Welcome, readers, to the first Synchronized Chaos issue of November 2025. First, a few announcements.

This issue was edited by poet Tao Yucheng, who has been published several times in Synchronized Chaos and in several other publications.

Contributor Kelly Moyer has launched a blog-style journal, Circle of Salt, a simple blog-style journal for all things esoteric. Potential contributors are invited to send up to three unpublished pieces of magickal poetry (including esoteriku), prose, personal essay, original art, reviews, recipes, tips, etc. to Kelly Sauvage Moyer at unfazedmoon@gmail.com. The web address is https://circleofsaltmag.blogspot.com/.

Also, the Naji Naaman Literary Prize is now open to emailed submissions from around the world.

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Now, for this month’s first issue: Sip and See.

A sip and see is a meet and greet party popular in the southeastern United States where people enjoy light snacks, drinks, and the chance to meet a newborn baby. In a way, Synchronized Chaos Magazine’s issues are global ‘sips and sees,’ celebrations where we may meet newly emerged bursts of creativity.

As we would when encountering a new baby, Priyanka Neogi revels in life’s joy.

Teresa de Lujan Safar’s poem celebrates the delight a mother takes in her children’s appreciation. Graciela Noemi Villaverde remembers the daily love and care of her deceased mother. Rakhmiddinova Mushtariy Ravshanovna pays tribute to the presence and care of her mother.

Bill Tope and Doug Hawley’s short story “Evergreen” portrays quiet familial concern, capturing the subtle tension and affection between siblings as they notice their mother’s unusual, tender attachment to her garden.

Mahbub Alam takes joy in nature and the brilliant sunshine. Timothee Bordenave’s essay explores permaculture, advocating livestock grazing on fallow land and urban fruit tree forests. Genevieve Guevara playfully links weather patterns and emotions. Walid Alzoukani revels in how the rain enriches his spirit. Brian Michael Barbeito’s “What is the Meadow and What is Love?” finds love and presence in the quiet endurance of nature. Bekturdiyeva Nozima’s essay examines the urgent need to cultivate ecological consciousness among youth, emphasizing education, family, and practical engagement as keys to a sustainable future. Jack Galmitz’ poetry speaks to cultural memory and our connections with nature. Brian Barbeito’s work reflect the relationship between human beings, nature and animals, which is even more important in the current Internet age.

Paintings from Srijani Dutta reflect hope for the return of spring, drawing on images from an Asian mythological system. Eddie Heaton guides us on a surrealist romp through a colorful universe. Mark Young speculates through found and created poetry on how human art can coexist with science and technology.

Federico Wardal highlights the work of holistic physician Dr. Antonello Turco and how his medical practice is a work of art. Nidia Garcia celebrates the creativity and insight of a weaver who tells the story of her people in cloth. Taylor Dibbert shares an amusing anecdote about sartorial fashion choices and lost luggage.

Jacques Fleury’s “The Color Purple” is a vibrant meditation on heritage and symbolism, exploring how shades of purple evoke nobility, spirituality, emotion, and the richness of human experience. Normatova Sevinchoy reflects on the nature of beauty and finds it through elegant simplicity. Kelly Moyer’s films explore the relationship between life and all things through the disposal and dissolution of human-built objects.

Literature and writing are integral parts of human creative culture. Contemporary Uzbek literature blends tradition and modernity, emphasizing national identity and the Uzbek language. Abdulazizova Nigina Faxriddin qizi’s article “Developing Speech Culture of Primary School Students” examines methods to enhance young learners’ oral and written communication, emphasizing interactive strategies, cultural awareness, and the link between speech skills and social participation.

Zuhra Jumanazarova expresses that preserving the literary quality of the Uzbek language is integral to preserving Uzbek culture. Muhayyo Toshpo’latova’s essay explores how contemporary Uzbek literature balances tradition, national identity, and digital-age innovation. Nilufar Yusupova discusses advantages and challenges posed by online education. Masharipova Unsunoy outlines strategies for improving student public speaking competence. Dilafruz Karimova evaluates various methods for teaching English as a second language. Rashidova Lobar’s “Mother Tongue” is a heartfelt tribute to the Uzbek language, celebrating it as the nation’s soul, heritage, and eternal source of pride and unity.

