Teresa De Lujan Safar is a member of Together for Letters. She lives in Pergamino, Buenos Aires province, and has written a book, Crisol of Ideas. She’s published in the “Huellas de Cristores” anthologies and seven “Rosario, Bridges of Words” anthologies, curated by Gladys Lopes Pianesi. She has participated in the literary workshop of Estela Torres Erill and currently attends the “Florilegio” literary workshop, coordinated by Marta Susana Lomellino. She’s a current member of “Together for Letters.”
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.”
You are painting and you have already washed everything
with water so that the colors are in such layers
and you are careful with the shades.
It’s all in the shades, you say.
Thats how you are in life,
you dont express yourself quickly about something
and you use all kinds of excuses to avoid
or kept your opinion silent.
It’s all in the shades.
When, very rarely, you have a guiding thought
a certain musical theme is heard throughout the world
which aims to characterize you,
as a person or an event related to you,
which is always repeated when appearing on
stage you as a hero and in memory of that particular event.
It is so important to tell the world what you think,
without hesitation.
You are not a man inexperienced
in the art or your art of silence
you are not a layman, you know a lot.
You recognize the shades of life in the world.
You sometimes feel like
a man running with a burning torch
and you think everyone sees it like
at the opening of the Olympic Games.
And only you see the hot and liquid mass
that volcanoes throw out
which flows from them and which,
when cooled, hardens like stone
painting his washed-out pictures in shades.
And you won’t even admit to yourself
that you felt the eruption of the world
still silent.
In its shades…
Yes, you felt the avalanche
powerful mass, as a contrast,
that destroys everything in front of it.
That you felt both hot and cold.
Tanja Ajtic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She lived and studied in Serbia. She is a poet and a writer, but she is also an artist. She also deals with fine graphics. Since 2002, she lives and creates in Canada. Moved to Belgrade, Serbia 2023. Tanja Ajtic is a member of many groups and associations. In Serbia, she is a member of the prestigious Society of Writers of Belgrade. Her poems and stories have been published two hundred collections (books), anthologies and electronic books. Her poems have been published in twelve languages. She published her book Outlines of Love. She participated with books and anthologies at many fairs in the world with other authors. In 2024 and 2025, Ajtic collaborated with Indian poet Sourav Sarkar on two joint poetry collections that present two works by the poet in one book. – She won second prize in Great Britain from the Serbian Library in London (2019). – She won III World Prize for Excellence; Cesar Vallejo; 2021 in the category of artistic excellence Lima, Peru, by the World Spanish Union of Writers and International Award of Excellence; from the World Spanish Union of Writers, UHE Mexico.
She won the I International Award of Excellence & “Cita Del Glateo” Antonio De Ferrariis, IX edition 2022 – Rome, Italy, a prestigious award in the group of poets for the English language (IX edition of the award for foreign poetry in English) in 2022, Rome, Italy. – Winners of Foundation Naji Naaman literary prize iz 2023; (21 st Edition), from the Republic of Lebanon, Honor Prize (for complete work) for Literary prizes 2023. Poetry for the competition was submitted in three languages: English, French and Arabic. – Winning the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” Literary Award – Third Prize by the Beijing Mindfulness Literature Museum, China. – Winning Third Prize, Friedrich Schiller International Literary Competition (2025). She is the winner of many awards, diplomas and certificate. She is currently writing poetry, short stories, haiku, Gogyoshi poetry as well as graphics artist as a freelance artist.
Sadness arrives like a stone mist, heavy and mute, over the paths of my vision; each step is a knot that ties itself around my legs, and the world shrinks to the size of a trapped sigh.
Grief is a dry riverbed where I walk barefoot, treading on the bones of what once was, and the sun becomes a broken mirror that reflects nothing but shadows of shadows. My breath is a thin thread that breaks every time I try to name what is lost.
But you are the lighthouse made of hands, that shines not with light but with warmth; you pierce my landscape like a tree that grows inward, its roots weaving bridges over the abysses that my feet open.
You are the silence that knows how to speak, the space that opens up in the midst of my anguish; you lift me up as the sea lifts what the wind has dragged to the shore, putting my broken pieces back in place as if they were mosaic. You transform my dust into earth where something can still grow.
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.
Come as rain upon the breast of the earth. Let me be bathed in the quiet grace of falling.
Pour without end over mountains and rivers. Flow through every winding turn of life.
Wave upon wave, weaving melodies into living sound. Part the darkness, and unveil a newborn world of light.
Carry me across the waters to that distant shore, where endless fields of green unfold like the wings of birds.
You are the emerald soul of the ancient forest, the crimson blaze of the blooming royal Poinciana, the painted wings of a wandering butterfly.
You are the monsoon that returns with unfailing grace— the ceaseless rain, the stream that revives the thirsty earth, returns laughter to withered grass,
the living stream that breathes life into every soul.
Come as rain upon the breast of the earth.
Paint watercolor upon forgotten paths.
Bloom each dawn like a scarlet hibiscus.
With your gentle touch, my heart grows restless, awestruck, and softly trembling.
Between sunlight and shadow, even fallen leaves smile again.
And I—
I am one of those fallen leaves,
waiting for rain to wrap me once more in everlasting green.
Again and again I watch light slip through the mango leaves,
wondering how it befriends the sun, how together they scatter beauty across the earth, across my eyes, across the quiet chambers of my heart.
Then clouds gather.
The sky grows still.
Rain begins.
And there you are—
standing quietly beside me.
I become the rain-soaked grass,
while you keep falling—
softly,
endlessly—
through the deepest landscapes
of my heart.
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
08 July2026.
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.
