Goran Tomic is a Collisionist Autodidact Artist from Sydney, Australia who has exhibited his collages, video installations and performance art over the past 25 years. Raised on Rauschenberg and born posthumously he Flaneur’s the urban decay searching for his Wilderness robe.
Trapped in the Blinding Contrails
a star has jetted down the sky,
drowning me in its blinding contrails,
my legs flail in their search for footholds,
but they sky holds none.
weathered scrolls with evanescent words map my cavernous world,
ruling out the life my heart considers a cocoon.
i seem to be lost on this winding path,
despite the plethora of hands pushing me forward.
being myself isn’t an option when my life
is a totality of my predecessors’.
my struggles in the contrails are measured by perfectionist eyes.
let me out of the sky, find me somewhere beneath the earth.
i wish to be a lone ‘one’ and not just a product of one and one,
i wish not my life to be thrown into the mausoleum of my predecessors’.
and while I stay adrift in the skies tonight, i try not to drown my successor
in the blinding contrails i leave behind.
What Father Calls Language
I come from a corner of the world
where you have to clip the wings of your words with scissors
so they don’t fly from your throat
into your audience’s brain through the wrong hole.
Father says I don’t have to move my lips
before the words ooze into my listener’s brain
because language isn’t what I speak or write,
it is that which revolves in my head.
unsaid. unheard.
When it Climaxes…
my eyes widen, the cornea stretches,
the brown pupils growing rounder and larger,
multiplying the proximity between the eyelids.
my lungs call for air but air seems to stop moving
at the vestibules of my nose.
the airs on every part of me arise like soldiers
responding to the call of duty.
my right hand, despite being shackled by my wristwatch,
flails freely in the air, the popcorn in the captivity
of its fingers roll backwards, finding the way out,
while the left one grasping the popcorn cup remains immobile in the air.
my legs are caged in my canvas shoes,
rooted to a spot like the iroko.
a piece of popcorn awaiting its fate
-- to be crunched to death by the ruthless molars
and drowned in the sea of saliva that flows down my belly --
drops back into the cup, followed by
a drop of saliva that my tongue catches mid-air.
my eyes dart left & right, front & back,
searching through the myriad of faces that swarm around me,
for whoever might have seen me drool.
but none! everyone else suffers this fate.
my eyes fly back to the huge wall before me
where the pictures move, move & move again.
that’s a huge plot twist, i must confess.
When Love Beckons
follow with your head and not your heart,
cause the heart is a fool that makes too many mistakes
that put your poor head in trouble,
and let it resound through the chambers of your ventricle
that love is but blind,
so keep your eyes open,
as you traverse the realm of love,
so you don’t crash into the disaster that shatters your heart.
Cloud and sun
In the vast bosom of the sky,
Tinctures "blessed youth".
I'm tired of watching
Light is a generous sun.
To share my love
It was the sun's turn.
Unceasing cloud,
Share the tears.
So the sun changed,
Thanks to the cloud.
My service is over
I also give my light.
The sun is tied around his waist,
ready for service
Cloud's tears,
Dice turn into light.
A house by the river
A lonely house on the bank of the river,
Who was watching and waiting for?
Tevarak is surrounded by green trees,
How many days were crowded or lonely?
Not one guest, one thousand and one people.
Thankful refuge for all.
The passenger does not separate, does not choose at all.
It is a sin not to open the door.
The fury of winter, the day of the Koran,
A boat companion tied to a tree.
He is destined to be rewarded,
The sad, sad look of the loved ones.
Mind
The skin of the mind, the universe decorates,
Don't worry about your behavior.
The tariff you are told is a description,
A flower will please your heart.
We are higher than the mountain that will raise your glory,
Your services are an example to many.
Enthusiasm is always a friend of the mind.
Be familiar with the truth.
Law of life
The ice that conquered the peaks of the mountains,
It slowly melts from the sun.
Rushing through the grass
They are sick when they look up.
Life gives by walking the path,
There will be those who are offended.
This is the law of life from time immemorial,
Everything would be great then
Ship
white ship with white sails,
Suzar in the sea wave.
The sails flutter,
The horn is at the height of the wind.
Heading towards the horizon,
The goal is goodness.
Accompanying people
Let's reach the goal.
A tiny white ship,
There is a lot of power in him.
Believe in his power,
Your intentions are answered.
Rainbow
In the middle of the day,
It rained suddenly.
