Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 29
Amplified Voices in the Murmurs of Infinity
October 2023 Continued - Early November 2023
BUY PRINTED BOOK
Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 29 – Amplified Voices in the Murmurs of Infinity. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 72 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors whose voices are amplified in the murmurs of infinity. Immerse yourself in poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots, a single particle among billions. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe.
Yayoi Kusama – Portrait 2015
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire
Nature is a temple where the living pillars
Let go sometimes a blurred speech—
A Forest of symbols passes through a man's reach
And observes him with a familiar regard.
Like the distant echoes that mingle and confound
In a unity of darkness and quiet
Deep as the night, clear as daylight
The perfumes, the colours, the sounds correspond.
The perfume is as fresh as the flesh of an infant
Sweet as an oboe, green as a prairie
—And the others, corrupt, rich and triumphant
Enlightened by the things of infinity,
Like amber, musk, benzoin and incense
That sing, transporting the soul and sense.
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
October 2023 Continued – Poetry and Fiction
Wendy Webb
1. Turning the Tide 17-20
2. Sticks & Stones, Sorry – Won’t
3. Right Joke, Wrong Town
4. Love on the Marshy Horizon
5. Telestich Places Rocks on View (Acrostic)
Steen W. Rasmussen
1. God Is A Place 21-22
2. A Pointless Poem
3. Soulspotting
Margaret Duda
1. The Chaos of Butterflies 23-25
2. Above the Old County Jail
Darren Lynch
1. Astral Holdings 26-29
2. Words
3. Violet Mirrors
4. Beyond
5. An Artist
Hedy Habra
1. Or What Else Could We Do But Raise Our Hands? 29-33
2. Hall of Mirrors
3. I Always Knew I Was a Sibyl at Heart
4. Vanishing Point
Kushal Poddar
1. The Lunar Triumph 34-35
2. After Reading Stephen King
3. Twilight Evolution
Meg Freer
1. Final Petal 36-39
2. Voices for Whom All Is Dark
3. June Blues
4. Wanting Times of Anticipation
5. Tag Team
Ryan Borchers
1. The Feast – Flash Fiction Story 39-40
Angela Hoffman
1. Welcome the Inevitable 40-42
2. I’ll Wear My Magenta
3. I’ll Be Your Brown
4. Wild Things
5. You’re My Window
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
1. Stumbles, Ambushes and Spells 43-47
2. Fallen into Oblivion
3. Days of Fury
4. Fears and Feelings
5. Passage to Paradise
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Faith, Hope and Charity 47-49
2. Make believe world
Joshua St. Claire
1. Ten Haiku Poems 49-51
James Croal Jackson
1. Operatic Pop 51-54
2. Cashing Out
3. Megan Visits Pittsburgh
4. Wall-Pounding Street-Squawking
5. Forty Years from Now
Lynda Tavakoli
1. For Those Who Wait – Short Story 54-59
Douglas G. Cala
1. Orwellian Tale 60-63
2. Unfolding
3. Byproduct of Tutelage
4. Methodical Moriarty
Karen O’Leary & Paul Callus (Collaboration)
1. Five Tan-Renga Poems 64-65
Joseph Bernard Shaw
1. Where Living Was 66-69
2. Dream House
3. To the Moon
4. Starboy
Jeanna Ní Ríordáin
1. Upward Mobility 70
2. Crossing the Channel
Mark Young
1. The Soft Machine 71-72
2. aka The Song Dynasty
3. Café terrier
4. The Super Bowl Winner Sat on the Grass
5. Trip Wire Sentience
J.B. Hogan
1. The Burden of Expectation 73-74
2. The Illusion of Success
3. The Triumph of Failure
Farideh Hassanzadeh
1. Isn’t It Enough? 74-78
2. Pen Pal Poem
3. A woman’s desk
4. That Dark Side of the Cities
5. Posthumous poem: Memories of a dead woman from
walking in her city
John Grey
1. In the Far North of New Hampshire 78-83
2. The Mist Is
3. Her Physical World
4. The Child I Used to Be
5. The Wait
Madeleine French
1. Paper Piecing 83-85
2. Sol y Sombra
3. Slicing Strawberries
Les Wicks
1. The Day Before an Election 85-91
2. Chicken Little
3. Wand Chalice Book & Blade
4. An Aspiration for Firmaments
5. There’s talk about the newest wave…
Mykyta Ryzhykh
1. Five Untitled Poems 91-92
Michael Ceraolo
1. Eight Weeks: A Play of Voices 93-100
Duane Vorhees
1. For All My Friends 100-103
2. This Vessel Is Only
3. At This, Our Nuremberg
4. Jeremiah? PollyAnna?
5. Re-Sartour Resartus
Danielle Riccardi
1. Dreamwork & the Self 103-104
Michael McCormick
1. Poker night 104-105
River West
1. The Glass Man 105
j. lewis (Jim Lewis)
1. on the anniversary of my death 106-110
2. breakfast of champions
3. i am riding a dead horse home
4. colour drought
5. scraping the barrel’s bottom
Susan Waters
1. There is an Autumn Within Us 111-112
2. No
3. The Lie
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Heroes’ Odyssey 112-116
2. After Bubble-Wrap
3. Pickings
4. Flushed
5. Father Wept
Kelly Moyer
1. The Remove 116-118
2. Limerence
3. Sleep Well
Terry Wheeler
1. last supper 118-122
2. krishnamurti farewells annie besant
3. papal bulls
4. stum
5. patrick bourke
Tina Negus
1. Bewitched? 122-124
2. Hobbit Questions
3. Hobbity Hill
R.P. Singletary
1. Nimble up there – Short Story 125-126
Lara Dolphin
1. How to find Yeston and Kopit’s Phantom 126-129
2. How to Find the Tree that Owns Itself
3. [She Sails Off to the Cab]
4. Brandolini’s Climate
5. Invocation Over Athelas
Keith Snow
1. Egg Roles 129-130
2. The Glaring
3. Visceral
John Yamrus
1. Paul 130-134
2. he found her
3. her mouth
4. Tina
Teresa Godfrey
1. Five Haiku Poems 134-136
2. Words
3. Inside the Earth
4. Song
Derek Thomas Dew
1. Totality 136-139
2. Frozen Entrees
3. Drip Gas Fever
4. Survivor Guilt
5. Striking, Strikeon
Roisin Browne
1. Malachy – Flash Fiction 140-141
Christopher Barnes – Epigrams in Mist
1. Ubiquitous Entertainment 142-144
2. Food Minus Thought
3. Unctuous Organism
4. Take the Air
5. Bailiff’s Budget
Shamik Banerjee – Five Sonnets
1. In Autumn 144-146
2. On My Disappointment From a Surmise
3. A Dissociation
4. Gulmarg Valley
5. If I Consider Winter As My Foe
Jennifer Gurney
1. Ten Short Form Poems 147-148
Nolo Segundo
1. When I Leave You 149-157
2. Memories Travel Without the Weight of Time
3. In My Grandmother’s Day
4. An Aging Wife
5. A Child and Eternity
6. What to Tell the Children
7. What Poetry Is
Myrtle Thomas
1. The Scent of Autumn and Love 157-159
2. Dust and Roses
3. Found Between a Net of Stars and Footprints
Eric Robert Nolan
1. Essay – Requiescat in Pace – Dennis Williamson 160-162
Henry Wolstat
1. On the Acela 162-164
2. Spirit of the Peddler
3. Aging Thoughts
Santosh Bakaya
1. The Ramblings of a Forgotten Wordsmith 164-168
2. The Rooster of Memory
3. And Time Scurried Past
4. Do I Really Matter?
Francisc Edmund Balogh
1. Invoking 169-171
2. Your tower
3. Flowers of twilight
4. It is snowing
5. Late thrills
John Harold Olson
1. 7 and Albatross 172
Shoshauna Shy
1. The Thrice-Divorced Woman in the Locker Room 173-177
Braids Her Hair
2. Electricity
3. The Artist Arrives to Pack Up Her Show, Learns
Nothing Sold
4. Homemade from Scratch
5. The “Chosen” Child Chooses
Marc Isaac Potter
1. Yellow Truck 177-184
2. Homage to My Mother
3. Wyoming
4. Postulation
5. Making Progress
Rick Hartwell
1. Inevitable Judas 184-185
Joan Leotta
1. The Language of a Leaf Bouquet 185-188
2. Listening to Trees
3. Stormy Day Stillness
Chris Butler
1. I was written by AI 188-190
2. Orange Orangutan
3. Blue Balloon
4. Truth
5. Death is Not the End
Wilda Morris
1. Walking Guanajuato 191-195
2. Hot Chocolate at la Biblioteca
3. Souvenirs of Mexico
4. Picnicking in Rural Mexico, 2007
5. Florrie Finds Me in Mexico
Jack D. Harvey
1. Icarus Reduced 196-201
2. Socrates Said
3. Steinmetz
Sherry Steiner
1. The Key of A 201-202
Jim Meirose
1. Discovery of a Wonderfully Wild New Planet 203-204
Short Story
Early November 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Marieta Maglas
1. Still Living 205-207
2. Losing Hope
Edward Lee
1. What Is 207-208
2. A Danger Only To Myself, But Still a Danger
3. In Your Eyes
Lynn White
1. Once There Were Fairies 209-211
2. Fairies
3. Magic
4. Never Never Land
Greg Patrick
1. To Harvest the Fair 212-215
Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Five Tan-Renga Poems - Collaboration 216-217
Ken Gosse
1. Verbena by Any Other Scent Would Smell So 218-220
Sweet
2. Seasonal Greetings
3. Unsteeling His Nerves
4. Oh Dear Mama (To Me She Is So Wonderful!)
Angel Edwards
1. The Ghost of the Ghost Train 221
2. Haiku
Jahnavi Gogoi
1. July – Villanelle Poem 222
Nolo Segundo
1. Poet Eternal - Essay 223-226
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
October 2023 Continued – Poetry and Fiction
Wendy Webb
Steen W. Rasmussen
Margaret Duda
Darren Lynch
Hedy Habra
Kushal Poddar
Meg Freer
Ryan Borchers
Angela Hoffman
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Snigdha Agrawal
Joshua St. Claire
James Croal Jackson
Lynda Tavakoli
Douglas G. Cala
Karen O’Leary & Paul Callus (Collaboration)
Joseph Bernard Shaw
Jeanna Ní Ríordáin
Mark Young
J.B. Hogan
Farideh Hassanzadeh
John Grey
Madeleine French
Les Wicks
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Michael Ceraolo
Duane Vorhees
Danielle Riccardi
Michael McCormick
River West
j. lewis (Jim Lewis)
Susan Waters
Stephen Kingsnorth
Kelly Moyer
Terry Wheeler
Tina Negus
R.P. Singletary
Lara Dolphin
Keith Snow
John Yamrus
Teresa Godfrey
Derek Thomas Dew
Roisin Browne
Christopher Barnes – Epigrams in Mist
Shamik Banerjee – Five Sonnets
Jennifer Gurney
Nolo Segundo
Myrtle Thomas
Eric Robert Nolan
Henry Wolstat
Santosh Bakaya
Francisc Edmund Balogh
John Harold Olson
Shoshauna Shy
Marc Isaac Potter
Rick Hartwell
Joan Leotta
Chris Butler
Wilda Morris
Jack D. Harvey
Sherry Steiner
Jim Meirose
Early November 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Marieta Maglas
Edward Lee
Lynn White
Greg Patrick
Christina Chin & Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Ken Gosse
Angel Edwards
Jahnavi Gogoi
Nolo Segundo
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 28
Messengers
September 2023 Continued - Early October 2023
BUY PRINTED BOOK
Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 28 – Messengers. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 73 superb poets and fiction authors as metaphysical messengers on the road. Immerse yourself in poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Love is the way messengers
from the mystery tell us things
I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
Old and New
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago
He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets.
Every new machine would have surprised him—
The car, TV, radio, phone, camera.
He would've thought he was a savage
Who didn't understand.
If he saw a computer,
Watching people talking on the internet,
He would have thought it was a civilization
Much more advanced and ahead of his.
And if he stayed longer among the messengers
He would have learned that every child had the knowledge
And understanding of these things
Or how to use all of them.
Yet, after a while, he would have noticed
That none of them were advanced enough
To be labelled as those who know more
Than the one who said: I know nothing.
Messenger
By Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
POETS & FICTION AUTHORS
September 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Gordon Ferris
Barbara Di Sacco
John Yamrus
Sharon Waller Knutson
Russell Dupont
Snigdha Agrawal
Zak Wardell
David Chorlton
Wayne F. Burke
Michael Durack
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
Duane Vorhees
Royal Rhodes
Dr Mona Bedi
Duane L. Herrmann
Steve Klepetar
Sarah Das Gupta
Rustin Larson
Wendy Webb
John Drudge
Angela Townsend
John Doyle
Patricia Walsh
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Simon MacCulloch
Tina Negus
Sushant Thapa
Kushal Poddar
David Alec Knight
Kim Olmtak Gomes & Christina Chin
Dallas Lee
Mary Bone
Wayne Garry Fife
Matthew James Friday
Neil Higgins
Deborah A. Bennett
Tony Dawson
Paul Tristram
Carla Maria Kovsca
Ken Gosse – Six Epitaffies
Elizabeth Weiss
Allen Ashley
Christian Ward
Nancy Machlis Rechtman
Frederick Pollack
J.J. Campbell
Tohm Bakelas
Kathryn MacDonald
J.D. Isip
Angel Edwards
Damon Hubbs
Emily Bilman
Robert Witmer
Andrea Damic
Gifford Savage
Clive Aaron Gill
Louis Efron
Dana Trick
Robert Cooperman
Jamal Uddin
Charley Chow
Early October 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Kenneth M. Kapp