Mickey Corrigan’s poetry honors the survival, grit, and literary mastery of novelist Lucia Berlin. Grant Guy’s artwork evokes the creative spirit of decades-ago absurdist No! theater. Christina Chin and Kim Olmtak’s tan-renga poems promise adventure on the horizon. Scott Derby’s poem draws on The Odyssey, exploring a journey of trials and self-discovery, ultimately evoking a return to faith. Inga Zhghenti reviews Armenida Qyqja’s collection Golden Armor, about the quest of the human spirit for survival amidst adversity.

Peter Cherches’ vignettes explore through gentle humor how we make decisions and set up our lives. James Tian reminds the faithful to use their God-given brains, even in church.

Janna Hossam’s essay explores the fleeting nature of achievement and the trap of “fast dopamine,” urging a shift from chasing external validation to finding lasting fulfillment in steady, meaningful growth. Sharifova Saidaxon advocates for balance in the use of social media and online entertainment. O‘rozboyeva Shodiya’s essay “How Social Media Affects Young People” reflects on the dual impact of social media, highlighting its benefits for learning and reading while cautioning against distraction and over-immersion in the virtual world.

Brooks Lindberg’s poem wittily questions the nature of facts, blending philosophy, mathematics, and law with humor and skepticism. Candice Louise Daquin reviews John Biscello’s novel The Last Furies, which evokes themes of tradition, vaudeville, religion and mysticism.

Turkan Ergor reflects on how people’s strongest desires and best-laid plans don’t come to fruition. Dr. Ashok Kumar expresses the peace found through surrendering to what we cannot control.

J.T. Whitehead’s Nocturnes are haiku-inspired reflections on art, history, and personal experience, capturing quiet joy and solitude. Christina Chin and Marjorie Pezzoli’s collaborative renga blends fragmented, stark imagery with a conversational, experimental flow, exploring tension, vulnerability, and the raw textures of experience. Derek Dew’s poems “To Come” and “What is Ours” delve into language, memory, and moral stillness, blending abstraction and lyricism to explore identity, silence, and the elusive nature of meaning. Sayani Mukherjee’s “God’s Hands” is a dreamlike meditation on time and memory, shimmering with blue skies and fleeting wishes. Vo Thi Nhu Mai’s “Harbour of the Changing Season” is a tender, reflective meditation on love, loss, and the passage of time, finding beauty and peace in the rhythms of nature and the flow of life.

Duane Vorhees’ poem “ORH” tenderly portrays love as cleansing and transformative, merging identities like rain washing away dust. Amina Kasim Muhammad advocates kindness and humanity. In a similar vein, Maja Milojkovic reflects on the value of a human soul as measured by the person’s compassion and integrity. Ruzimbayeva Quvonchoy Jamoladdin qizi’s essay highlights Uzbekistan’s national values as the enduring heart of the nation, shaping identity, unity, and moral life.

Yodgorova Madina also celebrates traditional Uzbek values such as diligence, hospitality, respect for the elderly, the young, and women, honesty, and compassion and urges modern Uzbeks to pass down those values. Jumanazarova Muxlisa’s essay highlights women as the vital foundation of Uzbek society, shaping history, education, and leadership. In the same vein, Egyptian writer Adham Boghdady’s poem portrays a woman as a radiant, inspiring presence who lights up hearts and the world. Dildora Khojyozova’s essay “Kindness and Humanity in the 21st Century” emphasizes the enduring importance of empathy and compassion amid technological and social change, arguing that true progress depends on how we treat one another.

Abbas Yusuf Alhassan’s long poetic piece illustrates the different facets of love as expressed through grief. Elmaya Jabbarova’s poetry intertwines love and grief. RP Verlaine comments on what brings people together and what divides us. Eldar Akhadov ponders the mental distance that inevitably separates everyone.

Turdiyeva Guloyim’s “I’m Tired, Mother!” expresses profound loneliness and disillusionment, lamenting false friendships, cruelty, and the harshness of the world, while yearning for genuine human connection. Kandy Fontaine’s “Nepantla, The Tipping Point, Deep Time: A Conversation Between Worlds” examines the intersections of literature, identity, and planetary change, using the concept of Deep Time to reflect on societal fear, power structures, and the urgent need for transformation. Mirta Liliana Ramirez reminds us that powerful people exist who prey on the vulnerable. Patricia Doyne surveys the sentiments at a San Francisco Bay Area No Kings rally. Aubrey Malaya Lassen’s poem “The Call” confronts misunderstanding and oppression, using vivid animal imagery to explore awareness, resistance, and the refusal of power to recognize truth.