Nature's wonderful,
He performed a miracle.
The garden faded away,
From the rustling sound.
Insects are amazed,
From this rustling sound.
The rain has stopped,
The sun is in its place.
The sky suddenly cleared,
He looked beautiful.
Seven kinds of rainbow
Samo smiles across the sky.
I love you
Unfortunately, Ming does not know.
Rainbow from my youth,
I love the shine.
A drop of water in the sun,
I know you will be punished.
Amirova Niginabonu was born in the village of Ibrahimota ,Nurabad district , Samarkand Region .The 8 th – grade student of the Samarkand Specialized Art Boarding School has published a book of poetry entitled ʼʼ Kaldirgochʼʼ His creative works were published in the youth magazine ʼʼ Samarkand Mishoirasiʼʼ
Successful people always think positively. They always enjoy life no matter what. They are good at almost everything. It’s always nice to talk to them because they’re always smiling and friendly. Such people poison others with their happiness. Successful people believe in themselves and their success. They never feel bad that “I can’t succeed” because they make every effort to learn everything in advance. However, even if something fails, they, unlike those who are harmed, ask themselves, “How did this happen and what should I do?” They ask the question and look for ways to get a positive result. Successful people are not afraid of responsibility. They take responsibility for the decisions they make, even if they are difficult for others or risky. When you’re successful, you immediately have haters around you. Ignore them, don’t let criticism, pressure, emotional attacks make you weak. Build up your confidence and use your armor of confidence for good!!
What is the role of energy in our life? Why do I rarely take people close to me? There are different categories of people around us and we have to establish a relationship with them. I have been working on my spirituality and personal development for years and I want to share my findings with you! I avoid 3 categories of people very quickly, I don’t even read their messages: 1) He complains about his life, shares his pain with everyone, blames everyone and makes himself the victim 2) Interferes in the life of others, discusses and gossips about it; 3) Those who do not understand you, who only think they are right and give unsolicited advice. These 3 categories of people eat your energy. After you talk to a person who constantly complains about his life, makes himself miserable, blames everyone, his energy and aura of dirt will transfer to you. You feel powerless, unable to do anything. Those who interfere in other people’s lives and look for dirt under their fingernails can even make you sick. Gossip, discussions, finding fault with someone will darken your heart, and being too busy with things that have nothing to do with you is nothing more than wasting your energy. For example, I don’t care who is married, divorced or at war with someone. Those who always blame you, who do not understand even if you explain a million times, who look for dirt under their fingernails, are the biggest enemies of your energy. By the time you explain to them and justify yourself, you will be exhausted and nervous. Because he does not understand, does not want to understand. Because he himself is so negative, he thinks of others as well. I will forever block those who have bad suspicions about me, I will never talk to them. Because if you don’t do a thousand good deeds, he will suspect evil. Allah also said: “I am in the suspicions of my servant about me.” Whatever you suspect about people, he will show you. I rarely have close relationships with people. I do not allow negative energy to influence others. I don’t listen to anyone on personal matters, I don’t give advice. Because I don’t know the situation completely, and someone’s problems and pains definitely affect me. That’s why I stay away. Don’t let someone else’s dirty aura affect your beautiful life, don’t waste your valuable time discussing the lives of worthless people.
When you bring yourself to zero, that’s when positive energy flows into you. Zero is the strongest number and state in the world. The number, which represents nothingness, emptiness and nothingness, is a very powerful number. God created man innocent. At first he was zero to sin. That’s when he was the strongest. For example, you talk about your problems, let’s say you have 10-15 problems. You don’t have a car, your health is bad, you are unhappy with your family, and so on. Is it possible to erase these when you write them down on a piece of paper? Of course it is possible. But what can’t you turn off? Zero! You can’t erase an absence from a sheet.