Cliff Wedgbury
Jay Simpson & Randy Barnes
Nina Zivancevic
Greg Patrick
David Jibson
Alec Solomita
Mandy Beattie
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
September 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Gordon Ferris
1. Beauty’s Kiss 17-19
2. Safe Fantasy
3. Winter Comes
Barbara Di Sacco
1. Feet like rocks 19-24
2. Garconniere
3. Space time
4. The Pizzica
John Yamrus
1. the woman 24-27
2. he stuck his
3. nobody
4. the only books
5. the hurt
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Toddler Houdini 27-32
2. Octogenarian Cowboy
3. Ballad of Big Bad Bob
4. Cousins
5. Some Have It. Some Don’t.
Russell Dupont
1. A Muffled Voice 32-36
2. On The Road
3. Past Or Prologue
4. One Red Shoe
5. So Now
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Upon Your Breast 37-39
2. Faithful Friend
3. Checkmate
Zak Wardell
1. Double A sides 39-42
2. Bogeymen
3. 1981 Space Odyssey
David Chorlton
1. Spider Rock 42-45
2. Trading Post
3. Land Alive
4. Navajo Dusk
5. Reservation Midnight
Wayne F. Burke
1. Emily Dickinson 46-48
2. Clouds
3. N.C. (1926-68)
4. Broke Back
5. Bang
Michael Durack
1. Second Place 48-51
2. Agnostic
3. Writing Poems
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
1. A Gymnast Disrobes the Universe 51-57
2. A libidinous cat
3. In your hands
4. Inamorato Travels Through the Seasons & Thunderstorms
5. Amorino Breathing
Duane Vorhees
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 57-59
2. Confessions
3. Dowser
4. Properties
5. Persistent Relevance of Etymology
Royal Rhodes
1. Remember, body… 60-63
2. The Man Who Lost His Shadow
3. Sundown
4. The Call
5. The Pardon
Dr Mona Bedi
1. Haiku 64
Duane L. Herrmann
1. The World Once 65-68
2. Twilight Transition
3. How to Eat a Book
4. Missing Myself
5. Midnight Softens
Steve Klepetar
1. All My Other Lives 68-70
2. House Fire
3. The Centaur’s Blood
Sarah Das Gupta
1. Puck, by any other name… 70-73
2. Beware the Hare!
3. It is dark here
4. Midsummer 1595 (Prose Poem)
Rustin Larson
1. Flower Mountain 74-79
2. Back to Sleep
3. Black
4. Sparky
5. McChild McMartin
6. Random Episodes of the Time Tunnel
Wendy Webb
1. Strange Meeting 80-84
2. Bee Sparking ashes
3. June’s Cold (Pantoum)
4. Bringing Woodland Indoors/Out (Pantoum)
5. Sailing into the Storm (Pantoum)
John Drudge
1. Damned 85-87
2. Long Roads
3. No Hate
4. Gone
5. Misfire
6. Racing
Angela Townsend
1. Chew on This – Flash Fiction 88-90
John Doyle
1. Bernard 91-97
2. Fugazi
3. Paris Junk, 1979
4. Two Red Lights on the Tail Wagon of the Liner
5. Vivian
6. Sometimes Eugene Landy Got it Right
Patricia Walsh
1. Fearless Praying 97-100
2. Acquired Tattoo
3. Trip Switch
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Never Marry a Cashier… 100-103
2. The Girl with the Driftwood Legs
3. 4 Windows
4. You’re Going to Wreck Mommy’s High
5. The Tattoo Matcher of Jalisco
6. The Night of the Tequila
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. The Other Option 104-110
2. Untitled Poem
3. Neither This Nor That
Simon MacCulloch
1. The Tree of Life 111-115
2. Sun Bird
3. Crock of Gold
4. Effusion
5. Jack O’Lantern
Tina Negus
1. Dolmen at St. Vivien 115-118
2. Green Man, green mysteries
3. Peacocks
Sushant Thapa
1. Aesthetics 119-120
Kushal Poddar
1. The Ancestral Serpent Hibernates 120-122
2. Club Underground
3. The railings
4. The Way We Realise the Facts About Our Families
David Alec Knight
1. I Knew Your Beauty Then 122-125
Kim Olmtak Gomes & Christina Chin
1. Tan-Renga Poems – Collaboration 126-127
Dallas Lee
1. Book of Paper and Ink 127-129
2. Dear Elvis in Heaven
3. Milky Way Band
4. Vulture Religion
Mary Bone
1. The Outcast 130
2. Baggage
Wayne Garry Fife
1. The King’s Decision – Short Story 131-133
Matthew James Friday
1. Fishing for Poems 134-136
2. Something Wonderful this Way Comes
3. The Moth
Neil Higgins
1. Death’s Corner 137-138
2. Infused
3. The Siren’s Song
Deborah A. Bennett
1. Five Haiku Poems 139
Tony Dawson
1. Death of a Plumber – Flash Fiction 140-142
Paul Tristram
1. Another Ritual Down 143-146
2. Ponies x’s 3, & my friend Jessica (a Landscape Oil..Canvas)
3. Anti-Public
4. Old Woman Falling Off a Balcony
5. Ambivalent Catacombs
Carla Maria Kovsca
1. Nuvolario – Short Story 147-152
Ken Gosse – Six Epitaffies
1. A Fading Glimmerick 152-153
2. Quoth the Maven Nevermore
3. Breathless in Anticipation
4. Don’t Beat Your Wife!
5. Good Riddance
6. A Token Farewell
Elizabeth Weiss
1. My Mother As Warrior For God 154-158
2. Saratoga Racetrack
3. My Mother on the Soccer Field
4. After Fifty
5. Lost FootagE
Allen Ashley
1. My Mirror Never Lies – Flash Fiction 159-161
Christian Ward
1. Tiger 162-163
2. Uprooted are the trees with forgotten names
3. Don’t judge me with your owl-faced periscope
4. Hunting for beginners
Nancy Machlis Rechtman
1. Riding the Tilt-A-Whirl 164-166
2. Saving Myself
Frederick Pollack
1. Attempt 167-171
2. The High Point
3. Option
4. The Civilian
5. Goof
J.J. Campbell
1. a partially full moon 172-176
2. the stupid teenage shit
3. you would have locked it
4. all the tricks and treats
5. having been a child
Tohm Bakelas
1. Ten Short Form Poems 177-178
Kathryn MacDonald
1. She Sings Only at Twilight 179-182
2. Company of Wayfarers
3. A Blizzard Blows
4. Phantasm
5. Beloved
J.D. Isip
1. Imagine 183-186
2. Frog and Toad Are Friends
3. Impressionism
4. The Walking Dead
5. Sharks in the Streets
Angel Edwards
1. Last days of summer 187
2. Haiku – Strawberry Moon Glow
Damon Hubbs
1. My Irish Poet Friends Sure Don’t Smile at Saratoga 188-191
2. Riddle of Steel
3. Dog Star
4. On Our Way
Emily Bilman
1. Intermezzo, a dream 192-194
2. A reminiscence
3. Antagonist
Robert Witmer
1. A Pigeon Is a Dove 194-197
2. Dreadful Speech
3. The Dew’s Sweet Slumber
4. Satori
5. Ijin
Andrea Damic
1. People 197-199
2. Precarious Existence
Gifford Savage
1. Turning 199-200
2. Brief Encounter
Clive Aaron Gill
1. My Best Friend – Short Story 201-205
Louis Efron
1. Writers Eulogy 206-210
2. Arcadian Eyes
3. God’s Garden
4. Short Circuit
5. Rooms Without Nightlights
Dana Trick
1. Ghosts, Spirits, Poltergeists 211-215
2. La Llorona
3. Darkness
4. Monster, Demon, Oni, Devil
5. Changeling
Robert Cooperman
1. First Ride with My Father 216-219
2. First Driving Lesson
3. Me and Parnelli Jones
4. A Country Drive
5. Breakfast with My Father
Jamal Uddin
1. Fall View from the Opera House 220-222
2. Satyriasis
3. Burning Green
4. No ball
Charley Chow
1. Ballade of the Cresset 223
Early October 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Kenneth M. Kapp
1. Bragging Rights – Short Story 224-227
Cliff Wedgbury
1. doodlebug 227-228
2. matinee
3. tea with dad
Jay Simpson & Randy Barnes
1. Line Up – Jay Simpson 229-233
2. Once Lived – Randy Barnes
3. Riddle – Jay Simpson
4. Shadow Play – Randy Barnes
5. Courting Chaos – Jay Simpson
6. Boomtown Benders – Randy Barnes
7. High Wire – Jay Simpson
8. Block and Mortar – Randy Barnes
Nina Zivancevic
1. Am I wrong or something deeper is going on… 233-237
2. On translation
3. Taming the demons
4. Russian roulette
5. The Russian
Greg Patrick
1. Rebel’s Heart – Short Story 238-243
David Jibson
1. Things I Learned from Reading My Own Memoir 243-249
2. Notes from the Lake County Jail
3. Fugitive Memories
4. Fathers’ Hopes for the Sons
5. Nothing’s Going On
Smitha Vishwanath
1. The Novice Artist 250-251
2. Ekphrastic Sonnet – Bathers at Asnieres - Seurat
Alec Solomita
1. Mourning 252-255
2. Time Passes, Listen…Time Passes
3. In the Earliest of Days
Mandy Beattie
1. Song-Stitch in Time 256
Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 28 – Messengers. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 73 superb poets and fiction authors as metaphysical messengers on the road. Immerse yourself in poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Love is the way messengers
from the mystery tell us things
I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
Old and New
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago
He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets.
Every new machine would have surprised him—
The car, TV, radio, phone, camera.
He would've thought he was a savage
Who didn't understand.
If he saw a computer,
Watching people talking on the internet,
He would have thought it was a civilization
Much more advanced and ahead of his.
And if he stayed longer among the messengers
He would have learned that every child had the knowledge
And understanding of these things
Or how to use all of them.
Yet, after a while, he would have noticed
That none of them were advanced enough
To be labelled as those who know more
Than the one who said: I know nothing.
Messenger
By Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
POETS & FICTION AUTHORS
September 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Gordon Ferris
Barbara Di Sacco
John Yamrus
Sharon Waller Knutson
Russell Dupont
Snigdha Agrawal
Zak Wardell
David Chorlton
Wayne F. Burke
Michael Durack
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
Duane Vorhees
Royal Rhodes
Dr Mona Bedi
Duane L. Herrmann
Steve Klepetar
Sarah Das Gupta
Rustin Larson
Wendy Webb
John Drudge
Angela Townsend
John Doyle
Patricia Walsh
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Simon MacCulloch
Tina Negus
Sushant Thapa
Kushal Poddar
David Alec Knight
Kim Olmtak Gomes & Christina Chin
Dallas Lee
Mary Bone
Wayne Garry Fife
Matthew James Friday
Neil Higgins
Deborah A. Bennett
Tony Dawson
Paul Tristram
Carla Maria Kovsca
Ken Gosse – Six Epitaffies
Elizabeth Weiss
Allen Ashley
Christian Ward
Nancy Machlis Rechtman
Frederick Pollack
J.J. Campbell
Tohm Bakelas
Kathryn MacDonald
J.D. Isip
Angel Edwards
Damon Hubbs
Emily Bilman
Robert Witmer
Andrea Damic
Gifford Savage
Clive Aaron Gill
Louis Efron
Dana Trick
Robert Cooperman
Jamal Uddin
Charley Chow
Early October 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Kenneth M. Kapp
Cliff Wedgbury
Jay Simpson & Randy Barnes
Nina Zivancevic
Greg Patrick
David Jibson
Alec Solomita
Mandy Beattie
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
September 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Gordon Ferris
1. Beauty’s Kiss 17-19
2. Safe Fantasy
3. Winter Comes
Barbara Di Sacco
1. Feet like rocks 19-24
2. Garconniere
3. Space time
4. The Pizzica
John Yamrus
1. the woman 24-27
2. he stuck his
3. nobody
4. the only books
5. the hurt
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Toddler Houdini 27-32
2. Octogenarian Cowboy
3. Ballad of Big Bad Bob
4. Cousins
5. Some Have It. Some Don’t.
Russell Dupont
1. A Muffled Voice 32-36
2. On The Road
3. Past Or Prologue
4. One Red Shoe
5. So Now
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Upon Your Breast 37-39
2. Faithful Friend
3. Checkmate
Zak Wardell
1. Double A sides 39-42
2. Bogeymen
3. 1981 Space Odyssey
David Chorlton
1. Spider Rock 42-45
2. Trading Post
3. Land Alive
4. Navajo Dusk
5. Reservation Midnight
Wayne F. Burke
1. Emily Dickinson 46-48
2. Clouds
3. N.C. (1926-68)
4. Broke Back
5. Bang
Michael Durack
1. Second Place 48-51
2. Agnostic
3. Writing Poems
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
1. A Gymnast Disrobes the Universe 51-57
2. A libidinous cat
3. In your hands
4. Inamorato Travels Through the Seasons & Thunderstorms
5. Amorino Breathing
Duane Vorhees
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 57-59
2. Confessions
3. Dowser
4. Properties
5. Persistent Relevance of Etymology
Royal Rhodes
1. Remember, body… 60-63
2. The Man Who Lost His Shadow
3. Sundown
4. The Call
5. The Pardon
Dr Mona Bedi
1. Haiku 64
Duane L. Herrmann
1. The World Once 65-68
2. Twilight Transition
3. How to Eat a Book
4. Missing Myself
5. Midnight Softens
Steve Klepetar
1. All My Other Lives 68-70
2. House Fire
3. The Centaur’s Blood
Sarah Das Gupta
1. Puck, by any other name… 70-73
2. Beware the Hare!
3. It is dark here
4. Midsummer 1595 (Prose Poem)
Rustin Larson
1. Flower Mountain 74-79
2. Back to Sleep
3. Black
4. Sparky
5. McChild McMartin
6. Random Episodes of the Time Tunnel
Wendy Webb
1. Strange Meeting 80-84
2. Bee Sparking ashes
3. June’s Cold (Pantoum)
4. Bringing Woodland Indoors/Out (Pantoum)
5. Sailing into the Storm (Pantoum)
John Drudge
1. Damned 85-87
2. Long Roads
3. No Hate
4. Gone
5. Misfire
6. Racing
Angela Townsend
1. Chew on This – Flash Fiction 88-90
John Doyle
1. Bernard 91-97
2. Fugazi
3. Paris Junk, 1979
4. Two Red Lights on the Tail Wagon of the Liner
5. Vivian
6. Sometimes Eugene Landy Got it Right
Patricia Walsh
1. Fearless Praying 97-100
2. Acquired Tattoo
3. Trip Switch
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Never Marry a Cashier… 100-103