Bill Tope’s “The Gauntlet” is a tense short story following Anais, a Haitian refugee, as she navigates an unsettling encounter with police in a small Ohio town, exploring themes of fear, vulnerability, and power. Ahmed Miqdad’s poem reflects on the horrors of violence and displacement, using stark imagery of blood and silence to evoke grief and loss. Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr. writes of humans eking out existence in the shadows of ageless deities and harsh weather. Stephen Jarrell Williams crafts a slow piece on calm preparations as an apocalypse looms.

J.J. Campbell illustrates the lingering effects of trauma on a person’s life and psyche. Mykyta Ryzhykh’s poem juxtaposes stark, unsettling images with fragile signs of life, capturing the raw and abrupt entry of innocence into harsh reality. Alexa Grospe personifies the pain and terror of stage fright and writers’ block. Philip Butera views life from the panoramic perspective of one nearing death. Ablakulova Dilfuza’s essay “My child, if I leave, you won’t find me again” is a poignant meditation on solitude, aging, and loss, vividly portraying the emotional landscape of a woman left alone, clinging to memories as her world darkens. Adewuyi Taiwo’s short story “A Star Called Priye” explores themes of family secrets, grief, and quiet strength.

Duane Vorhees’ review of Taylor Dibbert’s On the Rocks explores his Bukowski-inspired style—plainspoken, raw, and grounded in everyday struggle—revealing a candid search for freedom from pain. Rizal Tanjung’s review of Eva Petropoulou Lianou’s “Freedom” highlights the poem’s haunting imagery of two wingless birds, portraying freedom as both a lost ideal and a visceral, human necessity.

Jabborova Vasila comments on how medicine can address psychological changes in some heart transplant patients. Melita Mely Ratkovic’s poem urges the speaker’s friend to heal and love themselves again after trauma. Ramona Yolanda Montiel wishes all her readers simple joys and gentle comfort.

Eva Petropoulou Lianou’s “Miracles” celebrates everyday wonders, human connection, and the light of faith amid darkness. Jeanette Eureka Tiburcio’s poem honors resilience and hope, invoking golden children as symbols of strength, growth, and the enduring light amid adversity.

We hope that this issue serves as a guiding light as you ‘sip and see’ the many forms of human thought and feeling from around the world.

The Call 

they don’t understand the bird’s call

the lines on the bird’s feet mean nothing to them

lions growl in desperation 

they’re choosing to ignore it

even if the smallest mouse understood

those 

Monsters

would not control us

still they refuse to understand

why the elephant’s stomp

my full grown boy still can’t stand 

like a baby giraffe 

straight out the mother’s womb

straight out of my womb

Says the mother

wolves are killing themselves 

at least on the surface

they don’t think 

about the sheep

with the knife

our Government is purposely 

cutting the dog’s tongue

and our wings

so we don’t understand the bird’s call

HARBOUR OF THE CHANGING SEASON

(Vo Thi Nhu Mai)

Beneath the hill, grass arranges itself into a song. The wind moves through the leaves. I sit counting threads of kitchen smoke, each one a beat of passing time, and you are a gentle rest note. If I could take the infinite distance and shrink it into my hand, your silhouette would fit there like a trembling dew on a blade of grass at dawn, like the last winter light warm enough to hold a season of longing.

Perhaps every season hides a waiting, and we are lost in the instants where one season meets the next. The hill wake, birds sing into the open air, and within that song I hear your footsteps crossing through layers of mist and bands of young sunlight.

Halfway through this journey called life, I realize every meeting is fate, and every parting is fate too. When something dissolves it does not truly vanish but transforms into another form, like smoke melting into wind, like light hiding in the clouds. Life’s changes sometimes wound us, yet it is through impermanence that the heart opens and learns gratitude for what once arrived.

I want to hold the sky’s thin thread as if holding your fragile hand, so near and so real. But the season shifts and the wind takes away its secrets, leaving only the scent of resin and someone’s distant lute on the slope, a note falling into the grass and turning into a lingering farewell.

If you ever return, remember to cross with me the landing where seasons meet, where we once watched leaves fall without sorrow because we trusted that in every fallen leaf a green seed stirs, and love still breathes softly somewhere between you and me on the sun-named hill.

