Three Micropoems by Karmelina Angelika Kelenc

Odyssey of Hvar

You are a delicate flower

Generous and good

Noble in soul like a true king

You are an odyssey of the Croatian seas

Cili hvar has known you for a long time...!

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The Sea Embraces Me

Blue sea, you receive me

and embrace with his wave

to know you in depth

as I know you with sorrow

because I didn’t know why

where my gold resides

seventy-six times

lighted roads please!

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Love

My heart goes out to you when you walk

And when you invite me to your place

When you look at me with your eyes

And when you tell me a lip ric-

"L'Amour C'est Toi,

L'Amour C'est Moi,

My dearest love!"

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© Karmelina Angelika Kelenc

Zagreb Croatia

stojabojana8@gmail.com

Karmelina Angelika Kelenc was born in 1966. She is a painter and singer-songwriter. She writes and sings songs that are dedicated to God, her homeland and love.

Four Micropoems by Santosh Kumar Pokharel

I Am Not for Him
He was mine before
He was unaware of me.
And now I am not for him
He cried out loud 
His crying I will flaut
I won't him applaud. 
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Wait
He was very unhappy
As no one recognized him.
Wait for tomorrow morning 
I will tell you,
The sun knows everything.
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On the Mountain-Peak 
There was a light on the mountain-peak 
And another at the feet
Both were different qualities 
Got enlightened those
Who ventured climb up high
Were enlightened too, who didn’t.
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So
I was and was not
You were as your cause you got
I had no cause 
So, I was and was not.
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© Santosh Kumar Pokharel
Bhaktapur, Nepal
poetsantosh@gmail.com

Santosh Kumar Pokharel is a renowned multilingual poet and writer from Nepal. He has published five books of his original poetry collections, the latest being THE WAR AND OTHER POEMS. International awardee of Anton Chekhov International Award from Russia, N.Gogol International Award from Ukraine, People's Diplomacy International Award from Kazakhstan, the Best International Poet Award from China, the Golden Writer of the world Award from ten countries and many international recognitions, he writes in Nepali, English, Russian, Hindi, and Maithili and Tharu alongside. His poems range from soft lyrical to grave metaphysical, and most of his themes are peace, love, and human hunger.

Three Micropoems by Nishat Jabeen

My Fancy Prayers 

My fancy prayers 

Will be banished 

In the caprices of curse 

All my yellings will be ignored 

Once and for all!

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Essence 

At once 

You turned around

Like fleeting fluffy clouds 

For next terminus 

I scorched my essence 

In the furnace 

of fuming past!

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Come Back

O' master 

You're a real brainiac  

Mesmerized me by your mastery 

Of saying silent goodbyes 

Alas! How silly im 

Fails to learn every time,

Will you come back 

For a last while

I bet you

I'll repeat you accurately 

This time!

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© Nishat Jabeen

Riyad, Saudi Arabia 

Nishat Jabeen a poet from Hyderabad, India works in a reputed school in the capital city of Saudi Arabia. She weaves huesome emotions that are deeply felt. She portrays her imaginations in short and terse verses in a poetic trance. Her eagerness to capture the nerve of grief and vast language of pain can be observed in her compacted and condensed lines where words flux finely and well-tuned.

Three Haiku by Tohm Bakelas

blow smoke at the moon,  
hammer the sun in the sky,  
to live is to die!
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i want to live where  
the weather is a steady  
sixty-four degrees!
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pat’s cat has one eye—  
a bastard born for no one—  
now both are complete!  
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© Tohm Bakelas
New Jersey, USA 
tohm.bakelas@gmail.com

Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey and resides there. His poems have been printed widely in journals, zines, and online publications all over the world. He is the author of twenty-five chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including "Cleaning the Gutters of Hell" (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). He is the editor of Between Shadows Press.

Three Micropoems by Dr. Alok Kumar Ray

Sipping Tea

Teetotaler I turned not by choice rare

Sipping tea with you tested nightmare

Gap exists amidst lips and the cup; isn't fair and square!

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Glee

In a semi-nude night

Dews gather on broken tree bough;

Lone leaf glows in glee.

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Task

Task may be Herculean, I am an ordinary man

I can quieten the audacity of the Satan

Simply and cumbersome, just getting started I do yean.

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© Dr. Alok Kumar Ray 

Kendrapara, Odisha, India

alokray1966@gmail.com

Dr.Alok Kumar Ray is a bilingual poet (writes in both Odia and English) and  hails from Kendrapara district of Odisha. By profession he is a lecturer and teaches Political Science to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Books on Political Science written by him are being taught to students of Odisha and Assam. A great number of poems authored by him have been published in many national and international level anthologies, newspapers, tabloids and magazines. He has attended a number of regional, national and international poetry meets in recent past. Many organisations and online  poetry forums have awarded him merit certificates, citations and literary rewards. Till now he has authored two poetry anthologies (one in Odia and the other in English) and edited one international standard bilingual poetry anthology.

Three Micropoems by James Tian (Tian Yu)

Dream

No matter in dream or not,

Which is like the sound of spring,

Pretend that no one can solve it.

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The Night Road

Tonight, where there’s the moon,

There are no stars,

Gently, only the sound of leaves falling.

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The Story of the Autumn

The story of the autumn,

Lying in the palm of my hand,

Live in my dreams.

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© James Tian (Tian Yu)

Manila, Philippines 

tianjames17@gmail.com

Poet James Tian (Tian Yu), born in 1994 in Tai'an City, Shandong Province, now lives in the Philippines. He is editor-in-chief and exclusive interview poet in Serbian Alia Mundi magazine, Chinese edition. He is one of top ten new poets of the 2020 and 2021, Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala. The monograph "Flying the Sky" Tian Yu's Modern Poetry Selection and other books have been published and distributed by the International Cultural Publishing Company.

Three Micropoems by Umutkan Eralieva Polotovna

A Circle Turned Into the Moon 

Taking a compass in my hands, 

I drew a circle,

Painted it yellow, my friend.

My circle looks like the sun and the moon,

So beautiful, I won't change it.

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Two Bunnies 

Two bunnies are gluttons,

They compete with each other

And half a bag of carrots

They eat and don't worry.

Voracious heroes

And they wiggle their ears,

In winter, what will they eat?

They don't know themselves.

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Brother 

Top-top, my little brother,

My nice, my funny.

Steps, come on, we'll count

Top-top, now we'll find out everything.

A thousand steps at a time,

You will be happy and healthy.

You will become a hero, well done

We will be proud later.

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© Eralieva Umutkan Polotovna 

Kyrgyzstan

umutay.eralieva68@yahoo.com

Poetess Eralieva Umutkan Polotovna is a member of the National Union of Writers of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Union of Journalists of Kyrgyzstan, the Union of Writers of North America, the Eurasian Creative Guild (London). She is representative of the Barcelona International Organization of Writers and Artists CIESART in Kyrgyzstan,  Member of the International Literary Platform Eliasshagar World in Macedonia and Academician of the ALEGRO Academy in Brazil. She is also Literary editor of the English-language electronic magazine Kavya Kishore (Bangladesh). She is Director of the International online publication SKILARK Poetry International SPI (Bangladesh) in Kyrgyzstan. She is winner of more than 110 awards. She is a poet, writer, publicist. She is author of ten books and mother of four children.