2. The Girl with the Driftwood Legs
3. 4 Windows
4. You’re Going to Wreck Mommy’s High
5. The Tattoo Matcher of Jalisco
6. The Night of the Tequila
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. The Other Option 104-110
2. Untitled Poem
3. Neither This Nor That
Simon MacCulloch
1. The Tree of Life 111-115
2. Sun Bird
3. Crock of Gold
4. Effusion
5. Jack O’Lantern
Tina Negus
1. Dolmen at St. Vivien 115-118
2. Green Man, green mysteries
3. Peacocks
Sushant Thapa
1. Aesthetics 119-120
Kushal Poddar
1. The Ancestral Serpent Hibernates 120-122
2. Club Underground
3. The railings
4. The Way We Realise the Facts About Our Families
David Alec Knight
1. I Knew Your Beauty Then 122-125
Kim Olmtak Gomes & Christina Chin
1. Tan-Renga Poems – Collaboration 126-127
Dallas Lee
1. Book of Paper and Ink 127-129
2. Dear Elvis in Heaven
3. Milky Way Band
4. Vulture Religion
Mary Bone
1. The Outcast 130
2. Baggage
Wayne Garry Fife
1. The King’s Decision – Short Story 131-133
Matthew James Friday
1. Fishing for Poems 134-136
2. Something Wonderful this Way Comes
3. The Moth
Neil Higgins
1. Death’s Corner 137-138
2. Infused
3. The Siren’s Song
Deborah A. Bennett
1. Five Haiku Poems 139
Tony Dawson
1. Death of a Plumber – Flash Fiction 140-142
Paul Tristram
1. Another Ritual Down 143-146
2. Ponies x’s 3, & my friend Jessica (a Landscape Oil..Canvas)
3. Anti-Public
4. Old Woman Falling Off a Balcony
5. Ambivalent Catacombs
Carla Maria Kovsca
1. Nuvolario – Short Story 147-152
Ken Gosse – Six Epitaffies
1. A Fading Glimmerick 152-153
2. Quoth the Maven Nevermore
3. Breathless in Anticipation
4. Don’t Beat Your Wife!
5. Good Riddance
6. A Token Farewell
Elizabeth Weiss
1. My Mother As Warrior For God 154-158
2. Saratoga Racetrack
3. My Mother on the Soccer Field
4. After Fifty
5. Lost FootagE
Allen Ashley
1. My Mirror Never Lies – Flash Fiction 159-161
Christian Ward
1. Tiger 162-163
2. Uprooted are the trees with forgotten names
3. Don’t judge me with your owl-faced periscope
4. Hunting for beginners
Nancy Machlis Rechtman
1. Riding the Tilt-A-Whirl 164-166
2. Saving Myself
Frederick Pollack
1. Attempt 167-171
2. The High Point
3. Option
4. The Civilian
5. Goof
J.J. Campbell
1. a partially full moon 172-176
2. the stupid teenage shit
3. you would have locked it
4. all the tricks and treats
5. having been a child
Tohm Bakelas
1. Ten Short Form Poems 177-178
Kathryn MacDonald
1. She Sings Only at Twilight 179-182
2. Company of Wayfarers
3. A Blizzard Blows
4. Phantasm
5. Beloved
J.D. Isip
1. Imagine 183-186
2. Frog and Toad Are Friends
3. Impressionism
4. The Walking Dead
5. Sharks in the Streets
Angel Edwards
1. Last days of summer 187
2. Haiku – Strawberry Moon Glow
Damon Hubbs
1. My Irish Poet Friends Sure Don’t Smile at Saratoga 188-191
2. Riddle of Steel
3. Dog Star
4. On Our Way
Emily Bilman
1. Intermezzo, a dream 192-194
2. A reminiscence
3. Antagonist
Robert Witmer
1. A Pigeon Is a Dove 194-197
2. Dreadful Speech
3. The Dew’s Sweet Slumber
4. Satori
5. Ijin
Andrea Damic
1. People 197-199
2. Precarious Existence
Gifford Savage
1. Turning 199-200
2. Brief Encounter
Clive Aaron Gill
1. My Best Friend – Short Story 201-205
Louis Efron
1. Writers Eulogy 206-210
2. Arcadian Eyes
3. God’s Garden
4. Short Circuit
5. Rooms Without Nightlights
Dana Trick
1. Ghosts, Spirits, Poltergeists 211-215
2. La Llorona
3. Darkness
4. Monster, Demon, Oni, Devil
5. Changeling
Robert Cooperman
1. First Ride with My Father 216-219
2. First Driving Lesson
3. Me and Parnelli Jones
4. A Country Drive
5. Breakfast with My Father
Jamal Uddin
1. Fall View from the Opera House 220-222
2. Satyriasis
3. Burning Green
4. No ball
Charley Chow
1. Ballade of the Cresset 223
Early October 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Kenneth M. Kapp
1. Bragging Rights – Short Story 224-227
Cliff Wedgbury
1. doodlebug 227-228
2. matinee
3. tea with dad
Jay Simpson & Randy Barnes
1. Line Up – Jay Simpson 229-233
2. Once Lived – Randy Barnes
3. Riddle – Jay Simpson
4. Shadow Play – Randy Barnes
5. Courting Chaos – Jay Simpson
6. Boomtown Benders – Randy Barnes
7. High Wire – Jay Simpson
8. Block and Mortar – Randy Barnes
Nina Zivancevic
1. Am I wrong or something deeper is going on… 233-237
2. On translation
3. Taming the demons
4. Russian roulette
5. The Russian
Greg Patrick
1. Rebel’s Heart – Short Story 238-243
David Jibson
1. Things I Learned from Reading My Own Memoir 243-249
2. Notes from the Lake County Jail
3. Fugitive Memories
4. Fathers’ Hopes for the Sons
5. Nothing’s Going On
Smitha Vishwanath
1. The Novice Artist 250-251
2. Ekphrastic Sonnet – Bathers at Asnieres - Seurat
Alec Solomita
1. Mourning 252-255
2. Time Passes, Listen…Time Passes
3. In the Earliest of Days
Mandy Beattie
1. Song-Stitch in Time 256
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 27
Magicians with Words
August 2023 - Early September 2023
Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 27 – Magicians with Words. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 70 superb poets and fiction authors, herein Magicians with Words on the road. Immerse yourself in their spells cast in poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and reality, dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Her Kind by Anne Sexton
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
-Anne Sexton
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” ― Greg Bear
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.“ ― Plato
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.“ ― Alice Walker
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.“ ― Salman Rushdie
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” ― Charles Bukowski
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.“ ― John F. Kennedy
"In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty." ― Seamus Heaney
Thank you to the following Poets & Authors for their superb contributions of Poetry and Fiction in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 27 – Magicians with words:
Fred Johnston
Karen A. VandenBos
John Doyle
Lynne Kemen
Kushal Poddar
Wendy Webb
Damon Hubbs
Dr. Anushna Biswas
Charles Rammelkamp
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Philip Butera
Snigdha Agrawal
Ahmad Al-Khatat
Lynda Tavakoli
Steve Klepetar
Dr. Koshy A.V.
Cheryl Snell
Rustin Larson
Barbara Leonard
James Walton
Myrtle Thomas
Neil Fulwood
Sharon Whitehill
Dan Raphael
Lynn White
Joseph A. Farina
Ann Privateer
Patrick B. Osada
Santosh Bakaya
Parker Fendler
Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas
Stephen House
Persephone Ezra
John Kucera
Bonnie J. Scherer
Stephen Kingsnorth
Julie A. Dickson
Dr. Charles A. Stone
Nolcha Fox
Mohibul Aziz
Andrea Potos
Sterling Warner
Ursula O’Reilly
Gary Bills
Marie C. Lecrivain
Eddie Heaton
Susan Isla Tepper (Art on Blog by Digby Beaumont)
Cliff Wedgbury
Mandy Beattie
Michael Shlain
Emmie Christie
Chuck Kramer
Sharon Ferrante
Mark Hendrickson
Marcia Mitrowski
John Harold Olson
Dr. Emily Bilman
Nolo Segundo
Marguerite Doyle
James Penha
Jessica Weyer Bentley
Allan Lake
Early September 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Linda H. Y. Hegland
GJ Hart
Samo Kreutz
Bernard Pearson
Ninko Kirilov
Dr. Anissa Sboui
Stephen A. Rozwenc
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
August 2023 - Poetry and Fiction
Fred Johnston
1. Motif on an Old Scots Ballad 17-19
2. News Just In
3. Canticle
Karen A. VandenBos
1. Crow Medicine 19-24
2. Swamp Sisters
3. Daughter of Spider Woman
4. Thirteen Birthed Daughters
5. An Ordinary Day
John Doyle
1. My American Poet Friends… 24-29
2. Beauparc Level Crossing, County Meath…
3. The Low Days
4. Donnie James, Rio
Lynne Kemen
1. Childhood Is a Blur 29-32
2. Barn’s Burnt Down
3. Dog & Boy’s Delight
4. A Found Poem
5. Icicles
Kushal Poddar
1. Near the Red Light 33-34
2. The See-Through Dress Sun Wears Today
3. That Last Train
Wendy Webb
1. Perspectives, Entranced (Ekphrastic) 35-39
2. I Wandered Bowderstone to Grasmere…
3. Pressing for a Pulse
4. Lighter Evenings
5. Tanka
6. Senryu
7. Village Sign (Triolet)
8. Shuck Up, After Dark (Limerick)
Damon Hubbs
1. Dancing at Le Phonographique with Sylvia Plath 40-43
2. Pail Shop Corners
3. The Kings of Rattlesnake Hill
4. Impressionists
Dr. Anushna Biswas
1. Bleeding Land 43-46
2. Dreary Night
3. Chasing Mirage
4. Brown Dawn
5. Jumping Bumps
Charles Rammelkamp
1. One Night on Second Avenue 46-49
2. The Howl
3. Jo Boobs
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
1. Bombay Fish Market 49-52
2. Ancestral Shipwreck
Philip Butera
1. When a Dragon Blocks My Way 52-57
2. There Was a War Going On Back Then…
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Love rhythms 58-60
2. Calming strategy
3. Senryu
Ahmad Al-Khatat
1. Asking The River 60-61
2. Let My Grief Flourish
3. Her Laugh
Lynda Tavakoli
1. Pathfinders 62-65
2. Aftermath
3. First Day at School
Steve Klepetar
1. Even Then 65-67
2. Praise
3. The Final Verse
Dr. Koshy A.V.
1. My Friend from Manipur – Short Story 68-70
Cheryl Snell
1. Big – Flash Fiction Story 70-72
Rustin Larson
1. August 72-75
2. Today Sounds Like a Washing Machine
3. Raising Myself
4. Courtyard
Barbara Leonard
1. In the Meadow, Red Viburnum 75-79
2. Collateral Damage
3. Carrying the World in a Broken Laundry Basket
James Walton
1. Daydream on a Season’s Ticket–Flash Fiction Story 80-81
Myrtle Thomas
1. My Name Written in the Stars 82-84
2. Walking Through Old Seasons
3. Autumn Once Again
Neil Fulwood
1. Beecham 84-86
2. Reiner
3. Jochum
4. Harnon court
Sharon Whitehill
1. Hiraeth 86-91
2. La Dame Aux Comelias
3. Burning Mouth Syndrome
4. Accidental Expressionism
5. Sixteen
Dan Raphael
1. [no title fits] 91-94
2. Even Almost Winter
3. Sampling Autumn
Lynn White
1. Temptation 95-98
2. Underworld
3. The Empty House
Joseph A. Farina
1. American Anthems 98-100
Ann Privateer
1. Over and Over Again 100-101
2. Unaware
Patrick B. Osada
1. Warming (The Lighthouse) 101-104
2. Nothing
3. Warning
4. Magpies
Santosh Bakaya
1. Dreamscape [a Haibun] 105-107
2. The Fractured Reality
3. The Octogenarian and the Dachshund
Parker Fendler
1. The Outlaw and the Snake 108-109
Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas
1. Five Tan0Renga Poems - Collaboration 110-111
Stephen House
1. occasionally I read Harry and Meghan Stories… 112
Persephone Ezra
1. The Fools Ballad 113-115
2. Sin Waves
3. Syntaxi Cabs
John Kucera
1. Explosion 115-118
2. Thoughts on Shame
3. Lost to Pain
4. Cohabitation
5. Codependency
Bonnie J. Scherer
1. Ten Short Form Poems 119-120
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Peddle Car 120-126
2. Up The Creek
3. Poster Paint
4. Copperhead
5. Western Ghats
6. Within Range
Julie A. Dickson
1. Ocean of hello 127-130
2. Memory
3. Promise of water
4. Lost at Sea
5. Hanging plant
Dr. Charles A. Stone
1. In the Dream 130-132
2. Suppressed
3. Follow Me Home
Nolcha Fox
1. An Instant 133-134
2. Someday I’ll Be in Love with Light
3. The Hard Road
4. Fugitives
5. A pretend Haiku
Mohibul Aziz
1. The Same Candles 135-137
2. Intercontinental
Andrea Potos
1. Sometimes, the Air 137-140
2. Muse Arrives in an Early Morning Hour
3. My Mother and Gratitude
4. Her Decision
Sterling Warner
1. Rainforest Awakening 140-144
2. Carrie’s Theatre
3. Universal Arcs
4. Hep
5. Pins & Needles Wonderland
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Objects 144-147
2. Reflections
3. Guests
4. Irish Coffee
5. Inside The Parenthesis of Being
Gary Bills
1. Baldur 147-153
2. Silly, Beautiful Things
3. Unease
4. October Flight
5. Swarmies
6. Winter Journey
7. Winter Mosaic: Chedworth Roman Villa
8. Markers
9. Foggy Christmas
10. Solstice Balefires
Marie C. Lecrivain
1. The Star (XVII) 153-157
2. Saint Sinéad
Eddie Heaton
1. one lost 157-159
2. virtual non-reality
Susan Isla Tepper (Art on Blog by Digby Beaumont)
1. Visit 159-160
Cliff Wedgbury
1. Ahakista 160-161
2. distances
3. memory
Mandy Beattie
1. The Feminine Misaligned & Maligned 161-165
2. First Lady of Flowers
3. The End is Another Beginning
4. Song – Stitch in Time
5. Yang-Fur is Not Yin-Fur
Michael Shlain
1. An Ode to Nothing 166-168
2. La Dissidence
3. The Sorcerer
Emmie Christie
1. Diagonal Attraction 169-170
Chuck Kramer
1. Seasonal Transformations 171-175
2. Poetry Today
3. St Francis and the Animals
4. Weatherman
5. Home
Sharon Ferrante
1. What Is Wicca 175-176
2. We Previously
3. Cherita
4. Tanka
5. Haiku
Mark Hendrickson
1. The River Has a Bucket List, Too 177-178
2. BarbieHeimer, The Summer’s Hottest Trend
Marcia Mitrowski
1. While Reading Szymborska’s “Monologue of a 179-182
Dog” with My Cat
2. The Blue Truth
3. Hold On
4. Whose Time
5. Peace Bridge
John Harold Olson
1. Doing Our Best 183
2. 105 At Midnight
Dr. Emily Bilman
1. Double Bind – Short Story 184-204
Nolo Segundo
1. Wrestling With God 204-209
2. The Gifts of God
3. When I Pray
4. Does God Get Lonely
5. Where The Soul Hides
6. Once, One Cell
Marguerite Doyle
1. Lament for Hy-Breasal 210-214
2. The Haunting of Loughshinny
3. Snow Globe…After James Joyce
4. Grandmother’s Alternative Bedtime Tale
5. Demon Cream…After Bulgakov
James Penha
1. In Equilibrium – Flash Fiction Story 214-215
Jessica Weyer Bentley
1. The Tender Transformation 216-217
2. The Virtue of Bathsheba
3. The Mourning of Fille
Allan Lake
1. Gone Viral 218-219
2. Your Legacy
Early September 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Linda H. Y. Hegland
1. Sing My Song 220
GJ Hart
1. Time and Time and Time Again 221-223
Samo Kreutz
1. Blossoming 223-225
2. A piece of my poem
3. No boundaries – Haiku Sequence
4. Sleep and Wakefulness – Haiku Sequence
Bernard Pearson
1. Dark Lord 225
Ninko Kirilov
1. Saturday Morning 226
2. A Girl on a Beach
3. Anhedonia 2
Dr. Anissa Sboui
1. Of Rebirth and Mother Earth 227-233
2. to breathe, or not to breathe
3. Pregnant with Paper
4. the drowning youth
5. slavery
6. Arab Lives Matter
Michael H. Brownstein
1. In the Heat of a Sleep 234
2. An Island Floats Down the Missouri
3. Sun Storm
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Afterlife Hindsight 235-236
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 26
Peaceful Interludes
June 2023 Continued - July 2023
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Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 26 – Peaceful Interludes. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 70 superb poets and fiction authors on the road, sharing peaceful interludes and immerse yourself in their poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and modern dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Letter from Albert Einstein to His Daughter Lieserl
In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein.