I have learned that letting go is not forgetting but letting things return to their rightful places, like water finding the river, like wind returning to the sky. Some longings must be laid down to become peace, and some loves endure only when we do not cling. From that, my heart becomes as light as a cloud drifting over the hill where seasons keep changing, and the heart no longer fears loss.

Autumn is the most delicate season. Leaves shift in the soft music of time, change colour in a romance all their own, and fall for me to walk through like brief, fragile clouds. The wind touches the skin when I forget my coat. The desire for something warm, a cup of cinnamon and roasted squash, a lover’s scarf places me inside a time-box of memories, both discovering newness and wanting to curl into warmth beside the hearth.

Autumn turns me into the most innocent, hopeful version of myself. Something strong urges me to rewrite simple things into small adventures. I hear songs that blend the craving to touch raw nature with the rapture of perfect colour. The joy of lying outside, resting my head on a loved one’s lap, holding a book to shade against the sun, makes me see the unpretentious beauty of the season.

I want to remember how fragile this weather is, and how easily people open and become vulnerable when they meet during the changing days. For me, autumn is the beginning of something better, the time when the old hard shells are shed to reveal a smiling child beneath, who still knows how to love, to live, and to smile through change.

Võ Thị Như Mai (Mai White) was born in Vietnam and began her career as a high school teacher before moving to Australia to pursue higher education. She holds a Master of Education and a Master of Literature and has worked as a full-time teacher in Western Australia for over twenty years. She is the founder of the long run THE RHYTHM OF VIETNAM, a platform promoting writers from Vietnam and many other parts of the world. She also starts working as a reporter of MULTICULTURAL PRESS.COM.AU, featuring many multicultural aspects of the writing world. In May 2025, she was honoured with an Excellence Award from the Consulate General in Australia, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the preservation and promotion of her native language and literary heritage within the international community.

Artificial Intelligence and Time Management

Sharifova Saidaxon Kamolliddinjon qizi 

Farg’ona region Furqat district

11th grade at school 21 

Abstract

This article analyzes the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on time management. Qualitative research methods were used to study students’ attitudes toward social media and to identify both its positive and negative aspects. The results show that AI has greatly simplified many aspects of human life, particularly in the fields of online education and remote work, which are convenient for many users. However, excessive reliance on technology can lead to time loss, health issues, and reduced productivity. In conclusion, although AI tools assist people in many ways, it is emphasized that they should be used in moderation.

Keywords: Time management, artificial intelligence, online education and work, time saving, moderate use, positive and negative effects.

Introduction

In recent years, many people have faced various challenges related to time management. Common issues include not being able to arrive on time, struggling to complete daily tasks or studies, and spending too much time on social media—leading to neglect of important responsibilities. This has gradually become a global problem. The purpose of this article is to briefly discuss effective time management strategies and suggest possible solutions. Additionally, the study seeks to explore the topic and provide a balanced conclusion.

Methods

This research employed a qualitative analysis methodology. Sources used:

A survey conducted among young people (50 students aged 17–29)

A three-week experiment on the use of AI-based tools

Previously published scientific articles and expert opinions

The survey covered aspects such as frequent use of AI, improper time allocation, and resulting challenges. During the experimental phase, participants were divided into two groups: one believed AI disrupts effective time management, while the other viewed time mismanagement as a personal issue. Changes in both groups were analyzed.

Results

The study revealed several key findings: Negative impacts of AI on time: Distracting content: AI algorithms on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram recommend personalized videos that make users spend more time online. For instance, a person who opens the app for educational purposes might end up wasting hours watching unrelated videos. Digital dependency: Spending too much time on phones or computers reduces concentration on work or study.AI as a time-saving tool: Online education and remote work save commuting time and offer convenience.

New opportunities: AI helps people find online jobs, learn various skills through apps, and participate in digital projects.

Discussion

So, what do you think—is AI the main reason for poor time management? In some ways, this claim is valid, as modern society is becoming increasingly dependent on social media. Even when people watch useful content, they often waste significant time.

For example, a student may use AI for online learning but get distracted by entertaining short videos. As a result, they feel tired and, worse, lose valuable time. This issue is not limited to young people—it affects adults too. A 42-year-old person, for instance, might get so absorbed in humorous online content that they forget their tasks and lose focus, eventually running out of time. This situation strongly supports the topic of this research.

