Month: August 2021
Ibrahim Olawale’s Debut – Prisoner of Love resonates for its familiarity
Literature has a way of giving life to our shared human experiences. Love poetry seems to be the most popular poetry since the advent of poetry writing. That’s not unexpected. As humans, we fall in and out of love, experience heartbreak, loss, and false love. The poem that resonated with me most is “Immigrant’s […]
Blood on The Dancefloor elevates the girl-child to a higher pedestal
Reviewed by Creative Titan. Writing about the plight of the girl child, the abuse and rape issues deserve the utmost care and attention because of the sensitive nature of these issues. Who best to bring these to the fore than a writer? Writers have been known to write about the mundane and the heart-wrenching […]
Ode to the Furnace |Robert Penick |Flash Fiction
The absolute best sound on Earth to me is the furnace coming on in winter. There is a click, then a full second of silence, then the whoosh as the gas kicks in and ignites. There is a certain reassurance there, knowing that something is protecting me and I might somehow outlive the night. Perhaps […]
Four Poems|Michael Brockley
Aloha Shirt Noir You retired from asking kindergartners to tell you a synonym for lie. And hung your brand-new P. I. shingle over a studio above a graphic novel store on Highway 13. During your last trip to the fiftieth state, you bought a closet-full of Aloha shirts with Hawaii-5-0 badges adrift on a […]
Two Poems|Claire Williams
Four Poems|Lorraine Caputo
THE AFTERNOON RAINS HAVE COME AGAIN Sometimes it showers an hour before sunset or perhaps between midday & dusk Sometimes the dawn breaks with fog crawling through valleys & narrow streets Sometimes the night with a come-again rain washing down the hills, down the roofs, across the terrace Sometimes a silent […]
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD|John Grey
Three Poems|Parthasarathy Muralidharan
Three Poems|Lynn White
Far Horizons, Distant Dreams Once the light shone so brightly that time and distance stretched for ever, the horizon at infinity strung with the pearls of distant dreams. And in between a hinterland of possibilities just waiting to be grasped. But then, as the light dimmed, time and distance collapsed inwards dragging the horizon […]