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Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse and other poems (including Adjunct Exit Interview, Kenyon College)

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Il Momento di Dire: "Basta!" di Irma Kurti: Una Voce Forte che Risuona contro il Dolore e la Resilienza. Recensione di Alessandria today

Una poesia che esplora la complessità del perdono e la ricerca di un'autenticità interiore.

Una poesia che esplora la complessità del perdono e la ricerca di un’autenticità interiore. “Il Momento di Dire: ‘Basta!'” di Irma Kurti è una poesia che esprime con forza e intensità il bisogno di mettere fine a situazioni dolorose e di recuperare la propria dignità. Pubblicata da Lothlorien Poetry Journal il 16 ottobre 2024, l’opera è un invito a riconoscere i limiti del perdono e a non…

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This story was published today.

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Hello! It seems @autumnwoodsdreamer is a mutual acquaintance and fellow zebra. Where may I read your poetry?

Hi there friend!!

Wow, it's so nice to meet another Zebra on here! And I'm so excited that you asked about my poetry, because I'm going to start posting more of it here on Tumblr!

Here are some of my poems have been published online:

Thorin Oakenshield Reads 'The Old Man and The Sea'

102.5, A Drunken One-Night Stand With Emily Dickinson's Grave, my love for you is a knot, Phoenician Boats

Bluebeard, My Dear (Issue 4, pg 51-54)

Thorin Oakenshield and I Get Stoned and Listen to Mozart and David Bowie, The Boxer (Or, What Survived the Fire), An Elegy Upon Parting From Long-Held Griefs

Self-Analysis, Elegy, Stripe-Child, Burn (these poems are specifically about being a zebra!)

Sarai's Tree, Through the Mountains

I also had some bangers published with the FIVE : 2 : ONE #sideshow, but they took the website down--might just have to rehome them!

My most recent project is trying to get my book published--the book that features the Thorin Oakenshield poems in sage cigarettes and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. No luck so far, but it'll get there. (I Hope)

Thank you so much for asking, and I hope you enjoy! :)

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Five Poems by Prof. Ram Krishna Singh (R. K. Singh)

Five Poems:

BODY’S NO PICNIC

Not too many issues

yet enough to upset

the mind of men and women

in postlapsarian world:

she blames me for changing size

shifting shape and cracking bones

aching joints and sleeplessness

menopausal ups and downs

she kicks me out of bed

saying my body’s no picnic

I know it’s difficult

to be a woman and wife

working and making home

I may be no saint

in your eyes but I never

tried to remake you

in my own or God’s image

I can’t give birth like you

nor can I stop the changes in you

I’ve no miracle pill

Your  body, your anger

I love you as you are

let’s carry no useless weight

TOO FAR THE SUN’S SKY

Perfumeless my bustan

I couldn’t be a letter of the masters

passed years in the soul’s waste

to be what I could never be

the few bonuses now burden

like the body’s sickness stick dust

the wrinkled skin, the holes in vests

herald sorrows of Venus

too far the sun’s sky to borrow

warmth to keep the rose smelling

A MUTED VOICE

I can’t hear my self

their  noises erase my world

choices are denied—

questions of being wound me

courage and strength fade away

they mute my voice

distract us from the truth

crowns change with the wind

and they play chess with our lives

they feed us dust and potions

in their new temples

arouse their magic deities

make us yell loud

and hang us upside down

POLITICS OF DECEPTION

Roaring guns and flying bombs

pronounce total death on earth

the world withers away with

the suns of science, challenging

the universe and time with

cankerous creations

viral revolution

racial elimination

structures of deception

media and power traps

in the name of faith and past

bullying the masses, seek

fresh promises, renewed

enthusiasm wrapped in

a dream scroll mythologized

to spotlight a Trump, Modi

Putin or Netanyahu

tap national consciousness

for divine descent to make

life happen once again

CHEERS!

There they tuck into turkey dinners

here  we talk about free light and water

politics of thanksgiving for more

polarization, more separation

more violence, more religion, more freedom

in the new temple make more pockmarks

to start afresh fiction of wonder

crowning wolves as gods and goddesses

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RAYS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Raymond Turco is a profound exploration of shifting moods, personal history, and collective memory. This evocative chapbook of #poems navigates the contrasting landscapes of light and darkness, reflecting the ever-changing #human #experience amidst a background of blending world cultures. From the immigrant struggles depicted in the section “From the Old World to the New” to the whimsical yet poignant reflections in the section “Hearty Laughs and Heavy Sighs,” Turco masterfully captures the ebb and flow of our #emotions. Many of the poems delve into themes of identity, family, and illness, portraying a spectrum of moods that oscillate between hope and despair. The material of the book traverses various settings, from the depths of the sea to the heights of the constellations. Through the vivid stories of characters like the haunting protagonist in “Cosimina,” Turco paints a rich tapestry of moments that highlight both the darkest shadows and the brightest rays of light in the #human #condition.

