
It is the light that filters through the darkest cracks,
when everything seems to be collapsing,
and remains a flame that no one can extinguish.
It has no price and is not given away for convenience.
It dwells in every heart like a sacred territory:
no one occupies it without permission,
no one reduces it to what you possess or cease to possess.
It is the pulse that does not stop in the face of injustice,
the voice that, even if it trembles, does not fall silent,
the certainty that you are worth what you are,
not what the world says you are worth.
It can be wounded, it can grow weary,
but it never completely surrenders.
Because it is like the ground we walk on:
even if covered with rubble,
it remains earth capable of blossoming.
It is your essence, intact, undeniable,
what no one can take from you:
the right to be you,
standing tall, whole, free.
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 and is the UHE World Honorary President of the same institution’s Activa de la Sade, Argentine Society of Writers. She is the Commissioner of Honor in the executive cabinet in the Educational and Social Relations Division of the UNACCC South America – Argentina Chapter.
I won’t get up in the afternoon, let the taste not go away
Let the memory that keeps me alive not go away
Let the name not go away from the name of my heart
If I dream of my poem one night
My poem, I say, is a beautiful mother
The world is on one side, she is on the other side
She knows that her love is a golden palace
If I dream of my poem one night
Love recognizes itself in me
A kiss in your bosom makes my poem bleed
It feels like a gentle, kind hand
If I dream of my poem for one night
I am Elman will not let me go
Where will I leave my Azerbaijani son
It will not leave my heart wounded with longing
If I dream of my poem for one night
Oruj Dadashi Elman was born in 1978 in Iranian Azerbaijan. He is a poet, lives in Tabriz city. His poems are published in Tabriz, Urmuy, Tehran magazines and newspapers, and in Azerbaijan in “HAKARI”, “SÖZÜN IŞIĞI” and “BÜTÖV AZERBAYCAN” newspapers. His poems are also published in “AY IZİ”, “HİCA TAŞLARI” and “GERGEF” magazines in Turkey. His poems are also published in AQSU newspaper of Khurmatuz city of Kirkuk region in Iraq. A one-volume book titled “MÖVLA MAHABBATİ” was published in 2023.
When one point aligns with another a line comes into being
But what is the origin of that point— the point that begins as one and gives birth to countless dimensions?
East, west, north, and south— embracing every direction, upon the canvas of a circle it draws hundreds of thousands of paths.
Gratitude to that Great Being who gifted us a single point— from which unfolds an infinite journey along boundless paths.
From Point to Line – II
Come, let us join our hands. Let us shine like the stars in the sky and light up the darkest of humble homes.
Let us come together as one beside some weary, fragile soul— a forgotten point deprived of food and clothing, worn down by the hardships of life.
A hundred thousand paths, millions upon millions of hands— yet their center may be a single point.
Hand in hand, eye to eye, come, let us lose our way together.
For perhaps, in losing the paths we know, we may finally find that long-sought destination— the address whose name is Love.
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
15 July 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.