…”When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.
I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.
This universal force is LOVE.
When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force.
Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others.
Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals.
For love we live and die.
Love is God and God is Love.
This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.
To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation.
If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…
If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.
However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.
I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! “.
Your father Albert Einstein
Contents
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POETS and AUTHORS
June 2023 Continued- Poetry and Fiction
Wendy Webb
John Brantingham
C.X. Turner
Dennis Camire
Jay Maria Simpson
petro c.k.
Kadambari Kaul
Mark Young
Jeanette L. Miller
Steven Sibra
Daniel de Culla
Jim Meirose
Lavana Kray
Mikal Wix
July 2023 – Poetry & Fiction
Peycho Kanev
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Gary Bills
Margaret Duda
John Drudge
Katherine E. Winnick
Maurizio Brancaleoni
Linda Imbler
Wayne F. Burke
Dr. Anissa Sboui
Kushal Poddar
Cleo Griffith
Robert McCarthy
Barbara Di Sacco
Joe Kidd
Mahua Sen
Paul Demuth
Rose Mary Boehm
John Harold Olson
Nolcha Fox
Ken Gosse
Linda H.Y. Hegland
John Yamrus
Artemis Rose Archer
Nathan Anderson
Lorie Greenspan
Burgess Needle
Nancy Kennedy
Rp Verlaine
Adele Ogiér Jones
Tom Holmes
Chyrel J. Jackson
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
Glenis Moore
Allan Lake
Lyris D. Wallace
Rick Hartwell
JL Huffman
Sushant Thapa
Alec Solomita
Irma Kurti
Philip Butera
Daniela Rodi
Raymond Alexander Turco
Angel Edwards
Daipayan Nair
Desiree Batiste
Peter Mladinic
Amrita Valan
Prithvijeet Sinha
Tina Hudak
Michael Lee Johnson
Gail White
Sandeep Sharma
Elliot M. Rubin
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Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
June 2023 Continued- Poetry and Fiction
Wendy Webb
1. Rethreading Garments 17-21
2. Joie De Vivre, After
3. To My Father, On Shaving
4. Bike Ride, Earlham
5. The Meaning of Mundesley
John Brantingham
1. Butterfly Summer 21-24
2. Orange Summer Newt
3. Chicken of the Forest
4. Small Columns of Stone
C.X. Turner
1. Ten Short Form Poems 25-30
2. Sunflowers
3. Stem
4. Reconnecting
5. Shoreline
6. Rescue
Dennis Camire
1. After Her Ex Takes His Own Life… 30-36
2. For the Bread Baker and His Conjoined Twins
3. For the Black Bear Biologist Tagging Hibernating Bears
4. Upon Learning Her Husband only has a few Months…
Jay Maria Simpson
1. Dancing on the Frozen Stars 36-40
2. The Loneliness Factory
3. The Dancer
4. Three Ways
5. Train Tracks Wisdom and Bullshit
petro c.k.
1. Nitrogenase Ecclesiastes 41-43
2. Hey Day Huggers
3. Jethro Mothra
4. Logarithm Begin the Juju
5. Urticaria Jr.
Kadambari Kaul
1. On Love 43-44
2. Song of Life
Mark Young
1. Returning from foreign war zones 44-47
2. A double cypher
3. Installing the new wi-fi extender
4. Doubles Entendre
5. Potpourri
Jeanette L. Miller
1. First Snowfall 47-50
2. My White Dresses, Her Red Shoes
3. A Crone Speaks from the Forest
4. Me, My Aunt & Cousin, My Mother…
5. Two Grandmothers Plus My Mother
Steven Sibra
1. Blue Cheese 51-52
2. Pebbles
3. Shattered
Daniel de Culla
1. Where Are You Going? 53-57
2. When the Frog Grows Hairs
3. This Flower
Jim Meirose
1. Something Seemingly Not Even a Road–Flash/F 57-58
Lavana Kray
1. Five Photo Poems – (words only) 58-59
2. Honeycomb – Flash Fiction/Haibun
Mikal Wix
1. A Farewell from the Sloth of Space 60-63
2. The Old Man in the Sky
3. Parliament
July 2023 – Poetry & Fiction
Peycho Kanev
1. A Note on the Pillow 63-65
2. At the End
3. The Twin
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. Holding On 66-70
2. Selfie
Gary Bills
1. The Watchers from the Flood 71-79
2. Graven Flowers
3. Country Burr – Short Story
Margaret Duda
1. Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls 79-83
2. My Catholic Mother’s Jewish Sister
3. Where Did It Come From?
John Drudge
1. Alchemy 84-87
2. Another Morning
3. Depths
4. Into the Wind
5. Journey
6. Spirit
Katherine E. Winnick
1. Haiku 88
Maurizio Brancaleoni
1. Bird Haiku – Translation Italian-English 89-91
Linda Imbler
1. Le Passe-muraille 91-94
2. The Well
3. Hordes
4. Vigil Within the Vernal Equinox
Wayne F. Burke
1. Dream 95-98
2. Bought-a-Gun
3. You Are Loved
Dr. Anissa Sboui
1. The Desired Heaven 98-101
2. The Quranic School
3. God Spoke to Her
4. I Lyric to the Critic
Kushal Poddar
1. Loops 102-104
2. The Dry Spell
3. Halo-rainbow around my sins
4. The Obscene Gesture of a Milestone
5. Where the Nuclear Power Plant Melted Down
Cleo Griffith
1. For You Who Remember 105-107
2. Gifts
3. Glow from Old Lanterns
4. White Chevy Silverados
Robert McCarthy
1. Exequy 108-113
2. Fissiparity
3. Many Loves, None of Them True
4. Undistinguished Aridity
5. Prayer in Winter
Barbara Di Sacco
1. Canio 113-116
2. Music is Female
3. Puppet
Joe Kidd
1. Dream of Kings 116-119
2. Night Falls Upon the Silent and the Still
3. October Rose
4. Solstice – part one
Mahua Sen
1. Anamnesis 120-121
Paul Demuth
1. The Shipwreck’s Bar 122-123
2. Hoop Anchor Top Egg
3. Sunday
Rose Mary Boehm
1. Advent 123-127
2. Crossing Illegally from Germany into Germany
3. Feierabend
4. Guilt
John Harold Olson
1. Gloria or Prodigal Blues 127-129
2. Untitled Poem
3. Untitled Poem
Nolcha Fox
1. Haiku 129-130
2. Storm
3. If sleep was an elevator
4. Fork
Ken Gosse
1. Not Enough Hair on My Chinny-chin-chin 131-133
2. Desert Deuces for Dessert
3. When the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
4. Abruptus Interuptus
5. Breaking Up is Hard to Dooby Dooby Do…
Linda H.Y. Hegland
1. Old Chevy Truck and Prairie Choirs 133-136
2. Wishes on a Falcon/Freeing Falling Stars
John Yamrus
1. LEDA was a dancer 137-142
2. did you ever
3. it was
Artemis Rose Archer
1. Sliver of Moon 142-144
2. Bumble
3. Maple
4. Like a Songbird
Nathan Anderson
1. Collapsing into Symphony 144-150
2. Hatchet rings as [anti]-bells
3. Lopsided [not] Dromedary [touch]
4. Medical Reduction (vanishing)
5. Telegraph//Inhalation
Lorie Greenspan
1. i am 151-154
2. My turtle
3. The curves of grace
4. first, on a road of whales
5. Playful
Burgess Needle
1. All That Is Left 155-159
2. Gift of Goodness
3. Kiss of Jojoba Oil
4. Tucson Rose After Rain
Nancy Kennedy
1. To the Patron Saint of Lost Causes 160-163
2. Night Song
3. Daughter of Ophelia
4. White Plastic Buttons
5. Fait Accompli
Rp Verlaine
1. A.I. Interactive 163-168
2. Plethora
3. Escape Has Its Benefits
4. That Drunken Night
5. Inside The Parenthesis of Being
Adele Ogiér Jones
1. Haiku for the longest day of the year 169-170
Tom Holmes
1. A Long-Forgotten Story with Shoes – Short Story 171-178
Chyrel J. Jackson
1. Nature’s Incubator 179-181
2. Limitless Devotion
3. Rushing
4. Broken
5. My Heart is Happiest Watching Ezra Dance
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
1. Every Day 182-184
2. Equality of Day
3. They Jump
Glenis Moore
1. A glass darkly 184-185
2. In the dark
Allan Lake
1. Annual Report 185-186
Lyris D. Wallace
1. Moments 186-190
2. Motionless Feet
3. Keep Running
4. A Beginning
5. Still We Move
Rick Hartwell
1. Nurse Says 190-191
2. Street Safety
3. Ribbons in the Sea
JL Huffman
1. Haiku/Senryu 192
Sushant Thapa
1. The Awakened Heart 193
Alec Solomita
1. Lunch Poem 194-195
Irma Kurti
1. The Naked Day 195-198
2. Come Back to Me
3. Without A Homeland
4. Your Voice Won’t Reach Me
Philip Butera
1. Some Friends are Black Mirrors 199-200
Daniela Rodi
1. Haiku 201-203
Raymond Alexander Turco
1. The Apocryphon of Remus – Short Story 203-207
Angel Edwards
1. From Love Withdraw - Lyrics 208
Daipayan Nair
1. Haiku 208-210
Desiree Batiste
1. Following Greatness 210-216
2. Hourglass
3. On the Floor
4. She is Not Me, but I am Her
5. The River
Peter Mladinic
1. Message in a Bottle 216-220
2. Up and Out
3. Chapter from an Egyptian Novel
4. Selfie
Amrita Valan
1. Hocus Pocus – an Ekphrastic poem 221-225
2. Impermanent Eternity
3. Your Dominance of My World
Prithvijeet Sinha
1. Go Into the Crevice 226-230
2. Dying Breed
Tina Hudak
1. Poughkeepsie – Short Story 231-234
Michael Lee Johnson
1. Summer is Dying 235-237
2. Bowl of Black Petunias
3. Memories Past
4. Now That I Desire
Gail White
1. I Can Imagine 237-238
2. The Innocent
3. The Old Dame Looks Ahead
Sandeep Sharma
1. Rhymeopause, Baldness and all that stuff 239-240
Bridget Houlihan
1. Spring (I) 240-243
2. Last Moments
3. Corks
4. Spring (II)
5. Shower of Leaves
Elliot M. Rubin
1. moon dreams 244-245
2. my newest son
3. oxford
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 25
Crows in Boots Walking
June 2023
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Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 25 – Crows in Boots Walking. Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction. Journey with these 75 superb poets and fiction authors on the road, walking with crows and immerse yourself in poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover sublime works of fantasy, fairy tale and folklore, dreams and dystopia, nature and magical realism with romance and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
“Not cry. Fly.
“I can’t fly,” Bran said. “I can’t, I can’t…”
How do you know? Have you ever tried?
The voice was high and thin. Bran looked around to see where it was coming from. A crow was spiraling down with him, just out of touch, following him as he fell. “Help me,” he said.
I’m trying, the crow replied…
The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran’s hand.
“You have wings,” Bran pointed out.
Maybe you do too.
Bran felt along his shoulders, groping for feathers.
There are different kinds of wings, the crow said…
Bran was falling faster than ever. The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. “What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful.
Teaching you how to fly.
“I can’t fly!”
You’re flying right now.
“I’m falling!”
Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. Look down.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening”
―
Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.
POETS & AUTHORS
June 2023 - Poetry and Fiction
Bob MacKenzie
C L S Sandoval
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Savannah Hernandez
Mark Hendrickson
Lynda Tavakoli
Nolo Segundo
Duane Vorhees
Angel Edwards
Alec Solomita
Keith Snow
Walter Bargen
Snigdha Agrawal
J.J. Campbell
Pawel Markiewicz
Patricia Furstenberg
John Doyle
Thomas Elson
Michael E. Theroux (Teru)
Ken Kapp
Wayne F. Burke
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
Wendy Webb
John Harold Olson
Margot Block
John Yamrus
Henry Wolstat
Dr. Anissa Sboui
Greg Patrick
Angel Edwards
Robert Cooperman
Cindy Ellen Hill
Stephen A. Rozwenc
Susan Isla Tepper
George Gad Economou
Amanda Niamh Dawson
Vernon Frazer
Louisa Muniz
Jack D. Harvey
Joan Leotta
Jerome Berglund
Michelle Rule
Christina Chin,
Marjorie Pezzoli
Katie Mohr
Sherry Grant
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
Sushant Thapa
Julie Ann Thomason
Diarmuid ó Maolalaí
Sarah Davies
Richard D. Houff
Myrtle Thomas
Fabrice Poussin
Jackie Chou
Alan Catlin
Shelly Jones
Christopher Barnes
Joan McNerney
Kushal Poddar
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon
Clarke Zlotchew
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Robert Witmer
Linda King
Timothy Resau
Anthony Fagan
Ursula O’Reilly
Mike Zone
Maria Teresa Sisti
Laura Stamps
Stephen Kingsnorth
Karen O’Leary & Paul Callus
J.D. Nelson
Santosh Bakaya
David Alec Knight
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
June 2023 - Poetry and Fiction
Bob MacKenzie
1. peace 17-19
2. even this matters
3. study in white
4. the artist
5. Rouge
C L S Sandoval
1. Amidst the Crowd 20-23
2. Away from You
3. Blank
4. Daily Impact
5. Effects of My Betrayal
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. He Went to the Bahamas, His Luggage… 23-27