QURBONOVA GULSANAM was born on April 16, 2006 in Dehkhanabad district of Kashkadarya region. She is currently a grade 10 student at school number 68 in Dehkhanabad district and is proud of the regional German language. She has also achieved many results in sports, table tennis, chess, checkers.
light and bitter
sunday lunchtime
with my father
in the cemetery
wind striking stone
beating conflict
bearing down
scratched on a head
marking the days
four poems prowl
as i fly into deeds
that bought me up
for change
to bring me into line
to put me in these lines
the imagery awakes
and in this mist of time
this son of york
moves effortlessly
‘mongst the pines
a slicing of anxiety that lies
most pale in the moonlight
witness the nervous prayer
vistas that were there for us
a very useful sunset
once more cut adrift
lover-to-be – begin
sex and secularity
show boats in the drink
adolescent agitprop revisited
a really low shuck scuttle
across the backs
of daunting zebras
leap or they’ll come for you
get down on the blanket then
harsh noise too dark
once i was a walking erection
entitlement personified
lewd passions break neck
runaway class
runaway signs
sonic experiments
ranging from riffs
exclude ecstasy
include instances
you know
she whispered
you do know
gentle then
gentlemen
we are subjects
of the author
of his latest
and the world won’t end
oh delighting one
after all you will
after all you’ve seen
full-lotus on the mantelpiece
a technique to be admired
move on to more familiar hypnosis
twist yourself into a tree
incendiary personal collections
consisting of salacious clips
behaviour can be useful
a fortune on the pools
north carolina is drowning
and she is a million years old
in his pocket lies your breathing
modern psychology fries
wavemakers made off
with my waking
red brick telephone lines
yes sir she does have two kidneys
racists are usually thick
the meat grinder has read your note
but you are not excused
a hundred-thousand potbellies
can’t be wrong
and personal chemistry
can only take you so far
this blend of surreal chicanery
is remaining
weaving opening pieces
and having to make do
so cease your
fashionable scuttling
i also find that
quite contrived
we held
we necked
as first rains
hit the carriage
we decoded the typology
and oh what fun we had
live streaming the event
simplify and exemplify
or you will be disturbed
try to exercise
begin to form softness
sink into self-defence
only partly consume yourself
more profit for the shucksters
out ways means way out
sullen leaps from the parapet
my stares have been changed
and both are rather weary now
coffee brews with queer desires
following which and taking it on
take what you want and get it to shore
farewell yearning cobra
cats that ridge their backs
time to find
the dreamlike
frame mind
abiding buttered cool
blue-tiled pools and pixled fools
furnish them with everything
be unconscious mind i said
call it out then mother-hen
and this is what that feels like
it creeps into you backwards
with its bug eyes on your feet
on a tight leash
fold and unfold
as the woodland comes to life
in surroundings
i wave she waving
must run
rice cake wars
once factories made sure
still jolly reader
really bad got bored
rather than wait
the creature stirred
who would have thought
of virgin lands
with ringing crystals
so debauched
who then is watching
this unprecedented growth
through a soft lens
reach for a cigarette
vodka
this world
has become a dark world
murdering catamites
behind a white picket fence
what is on offer
we bring you plate
ransom note
thought circuits bathed in flaming gravy
simple weird moments in a deep bass slot
fine dimly wondered march acoustics
sirloin beef broils there bypassing breath
this infernal whooping through my mucus
has transformed the cold machinery of war
break out the psalms and trance-like simul-
ations before the god of winds caresses
your last breath counting your sleeps in a
sound-proofed chamber recycling waste
for a jollier death my knees have turned
against me and now they’re spreading so
there’s little else left here for me to do oh
damn your dreams fish don’t want air and
many more besides a little bit of ghostly’s
gone astray go check for mail and mow
the lawn and throw your groceries in the
bin this must we see it cannot be it flows
through graduated forms a stasis tube
containing light a play with something
different new concerns providing stranger
personal effects aesthetic coffins ripened
love buds please dear uncle am i then the
one am i a shade of energy pulsating in
and out of love of time not out of hate of
signs but talk of peace that mimics all
the body’s core and fights what should
have made a difference and yet
appears in more and more degrading
revelations force fed into my conscious
mind it’s what is endlessly desired
discover walks and roots in forestation
that renew then take up huge amounts
of time – the moments must so easily
slip by be still and concentrate as best
you can with myra hindley on your
knee a flash of bottled radishes pressed
uo against your spine that so inflames
the rash that your humanity decries
irrational darkening dream status
a sinistere mouths
and my glass eye rolls
left arm draped
in a short space
stake gibbet and cross
and repent
base pernicious
and degrading
fire and sword
from lip to ear
crystallised
into a creed
prenatal memory
cognition
black fire town
once there was
a red hot poker
now there’s only
central heating
shadow travellers
offend
a sort of rising
for a few
like-minded friends
and what is left
is postmarked quarantine
daisy gristle welts
green gnomes here lie
and their chunks
anastasia was disposed of
lady chatterley's
a broken tuba now
her topical mouth
is a gift shop
but it’s closed
whose contraption
am i strapped upon
the master-key
is in their hands
and i believe
they watch my dreams
through apertures extending into space
Eddie Heaton studied innovative and experimental poetry under the tutelage of post-modern poet and educator Keith Jebb, achieving a first-class honours degree. He also won the 2021 Carcanet Award for Creative Writing. His work has been extensively published in a number of prestigious literary journals.