However, some people argue that AI actually helps save time by automating routine tasks and making access to information faster. Indeed, artificial intelligence can truly help save time. Online education, remote work, and staying in touch with loved ones from home—all of these contribute to effective time saving. In education or work, there is no need to spend time commuting. This is undoubtedly beneficial for people. However, as mentioned above, if a person cannot control their desires, they may become the real victims of social media.

Conclusion

It must be acknowledged that artificial intelligence has greatly benefited us—especially in improving learning efficiency, finding convenient jobs, and saving time. However, in pursuing these advantages, people often fail to notice that they are losing their health and valuable time. So, what is the solution? The answer lies in planning. If individuals organize their tasks on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis—and follow that plan consistently—AI will not negatively affect them.

Scholars also support this idea, stating that: “The only way to truly save time is through planned and organized work.”  This can be considered solid evidence for our argument. Secondly, setting limitations on social media usage is crucial. For example, restricting apps like YouTube, Telegram, Instagram, and Facebook to a fixed duration—say, two hours a day—can significantly improve time management. If YouTube is limited to one hour per day, the app could automatically close after that period, preventing overuse.

Such strategies would provide people with a major opportunity to manage their time more effectively.

References

1. ChatGPT

2. Abdukarim Mirzayev’s video lectures

3. Moral Education textbook for grades 9 – 11

Sharifova Saidaxon Kamolliddinjon qiziwas born on May 26, 2008, in the village of Kaldushon, Furqat District, Fergana Region, in a family of intellectuals.In 2015, she began her studies at School No. 21 in Furqat District, where she is currently an 11th-grade student. In addition to her school studies, Saidaxon actively participates in various extracurricular clubs. She speaks English fluently and, despite her young age, has earned more than 20 international and official certificates. She has also been an active participant in numerous projects.Her poems have been published by Lulu Press Inc., an official publishing house in the United States (California). Moreover, her scientific articles have been featured in the Uzbek journal “Yosh olimlar” (Young Scholars).

The Rise of Online Education: Pros and Cons

Institute of Entrepreneurship and Pedagogy

Annotation: This article analyzes the rapid development of online education in recent years, especially its expansion after the pandemic, as well as the existing challenges and issues related to the digital divide. It also examines the digital skills of teachers and students, along with the current and future needs for this system. The article presents ideas based on the data and analyses of various international and local organizations. In particular, the development of Internet networks and information and communication technologies is highlighted as a key factor in strengthening online education.

Annotatsiya:Ushbu maqolada so‘nggi yillarda onlayn ta’lim sohasining jadal rivojlanishi, ayniqsa pandemiya davridan keyingi bosqichda uning yanada kengayib borishi, mavjud muammolar hamda raqamli tafovut masalalari tahlil etilgan. Shuningdek, o‘qituvchi va o‘quvchilarning raqamli ko‘nikmalari, ushbu tizimga bo‘lgan hozirgi va kelgusi ehtiyojlar ilmiy asosda o‘rganilgan. Maqolada xalqaro va mahalliy tashkilotlarning statistik ma’lumotlari, tahlillari hamda amaliy tajribalari asosida ilgari surilgan fikrlar keltirilgan. Xususan, internet tarmoqlari va axborot-kommunikatsiya texnologiyalarining rivojlanishi onlayn ta’lim tizimining kengayishida hal qiluvchi omil sifatida yoritilgan.

Kalit so‘zlar: onlayn ta’lim, raqamli texnologiyalar, masofaviy o‘qitish, raqamli tafovut, raqamli ko‘nikma, innovatsion ta’lim.

Keywords: online education, digital technologies, distance learning, digital divide, digital skills, innovative education.

Аннотация : В данной статье анализируется стремительное развитие онлайн-образования в последние годы, особенно его расширение после пандемии, а также существующие проблемы и вопросы, связанные с цифровым неравенством. Кроме того, рассматриваются цифровые навыки преподавателей и учащихся, а также текущие и будущие потребности в данной системе. В статье приведены выводы, основанные на данных и аналитических материалах различных международных и местных организаций. Особое внимание уделено развитию интернет-сетей и информационно-коммуникационных технологий как ключевому фактору укрепления онлайн-образования.

Ключевые слова: онлайн-образование, цифровые технологии, дистанционное обучение, цифровое неравенство, цифровые навыки, инновационное образование.

