EMBRACE MY SILENCE

Embrace my silence

With your arms of happiness

And wrap my heart

In threads of silk

And don’t let the southern wind

Erase a smile

Of the gifted hope

From the fallen.

Embrace my silence

And you shall hear

A heartbeat

And clatter of longing

In the silence of my infinity.

Embrace my silence

And call me by my name

In this night of suspense

And I shall come

Like a fairy

All in white

To open your eyes,

Which shine

Like burning stars.

Your eyes

Are like white lighthouses

In the fear of my depths.

Your eyes are like eternal diamonds

In the colours

Of glorious life. 

Jasna Gugić was born in Vinkovci, Croatia. She is the Vice-President of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; P.L.O.T.S USA the Creative Magazine Ambassador for Croatia, Ambassador in Elite Arab Creative Union of The Royal House – Lebanon, Ambassador of Peace and Peaceful Coexistence – Morocco, Global Ambassador of Literacy and Culture for the Asih Sasami Indonesia Global Writers, and a member of Angeena International, a non-profit organization for peace, humanity, literature, poetry, and culture. She is also co-editor of the anthology, Compassion-Save the World, one poem was written by 130 world poets.

Jasna has published three collections of poems. The first two collections are bilingual: one is Croatian-English and the other is Croatian-Polish. The third collection consists of a single poem translated into sixty languages of the world.

Jasna Gugić is one of the winners of the World Award for Cultural Excellence “César Vallejo” for the year 2020. in the category of culture, awarded by Union Hispanomundial de Escritores (UHE).

She is one of the winners of the World Award for Excellence “Golden Eagle” for the year 2023. in the category of literature, awarded by Union Hispanomundial de Escritores (UHE), in a global alliance with Mil Mentes por Mexico International (MMPMI) and Academia Mundial de Literatura, Historia, Arte y Cultura(AMLHAC) and Global Peace Alliance Award 2023. awarded by Union Hispanomundial de Escritores (UHE) , MIL MENTES por Mexico Internacional, and Academia Mundial de Literatura, Historia, Arte y Cultura(AMLHAC). 

Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature and her work has been translated into several world languages. 

She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Her poems have been published in magazines in the USA, Spain, Greece, Italy, Russia, Croatia, India, Syria, Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Bangladesh, Serbia, Albania, Nigeria, Belgium, China, Chile, Nepal, Pakistan, Korea, Germany, Turkey, etc.

Her poems have been published in so many world-famous print and electronic magazines, journals, websites, blogs, and anthologies like Spillwords Press – USA, P.L.O.T.S. The Creative Magazine – USA, Mad Swirl – USA ,Inspired – USA Raven Cage – USA, Highland Park Poetry – USA, Setu – USA, Ariel Chart – USA, Dissident Voice – USA, World of Myth Magazine – USA, Cocktail Literary Journal –USA, Synchronized Chaos Magazine – USA, Cajun Mutt Press – USA, Word City Literary Journal – USA, Medusa‟s Kitchen – USA, Sage Cigarettes – USA, Fevers of the Mind – USA,  Atunis Galaxy Poetry – Albania /Belgium, Mokasini – Israel, Lothlorien Poetry Journal – UK, Polis Magazino – Greece, Homo Universalis – Greece, Chinese Language Monthly – 中國語文月刊 – China, Active Muse – India,  Eboquills – Nigeria, Azahar Revista Poetica – Spain, Sindh Courier – Pakistan, Magazine Humanity – Russia, Entre Parentesis – Chile, Daily Asia Bani – Bangladesh, Bharat Vision – Denmark, Litterateur Rw, Dritare E Re – Albania, Literary Yard – India, Gazeta Destinacioni – Albania, Newspaper Lissalba – Albania, Alb- Spirit – Albania, Albania Press – Albania, Alessandria Today – Italy, The Moment International News – Germany, Kavya Kishor English – Bangladesh, PETRUŠKA NASTAMBA, an e-magazine for language, literature, and culture – Serbia, Güncel Sanat magazine – Turkey, Cultural Reverence, a global digital journal of art and literature -India, A Too Powerful Word – Serbia, Magazine Ghorsowar – India, Al-Arabi Today Magazine, Magazine Rainbow, Humayuns Editorial – Bangladesh, Himalaya Diary – Nepal and Agarid br. 24 and 16, Online newspaper NewsNjeju, Korea, Willwash. wordpress blogzine – Nigeria.

POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD : Venezuela

SEARCHING FOR CARACAS

Between mountains & sea, through jungles, along lagoons, over silted rivers. Sometimes that Caribbean just below my sight, just beyond the vine-draped trees.

*   

Long ago the sea disappeared. & now we enter these mountains heavy-green. Along banks of streams, in the folds of land, hand-built homes. Their families sell coconut milk & candies at roadside stands.

            *        *

I am searching for this city. The shantytowns, the industry, the suburbia that always mark the entry of metropolis.

But all I see is this highway through green.

            *        *       *

Finally nearing the center. Traffic jams the highway of this late afternoon. Yes, the stores, the malls, the houses – but still that verdant range.

            *        *       *       *

When will we arrive? We continue going on & on. The canopy of high-rise apartments, skyscrapers & billboards grimed by time towers above the canopy of trees.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Soon we leave the high rises of Caracas

            & enter the forested high rise of

            the mountains. Misting clouds

            dampen the morning highway. The

bus stereo playa salsas. A passenger

            in back sings along off-key.

We wind towards the Maracay lowlands,

over banana-lined streams, past sugar

cane, through small towns. A white dog

chases another across a field along this

road.

By the time we reach the lower lands, the

            slate-grey clouds shatter the cobalt-blue

            sky & bright sun. Valencia Lake ripples

white-capped, dully, deep-blue-deep-

green in a bowl-valley of the sierra.

From Valencia to Barquisimeto, larger cities

            of this country. Will it be endless urban

            scenery now? Or shall I continue to be

dazzled by those emerald mountains,

that sapphire sky draped with bauxite

clouds, these rushing topaz rivers?

Through small towns, past cattle ranches, past

            chicken farms – & yes, the verdant

            mountains …

SANARE TRIO

At the tip of these Andes, the slopes surrounding Sanare neatly parcel into farms & cafetales. Distant mountains, dryer & rougher, fading to ghostly silhouettes in the warming day.

            *

By noon the clouds are descending. The mountains fall into deep shadows. The aroma of roasting coffee wafts on the fresh breeze.

            *        *

This evening bathed with mist, the sun paints these sierra lands indigo-rose.

My biography

Lorraine Caputo is a wandering troubadour whose writings appear in over 500 journals on six continents, and 24 collections – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her adventures at www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or http://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.

Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats

Critically examine the postmodern reading of Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats.

(Black and white pencil drawing of a naked human entwined with a winged bird and her egg)

Leda’s virgin femininity is at stake by the perilous encroachment of anthropomorphic Zeus. The masculinized possession upon the staggering girl by caressing her frail thighs symbolizes helplessness. This helplessness manifests emblematic relinquishment of virginity to the amorous conquest of Zeus. Love and war are supposedly antithetical paradoxes and fruits in reproduction of offsprings and therefore vindictive of the polarization between supernatural immortality and mortal beings or bonded and free.. 

Seduction and rape of Leda the Queen of Sparta, by the God of Heavens and King of the Olympics, in disguise of Swan in Greek, mythologizes the fantastical narration of Helen of Troy and the cloned brothers Castor and Pollux.  Orgasm and ejaculation implicates shudder in the loins with impregnation of Leda by Swan while engendering the broken wall, burning roof and tower alike architectural landmarks and milestones. Later this climatic Homeric allusion pontificates toward Agamemnon’s bereavement. Historical cycle of Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s seeds are planted and fertilized by Leda. Rhetorical questions become justifiable with the explanatory statements: “The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?/ But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?” Herein, succumbent of Leda’s virginity to the supremacy of the mightier and loftiest God has been decreed as consummation of sexual gratification. Allegorically  colonial hegemonic culture of England reigning with superpower supremacy over colonized Ireland has been satirically implicated. 

