Poetry from Mark Young

America’s / culinary roots / & Caribbean flavors

Ignore the variable sample 
size, even when there are 
such influential outliers 
in the data as the Dearborn 
Truck Plant, an upscale 
specialty sandwich concept 
shop unmatched by any 
nearby drug store. I have 
been guilty of eating the 
odd haute/uberchic/upscale 
sandwich myself! The Kill-
deer & Canadian Geese 
that nest on its green 
roof can be dealt with 
by rule-directed searches 
through mutation sequence 
space that incorporate 
energy production as 
well as food producing 
facilities. It will be days 
before authorities can 
determine the cause of death.

 
Materialist hermeneutics

The oven is a
resonant space 
within which I 
can move easily.

I put an egg & 
some hotdogs in-
to it; what comes 
out is expanded 

& dynamically 
rearranged. Each 
time it is the 
event itself which 

operates against 
the ego in order 
to make room for 
deconstruction; & 

in doing so, opens 
a window in which 
to explicitly address 
the techno-sexuality

of the digital page.


 
Sousa phoned

Snare drum 
undone is hum-
drum until 
rimshot or 
paradiddle 
pokes noise into 
its silence. Such 
a puzzle, perhaps 
part riddle. Stick 
figures giving
flesh to frame-
work. Is con/
un/drum.



 
Cultural artifice

Gerbils are not for-
bidden, nor are the latest 
Broadway refrains, even 
when played on rubber 
violins. The conservative 
Ordnung that guides 
Swartzentruber practise 
is still moderate enough 
not to alienate swing 
voters. Attracted by it
he started back for 
Cedar City. Rarely is the 
Toreador's song more
successfully achieved.

 
Pectoral

No content at the 
moment but later 
will be. It's possible 
the ultimate constituents 
of the planned structure
might consist wholly 
of senses or concepts
but it's more likely
to be hot muscle car 
babes with great curves 
that love muscle cars 
& the guys who own 
them. Surprising how
fish survive so well in 
what must be a harsh 
& hostile environment.

Poetry from Gulhayo Karimova

O man, mother is a treasure in the world
It burns for you every night
Even if you doubt motherly love
Look at his sad eyes

But don't rush to the work of the world
world, children, money worries
Say that you are here at this time
His eyes are filled with tears of joy at this moment
Your valuable words are appreciated

Don't hurt your mother after this
If it hurts, eat it yourself
If he puts his head on your shoulder, stop your heart
Don't miss a beat

Essay from Lola Hotamova

Angel of Mercy

Mother is so great that no words can describe her. No one in the world can give the love that a mother gives. Because mother has a special magic that no other person has. Mother night - that day lives as my child. She raises us, washes and combs white, is ready to give up even her own sweet soul. Many poems and songs have been written about mothers. Tears come to the eyes after hearing them. A person who has a mother is the happiest person in the world. We may not be able to return the good things that mother has done to us in both worlds. 

Respect for our honorable and dear mothers in our country is boundless. An example of this is the widespread celebration of international Women's Day on March 8.

In honor of mothers, O'tkir Hashimov created the work "The affairs of the world" in honor of mothers. This is one of my favorite books l've ever read. In this century, O'tkir Hashimov wrote mainly about his mother.

Lola Hotamova was born on May 7,2009 in the village of Khanabad, Bukhara region. She studies in the 8th grade of the 43rd general education school in Jondor district. Poems of the young poetess were first published in 2019 in the "Zhondor ovozi" newspaper. Later, she began to appear in newspapers and magazines such as " Gulkhan", "Ezgulik", " Yangiyer tongi", " Bilimdon", "Smile". Her books "Source of power", "I love my country", "Shy rabbit" have been published.


Poetry from Orzigul Sherova (needs to be May 1)

Dark haired Uzbek teen girl with her head resting on her hand. She's got brown eyes and red lipstick and a white sweater.
Orzigul Sherova
✨🌹Looking for Mother🌹✨

My thoughts are towards you from evening to morning,
My tongue will be with you even from poison,
From such a city that lights up at night,
The burning eye weeps in thought,
I looked for you with all my heart, mother.