Introduction

Over the past five to six years, digital technologies have deeply penetrated all areas of human life as a result of the pandemic. These changes have had a significant impact on the education system as well. In the context of globalization, alongside traditional education, online learning has developed rapidly and reached a new stage worldwide.

Today, distance learning and the use of electronic educational platforms are becoming increasingly widespread in many countries. Although a number of researchers have conducted studies in this area, the issues of digital transformation in education, particularly the improvement of service quality and teaching efficiency, have not yet been fully explored. Therefore, the convenience, interactivity, and expansion of learning opportunities through online education are becoming increasingly important.

Uzbekistan is also actively participating in this process and, following the pandemic, has implemented a number of systematic reforms aimed at developing online education. In particular, the introduction of e-learning systems, distance training courses, and national as well as international online platforms has increased interest in education and expanded learning opportunities for a wider segment of the population. As a result, the development of online education and the growing need and demand for it are becoming more dynamic.

Methodology

This research applies a comprehensive scientific approach to analyze the stages of development of the online education system, the influencing factors, and the existing challenges. The study employs analytical, comparative, observational, and statistical methods.

The theoretical basis of the research consists of the Decrees of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Development of Digital Education”, as well as data from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, and international organizations such as UNESCO, OECD, and the World Bank. Additionally, international educational platforms — Coursera, Udemy, EdX, and Khan Academy — were analyzed, and their practices were compared with those of the national education system.

Empirical data were formed based on recent digital reforms in Uzbekistan’s education system, experiences in distance learning, and open statistical reports on students’ attitudes toward online learning.

To ensure the reliability and objectivity of the results, several independent sources were compared, and scientific views on the effectiveness of digital education were systematically analyzed.

Results and Discussion

The research results indicate that in recent years, the online education system in Uzbekistan has been gradually developing and becoming an essential component of the overall education process. Since the pandemic, distance learning formats have been introduced, and teacher-student interactions have shifted to a new digital format.

According to statistics, between 2020 and 2024, the use of online courses and platforms has increased by more than 70 percent. Most higher educational institutions conduct their lessons through platforms such as Moodle, Google Classroom, and Zoom. In addition, national platforms such as ZiyoNET and Edu.uz provide educational services to a wide audience.

The analysis shows that the main advantages of online education are as follows:

Absence of time and space constraints in learning;

Opportunity for learners to manage their own learning pace independently;

Effective use of information and communication technologies in the learning process;

Free access to international courses and certificate programs.

However, along with the wide implementation of online education, several challenges remain:

Insufficient internet speed and technical equipment;

Low level of digital literacy among some teachers;

Problems of discipline and motivation among students;

The digital divide between urban and rural areas leading to unequal opportunities.

The discussion revealed that to improve the efficiency of online education, pedagogical methods should be adapted to the digital environment, and regular training programs should be organized to enhance teachers’ digital competencies. Furthermore, mechanisms to increase students’ motivation toward distance learning should be developed.

The findings confirm that online education is becoming an integral part of the modern educational system, and improving its quality indicators can directly contribute to the digital economic development of the country.

Conclusion

Based on the analysis above, it can be concluded that online education is becoming an inseparable part of the modern education system. Its implementation not only played an important role during the pandemic but continues to enhance learning efficiency and broaden educational opportunities in the post-pandemic period.

The experience of Uzbekistan demonstrates that educational processes based on digital technologies create opportunities for students to study independently, save time, and access global learning resources. However, the existing issues — insufficient technical infrastructure, digital inequality, and the variation in teachers’ digital skills — indicate the need for further improvement of the system.

Therefore, to further develop online education, the following recommendations are proposed:

Expand and improve the quality of internet infrastructure;

Introduce regular digital literacy and IT competency training programs for teachers;

Develop national online learning platforms and integrate them into international systems;

Increase students’ motivation for independent learning through interactive and gamified learning models.

In conclusion, online education is a crucial mechanism for advancing the education sector to a new level in the path of innovative development of modern society. Its effective organization contributes not only to the improvement of educational quality but also to the overall digital transformation of the country.

References

Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Development of Digital Education.” — Tashkent, 2022.

Reports of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. — Tashkent, 2023.

Azizkhojayeva, N. N. Pedagogical Technologies and Teaching Mastery. — Tashkent: Fan, 2021.

Karimova, D., & Kholmatov, A. Modern Forms of Distance Education and Ways of Their Practical Application. — Education and Innovation Journal, No. 4, 2022.