William Butler Yeats examines the consequences of the rape intimating the eventual defeat of Troy and triumph of Greece and the restoration of Western history. These mythic puns and sublime images are a testament to the legacy of Celtic Anglo Irish poetic cult amidst the traumatic outbreak of World War I, inviting readers toward imaginary resistance to oppression. “He holds her helpless breasts upon his breasts” furthermore implicates the political turmoil of historical Irish landscapes as implied metaphorically in Leda’s succumbing to the temptation of Zeus’s busty demeanor. The invasion of Ireland by Britain is allegorically manifested by this dialectic. Yeats revisits mythological fiction through fragmentation of Leda and this case spotlights metaphorical fragmentation of a country, nation, tribe and culture. 

The act of Leda and the Swan is a bright marbled sculpture of apopsiopesis that is constantly resurrected from the microcosmic everyday acts, released from the ravages of delusory time. “Did she put on his knowledge with his power /Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?” These lines succinctly projects the rebellious spirit of the nationalistic freedom movement and the aftereffects of post revolution in accord with the domain of England’s imperial regime. Ireland’s defeminization and emasculation afterthoughts foreshadowed by the rhetorical questions indeed. 

Further Reading

Textual/Sexual Politics in Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan”, William Johnsen, Yeats and Postmodernism, Leonard Orr, Sycrause University Press. 

(Brown clay sculpture of a naked person whose arms and legs are entwined with a winged bird)

Collage of images of garden clippers, butterflies, peas, fields, and images of the idealized human body in statues.

GUAPALUPE’S MISFORTUNE

In Madrid, Guapalupe

A good-looking dark-skinned girl

At the age of fourteen

Through gossip magazines

She began to fall in love

With Hollywood actors

Who gave her dreams

Health and shelter.

Devoted to Anthony Perkins

James Dean, Gary Cooper

Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum

Victor Mature, Charlton Heston

She carried them in her soul

As it should be

And, before entering her room

To rest or sleep

In their photos she kissed them.

One day that was Saturday

A well-dressed man

Approached her on Gran Via

When she was going to deliver

In a fashion store

A dress made by her.

Politely he went to tell her:

-I’m thinking

That being You so pretty

You shouldn’t go hungry

Because you’re a beauty.

I can make you

A Hollywood star

Like Elizabeth Taylor.

-What do you say, sir?

Guapalupe answered her.

I don’t trade

With my precious body.

Get out of my side

Or I’ll call the police.

The following Sunday

She went to mass to confess

To tell Father Isidro

That she had overcome

The temptation of a man

Who wanted to trade with her.

That her true loves

Are the Hollywood actors

Anthony Perkins

James Dean, Gary Cooper

Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum

Victor Mature, Charlton Heston.

When Father Isidro told her:

– Those actors, my daughter

Although they seem very manly

Most of them are faggots.

Guapalupe began to cry

Answering him tearfully:

You, Father Isidro

Are a very bad priest.

You have left me in disaffection.

You have no forgiveness from God.

-Daniel de Culla

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turn down the lights
 

these are the nights

i should drink myself

to death

 

that's the problem with

starting out drinking

at a young age

 

it takes so damn much

anymore to even get

close to the end

 

it ain't worth it

 

play some music

 

turn down the lights

 

remember the last one

that ever wanted to

kiss you

 

if she only had a way

to get out of that shitty

marriage

 

who knows

 

soon the scotch will

switch to gin

 

that is what the inner

child likes to call

torture

 

iron sharpens iron

 

the shotgun in the

corner has dust on it

 

i suppose that says

more than even i

believe it does
----------------------------------------------------------
all hope is lost
 

there is a darkness around me

some days

 

a pain that lingers in the background

like an awkward kid at the prom

 

but as that pain lingers

especially as i have grown

older

 

every fucking twist and turn

 

the poems start to be written

in blood

 

all hope is lost in a fucking

sewer miles away

 

no one ever loved me and

i am painfully aware of it

 

on most days, i don't even

bother to fight off the demons

anymore

 