2. Mechanically Separated Cars
3. He Said the Hadron Collider Sounded Bad…
4. If You’re So Gutted, Why Don’t You Become…
5. Swami Salami
Savannah Hernandez
1. Shattered Shell – Flash Fiction Story 27-28
Mark Hendrickson
1. Mid-West Living (or My Apologies) 28-29
Lynda Tavakoli
1. Garden 29-31
Nolo Segundo
1. A Morning’s Walk 32-39
2. Come and Draw Strength From Me
3. The Look In Her Eyes
4. Will My Soul Fly?
5. A Passing Glance
6. When Sedate Age Remembers Crazy Youth
Duane Vorhees
1. A New Study In Scarlet – Short Story 40-41
Angel Edwards
1. Take Time 41-43
2. At War
Alec Solomita
1. The Dying Gaul 43-44
Keith Snow
1. Semi Unconscious Stream 44-46
2. If Poems Were Promoted Like Movies
3. Lost City Found Behind Big Lot…
4. Sanctuary
Walter Bargen
1. Domestic Doubts 47-51
2. Great Salt Lake
3. Ultima Thule
4. Little League
5. Return to the Sea
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Five Haiku Poems 52-53
2. Five Micro Poems
J.J. Campbell
1. further away 54-57
2. for over thirty years
3. tripping the night away
4. without ever having to wait in line
Pawel Markiewicz
1. The responsive awakening of springtide 58-59
2. The Druid – Flash Fiction
Patricia Furstenberg
1. When Man Birthed Art 60-66
2. A Life in Yellow and Blue
3. The Vanishing Dragons
4. When Her Body Whispered
5. After a Lurid Dream
John Doyle
1. I’ve Got to Be in Nicaragua by Noon 66-70
2. Don’t Dream, It’s Over
3. Ben
4. Hospitals
5. The Groovy Gang from the Liberal Arts College Drama…
6. Algorhythms
Thomas Elson
1. What’s Left to Hear 70-73
2. The Boathouse
3. His Butterfly
Michael E. Theroux (Teru)
1. Sunday Morning Nap 74-77
2. Touch
3. Riptide of the Soul
4. Odd
5. Life’s Wine
Ken Kapp
1. D’aneter, a Porpoise with a Purpose – Flash Fiction 78-79
Wayne F. Burke
1. Class President 79-82
2. Bad Day
3. Fog
4. Aphorism
5. Local # 27
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
1. Love Cosmic 83-84
2. Inamorato Takes a Walk
Wendy Webb
1. Reflections Into Fall (Palindromedary Sonnet) 85-89
2. Valley of the Tiger’s Shadow (Glosa)
3. If I Had…A Daughter
4. Where’s It Going?
5. At Cross Purposes
John Harold Olson
1. Shore Patrol 90-92
2. El Cajon Boulevard
3. Cornelia and Portia
Margot Block
1. Five Untitled Poems 92-94
John Yamrus
1. he was in 95-98
2. i worked
3. he said
Henry Wolstat
1. A Beam of Light 99-100
2. Returning Home
Dr. Anissa Sboui
1. Her Own Portrait Is Painted 100-102
2. I was safer
Greg Patrick
1. Derry Nights I Dream of Fire 103-108
Angel Edwards
1. At the Edge of Paradise – Short Story 108-121
Robert Cooperman
1. Reciting “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”121-124
2. Chekhov’s Gun
3. A Game of Chess
4. Writing the Great American Novel
Cindy Ellen Hill
1. All Hallow’s Eve 125-127
2. Hounds
3. March Snowfall (Spring Equinox)
4. Picking Fiddleheads
5. Night Frolic
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Four Haiku Poems with French… Translations 128-129
Susan Isla Tepper
1. Crunch in the Night 129
George Gad Economou
1. screaming driver 130-133
2. a fairytale
3. all those wasted nights
4. we stayed
5. eternal infamy
Amanda Niamh Dawson
1. Soul’s Flight 134-135
2. Nature’s Art
3. History Holds
Vernon Frazer
1. Doubled Back 135-139
2. Game Patriots
3. Drunk on Promise
4. Living Down the Good Life
5. Vacation Refuge on Vacation
Louisa Muniz
1. Gone Missing 140-143
2. Persephone
3. Invocation
Jack D. Harvey
1. You’re Only Dead Once 143-149
2. Michael the Paphlagonian
3. The Persistence of Beatrice
4. Playing with Fire
5. Melissa
Joan Leotta
1. Reading Neruda on War While Waiting… 150-151
Jerome Berglund, Michelle Rule, Christina Chin,
Marjorie Pezzoli, Katie Mohr & Sherry Grant
1. Five Linked Form Collaborative Poems 151-155
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
1. Song sets 156
Sushant Thapa
1. Carrying a Novel 156-157
Julie Ann Thomason
1. Twelve Haiku Poems 157-159
Diarmuid ó Maolalaí
1. Mongrels 160-163
2. The kitchen table
3. A patch-furred dog
4. Carrion
5. Making Things Warm
Sarah Davies
1. Moonscaper 164-167
2. The museum of you
3. Memento
4. The Scholar
5. Fragmental
Richard D. Houff
1. A Hometown Story 167-171
2. The Paper Route
3. My Disassembled Head
Myrtle Thomas
1. Catching Fireflies Until Twilight 172-173
2. Soul Searching
Fabrice Poussin
1. Beauty Masks 173-177
2. Script 2021
3. Sign of Being
4. True Believers
5. What if?
Jackie Chou
1. The Performance 178-180
2. Not Another Hallmark Love Poem
3. The People-Eater
4. Red
Alan Catlin
1. First Snow 181-182
2. Untitled Poem
3. Untitled Poem
4. Seaside Still Life Winter
Shelly Jones
1. Requiem 183-184
2. Echo
3. On Listening to the Patter of Melting Snow
Christopher Barnes
1. Fragments 26 184-185
2. Fragments 27
3. Fragments 28
4. Fragments 29
5. Fragments 30
Joan McNerney
1. Falling Asleep 186-189
2. Nightscape
3. Lost Dream
4. Beach
5. When I Was New
Kushal Poddar
1. I Couldn’t Catch That 190-191
2. Enamel
3. Emergency Benevolence
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon
1. After Visiting Dove Cottage 192-195
2. Internal Dialogue Whilst Waiting for Transport
3. Lachrymose
4. Unprecedented Weather
5. Moving On
Clarke Zlotchew
1. Honey and Grapes – Short Story 196-202
Mykyta Ryzhykh
1. Five Untitled Poems 202-203
Robert Witmer
1. Placibo Domino in regione vivorum 203-205
2. A Snapshot of Our Times
3. Cast Out
4. Little Boy Blue
5. Unto Zophos Descends the King of Byblos
Linda King
1. in this short transit 206-207
2. lines of stones in a fallow field
3. the crows at happy hour
Timothy Resau
1. dear kierkegaard – Short Story 208-210
Anthony Fagan
1. No New Messages 211-212
2. I Kissed Your Lips
3. Brave Face
4. Doll’s House
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Beautifully Cracked 213-215
2. Between the Cracks
3. Cracked Box
4. Not Broken
Mike Zone
1. The Crown 216-221
2. Social distortion
3. Train of thought
4. Dreaming blue
5. Peninsula Gardens
Maria Teresa Sisti
1. Six Haiku Poems 221-222
Laura Stamps
1. Accessorizing 222-223
2. Boy or Girl
3. How to Manifest Your Dreams
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Joint Enterprise 224-228
2. Dyslexic Games
3. Lengths for Width
4. Rows
5. Growing Patch
Karen O’Leary & Paul Callus
1. Two Tan-renga Poems 228-229
Terry Wheeler
1. earworms (kylie dub) 229-232
2. come on in my kitchen
3. madame george
4. lost highway
5. old treetops nocturne
J.D. Nelson
1. brain zaps 233-234
2. oscillating fields
3. junior light
4. villa alegre
5. sinistar
Santosh Bakaya
1. The Nocturnal Gab Fest 234-237
2. Red Tape
3. The Broken Cup
David Alec Knight
1. On Spec 238-241
2. Leave To Arrive
3. Crows, Dying On the Winds
4. Beware of Poet Dancing
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 24
Variations in the Triangle
May 2023 Continued
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Warmest wishes always,
Strider Marcus Jones – Editor in Chief. Xx
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 24 – Variations in the Triangles features the best poetry and fiction from 70 internationally renowned poets and authors who bring their own original take on twenty-first century life and society. These poets and authors delve deeper and fearlessly search for truth, understanding and freedom exposing variations in the triangles of life. Join them and discover poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin
Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape. — Lynne Hurd Bryant
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey
Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes. — Mary Hunter Austin
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes
only a million variations. — Charles James
Featured Poets/Fiction Authors
Randy Barnes
Margaret Duda
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
John Grey
Andrea Potos
Stephen A. Rozwenc
Mary Grimm
AE Reiff
Susan Wilson
Massimo Fantuzzi
Patricia Furstenberg
Duane Vorhees
Lara Dolphin
Stephen House
Farah Ali
Dr Charles A. Stone
j. lewis
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
John Doyle
Ammanda Selethia Moore
Rick Hartwell
Lark Beltran
Peter J. Donnelly
Lynn White
Rustin Larson
Snigdha Agrawal
Philip Butera
Karen Lynn Kerekes
Steve Klepetar
Jennifer Lagier
Fadrian Bartley
Angel Edwards
Samo Kreutz
Karen A. VandenBos
Joseph A. Farina
Julie Ann Thomason
Kushal Poddar
Catherine Zickgraf
Damon Hubbs
H.K.G. Lowery
Abel Johnson Thundil
Ed Ahern
Patricia Nelson
Dr Ralph Monday
Julie A. Dickson
D.R. James
Cliff Wedgbury
Nolcha Fox
Arthur Turfa
Sharon Waller Knutson
J.B. Hogan
Aariona Harris
Ken Gosse
Tony Pena
Michael H. Brownstein
Kelley White
Tony Brewer
R.W. Stephens – Ekphrastic Escher Series 1
Kathleen Chamberlin
Steven Fortune
Bartholomew Barker
Jonathan S. Baker
Tony Dawson
John Tustin
Linda M. Crate
Paul Sohar
K.G. Munro
Joe Bisicchia
Kenneth M. Kapp
Hifsa Ashraf and Oscar Luparia – Collaboration
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
May 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Randy Barnes
1. Opinions Consigned to Eruptive Causes 17-19
2. Blind Honey Bends the Wires
3. A Pill for Your Troubles
4. Minute Correction
5. Wandering Caseload
6. Take Two
Margaret Duda
1. Keepers of the Faith – Short Story 20-27
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Bob Marley Breaks into a Limbo Outside the Toyo 28-31
2. Leaf Erikson
3. The Charleston Bridge Crossing
4. The Bet
5. Good Evening, from the Russian Underground
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. KALEIDOSCOPE 32-36
2. Green
3. Old Friends
John Grey
1. Any Moment Now 37-41
2. Isaac
3. Boundaries at the Fast Food Restaurant
4. The Little Match Girl and the Dragon Slayer
5, Survival Tactics
Andrea Potos
1. Poem to 4:40 PM ON March 20, Spring Equinox 41-43
2. When My Mother Called
3. On Dreams
4. After Not Being Chosen to Read at the Emily Dickinson…
5. Three Acorns from Emily’s Yard
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Ten Haiku Poems 44-46
Mary Grimm
1. Dorothy Wordsworth Undercover-Flash Fiction 47-49
AE Reiff
1. Earth Descending in the Lovely 50-55
2. The Road to Zion
3. New Troy
4. Leviathan Spread
5. Squid Hats
Susan Wilson
1. Every Ten Years 56-58
2. City Lunch Rendezvous
3. I’ve Been Listening to…
4. One for Sorrow
5. Weekend Working
Massimo Fantuzzi
1. Full August Lost and Found 58-62
2. Ash
3. Witchery, a Pastorale
4. Barcarolle
5. Tender Afternoon on Cream Crocheted Wool
Patricia Furstenberg
1. Life Lived Backwards and Upwards 63-67
2. Speaking Stones
3. Prophecy
Duane Vorhees
1. We Are the Progeny of the Big Bang 67-69
2. Some Four or Five Descents Since
3. That Ancient Gentrification
4. Amphibians
5. Correct Attribution
Lara Dolphin
1. When There Are No Cracks 70-71
2. The Park That If You Had More Than One Life…
3. The Park That Fills You With Sudden Inexplicable
Curiosity
Stephen House
1. how much – prose poem 72
Farah Ali
1. Starling Theatre 73-79
2. To Walk In Ancient Woodland With You
3. Intertidal Zone
4. Witches’ Circle
5. Love Apothecary – Haiku Sequence
Dr Charles A. Stone
1. Morning Rituals 79-80
2. Fair Share
j. lewis
1. every cancer is my mother 81-82
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
1. This is the City 83-84
2. Give Me Oil in My Lamp
John Doyle
1. The Liminal Figures 85-88
2. Inertia 101
3. Love Song for the Year 2019
4. Jesus Christ, Mr Dubois and Those Dreams of Voodoo
Ammanda Selethia Moore
1. Looking Down Glen Canyon Dam 88
Rick Hartwell
1. Kaua’i, South Shore Morning 89
2. Flowering Hibiscus
Lark Beltran
1. Ylang-Ylang 90-93
2. All I Have Never Seen
3. Fantasia
4. Watching The Line
Peter J. Donnelly
1. The Other Bennett 93-97
2. Despite the Myths
3. Just a Few Lines
4. Curlew
5. Language and Music
Lynn White
1. A Fishy Tale 98-99
2. Fish Out of Water
3. Goldfish
Rustin Larson
1. Seaplane 100-107
2. Circus
3. The Fort
4. Tempest
5. The Hobbyist
6. The Urge to Paint
7. Ghosts
8. Instruction
9. Amish Grocery
Snigdha Agrawal
1. Dissenting Voices 108-111
2. Portrait of Her
Philip Butera
1. The Reflection from a Million Mirrors Shattering 112-116
Karen Lynn Kerekes
1. Suspended 116-119
2. Undiscovered
3. Winter Haven
Steve Klepetar
1. The Markets of Eternity 120-122
2. Twenty Questions
3. The River of What Used to Be
Jennifer Lagier
1. Acorn Woodpecker 122-124
2. Murder in the Afternoon
3. Colibri
Fadrian Bartley
1. No Skin Is Too Thick 124-127
2. Cat-o-Nine Tail
3. Wind and Whispers
4. Rules of Attraction
5. Wired and Remote
Angel Edwards
1. Teddy the Teddy Bear - Micro Story 128-129
Samo Kreutz
1. Eight Haiku Poems 130-131
Karen A. VandenBos
1. And So It Goes 131-135
2. She Is Here
3. The Devil’s Trumpet of Reality
4. Dear Muse
4. Moonbeams and Shooting Stars
Joseph A. Farina
1. senescence 135-137
2. panorama
3. anziani
4. paper kisses, memory embraces
5. black magic targa
Julie Ann Thomason
1. The Acrobats Wheel – Flash Fiction 138
Kushal Poddar
1. Mirrorground Fair Narcissus 139-140
2. The Village In The Shadow Of A Windmill
3. Look Up Syndrome
Catherine Zickgraf
1. You Still Walk Among Us 140-141
Damon Hubbs
1. Iceland (ii) 141-145
2. Briar Rose
3. Pretty Mouths
4. Hutch
5. Sprezzatura! and the Birds of Paradise
H.K.G. Lowery
1. Tinnitus 145-148
2. Coincidentally Sat with Paul Muldoon…
3. King Charles Spaniel Eulogy (Interlude)
4. On Nero Playing A Lyre While Rome Burned
Abel Johnson Thundil
1. Blue windows 149-150
2. Unappreciated
Ed Ahern
1. Sweet Petunia – Short Stoty 150-153
Patricia Nelson
1. Igor Contemplates His Master 153-155
2. The Centaur Chiron
3. The Uncertainty of Omens
4. A Sybil’s Wish
Dr Ralph Monday
1. Cultural Conversation Over Creamed Coffee 155-162
2. All the Doubles Never Known
3. Sand Painting a Promise
4. An Appalachian Moon
5. Love as a Cosmic Quandary
Julie A. Dickson
1. The fabric of my world 162-165
2. Dream boat
3. Black Creek
4. Beneath Scudding Clouds
5. Blossom
D.R. James
1. Mobius Trip 165-167
2. Cement Garden
3. May:
4. Gifts Retrievable
5. State Cleaned on the Bluff
Cliff Wedgbury
1. breakdown 168-171
2. teenage lover
3. vest
Nolcha Fox
1. Surviving the End 171-175
2. Incense of Absence
3. Growing season
4. Pebbles
5. She used to
Arthur Turfa
1. Islands 176-179
2. The Ball Field and the LA Club
3. The Young Pretender in London
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Rooming with Bev in Butte 180-189
