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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Milenko Županović
Screams In the valley of darkness screams of demons trapped in a cave the way of hell covered with ashes. Shadow The hidden tears of angels in the hearts of the faithful on the hill of Golgotha covered with the shadow of the cross.
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson
Showers & Rain I’d like to see you in showers, shadows, memories, final hours that end this rain. Daisies reveal your simple secrets, yellow perverted pleasures, complicated, often unseen mysteries like COVID-19 virus. Forget your sins & dance with me. All petals at some point fall in season come to despair same as a desperateContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias
BEWITCH hearts dip into death just for a taste, a reprieve from breath, yet now they are lost. skulls flicker with obsession flirt hard with silence, to end its ache. all our burning questions never had the answer; were only distractions from the fact, that timeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen
Tinder Anachronism I imagine Herman Hesse and Anaïs Nin Both swiping right They would meet in a small Paris coffee bar Anaïs would flick the whip cream from her cup Using just the tip of her tongue as punctuation Herman would watch her carefully And finger the Nobel he wears as a cravat Clearing hisContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bhoj Kumar Dhamala
Conviction High morale, boosted status, and superb Style of living makes one feel your better – Off guise and you are in seventh heaven Just a delusion, you are out of it unless You realize who you are the surrounding Goes on after you for what you cannot Afford to offer the poor creature livingContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bhoj Kumar Dhamala”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Christian Garduno
Saint Jerome’s Blues It’s travelling to my heartand the diagnosis, it doesn’t look goodIt’s melting into my veinsand the prognosis, it doesn’t look good I crawled my way to Saint Jeromehe gave me a carafe of red and sent me stumbling homeAnd the next time I see Saint JeromeI’m going to crack his heart ofContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Christian Garduno”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford
“Barracuda”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Anibal Perez Longhi
The Girl Who Watched the River He saw him every day from his window. He was sitting on a bench in the plaza, and perhaps to forget his loneliness, he was feeding the pigeons with the scraps of food that the charity volunteers usually distributed. Elio, it was the beggar’s observer name, opened the window,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Anibal Perez Longhi”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ray Ziemer
Betrayal Another clattering army Crawls the desert Under towering plumes of dust; Another round of artillery fire Shakes the earth, Pounding mud houses Back into the salted earth they sprouted from Smudging a sickly shimmering sky From one uncertain horizon to the other. These ragged families fleeing down the road, Same as all those otherContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ray Ziemer”