what's the point

 

death has been on my mind

for over forty fucking years

now

 

longer than some of my friends

ever lived

 

will it be a mirror or a spoon

 

laughing at the moon or loading

the bullets into a homemade gun

 

i still hide the knives in the bushes

just for old times' sake

 

last time anyone actually cared
---------------------------------------------------------
not your blood
 

trembling hands

covered in blood

 

not your blood

 

love rushes in

when reality

fades away

 

a final breath

amid chaos

and mayhem

 

you always knew

he wanted death

to be one hell of

a story to tell
-------------------------------------------------------------
eyes that would haunt a ghost
 

broken neon scattered

across the sky in another

one of my broken dreams

 

she always has brown hair

brown skin, a great ass

and eyes that would haunt

a ghost

 

somehow, she is in love

with me, an overweight

poet with a wicked tongue

 

if you know what i mean

 

hand in hand in the rain

 

laughing at nothing at all

 

her kisses are like a lovers

lament

 

often, she will try to kill

me in these dreams

 

on a rare night, we make

love in a parking lot

outside of some shitty

bar

 

i had a friend ask me

if i ever was in love

 

i told her your guess

is as good as mine
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welcome to love with a poet
 

she tasted like cherry cream soda

 

curves in all the right places

 

how much is this going to cost me

 

well, eventually your life

 

she showed her hand, hoping

for a ring

 

i was fresh out of ideas and excuses

to say no

 

i put a rubber band on her ring finger

 

she laughed

 

i said welcome to love with a poet

 

we might have lasted another month

or so

 

eventually, the laughs were glasses

being thrown against walls

 

fists into bricks

 

you know

 

the typical white trash utopia break

up shit on a saturday night in the sticks

 

i still think of her

 

i still have the scars


J.J. Campbell (1976 - ?) is slowly dying in the suburbs, realizing that the story only gets sadder from here. He's been widely published over the years, most recently at Mad Swirl, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Rye Whiskey Review and Disturb the Universe Magazine. His most recent chapbook, Altered States of The Unflinching Souls, with Casey Renee Kiser, was published in August. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)

Are you free

It is not about country or religion

It is not about who are you

Or who I am

It is not about your experience

It is not about who you like or not

It is all about injustice

Unknown person behind the curtains that take decisions

It is all about manipulation and violence

It is all about no ethics

People want to earn money fast

It is all about a fake world

And if you do not stay soft ..

If you don’t keep the inner child

your soul will be lost….

EVA Petropoulou Eva Lianou Petropoulou

Eva Lianou Petropoulou (Greece)

She is an awarded author and poet from Greece with more than 25 years in the literary field published more that 10 books. Her poems are translated in more than 25 languages. She is President of creativity and art of Mil Mentes Por Mexico Association. She represents Greece as a media partner and is a member of IAE India. She’s part of the Global Federation of Leadership and High Intelligence A.C. and an official candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is a World Ambassador of the International Academy of Ethics in India and an Ambassador of Group Poetry as well as a member of several literary groups.

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ARE IN THE RANGE OF CHILDREN WITH UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES

Namangan State Pedagogical Institute

A student of the 3rd stage of preschool education

E-mail: rahimjanovamashhura7@gmail.com

Phone: +998940281026

Annotation: In this article, children with disabilities in New Uzbekistan have been included in the ranks of children with unlimited opportunities, not limited opportunities. In our country, the priority tasks for children with disabilities have been determined at the first level of the state policy regarding youth. Priority tasks created for children with disabilities in Uzbekistan’s preschool education organizations, innovative approach, integrated education and training results are described in detail.

Key words: inclusive education, integrated education, innovative approach, children with disabilities, concept.

