Two Micropoems by Madelyn Fernandez Marcelino : Environment Special

We Beautify 
Clean blue
River and sky
Monochrome of lush foliage
For they that fly
Stewards of earth
And sky
We all are
Planet we beautify.
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Colourful As Songs
What beauty lies
Within man’s psyche
In this Eden they have kept
Culture, traditions
Colourful as songs
Bahandi of the past
Vibrating through generations.
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© Madelyn Fernandez Marcelino
Iloilo, Phillipines 
madelynfmarcelino@gmail.com

Madelyn Nobleza Fernandez—Marcelino hails from Latagan, Del Pilar,   Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, Philippines. She graduated with  a degree in Bachelor  of  Arts major in English,  minor in Social  Science from the  West Visayas State College (now WVSU)  in  La  Paz, Iloilo City.  She obtained a Diploma in  Teaching  English   from   La Consolacion  University  Philippines-Malolos (LCUP).

Three Micropoems by Priyalakshmi Gogoi : Environment Special

Protect Our Home 

Protect the Earth to protect yourself
The Earth is Our home and we belong to it
Let's not put our future in danger
rather lessen the severities and impacts
Global warming is a warning.

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Divine Mother 

A divine home around us
Nature is our inspiration
Let's all work for its conservation,
Nature is always pristine
Embraces us with its beauty
Let us make efforts to keep it clean.
Preserve and cherish Nature
She is our divine Mother 
Let us protect her and be blessed.

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Garden of Life

Nature is our home
Let us make it beautiful and worth living
for our children where they can breathe freely
Where they learn the value of protecting it
Turning it into a lovely garden of Life.

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© Priyalakshmi Gogoi

Assam, India

priyalakshmigogoi123@yahoo.com

Poetess Priyalakshmi Gogoi has been born and brought up in the beautiful city of Guwahati, Assam in the North East of India. Currently working as a Teacher, she has been writing since her school days and her poems have been published in various newspapers and magazines. Her poetry has also been published in blogs, Instagram, editorial, e- magazine and national and international Anthologies. She has been awarded several times for winning Poetry contests in various literary platforms. She is also a World English Saino Writer and a Gogyokha USA writer. She has been awarded the 75th Independence Day Literary Honor on 15th August, 2021 jointly given by Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Academy in "Recognition of Exhibiting Literary Brilliance Par Global Standards". She has been received Rabindra Nath Tagore Memorial Honour in 2022. She has been awarded Honorary Membership, The Gold Writers Award among others for her Poetic excellence by the prestigious Drukyul Writers Association, Bhutan.

Three Micropoems by Taghrid Bou Merhi : Environment Special

Paper
In its details, half a soul
And the second half
Tree spirit.
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High
Plant a tree
Funchy air chord
Touch her.
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Plastic 
Don `t give up
Not to melt
Between the sun's ribs.
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© Taghrid Bou Merhi
Líbanon/Brazil
taghrid240@gmail.com

Eminent Poetess Taghrid Bou Merhi is a Lebanese Poetess, Writer, Translator.Árabic teacher for non-native speakers. Living in Foz Do Iguaçu Brazil.Editor of AL-ARABE TODAY and ​RAINBOW Magazine. Fluent in Arabic (native language), French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish.She has published 5 collections of poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous international anthologies.She hás translated 8 book.Published in various Literary magazines,journals, anthologies and websites.Her poems have been translated into more than 24 languages.She won the Nizar Sartawi International Translator Award for Creativity 2021 in the field of translation and literature.