2. Broken Hearts Club
3. The Scottish Country Rock Band
4. Social Media Unsavvy
5. Howdy Doody Stranger
J.B. Hogan
1. Warmth of Myth 190-193
2. What Is It That We Fear?
3. Fall Into Winter
Aariona Harris
1. Growing Up 193-197
2. Vacation
3. Worn Book Pages
4. Guilty Conscious
5. Empath
Ken Gosse
College Musicians of Bremen – Four Stages of Life
1. “I Love You, AB Baby!” ~ 198-204
2. The Grad Ass’s Magic Wand~
3. A Fool’s Musical Follies~
4. The Ancient Muxician – Stoned Sober~
Tony Pena
1. Ding a Ling Ling 204-206
2. Hogtied
3. Rubbed Wrong
4. Small Dog in a Smaller Universe
5. This cat got no tongue
Michael H. Brownstein
1. The Meaning of Mis-Identification 207-208
2. A Pause of Anger
Kelley White
1. I asked the wind for help 208-211
2. Ichneumonidae
3. The Imposition of Ashes’
4. In which Milo Gilman Plays the Part of “The Hanged Man”
5. I saw the Sun Ra walking
Tony Brewer
1. Burlesque Dancer Retiring 211-215
2. The Contract
3. Embarrassment of Riches
4. Floaters
5. The Merwin Way
R.W. Stephens – Ekphrastic Escher Series 1
1. Waterfall 216-217
2. Ascending and Descending
3. Ascending and Descending
4. Other World
5. Three Worlds
6. Hand with Reflective Sphere
Kathleen Chamberlin
1. Aurem Cordis 217-219
2. If Wishes Were Horses
3. Invisibility
4. Losing You
5. Spring Planting
Steven Fortune
1. Clerks 220-222
2. Here Are the Options
3. Destiny’s Spadework
4. Reaper Prompt
Bartholomew Barker
1. Mathias 223
Jonathan S. Baker
1. Birdsong 224-225
2. Beinn na Caillich
3. Scribble Scrabble Scrotum Totem
Tony Dawson
1. Homophone – Flash Fiction 226-227
John Tustin
1. Crush 227-232
2. Over In a Minute
3. The Silver Cross
4. Sleeping While the Sun Was Out
5. A Thick Purple Curtain
Linda M. Crate
1. myths of every age 232-236
2. love is everlasting
3. we all need another
4. the soul knows
5. transformed anew
Paul Sohar
1. The Peace of Kha 236-241
2. In the Cathedral of the Night
3. Kergaradec: Litany of Breton Dolmens
4. Candles in the Wind
5. The Oltec Altar
K.G. Munro
1. Normality 241-243
2. Access to Clean Water
3. Closer To Me
Joe Bisicchia
2. Light
3. Battle of the Milvian Bridge
4. Knight of the Solstice
5. Good Morning
Kenneth M. Kapp
1. Daddy Longlegs Hits His Stride - Flash Fiction 247-249
Hifsa Ashraf and Oscar Luparia – Collaboration
1. Five Haiga Poems 250-251
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 23
Red Balloons
April 2023 Continued - Early May 2023
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 23 – Red Balloons features the best poetry and fiction from 70 internationally renowned poets and authors who bring their own original take on twenty-first century life and society. Some of us stay on the ground of life but these poets and authors delve deeper and fearlessly soar in search of truth, understanding and freedom like Red Balloons. Join them and discover poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
April 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Damon Hubbs
Amara Goldwalker
Joshua Martin
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Charles Rammelkamp
Rhoda Tripp
Gordon Scapens
Angela Hoffman
Joshua St. Claire (Michael Winter)
Margaret Adams Birth
CL Bledsoe
Bonnie Scherer
Phil Wood
Michael Ball
Adele Ogier Jones
Saeed Ibrahim
Amber Winter
Don Krieger
Paul Callus and Karen O’Leary
Ken Kapp
Steen Rasmussen
Angel Edwards
John Harold Olson
Courtney Glover
Eddie Heaton
Santosh Bakaya
Mark Hendrickson
E.C. Traganas
John Doyle
Maurizio Brancaleoni
Raluca Balasa
Jodie Baeyens
David Alec Knight
Daya Bhat
L. Wayne Russell
Yvonne Zipter
Allan Lake
Nikola Popovic
Wayne F. Burke
Paul Engel
Dana Trick
Raymond Berthelot
Marc Frazier
George Vance
zO-AlonzO Gross
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Ramzi Albert Rihani
Terrence Sykes
John Wesick
Keith Snow
Harry K. Stammer
Ram Chandran
Gopi Kottoor
Tekisui RC
Cleo Griffith
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Louis Kasatkin
Pawel Markiewicz
Wendy Webb
Paul Callus and Christina Chin – Collaboration
Early May 2023 – Poetry
Fred Johnston
Jeanna Ni Riordain
Nolo Segundo
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
John Drudge
Jennifer Pratt-Walter
Giulio Magrini
Dr Stephen Paul Wren
April 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. Paris in the Afterlife 17-19
Damon Hubbs
1. Lounge Car 20-22
2. Quiet Car
3. Sleeper Car
Amara Goldwalker
1. Moonsurfer 22-27
2. Our Beach House on the Moon
3. Neptunian
4. The Bloody Gruelling Work of Joy
5. Apollo Smile
Joshua Martin
1. Productive Sticking Point 27-31
2. Delayed Terrarium Fix
3. Conclusive Gears
4. adjusted eggshell momentum
5. Sailing Spider Lamps
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
1. Five Haiku Poems 32
Charles Rammelkamp
1. The Night They Raided the old Howard 33-37
2. The Bad Girl of Burlesque
3. The TNT Girl
4. America’s Most Beautiful Dancer
5. The Bazoom Girl
Rhoda Tripp
1. Three Haiku Poems 38
Gordon Scapens
1. Conscience 39-45
2. Have And Have Nots
3. Coffin Dancer
4. Silent Communication
Angela Hoffman
1. Drive Straight into Fear 45-47
2. Deserted-ness
3. Joy and Pain Are Married
4. Mure-Made
5. Leaven For Her Soul
Joshua St. Claire (Michael Winter)
1. Ten Haiku Poems 48-49
Margaret Adams Birth
1. Tree House 49-55
2. Traumatic Amnesiac
3. The Meadow of Their Common Song
4. Help In Transit
CL Bledsoe
1. Bird Feeder 55-58
2. The Cave
3. Coffee Table
4. The Dealer
5. Dirt Love
Bonnie Scherer
1. Six Senryu Poems 59
Phil Wood
1. A Boy Named John Ronald Reuel 60-61
2. Alraune
3. Silver Bullet
Michael Ball
1. 67 Cars 61-65
2. Auxiliary Red
3. Penn Station Shame
4. Lover’s Necklace
5. Redolence
6. Absurd
Adele Ogier Jones
1. Ten Tanka for Time 66-67
Saeed Ibrahim
1. Cast Out – Short Story 68-73
Amber Winter
1. Five Triolets 74-75
Don Krieger
1. Cassandra, Daughter of Troy 76-78
Paul Callus and Karen O’Leary
1. Two Tan-Renga Poems - Collaboration 79
Ken Kapp
1. Robin in the Hood – Flash Fiction Story 80-81
Steen Rasmussen
1. All For Naught 81-83
2. LEAFBLOWER
Angel Edwards
1. Drunken Dine and Dosh 84-85
2. Untitled Micro Story
John Harold Olson
1. Sloppy Drunk on Fremont Street 85-89
2. Doggos
3. Cinecitta
4. Denton, Texas
5. Notes On Poetry
Courtney Glover
1. The Dark Muses 89-91
2. Collector of Souls
Eddie Heaton
1. giving birth 92-95
2. climate warriors arise
3. complacency personified
Santosh Bakaya
1. The Racing Horse 96-99
2. The Almond Drowning Ship
3. When I Am No More Around
Mark Hendrickson
1. The Time That Is Given Us 100-101
E.C. Traganas
1. Beyond The Pale – Flash Fiction Story 101-104
John Doyle
1. St. Blaise Taught Me How to Sing the Blues 104-111
2. Mise-en-scene
3. The Smoke, The Moon, The Soft Soft Rain
4. Østerbro
Maurizio Brancaleoni
1. Five Haiku Poems 112
Raluca Balasa
1. Five Years After Marriage 113-114
2. Coffee Date At Barnes And Noble
Jodie Baeyens
1. In My Life 114-118
2. When the Muse Comes to Call
3. Angel of Grief
4. Heart of Fire
5. Weal and Woe
David Alec Knight
1. Iguana Flu In Fever Shades 119-121
2. Pale Goth Beauty Under Black Light
Daya Bhat
1. Fleuron 122
2. Temple stairs
3. Snow
L. Wayne Russell
1. Questions of the Heart 123-127
2. This One Life
3. After The Snow Fell
4. Nostalgia
5. Always
Yvonne Zipter
1. Lost in Wonder Land 128-131
2. Bees Knees
3. Fortuitous
4. Waiting to Hibernate
Allan Lake
1. Found Poultry 132
Nikola Popovic
1. The Redhead – Short Story 133-139
Wayne F. Burke
1. Rommel Swallows Cyanide 139-142
2. October 21st
3. Vein
4. The Scary War
5. Secrets
Paul Engel
1. Winter 142-145
2. Spring
3. Summer
4. Autumn
5. Night
6. Dawn
Dana Trick
1. Rivers 145-148
2. Seas
3. Darkness
4. Trees and Forests
5. Fairy, Faerie, Fey, Fair Folk
Raymond Berthelot
1. What They Can’t Take Away 148-152
2. Le Old Navy
3. Flower Water – for J.B.
4. That Town Best
5. Impressionist
Marc Frazier
1. The Way Here 152-156
2. Moving
3. What I’m Thinking During Therapy
4. Shifting
5. What Does It Take to Be Happy
George Vance
1. Stumbled Upon Poem: November 5, 2010 157-159
zO-AlonzO Gross
1. chamomile Tea 159-164
2. Heaven CrieZ
3. Virtue O’thornZ
4. SinZ of My Poppa
5. A Shepherd at daybreak
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
1. Make the Day Grey 165-167
2. Throw a Stone
3. Unintended Stain
4. Looking and Looking
Ramzi Albert Rihani
1. Unscathed 167-170
2. Land on Higher Tier
3. Delivery
4. All is Fair in Love and War
Terrence Sykes
1. Techno-Idiot 170-172
2. Prophecy
3. Transcendentalist Spontaneous Ascension…
4. JUDAS
5. I Still Remember
John Wesick
1. cento 24 172-177
2. Electric Car Crash Kills Three!
3. Another Mass Imputing
4. Rest Period at the Zen Retreat
5. This Movie is Terminal
Keith Snow
1. She Says Bad Juju 177-180
2. Saw an Iambic Meteor But It Faded
3. My Next Piece
Harry K. Stammer
1. spill 13 180-181
2. spill 12
3. spill 11
Ram Chandran
1. Eight Senryu 182-183
Gopi Kottoor
1. From a Hotel Terrace, The Ganges 183-186
2. A Photograph in the Woods
3. Toy Pistol
Tekisui RC
1. Memory of My Father 187-190
2. On Love
3. Untitled
4. Night Walk In Heavy Rain
5. Twilight Again
Cleo Griffith
1. Come, Come 191-194
2. Each Time
3. Elizabeth
4. Hard-Headed Child
5. You, Hovering
Mykyta Ryzhykh
1. Five Untitled Short Poems 194-195
Louis Kasatkin
1. Daily 196-199
2. Horologion
3. Serial
4. The Girl With The Needle In Her Arm
5. Empty Cinema
Pawel Markiewicz
1. The Danube and Dreameries – Flash Fiction 200-203
2. The Broken Soul in My Homeland – Flash Fiction
Wendy Webb
1. Selkie of these Sovereign Shores 203-208
2. Five Tanka Poems
3. Symmetry at Eaton Park (Villanelle)
4. At the End of the Rainbow
Paul Callus and Christina Chin - Collaboration
1. Five Gendai Tanka 209-210
Early May 2023 – Poetry
Fred Johnston
1. Dry Breaking 211-214
2. How To Save A Life
3. Pater Noster With The Island Nearing
4. The Bird
5. News Just In
Jeanna Ni Riordain
1. In The Name of Art 215-217
2. Fortune Teller
3. Life Advice from a Best Friend
Nolo Segundo
1. Ode To An Old Age Spot 218-222
2. The Walking Wounded
3. Now The Stars Hide
4. Flying Over Vietnam, 1974
5. Once I Sailed The Oceans
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
1. Instant 223-226
2. Somnambulance
3. Storms on the Sun
4. The Length of Thirteen Years
John Drudge
1. In the End 227-229
2. Lizards on the Coast
3. Ruins
4. When Heaven Cries
5. Wine Gods
Jennifer Pratt-Walter
1. All the Unmapped Stars 230-232
2. In the Bones of the Fire
3. Your Beauty
4. I See How Things Are in the World
Giulio Magrini
1. Better To Be Born An Animal 232-238
2. Daisy’s Final Diary Entry, Then Lost
3. Discovering We Are Extinct – Public Martyr
4. Discovering We Are Extinct – Personal Martyr
5. The Old Man and the Moon in the Mirror…
6. Turning The Channel from Your Lovely Pose To The
Hate Picnic
Sneha Madhusoodhanan
1. the clock, the room, and the me 239-240
2. my beautiful Despair
Dr Stephen Paul Wren
1. Pylon proteins 241-242
2. Vingt
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 22
Go Where the Sidewalk Ends
March 2023 Continued - Early April 2023
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 22 – Go Where the Sidewalk Ends features the best poetry and fiction from 78 internationally renowned poets and authors who bring their own original take on twenty-first century life and society. Some of us stay on the sidewalk of life but these poets and authors delve deeper and fearlessly Go Where the Sidewalk Ends. Join them and discover poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
“1) I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost...
I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
2) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
3) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in...it's a habit
My eyes are open; I know where I am;
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
4) I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
5) I walk down another street.”
― Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery
Thank you to the following esteemed poets and fiction authors for their superb poetry and fiction featured in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 22 – Go Where the Sidewalk Ends:
Lynda Tavakoli
Rustin Larson
Amy Abdullah Barry
Kevin McManus
Lynn White
Alexander A. Klimenko
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
John Drudge
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Michael Lee Johnson
Alan Catlin
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Samo Kreutz
Lilija Valis
Ed Lyons
Jackie Chou
Clive Gresswell
Julie A. Dickson
Sterling Warner
Mykyta Ryzhykh
John Zedolik
Patricia Furstenberg
Ivan de Monbrison
Stephen Kingsnorth
Karen A. VandenBos
John Harold Olson
Wayne F. Burke
Hamant Singh
Pawel Markiewicz
Greg Patrick
Sharon Waller Knutson
Ken Gosse
Laura Grevel
j. lewis (Jim Lewis)
Terry Sanville
Adele Kenny
Michael Theroux (‘Teru’)
Taghrid Bou Merhi
Bob MacKenzie
Ann Taylor
John Doyle
Lara Dolphin
Richard Puglisi
Alison Hurwitz
David Chorlton
Lewis LaCook
Irene Koronas
Daniel Y. Harris
Dimitrie Anghel – Translated by Ana Neagu
Early April 2023 Poetry and Fiction
Jonathan Butcher
RC deWinter
Steve Klepetar
Cheryl Snell
Joseph A. Farina
Wai Mei Wong
Gordon Ferris
Debarati Sen
Chris Blake
Nolcha Fox and Ken Tomaro – Poetry Collaboration
Miranda Clarity
John Riley
Linda Imbler
Dan Provost
Ann Privateer
MT Williams
Deborah A. Bennett
Wojciech Brzoska – Translated by Adam Zdrodowski
Scott Thomas Outlar
Alec Solomita
Elizabeth Mercurio
Terry Wheeler
Rose Mary Boehm
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
March 2023 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Lynda Tavakoli
1. Dead Dog 17-19
2. Gone
3. Is This What I Do?
Rustin Larson
1. Four Crows 19-22
2. Yellow Canoes
3. Chiropractor
4. Matches
5. Happy Pills
6. Blue Jay
7. Angry Wife
8. Almond Fish
Amy Abdullah Barry
1. Delhi 22-25
2. Terminal
3. Off-Roading in the Malaysian Jungle
Kevin McManus
1. Everything was this Moment 26-29
2. A bell in the white morning
3. A Pagan Place
4. A cold wind from the lake
5. Opened ground
Lynn White
1. Still Searching 29-31
2. The Dying of the Light
3. The Place Where the Stars Are Buried
Alexander A. Klimenko
1. Found in the Rushes 32-34
2. Manhattan Waltz
3. Through the Umbrella
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. Heart’s Compass 34-42
2. Art Isn’t Dead – It’s Still Dying
3. La Vie en Rouge
4. Our Lady
John Drudge
1. At a Café in St. Mark’s Square 43-45
2. New Machines
3. Summer Skies
4. The Edge of Town
5. Walking Through Walls
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Five Tan-Renga - Poetry Collaboration 46-47
Michael Lee Johnson
1. I Age 48-50
2. Crypt in the Sky
3. Priscilla, Let’s Dance
4. Willow Tree Poem
Alan Catlin
1. Self-Portrait as Greek Tragedy 51-52
2. Nightmare with wind farms in it
3. Desertion: A Still Life
4. Overheard: Two English Majors Talking
5. Lady’s Room Graffiti
6. Last light on lilacs in winter
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Cake Jumping Out of Strippers is Just Vomiting 52-56
2. Trading Barbs
3. When the Guns Fell Silent
4. Making the Train
5. Sacred Cows Make the Best Cheeseburgers
Samo Kreutz
1. Hide and seek 56-58
2. Seeding time – Haiku Sequence
3. Bonfire
4. Tempest within
Lilija Valis
1. Poetry is not a Book 58-59
Ed Lyons
1. In the Maze – Epic Poem 60-70
Jackie Chou
1. The Rain on My Parade 70-72
2. The Rose
3. The Sky
4. Windows to the Soul
Clive Gresswell
1. Aching 72-74
2. Talk
3. Rose
Julie A. Dickson
1. Grey People 75-77
2. Door to Door
3. Untitled Poem
4. Table for One
5. Untitled Poem
Sterling Warner
1. Shapeshifting with Louise Erdrich 78-81
2. Wood Winds
3. Inked Opus
4. Autumn Nuts
5. Daze & Nights
Mykyta Ryzhykh
1. Five Untitled Poems 82-83
John Zedolik
1. Agreeable Empyrean 83-86
2. Exceptional Moment
3. Already Worked Out
4. Fugitive Relief
5. Projector
Patricia Furstenberg
1. Beyond the Seagulls’ Nest – Short Story 87-90
Ivan de Monbrison
1. The thieves 90-92
2. The fire that follows me
3. Masturbation
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Re-Incarnation 93-97
2. Whitebeam
3. Dance of Zalongo
4. Tree
5. Trews Weir
Karen A. VandenBos
1. Dancing With Joy 97-101
2. Tending to Sorrow
3. Illusions of Childhood
4. The Initiate
5. The Curandera: Walking Between Two Worlds
John Harold Olson
1. Life is beautiful and tissue thin 101-104
2. Fields of Mighty War
3. How did we get off that break-down lane?
4. Mistakes
5. God
Wayne F. Burke
1. Speed Racer 104-109
2. Piss Test
3. Innocent
Hamant Singh
1. Mahaphralaya 109-111
Pawel Markiewicz
1. Tree-like sonnet 111-112
2. Gods and Goddesses
Greg Patrick
1. City of Refuge Hawii - Pu’uhonua o Honaunau 112-114
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. The Chicken Dance 114-117
2. Crow’s Feet
3. Watching the Neighbours
4. Family Tree
5. Arizona Monsoon
Ken Gosse
1. One Hundred-Words, No More, No Less 117-120
2. The Noir Clown Tavern (Three Limericks)
3. Menage a Few - Sonnet
4. Over the Edge of the Final Frontier
5. The Giant Plastic Crystal Ball Candy Dispenser
Laura Grevel
1. The Ravens Are Back 120-123
2. Songlines
3. Goddess of Beaver Lagoon
j. lewis (Jim Lewis)
1. to live again in snow 124-126
2. nobody leaves without singing the blues
3. blue sky falling
Terry Sanville
1. Panther Meadows – Flash Fiction Story 126-129
Adele Kenny
1. Exactly Then 129-131
2. When the Last Wisp of Magic is Gone
3. Even If You Could Explain It Completely
4. What to Expect of Heaven
Michael Theroux (‘Teru’)
1. Beyond the Veil 132-135
2. Slim Catman
3. That Gnawing Feeling
4. Four Magics
5. Half Moon Riding Low
Taghrid Bou Merhi
1. I Need Your Voice 135-136
2. Bliss of Love
Bob MacKenzie
1. The Friend Who Dies – Short Story 137-140
Ann Taylor
1. Closed, Do Not Enter 140-144
2. Saint Kinga’s Salt Chapel
3. Constellation Pegasus
4. Orders from Your Fairy Godmother
John Doyle
1. Gathering Thoughts 145-153
2. Hutch McKeller (Song for a Dirty Double-Crossing Fink)
3. Amhran na Maidine
4. Smoke-Charred Wooden Sheds Still Standing
5. Lucas
6. Marchegg Railway Station, Austria
7. Light Up Mr. Lightfoot’s Stogie
8. Sandinistas y Contras
Lara Dolphin
1. Pray For Me Saint Brigid 153-155
2. A Jawn for the New Year
3. Turritopsis Dohrnii Visits the Woods Hole Science Aquarium
4. Edward Hopper’s Google Autocomplete Predicts Cape Cod
5. Surrender
Richard Puglisi
1. Poem of the Summer 156-157
2. The Beginning – Passage I
3. The Beginning – Passage III
Alison Hurwitz
1. Photo Synesthesia 158-160
2. March Comes In
3. Early Spring, North Carolina
4. Movement
David Chorlton
1. Woodpecker 160-163
2. Paw Prints
3. Moth on a Summer Night
4. The Feathered Call
5. Craniotomy
Lewis LaCook
1. Coffee on Kentucky avenue 163-166
2. Truckin’
3. Flying ointment, limited liabilities
4. The Black River is empty
5. Explanation
6. The county line
Irene Koronas
1. Excerpts from gnostos, Volume VII 167-169
Manuscript of the Grammaton Series
Daniel Y. Harris
1. Excerpts from The Metempsychosis of 170-172
Salvador Dracu, Volume VI Manuscript
Of the Posthuman Series
Dimitrie Anghel – Translated by Ana Neagu
1. A Nibelung’s Dream 172-176
2. The Rainbow
3. Trance
4. Ghosts
5. And if…
Early April 2023 Poetry and Fiction
Jonathan Butcher
1. An Evening’s Afterglow 176-178
2. Someone’s Dropped a Sword
3. A Badly Wrapped Scar
RC deWinter
1. air song 178-180
2. dinner at café surprise
3. fever talk
4. 3399
Steve Klepetar
1. Painful Light 181-183
2. Beyond the Trees
3. The Man in the Dark Blue Suit
Cheryl Snell
1. Stay Safe – Flash Fiction 183-184
Joseph A. Farina
1. Manifest destiny 184-187
2. Behind closed doors
3. through rose coloured eyes
4. Streets of shade, sidewalks of silence
5. evensong
Wai Mei Wong
1. Five Short Poems 188
Gordon Ferris
1. Words spoken 189-191
2. If
3. The door
4. White lies
Debarati Sen
1. Five Haiku Poems 191-192
Chris Blake
1. Daoism 192-195
2. Orchards
3. Kissing Scarlett Johansson
Nolcha Fox and Ken Tomaro – Poetry Collaboration
1. Names 196-199
2. Untitled Poem
3. Trees Hide
4. If you want it bad enough
Miranda Clarity
1. Inner Cravings of a Lost Soul 200-204
2. My Soul Walks Within
3. The Love Triangle of the Sun, the Earth, the Moon
4. I Miss
5. Riddle Is Me
John Riley
1. If Only 204-207
2. Untitled Poem
3. The Colonel’s Last Battlefield
4. Beneath
5. After a Talk With a Friend
Linda Imbler
1. Yggdrasil’s Collapse 208-211
2. Admiring Brains
3. Rendezvous at the Intersection
4. A New Broom
5. Dilemma
Dan Provost
1. Kaleidoscope of Fragmented Sequences 212-214
2. The Poor Kid (Pincus Form)
3. Ordinary (If I’m Permitted to Comment)
Ann Privateer
1. Life 214-215
2. Dessert
3. Reflections
MT Williams
1. Feathers Falling 215-216
Deborah A. Bennett
1. Five Haiku Poems 216-217
Wojciech Brzoska – Translated by Adam Zdrodowski
1. Untitled Poem 217-220
2. playing in the sand
3. first come, first served
4. rucksack
5. rainstorm is reflected in the puddles
Scott Thomas Outlar
1. Fit to Burst – Short Story 220-222
Annette Towler
1. House among the Rich 223
Alec Solomita
1. Skid 224-225
Elizabeth Mercurio
1. The Politician – Flash Fiction Story 225-227
Terry Wheeler
1. distant place 228-231
2. coronation
3. Babylon
4. Wichita lineman
Rose Mary Boehm
1. Aristos in North London 232-237
2. Beginnings
3. Language skills
4. Madrid
5. Preparations for the inevitable
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 21
Underground Poets
February 2023 Continued - Early March 2023
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Lionmouth Door Knocker
At any given moment in the middle of a city
there’s a million epiphanies occurring,
in the blurring of the world beyond the curtain
From Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
From I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
From i carry your heart with me by EE Cummings
Thank you to the following esteemed poets and fiction authors for their brilliant poetry and fiction contributions to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 21 – Underground Poets:
Gary Bills
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Steve Klepetar
Hedy Habra
Nolo Segundo
Rose Mary Boehm
Ken Gosse
Mihaela Melnic
KB Updike Jr
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
John Harold Olson
Nolcha Fox
Greg Patrick
Ursula O’Reilly
Wayne F. Burke
Marianne Szlyk
Leslaw Nowara
Irma Kurti
J.D. Isip
Louise Ceres (MT Ceres)
David Mampel
Julie A. Dickson
Steve Spence
E.P. Lande
Frances Gaudiano
David Conte
Terri Metcalfe
Thomas Elson
Irina Tall (Novikova)
L. Sydney Abel
Fran R. Schumer
Ian Mullins
Alfredo Quarto
Dominic Rivron
Michael Neal Morris
Michael La Bombarda
Greg Bell
Norman Cristofoli
Prithvijeet Sinha
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Bob MacKenzie
Karen Warinsky
Tim Suermondt
Wendy Webb
Michael H. Brownstein
Christine Tabaka
Lawrence Wilson
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Roy J. Adams
Laura Stamps
Christopher Barnes
Marina Richie
Daipayan Nair
Snigdha Agrawal
Cliff Wedgbury
KB Ballentine
Paul Ilechko
Gabor Gyukics
Joseph Farley
Patrick Connors
Susan Wilson
Mark Young
Elena Malec
Gale Acuff
Marie C. Lecrivain
Darren Lynch
Jay Passer
Angel Edwards
Bob Eager
Sushant Thapa
Contents
February 2023 continued
Gary Bills
1. The Practical Impossibility of Spring 17-21
2. If the Trees Are Brave
3. Etruscan Frescoes
4. To Turn With Shells
5. Late Hours
6. Love’s Young Dreams
7. Haunted
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. My Dark Angels 21-26
2. Thou Art
3. Under the Corner of Your Pillow
Steve Klepetar
1. Out of Town 27-29
2. A New Roof
3. Who You Meet
Hedy Habra
1. Once Upon a Time in Prague, a Word 29-32
2. Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry
Nolo Segundo
1. A Child’s Christmas Carol 32-37
2. After Costco, Before Ukraine
3. Love Is Not Known
4. Ocean City
5. Tasting Eternity
Rose Mary Boehm
1. Mbaya – Short Story 37-40
Ken Gosse
1. My First and Only 41-43
2. Commence Advancing
3. Often Upon A Time, Long, Long Ago
4. When Some Totals Don’t Add Up
5. A Valentine’s Day Epitaph
Mihaela Melnic
1. A Reason Enough 44-45
2. If Time Is Ours
3. History
KB Updike Jr
1. Agarial’s Plight – Flash Fiction Story 45-47
Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
1. the first 47-50
2. Four Leafed Clover
3. Thin Skinned
John Harold Olson
1. Lost at the Fair 50-53
2. My Autumn Girlfriend
3. Quarterback Sneak
4. Hammock
Nolcha Fox
1. Everything moves 54-55
2. Make a space
3. Grief is a wilted
4. Stay in place
5. Twelve Months
Greg Patrick
1. Lady of the Dark Horses – Prose Poem 56-66
2. Huntsman After Night – Prose Poem
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Queen of the Fae 66-68
2. Waiting
3. Rascal
4. Faery Queen
Wayne F. Burke
1. Friends 69-71
2. Black Shoe
3. Cold Snow World
4. Untitled Poem
5. Dream
Marianne Szlyk
1. At Lake Greenbelt 71-75
2. Why I Walk Up Rockville Pike
3. After Dwight William Tryon’s “Winter” (1893)
4. Winter: Central Park
5. On the First Day of the New Year
Leslaw Nowara
1. What can’t be said of the sparrow 75-78
2. Distinguishing marks
3. Magic bullets
4. Maybe you can make it in time
5. The protest
Irma Kurti
1. Delicate Souls 79-82
2. People Want Your Smile
3. The Spectacle of the Sky
4. Only a Shadow
5. An Autumn Day
J.D. Isip
1. The Blue Morphos 82-85
2. Arwen at the River
3. Heroes
4. Ariel
5. El Roi
Louise Ceres (MT Ceres)
1. Charyia Seastorm’s Shanty – short version 86-88
2. Bone Song
3. The Western Gate
4. Eleri Imole
David Mampel
1. The Accidental Light – Short Story 89-93
Julie A. Dickson
1. Caroline doesn’t scream 93-96
2. Single Bird
3. I am a rock
4. First Apartment
5. Biting
Steve Spence
1. Mobiloil Arctic 96-99
2. Facing the Demons
3. Slow to Clear
4. Smoothing the Transitions
5. Drawing us in
E.P. Lande
1. Wishes – Short Story 100-103
Frances Gaudiano
1. Doctor Mermaid 104-106
2. The Barnacle’s Penis
3. The Boxing Day Swim
4. At the bottom of the stairs
David Conte
1. Milo Meets His Match – Short Story 107-109
Terri Metcalfe
1. Christmas Time 109-113
2. Into the City on a Whim
3. Atoms
4. Hitching
5. Winter Sunrise Over Galway
Thomas Elson
1. Years and Yearbooks 113-116
2. Ecce Homo
3. How to Start Your Day Without Coffee
Irina Tall (Novikova)
