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Volume 1

May 15, 2007

Number 1


Poetry



Ashes
By Dimitris P. Kraniotis

The fireplace
was eager
to put a fullstop,
in the sentence
where the road
of my dreams
stuck
upon the word of happiness
with sparkles
of wet logs
I collected
from the inside of me
that I dared
to turn to ashes.



Illusions
By Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Noiseless wrinkles
on our forehead
the frontiers of history,
shed oblique glances
at Homer's verses.
Illusions
full of guilt
redeem
wounded whispers
that became echoes
in lighted caves
of the fools and the innocent.





Dimitris P. Kraniotis is an award-winning Greek poet and the author of 3 poetry books: Traces (1985), Clay Faces (1992) and Fictitious Line (2005). He was born in 1966 in Stomio, a coastal town in central Greece. He studied at the Medical School in Thessaloniki. He lives and works as a medical doctor specialized pathologist in Larissa, Greece. He is Founder & President of World Poets Society (W.P.S), Editor & Director of 3 online poetic libraries, Editorial Director of the Greek medical magazine "Hippocrates" and a member of several international literary organizations. He has won a number of international literary awards for his poetry (in Greece, USA, UK and France), which has been translated and published in many countries around the World.







Strangers & Angels
By Howie Good

A stranger, they say, might be an angel
unrecognizable in the diffuse light

and the enigma of his arrival

who looks at you as through eyeholes
cut unevenly in a brown paper bag

and relates with ghostwritten words
the events which are about to transpire,

who feels a terrible need to confess
there's another person with your name,

the downcast face of a sunflower
after the birds have scoured it.



Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, Flutter, The Rose & Thorn, 2River View, Prairie Poetry, Poetry Bay, Juked, ken*again, and Lily. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.








Soldier Tears
By Kenneth Brown


One night in Iraq a soldier looked to the sky.
He posed a question to God as to why.
"Why all the fighting? I don't understand,"
Was the question he asked, as he stood in the sand.
He searched the heavens high above
Thinking "If we truly are one world, then where is the love?"
And that's when he saw it; shining so bright.
His question answered...a tear fell from his eye.
The kids always known it; now he knew it too,
The Little Dipper flies over, the Middle East too.



Kenneth Brown is an active Duty soldier currently serving in Iraq
He is 37 years of age and comes from Byron, Georgia.









Neither Safe nor Saving
By Martins Iyoboyi


Our leaders are neither safe nor saving
and they have incurred the wrath of the land,
They are safe neither here nor abroad
nor is the hour of their punishment far,
For there is in the land
men and women of wasted days
who have had their collective heritage destroyed
And only wait for a song
to lead the way for expected hopes.
We neither shall be consoled by their imprisonment
nor by the angry words of both the young and old,
But must see to their end
which will not be long in coming
When as they have treated the commoners of the land,
They shall be publicly put to the sword
And all their acolytes and sycophants with them.




Martins Iyoboyi comes from Kano, Nigeria.








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