ENTER

In the new renaissance period of new Uzbekistan, all reforms in the education system are showing their results and creating a new ground for the future of our people. In particular, inclusive education has become an urgent issue today. The priority tasks of the President in the state policies related to youth include further improvement of the quality of education and training for children with disabilities, and continuous monitoring of medical procedures. Among these priorities are the President’s concept of development of inclusive education in the public education system in 2020-2025, [1] by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers for pre-school and school education “Education of children with special educational needs on measures to improve the organization and rehabilitation system” dated January 25, 2024 No. 46 was signed. [2]

It is no exaggeration to say that the introduction of the concept of inclusive education for the first time in our General Assembly – our new Constitution was one of the biggest changes in the field of inclusive education. That is, in accordance with the revision of the New Constitution, in the second section, the ninth chapter, article 50: “Inclusive education and training is provided for children with special educational needs in educational organizations.” [3]

According to the data, as of last year, about 710,000 persons with disabilities were registered in our country. They live in different regions of our country, under different conditions. The saddest thing is that only 10% of them have higher education. How many disabled youth are not covered by education… In general, if you go inside the system, there are many problems waiting to be solved. If we look at the history of the world, the world-famous composer Beethoven was congenitally disabled, and Franklin Roosevelt, who was elected president of the USA four times, suffered from polio. The famous English writer John Milton became blind at the age of 43, and yet he created his masterpiece – Paradise Lost. [4] In general, there is no point in enumerating such examples. You say that it all depends on the person himself. But the formation and development of everything depends to some extent on the environment in society.

                      LITERATURE ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY

Children with disabilities are mentally, physically and mentally disabled  may be unhealthy, but not limited from the possibility of study and education. When children with disabilities learn mentally, spiritually, and physically with children in a preschool education organization, the human value of disabled children is firstly undermined. can reach Why is the number of children with disabilities increasing? 

•  The state on the introduction of inclusive education in many countries 

that it is not recorded in regulatory documents; 

• Negative attitude towards disabled children:
• the problem of invisibility of children with disabilities in society; 
• The problem of children with disabilities not appearing in MTT; 

 Financial problems:

• Adaptation of the educational organization; 
•  The large number of children in the preschool education organization; 
•   Poverty, dependence of disabled children on others; 
•  Emergencies, conflicts, refugees, personnel issues and problems.[4]

A legitimate question arises as to why the opportunity is limited  should children be involved in the inclusive education system? What is the need to solve the above arguments and move to an inclusive education system? Indeed, it is not easy to solve the problems facing this educational system. But there are many advantages of this education system, including: 

• Inclusive education allows to get rid of poverty;
• Inclusive education improves the quality of education for all;
• Prevents discrimination;
•  Inclusive education leads to more inclusiveness. [5]

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

In conclusion, I would like to say that if there was no inclusive education system, children with disabilities would not be receiving education. It is necessary to support children with disabilities for their development. Because a simple negative attitude can affect a child’s psyche. Negative attitude is probably the biggest obstacle for children with special needs to receive education in the preschool education system. The essence of the problem of negative attitude is that parents, members of the community, teachers, employees of the organization, management bodies, even children with special needs are opposed and unwilling to receive education in their organizations.

The reason for this is people’s misconceptions about disabled people, the lack of information about them, the fact that disabled children grow up in a limited environment, etc. The essence of the problem of invisibility in society is that many children with special needs are often locked up by their parents. They lock them up at home and do not show them to anyone, no information about their disabled child is given during the registration process. As a result, many disabled children are deprived of participation in society. The lack of information about them leads to them not attending educational institutions. Children with disabilities are not limited to education. As future mature personnel are growing, children with disabilities will become healthier as a result of education and training.

My suggestion is that if you study the psychological characteristics of mentally and physically disabled children and organize cooperation with the family, then inclusive education will have little effect. It is only necessary to support the child in any way, to encourage him, to create all the conditions for him to be able to show his talent.

 List of reference literature:

1. The concept of development of inclusive education in the public education system in 2020-2025.
2. Decision No. 46 of January 25, 2024 “On measures to improve the system of education and rehabilitation of children with special educational needs”.
3. https://yuz.uz//news website materials.
4. “Fundamentals of inclusive education” Instructional manual. Urganch. 2020.
5. Rs. Shomakhmudova, “Special and inclusive education, international and national experiences” – educational methodical guide. Tashkent 2011.