Three Micropoems by Zdenka Mlinar : Environment Special

Oh God 
There is no sowing of native fields,
Nor the sowing of love.
From the Mother's womb, evil arises...
Oh, God, save the man;
Save him from the inhumane!
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Wonder
I look, and I wonder:
Am I worthy of You,
How much did I wrong You
How much did I hurt You?
Plain, mountain, river... 
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To Mankind 
Please show some respect, people!
Respect the greatness of the universe,
Respect his generosity,
Give respect to nature's beauty...
People! Respect, PLEASE!
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© Zdenka Mlinar
Croatia
zdenka.mlinar@gmail.com

Zdenka Mlinar (lives and works in Zagreb and Velika Gorica, CROATIA). She writes poetry, prose, and miniatures (aphorisms, haiku ...). She is a member of many cultural associations and societies and has published seven independent collections of poems. She normally writes in Croatian standard, but also takes a challenge of writing in Croatian dialects. Her poetry and haiku works have been published in many international collections and journals, and in several European anthologies, while her haiku works have been included in the Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry in 2018. In 2019, 2020 and 2021 she was selected in the European top 100 most creative haiku authors, and ishe is a member of the world register of the Haiku Foundation. Some of her poems have been translated into Italian and English, while a dozen of them have become lyrics for music songs. She is publishing her works in electronic media and various guest appearances and round tables, and for her work, she has received many letters of appreciation, praise, acknowledgments, diplomas and medals. She is enlisted in The Lexicon of Modern Writers of Velika Gorica in 2006 and 2020.

Two Micropoems by Adriana Rocha : Environment Special

Neighhborhood

Four stations

Four sensations

Four occasions

Four dimensions-

are part of this 

glamorous neighborhood.

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Language of Trees 

In the forest

I surrender,

staying quiet

I listen -

The language of trees.

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© Adriana Claudia Rocha Gomez

Oruro City, Bolivia

yuthielful@gmail.com

Adriana Rocha was born in Bolivia. She is a psychologist. Poetry, photography and educational psychology are her passions. Her journey into the world of words has started in 2019. She has been participating in different literary events in Latin America, Spain, India, Canada, Nigeria and the United States of America.

Four Micropoems by Orbindu Ganga

Thoughts 

Thoughts are caged

Never to breathe,

Eyes couldn't stop

To whisper

In tears.

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Wishes

Blank is furious

Not been seen by any,

The painting wishes-

The rain flushed the colours

To breathe again. 

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Last Time 

Heaved to sign one 

Last time

To say 

I love myself,

Before the dust 

Takes me away.

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Introspection

I whispered to my shadow

To show me the other side

Oblivion to the self,

She gave me the mirror

I read the self. 

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© Orbindu Ganga

orbindo.ganga@gmail.com

Kannur, Kerala, India

About the Poet:-

Orbindu Ganga is the co-founder and editorial research director of an International English Literary Journal – INNSÆI, International Journal of Creative Literature, Art, Translation, and Research for Peace and Humanity (IJCLATRPH). He is a consultant, publisher, author, editor, poet, content writer, painter, researcher, certified life coach, spiritual mentor, and creator of the Subconscious Observation Belief System (SOBS). He has been the featured poet thrice in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 editions of The Year of Poet published by Inner Child Press International Publication from US.

Three Micropoems by Priyalakshmi Gogoi

Dust

This time the petrichor felt different

Like I wanted to rub it all over my skin 

Feeling her words that mingled 

With the dust leaving a trail 

Of her poetic soul.

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Flow into You

There's a brook of emotions 

flowing silently inside me 

Calm yet melancholic

Crooning along the ups and downs 

Flowing to meet you one day...

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What Love is Not

Love is not about domination.

It's not about showing supremacy 

but it's all about how you make 

each other feel at home. 

It's about giving each other that space 

to love oneself and feel the freedom.

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© Priyalakshmi Gogoi

Assam, India

About the Poetess:-

Priyalakshmi Gogoi has been born and brought up in the beautiful city of Guwahati, Assam in the North East of India. Currently working as a Teacher, she has been writing since her school days and her poems have been published in various newspapers and magazines. Her poetry has also been published in blogs, Instagram, editorial, e- magazine and national and international Anthologies. She has been awarded several times for winning Poetry contests in various literary platforms. She is also a World English Saino Writer and a Gogyokha USA writer. She has been awarded the 75th Independence Day Literary Honor on 15th August, 2021 jointly given by Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Academy in "Recognition of Exhibiting Literary Brilliance Par Global Standards". She has been awarded Honorary Membership, The Gold Writers Award among others for her Poetic excellence by the prestigious Drukyul Writers Association, Bhutan.