UNESCO. The Future of Online Learning: Global Education Report 2023. — Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2023.

World Bank. Digital Transformation of Education Systems: Opportunities and Challenges. — Washington, D.C., 2022.

(Young South Asian woman with long black hair and a red tank top and sash and headdress)

You know! 

You know!

You know what! 

in your face 

have that excitement, 

when revealed, 

Everyone’s face will light up. 

You know what! 

in your voice 

Human peace and sweetness, 

There is spice to cheerfulness.

You know what! 

to turn you on, 

Fragrance spread around. 

You know what! 

you have work 

In vivid examples, 

Waking up is dedicated to living. 

You know what! 

in your smile 

To make the world of magic, 

Spread the kingdom of laughter. 

You know what! 

Magic in your words, 

Eradicate people’s sufferings. 

You know what! 

keep yourself as 

Seeing you In the heart of nature’s sway, 

People are happy.

Short biography: Amb. Dr. Priyanka Neogi from Coochbehar. She is an administrative Controller of United Nations PAF, librarian, 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 coordinator of the Vijay Mission of Community Welfare Foundation of India.

Freedom

A word 

Who has all the meaning of…

This is happiness 

This is harmony 

This is respect 

But what we do

Humans are killing humans 

Humans are manipulating humans

Freedom ,

A game between two birds without wings

Freedom,

A hope inside two hungry stomachs …

Freedom,

Elefteria

A sun waiting to rise…..

In our days 

In our century 

We are in need of second educational system 

Re write new words 

Or learn the meaning of the old one 

EVA Petropoulou Lianou “Freedom”

Two Wingless Birds: A Poetic Interpretation of Eva Petropoulou Lianou’s Poem

By: Rizal Tanjung

A Word Too Vast to Define

The poem “Freedom” by the Greek poet Eva Petropoulou Lianou is a silent outcry from an age that has forgotten the meaning of words. She begins with an invocation that echoes like a bell in an empty temple:

> Freedom,

A word

Who has all the meaning of…

That word—Freedom—stands alone, like the sun in an impartial sky. It is not merely a word, but a mirror where humanity reflects both its longing and its sin. In her opening lines, Eva exposes the irony of modern civilization: how freedom has become a mantra endlessly repeated, yet rarely understood.

The word bears the weight of history: from Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to Anne Frank’s whisper in darkness; from Lord Byron’s revolutionary heart in Greece to Mahsa Amini’s final breath on the streets of Tehran.

The word lives and dies in every generation.

Eva writes not with ink, but with the coagulating blood of the world’s moral conscience. In the simplicity of her verses, she unveils humanity’s absurdity:

> Humans are killing humans

Humans are manipulating humans

Freedom, once sacred, has become a tool.

Humans kill in its name, manipulate in its name, and oppress under the illusion of defending it. In Eva’s vision, freedom is no longer something we possess—it is something we have lost and are desperately trying to recover.

—

Two Wingless Birds: A Metaphor of Existential Loss

> Freedom,

A game between two birds without wings

This line is perhaps the beating heart of Eva’s entire poem. It condenses the tragedy of the modern human condition into a single haunting image.

Two birds without wings—creatures born to soar yet deprived of flight. They can still play, but never rise from the ground. They flap at empty air.

Here, Eva’s imagery resonates with Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros,” where the poet likens himself and humanity to a majestic albatross whose wings are too large to walk the earth:

> “The Poet is like the prince of the clouds…

his wings prevent him from walking.”

But Eva inverts Baudelaire’s logic. The wings are not too large—they are gone.

We live in a world where even the air of freedom has been confiscated.

If Baudelaire mourned the poet’s inability to fly in a vulgar world, Eva mourns the modern soul that no longer remembers it once had wings.

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Freedom as Hunger

> Freedom,

A hope inside two hungry stomachs…

This image is visceral—it pierces the most primitive depth of human existence.

Eva shifts the notion of freedom from the ideological to the biological.

For the hungry, freedom is not a concept; it is bread.

For two empty stomachs, freedom is not a political slogan; it is a single edible hope.

In this, Eva stands beside Pablo Neruda, who in his Canto General proclaimed that revolution is not about flags, but about bread on the table of the poor.

> “Bread is born of the earth, and freedom too.”

Eva and Neruda speak from two distant worlds—Greece and Latin America—yet they bleed from the same wound:

true freedom cannot flourish in a starving land.