Without you, my days seem to be dreary,
Hasn't luck turned around,
Everything that appears is just a dream,
A butterfly on your sunbul hair,
I looked for you with all my heart, mother.

At night, I wait without closing my eyes,
Sometimes the coral floats or swallows pains,
Maybe these days will pass in one pass,
I'll meet someone as beautiful as you.
I looked for you with all my heart, mother.

A white scarf was left hanging,
Without you, I'm even taller
Come on, ask me what's wrong?
Looking at your picture, the heart cares,
I looked for you with all my heart, mother.

Alisherovna Orzigul 

Poetry from J.J. Campbell

Author J.J. Campbell White man with a large beard and a black tee shirt and eyeglasses stands in a bedroom with posters in the wall.
Author J.J. Campbell
sadness becomes loneliness
 

it's the

laugh,

 

the gentle

i love you

late at night,

 

the warm

embrace

 

and suddenly

remembering

how many years

it's actually been

 

how the touch

of a woman is

nearly foreign

to you now

 

hopeless should

never come up

when you think

about sex

 

sadness becomes

loneliness before

you even realize

 

the world has

left you behind
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start the weekend
 

a

thunderstorm

before the

morning

coffee

 

not exactly

how i wanted

to start the

weekend

 

but you're

old enough

now to know

you don't get

to choose such

things

 

your place in

life doesn't

allow it
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two vapid souls
 

shuffling down

the boulevard

a skeleton of

a man

 

thinning goatee

and hollow eyes

 

holding hands

with his woman

 

a soul crushing

blonde light years

out of his league

 

most assume there

are two reasons

why she is with

him

 

girth and wealth

 

most assumptions

are true more than

we actually realize

 

two vapid souls

searching for a

better tomorrow

 

if such a thing

even still fucking

exists
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a zombie apocalypse
 

the muse believes

she can't trust me

during a zombie

apocalypse

 

that makes me

laugh

 

she apparently

doesn't understand

that i will be dead

before any of that

ever happens

 

zombies, an apocalypse,

or a glorious heel turn

 

more pressing matters

are at hand as usual

 

like rent, taxes, a check

engine light that always

seems to come on at the

least opportune times

 

not to even mention

where one might be

able to find some

non-toxic land to

grow food or

whatever else
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a soft rain in the sunshine
 

two loose shits

within five minutes

of waking up

 

jack daniels for

dinner strikes

again

 

a stray cat comes

to our backyard

looking for birds

or some food

 

luck never appears

in this damn town

 

a soft rain in the

sunshine

 

a lonely woman

wonders of a better

way to die

 

here comes a daydream

meant for a better soul

 

the cocaine always runs

out on a tuesday night

 

right as she starts to feel

ok with doing it for money

once again
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J.J. Campbell (1976 - ?) is old enough to know better. He's been widely published over the years, most recently at Disturb the Universe Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Black Coffee Review and The Asylum Floor. Rumor has it that he might have a joint chapbook coming out this summer with Casey Renee Kiser. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)

Essays from Sadullayeva Darmonjon

Young Central Asian teen girl with dark black hair and brown eyes an dearrings and a black vest over a white collared shirt and necklace.
Sadullayeva Darmonjon

Love

The soft chirping of birds and beautiful trees added beauty to the quiet and cool avenue.  A handsome young man, who was known to be intelligent in appearance, sat down next to a girl he had known for a long time, and looked her in the eyes and said:
– I love you very much. I want to spend my whole life with you, greet the morning with you every day, share every joy with you, be a partner in your joys and sorrows.  Insha’Allah we will be the happiest couple in the world together, he said with tears in his eyes.
  Unfortunately, the girl could neither see this guy nor his tears…

A “fair” world

    Aunt Tatiana missed her daughter Anna very much after dinner and decided to write her a letter.  The sound of the wind could be heard outside.  Aunt Tatiana sat down by the burning stove and began to write a letter:

 – My daughter Anna, I miss you very much.  You know, when you were little, you always followed me, and in the evenings you said, “Oh, sleep with me. I’m so scared without you.”  In the cold winter nights, I would tell you interesting tales and stories, and you would fall asleep listening to them.  Especially after your father’s death, you became very attached to me, my daughter.  And I could not imagine my life without you.  I felt that without you, this world seems to me like a room without a door or a window.  And you have grown up, you have become a sharp minded girl.  Do you remember when you first stepped into school, I said if you get good grades, I’ll get you a doll you like.  And this innocent soul of yours would have a crush on that doll and every day you would get excellent grades and come home happy.  The joy shining in your eyes when you graduated from school and entered college is still in front of my eyes like it was yesterday.  You looked at me and said, “Hey, look, I’ve taken the first step towards my dreams. I’m going to be a famous lawyer in the future, honey. I’m going to do my best to bring justice to the world and fight for the truth.”  That moment is still forever etched in my mind.  You were the owner of an innocent and pure heart.  My daughter, you loved tulips very much.  This spring, I would like to go to the mountain with you and pick many tulips for you, to be next to me as before, to hold you in my arms, to see your smiling innocent eyes, my daughter.

   Aunt Tatiana said so and decided to send this letter to her daughter by post tomorrow.

   Unfortunately, it has been three years since that terrible and tragic car accident happened in Anna’s life when she was 18 years old…

   The dreams of a young and innocent girl turned into a dream.  His pure dreams did not fit into this “fair” world…

Sadullayeva Darmonjon was born in 2002 in Khiva, Khorezm region. She is currently a third-year student of the Uzbek language education at Urgench State University.

More than 15 scientific articles have been published in international journals and conferences such as  “Science and Innovation”, “Young Academic”, “XXL”, “Scientific Approach to the Modern Education System”, ” Google scholar” . Her creative works were  published in the newspaper “Ezgu Soz” and in the anthology “Builders of the Future”. She considered member of the International Organization ” All India Council for Technical Skill Development” too.

Poetry from Ismailova Orastabonu

🌹Isn't she an ANGEL OF HEAVEN!🌹

   Brought spring to the gardens,
   The moon was shining in front of his child.
   The first song that he sang was divided by the gods,
   Isn't our soul a bond, woman?
   Isn't she an angel of heaven?

      A woman is the light of our house, the blooming flower of our garden, the angel of our house. A woman is a masterpiece among the blessings created by God!

       In fact, Allah took the beauty from the moon shining in the sky, the eyebrows and eyelashes from the dark night, the eyes from the stars, the language from the nightingale, the willow tree from the willow, the delicacy from the flower, and the love from the ocean, and created a perfect unity and named it woman.

    A woman is a great creature who took care of her child in her body for nine months and gave her life.
     So what is happiness for a woman?

     A woman who carries a child and caressing her little body with love is the happiest woman in the world. A woman who devotes herself to her little girl and sews dresses with her hardworking hands, there is no happier person than her. If you give a woman a sweet word and something to cheer her up, she will consider herself happy.

    Let's pay attention to these sentences of Tursunoy Sadygova about women: "A woman is not a woman, but a flower that always trembles in the cave called the wind, in the stormy season called the family, and still spreads its beautiful flowers."

   A woman is indeed a flower. Dear friends, let's try to describe a woman as a crimson blooming rose. The red color in the flower is the redness on the face of an Uzbek woman, that is, her modesty, ibo. The expression radiating from the flower is endless love from the ocean, which never ends, no matter how much it costs. Its strong body that climbs to the heights is its lifelong friend, that is, its life partner. Green leaves are shared by the people and relatives, and the thorns in it are a weapon against the sufferings and injustices in life. are the children of...

Ismailova Orastabonu is the daughter of Navruz, a 10th grade student of the 13th general secondary school of Kasbi district, Kashkadarya region.