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red bones boiled in night porridge
my grandmother coughed every time bypassing the cemetery which does not exist
an inconspicuous shadow hangs on the wall of our high-rise building
birds peck at this shadow from hunger
crumbs of pigeon bread here stick to the asphalt
every grocery store in our area is going bankrupt
even the cats here don’t dare to leave a dead mouse without eating its flesh to the
end
glue for eyes and fingers in the form of world history falls on the eyelashes with
crumbs of hunger
https://thegorkogazette.com/2024/03/07/poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh/
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the sky is so vain that the rain ends
a stranger with the face of death gives a dead kitten
dead kitten nibbles milky evening
and its dark around after the airstrike
https://thegorkogazette.com/2024/03/07/poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh/
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moonless night sensors
couple in love in blood and happiness
pleasure of the flesh develops into a play of shadows
the iron doors of the bedroom are bashfully silent
light bulbs don’t light for some unknown reason
only something inside the bellies warms the whole bedroom
https://thegorkogazette.com/2024/03/07/poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh/
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hungry children racing
with pigeons run to the yard
bread of tears and water of bodies –
in that order
little sons die each
time trying to
resurrect
even snakes share
their apples with the
starving
https://thegorkogazette.com/2024/03/07/poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh/
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broom of glances
forgive me for love
I will never forbid you
to die alone again
https://thegorkogazette.com/2024/03/07/poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh/
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I want to be a killer sleeping on crumpled grass
I want to be buried in crumpled grass
I want to kill
I want to be
Buried under the grass is a home for worms and insects
The buried has no room for error
I want to kill the war
I want to be home
https://thegravityofthething.com/untitled-poem-mykyta-ryzhykh-2/
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The bush is devoid of all berries
Autumn is now stripping off the leaves too
The future is uncertain
https://boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/3-poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh
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By dying like the first time you teach me to feel sorry for you
A cry torn off by the wind is carried away leaving a silent emptiness
I don’t know how to feel sorry for you because you are indifferent to my regrets
Death is just a surprise box that you finally gave me
This is your first gift to me
This is the last gift
https://boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/3-poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh
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I grab the tree but its branches don't care
I'm walking through the cemetery looking for life
I cry about the living because the
dead are indifferent to everything
I don't find anyone alive anywhere in this world
Only photographs on graves speak to me of love
https://boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/3-poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh
In the fast-pased world, it is completely wrong to think that the “Youth Union” and voluntary organizations consist of idleness and only taking the time of students. I think that every student should be socially active along with education, because sharing the knowledge and skills that they have with others, organizing various creative projects for their peers, and sharing news there is no bad side, on the contrary, it is very useful. But some teachers are against it, in their opinion, the knowledge of the student who joins the organization decreases and his grades fall. Unfortunately, through such wrong ideas, they are withdrawing students from social activity. After all, if they don’t share their knowledges with others, why are they studying, just to enter the university? Well, let’s say he or she is a student, if they do not have initiative, if they can not speak fluently, what kind of staff will they become?
We ambitious youngsters must conquer the highest peaks. Of course, in order to achieve these results, we need a clear structure.”Youth Union” organization helps us lay this solid foundation.
Every student who joins the organization develops a number of skills, such as working with a team, thinking deeply, and speaking fluently, and these skills will always be useful to the student in the future, regardless of what kind of work they will do. In addition, this organization provides us with unforgettable childhood memories, and always calls for activity and unity. Every student who steps into the leadership system can’t get out of it again, because a person who has found his place in a society does not want to leave the system at all.
The leaders of Uzbekistan are a big, united and inseparable family! Organizing projects and motivational training together with them gives me energy. Another pillar of leadership is that it teaches students to be positive, because a positive person can lead those around them to a brighter future. I can say without hesitation that the first step to leadership begins with “Youth Union”. I am proud to join this organization, and I encourage all my peers to join this system!
Let’s unite youngers and leave the past behind and move towards the future. Let’s try so that our name will take place in the pages of history!!!