Her lines echo Frantz Fanon’s philosophy, who saw liberation not only as decolonization of the mind, but as the emancipation of the body.

Eva reminds us that before humans can think freely, they must first be free from hunger—both the hunger of flesh and of meaning.

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Elefteria — The Sun That Has Yet to Rise

> Freedom,

Elefteria

A sun waiting to rise…

“Elefteria” (ἐλευθερία) — the ancient Greek word for freedom — was once the heartbeat of Hellenic civilization.

For Greece, Elefteria was not only a word but a goddess, a spirit, a destiny. She was the light born from centuries of struggle against oppression.

But for Eva, Elefteria is no longer the radiant sun—it is a sun waiting to rise.

Freedom is not a memory of the past; it is a promise unfulfilled.

This metaphor recalls Rabindranath Tagore’s “Where the Mind is Without Fear”, where he envisioned freedom as a dawn of consciousness untainted by division and hate.

To Tagore, freedom is the light of awakening; to Eva, it is the light that has not yet broken through the mist of the world.

The phrase “waiting to rise” carries a wound that never heals—a Camusian absurdity reminiscent of The Myth of Sisyphus. Humanity pushes the boulder of freedom uphill, only for it to roll back again.

Freedom, like Sisyphus’s stone, is eternally pursued but never fully attained.

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The Second Education: Relearning the Meaning of Old Words

> We are in need of second educational system

Re write new words

Or learn the meaning of the old one

Eva ends with a gentle yet piercing philosophical critique. She calls for a second education—not an institution, but an awakening.

We must learn again what words truly mean, for words have lost their souls.

“Freedom,” “Peace,” “Love”—today they are mere hollow syllables, traded in political speeches and advertisements.

Eva calls for a moral-linguistic revolution.

She implies that the crisis of modern humanity is not economic nor technological, but semantic—we have lost the meaning of the words we live by.

In this, she echoes Friedrich Nietzsche, who warned that “words are the tombs of experience.”

Eva urges us to open those tombs and resurrect the spirit within.

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Between Eva and the World: Philosophies of Freedom

Through brevity and clarity, Eva’s poem blends Greek spirituality, modern social critique, and universal awareness. She stands among the great voices who have wrestled with the idea of freedom:

1. Walt Whitman – who saw freedom as cosmic self-celebration in Leaves of Grass.

Whitman sang: “I celebrate myself.”

Eva whispers: “But what we do — humans are killing humans.”

Whitman’s tone is ecstatic; Eva’s is elegiac.

2. Langston Hughes – who dreamed of freedom deferred.

Eva’s “sun waiting to rise” mirrors Hughes’s “dream deferred,” but on a global scale.

3. Paul Éluard – who repeated “Liberté” as an incantation of resistance.

Eva repeats “Freedom” as lamentation.

If Éluard wrote against Nazi tyranny, Eva writes against global amnesia.

4. Rumi – who taught that true freedom comes from shedding the self.

Eva, within the secular silence of modernity, echoes the same truth: we have lost our wings because we have lost our souls.

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Freedom as a Mirror of the Self

Freedom is a prayer shaped like a wound. It does not preach—it grieves.

Eva Petropoulou Lianou is not a prophet but a companion in sorrow, weeping with us over a freedom that has become “a game between two birds without wings.”

Her poem reminds us that true freedom is not merely a right, but a moral consciousness—

a refusal to kill, to manipulate, to forget.

Freedom is not just the breaking of chains; it is the rediscovery of the wings once folded within the human heart.

And perhaps, as she writes,

> Freedom, Elefteria — a sun waiting to rise…

That sun will rise—

when we dare to relearn the meaning of the old words we have long betrayed.

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Beneath the Shadow of the Unrisen Sun

Eva’s Freedom belongs to an age starving for meaning—starving for morality, starving for humanity.

Her work stands at the crossroads of poetry and philosophy, prayer and protest, beauty and wound.

She does not write to glorify freedom,

but to restore it—to place it back into the trembling hands of those who deserve it.

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Are we truly free?

Or are we merely two wingless birds,

still playing within the cage of history,

awaiting the sunrise of Elefteria

within hearts that have forgotten how to fly?

West Sumatra, Indonesia, 2025.

Rizal Tanjung 

Review 

EVA Petropoulou Lianou’s poem