Raymond Alexander Turco is a poet and playwright born in Hackensack, NJ, USA. He writes poems in English and Italian and has a special affinity for European history, travel, surrealism, magical realism, and absurdism. The author of nine stageplays, he has published his poetry in the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and with Bordighera Press, among others.

PRAISE FOR Rays of Light and Darkness by Raymond Turco

In Rays of Light and Darkness, Raymond Turco takes us on an extended journey from myth, through Nature, which he has an omnipresent love for, across many countries (“Prague is the city of the future, of the past”) into his soul. His knowledge is overarching. In one poem he goes from Foucault to Woody Allen, not missing a beat. He delineates the consciousness of those around him — Grandfather, Grandmother, and so on – and in “The Shepherd of Many Turns”, the speaker says that when he dies, he will reanimate as plants, animals and dust. “In the end – we are all alone on a Sunday stroll.” Turco has penned a brilliant collection of words!

–Ron Kolm, contributing editor of Sensitive Skin, author of The Bookstore Book: A Memoir (Pink Trees Press, 2023)

Raymond Turco‘ s poetry is rooted in Italian and Italian-American culture and moves from poems of family, immigrant experience, and love to the wider world of Italian cities and culture. They are imbued with a deep existential loneliness. A number of them end with surprising bursts of passion and self-revelation. One of the best of them is “Cosimina”, with its insight into the suffering of its lonely heroine: “And I wonder if I may ever have the courage to ask in a silent room, ‘When is dinner coming ’round?’” Turco also has a gift for dramatic immediacy… [and has the] ability to create a dramatic situation and carry it through, [reaching] beyond the personal lyric with the use of myth.

–Michael Graves, Preparing the Apology (Nirala Publications, 2021)

Raymond Turco’s poetry chapbook, Rays of Light and Darkness, takes you on a marvelous journey “from the Old World to the New” where this journey begins in rich imagery and riveting, poetic storytelling verse. The poem “Cosimina” will tug at your heart strings (“when is dinner coming ‘round”) while heaviness and lightness can be felt in “Youth Left Out in the Rain” and “Pseudobulbar and Jelly” respectively. This poetic journey ends in places of the heart while dwelling in wonderful cities, countrysides and lands in the section “The Belpaese and Beyond.” Lovely are the words of this poetry chapbook.

–Jerry T Johnson, Winner of the 2020 Evening Street Press Sinclair Poetry Prize

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Five Poems on Lothlorien Poetry Journal

(Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff) I’m overjoyed to announce that all five poems that I sent to Lothlorien Poetry Journal were …Five Poems on Lothlorien Poetry Journal

[arizonawriter]

I'm overjoyed to announce that five of my poems have been published on Lothlorien Poetry Journal.

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Mojo by Nolcha Fox

Where did my mojo go?I thought I strappedit to my back,or glued it to my chest.A rocket ship,a charm, a curse,I’m nothingdoing no oneany goodwithout my mojo.If you see it,please return it.Zinging, zapping.Mojo. . BIO: Nolcha’s poems have been curated in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Alien Buddha Zine, Medusa’s Kitchen, and others. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press.…

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Erato

Pleased to have my poem up at the Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Here is the poem:  Erato I searched the townand finally found her at that ramshackle café. with the tin roofnext to the boarded-uptrain station. It was teeming—the rainy season just begunand how anyone could stand that racket was beyondmy ken—but she sat at a counter in the corner of the shackmuttering prompts into her…

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Published : 2 poems in Lothlorien Journal

I’m thrilled to share two of my poems published in th Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Both poems are centered around art. The first one is from the point of view of a novice artist and the second, is an ekphrastic poem based on the painting Bathers at Asnières’ by Georges Pierre Seurat.Here are a few lines from both the poems The Novice Artist There is an easel in the living roombeside…

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Thanks to Mark for this great spread of my poems. Includes one of my three Sheltering Sky poems and a childhood poem about moving. Image of Debra Winger in film The Sheltering Sky.

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I am pleased to share that five of my poems appear in Masks of Many Colours, Volume 20 of Lothlorien Journal, which is now available to purchase on Lulu. Look at this gorgeous cover art!

Link to purchase: https://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marcus-jones/lothlorien-poetry-journal-volume-20/paperback/product-52e7p9.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

You can read the five poems on Lothlorien online, “Medusa Browses the Beauty Aisle,” “The Ghost Forest,” “Curse of the Spider Woman,” “Snakes and Boxes,” and “Root.” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/01/five-poems-by-lauren-scharhag.html

Many thanks to editor Strider Marcus Jones!

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"Created Responses To This Day" Petar Penda responds to Day 189 of my This Day images. I would love to feature your responses too.

“Created Responses To This Day” Petar Penda responds to Day 189 of my This Day images. I would love to feature your responses too.

Bio Petar Penda is a professor of English and American literature (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina), literary critic, and translator. His translations have been published in renowned journals in the USA and the UK. His poetry and flash fiction have been published in “Fevers of the Mind”, “Lothlorien Poetry Journal”, “A Thin Slice of Anxiety”, “Trouvaille Review”, ” Amphora”, and…