1. Pass the moments with the pain of words 116-121
2. In the abyss of fallen doubts
3. Heart Pinched
4. A couple of lines, face and eyes curled up like a big snake
5. Heart in the last beat
6. There is a cup in your hand, and there is black water…
7. Shadows leave blue marks on the transparent curtain…
8. blue mug
9. The Bus Travels – Flash Fiction Story
L. Sydney Abel
1. Crown of Thorns 121-123
2. Touching You
3. Aspect Immediate
4. Rip Us Apart
5. Come Together
Fran R. Schumer
1. First Snow 123-127
2. R.I.P.
3. Market Hill Road
4. Parade
Ian Mullins
1. Taking Control 127-131
2. All At Sea
3. Cancelling
4. Get Lucky
Alfredo Quarto
1. River Stones 131-135
2. For All of You
3. The Song of the Wild Geese
4. Butterfly Clouds Dim the Light of Reason
5. Ripples Across Lake Constance
Dominic Rivron
1. The Tower – Flash Fiction Story 135-137
Michael Neal Morris
1. slow waking 137-139
2. August
3. Sacked
4. After Frost
5. Climb
Michael La Bombarda
1. The Golden Age 140-144
2. An Elegy for My Mother
3. Walking Up Lafayette Street
4. A Young Lady
5. Vermont
Greg Bell
1. Offering! 145-149
2. T’ai Chi Moon
3. Moon Song
4. 27 Astral Waves
5. The Key
Norman Cristofoli
1. Vision in the Woods 150-153
2. Akhenaten
3. Angel Number Three
4. Child’s Poem by the Irish Sea
5. The Gathering
Prithvijeet Sinha
1. Ringlets 153-159
2. Mt. Luna
3. Part One
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Ten Poems – Poetry Collaboration 159-162
Early March 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Bob MacKenzie
1. earth that is me breathes every moon 163-168
2. mourning dove
3. the thoughts unspoken the lady aged
4. tolerance
5. sunrise through a bottomless mug
Karen Warinsky
1. Where Greatness Lay 169-173
2. Judy Woodruff Makes it Palatable
3. Nazi Breakfast
4. Precipice
5. Toward the Horizon
Tim Suermondt
1. Like Moths 173-177
2. Samurai
3. Nathan Road
4. The Agenda
5. The Coolness of the Day
Wendy Webb
1. Eden: Birds and Beer 177-183
2. To the People of a Hundred Years’ Time
3. Heaven’s Smile (Glosa)
4. Beneath the Oak in Summer
Michael H. Brownstein
1. Subtitle Within the Mould of Cheese 183-184
2. Scream Writing
Christine Tabaka
1. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again 184-186
2. The End is in Sight
3. Learning to Climb the Mountain
Lawrence Wilson
1. Detectable 186-189
2. Myth Making
3. Remember This
4. Spiral Learning
5. Thorns
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
1. Deciduous 189-192
2. Bokeh
3. Icarus
4. Kintsugi
5. Endings
Roy J. Adams
1. Blasting Elvis and Buddy Holly 193
2. My Heart Trembles
Laura Stamps
1. Bullet 194
Christopher Barnes
1. Townscape 21 195-196
2. Townscape 22
3. Townscape 23
4. Townscape 24
5. Townscape 25
Marina Richie
1. Last Race 197-199
2. Longing – a Cinquain Poem
3. Evensong
4. Questions for Raven Watchers
5. I Want
Daipayan Nair
1. Ten Senryu Poems 200-201
Snigdha Agrawal
1. All In the Eyes – Short Story 202-204
Cliff Wedgbury
1. black scarf 204-206
2. by Oxford circus
3. tea with dad
KB Ballentine
1. After the Flames, Flight 206-209
2. To Catch the Light
3. Fragments of Grace
4. Hiraeth
Paul Ilechko
1. Sonnet for Mountain Ash 209-214
2. Once in Sinai
3. Thanksgiving Sonnet
4. Nation Building
5. Burning Landscape Sonnet
Gabor Gyukics
1. deep sea calm at low tide 214-216
2. deep sea calm at high tide
3. present is god’s sandwich wedged between past and future
4. aim and look aside
5. small coffee with two cubes of sugar
Joseph Farley
1. Quackers – Short Story 216-219
Patrick Connors
1. Juice 219-220
Susan Wilson
1. Aerial Views 220-222
2. Its My Turn to Learn
3. Trailing Links
4. Mira Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Mark Young
1. Baedeker 223-226
2. Melancholy
3. Today’s List
4. Ersatz in the 21st Century
5. incidental molasses
Elena Malec
1. Simply Magic 226-228
2. Recognition
3. The Biology Lesson
Gale Acuff
1. Nobody lives forever, not even 228-231
2. Someday I’ll die but I don’t want to die
3. I hate everybody-no, that’s not true
4. I’ll go to Hell when I die for the sin
5. Everybody wants go to Heaven
Marie C. Lecrivain
1. Fortunes Bitch - Short Story 231-235
Darren Lynch
1. Breath of Winter 236-238
2. The Tavern of Swallows
3. Bridge of Conception
4. The Break of Cronus
Jay Passer
1. Squeamish like a Dumbass in Cahoots with Fascists 239-240
Angel Edwards
1. Phantom Harem 240-241
Bob Eager
1. Trash Bag Therapy 241-242
Sushant Thapa
1. Loaded Mind 242-243
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 20
End of December 2022 - Early February 2023
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 20 – Masks of Many Colours features 247 pages of the best contemporary poetry, fiction and fantasy from more than 70 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them, with or without masks, on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows.
"It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth."
- Gao Xingjian.
"Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling."
- Khalil Gibran.
"Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? "
- Moliere.
"I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
- Bob Dylan.
"You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
- Jim Morrison.
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
- James A. Baldwin.
"Humor is the mask of wisdom."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt.
"Every profound spirit needs a mask."
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
- Victor Hugo.
"Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death."
- Joshua L. Liebman.
"The trouble with a mask is it never changes."
- Charles Bukowski.
"Mortals are equal; their mask differs."
- Voltaire.
"It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance."
- Leonard Cohen.
"It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act, and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks."
- Jim Morrison.
"Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself."
- Frank Herbert.
Tale Of A Tub
by Sylvia Plath
The photographic chamber of the eye
records bare painted walls, while an electric light
lays the chromium nerves of plumbing raw;
such poverty assaults the ego; caught
naked in the merely actual room,
the stranger in the lavatory mirror
puts on a public grin, repeats our name
but scrupulously reflects the usual terror.
Just how guilty are we when the ceiling
reveals no cracks that can be decoded? when washbowl
maintains it has no more holy calling
than physical ablution, and the towel
dryly disclaims that fierce troll faces lurk
in its explicit folds? or when the window,
blind with steam, will not admit the dark
which shrouds our prospects in ambiguous shadow?
Twenty years ago, the familiar tub
bred an ample batch of omens; but now
water faucets spawn no danger; each crab
and octopus -- scrabbling just beyond the view,
waiting for some accidental break
in ritual, to strike -- is definitely gone;
the authentic sea denies them and will pluck
fantastic flesh down to the honest bone.
We take the plunge; under water our limbs
waver, faintly green, shuddering away
from the genuine color of skin; can our dreams
ever blur the intransigent lines which draw
the shape that shuts us in? absolute fact
intrudes even when the revolted eye
is closed; the tub exists behind our back;
its glittering surfaces are blank and true.
Yet always the ridiculous nude flanks urge
the fabrication of some cloth to cover
such starkness; accuracy must not stalk at large:
each day demands we create our whole world over,
disguising the constant horror in a coat
of many-colored fictions; we mask our past
in the green of Eden, pretend future's shining fruit
can sprout from the navel of this present waste.
In this particular tub, two knees jut up
like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise
on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap
navigates the tidal slosh of seas
breaking on legendary beaches; in faith
we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail
among sacred islands of the mad till death
shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
Thank you to the following internationally renowned poets and fiction authors for their superb contributions in this volume of Lothlorien Poetry Journal:
End of December 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
Marilyn Humbert
Martin Ferguson
Dr. Anissa Sboui
Jeremy Proehl
Christina Chin, M.R. Defibaugh and Linda Ludwig
Tom Laughlin
Dr. Anushna Biswas
Neil Fulwood
Snighda Agrawal
Dennis Daly
Joseph A. Farina
Scott C. Kaestner
John Doyle
Lee Clark Zumpe
January 2023 – Poems and Fiction
Lauren Scharhag
John Drudge
Richard Skinner
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Keith Snow
Lorraine Caputo
Ace Boggess
Susan Wilson
Nate Jacob
Margaret Duda
Ram Krishna Singh (R.K. Singh)
Shelley Tracey
Jim Meirose
Miriam Manglani
Susan Isla Tepper
Neal Whitman
Sharon Whitehill
James Higgins
Dr. Mona Bedi
Angela Hoffman
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Gina Maria Manchego and Richard M. Ankers
Ozan Baygin
Shelly Blankman
Gary Glauber
Deborah A. Bennett
Digby Beaumont
Lilija Valis
Rustin Larson
Michael T. Young
Ryan Keating
Nathan Anderson
Matthew Borczon
Royal Rhodes
R.A. Clarke
Ken Allan Dronsfield
Amanda Erin Miller
Gordon Ferris
Ken Goodman
Margaret Duda
February 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Hansha Teki
Julie Ann Thomason
R. Gerry Fabian
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Mariel Herbert
Stephen House
Linda King
Bhuwan Thapaliya
Samuel Armen
Ivars Balkit
Nancy Taylor
Jeanne Griggs
Gabriel Awuah Mainoo
Kenneth M. Kapp
Borkhan
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
End of December 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
Marilyn Humbert
1. In-between-time 16-17
2. Lost in the City
3. Gariwerd
Martin Ferguson
1. Landing Clear 17-20
2. A Devil
3. Anting
4. Cohabiter
5. Hypnagogia
Dr. Anissa Sboui
1. Alone – Flash Fiction 21-26
2. The Moody Bookworm – Short Story
Jeremy Proehl
1. Cedar 26-30
2. Mourning Dove
3. I Do Not Speak
4. Shadow
5. Mercy
Christina Chin, M.R. Defibaugh and Linda Ludwig
1. Early birds - Collaborative Cherita 30-31
2. Community park
3. Call for rain
Tom Laughlin
1. Finding Woodrow in the Walker Museum… 32-36
2. In the Woods
3. I am a long way away
4. You, Ocean
5. Wood Originally
Dr. Anushna Biswas
1. Heads in Heaven 36-39
2. Grey Scape
3. In Quest of Dream
4. Waiting for Gaze
5. Death of an Escapist
Neil Fulwood
1. L’Esprit De L’Escalier 40-43
2. Drive It Like It’s Stolen
3. Three Vultures Look at a Poet
4. Lunch Break, Late Shift
5. Recidivist
Snighda Agrawal
1. Ten Tanka, Haiku and Senryu 43-45
Dennis Daly
1. Bypassing the All-Souls Lounge 46-47
2. Ash Wednesday at the All-Souls Lounge
3. Boethius Has Second Thoughts at the All-Souls Lounge
Joseph A. Farina
1. Eustius at Christmas 48-54
2. Eustius at forty
3. Eustius at Sixty-five
4. Eustius clay
5. getting festive
6. Eustius on the shore
Scott C. Kaestner
1. The Rhythm of Incandescence 54-56
2. Wonder
3. Nuclear Codes
John Doyle
1. Hot Potatoes (for Abstaining Comrades) 57-59
2. Iwaskingofthefuckinghill
3. Autumn Bedding Plants for Sale
4. Abnormal Service Resumed
Lee Clark Zumpe
1. Dread of the Blackk Gor – Short Story 59-64
January 2023 – Poems and Fiction
Lauren Scharhag
1. Medusa Browses the Beauty Aisle 65-70
2. The Ghost Forest
3. Curse of the Spider Woman
4. Snakes and Boxes
5. Root
John Drudge
1. Another Place 71-74
2. Autumn in the Valley
3. Disintegration
4. New Math
5. The Search
Richard Skinner
1. Lavender (remix) 74
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. Glass Nobodies 74-79
2. Of Papa Who Sang in the Opera
Keith Snow
1. Moth Poem 80-81
2. Ignorance is Abyss
3. United Sarcasm
Lorraine Caputo
1. The Hunt 81-83
2. Spirit Bolom
3. Wisdom
4. Animal Dreams
Ace Boggess
1. All that is Offered, I Embrace 83-86
2. Street Sweeper
3. Best Advice
4. A Good Lover Knows How to Sing
5. Neruda for You
Susan Wilson
1. How Far is Near? How Near is Far 86-89
2. Diva on a Dive
3. Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha
4. The Man with the Hat
5. Exiled to Freedom
Nate Jacob
1. Mortgaging Paradise 90-95
2. Bright Eyes and a Cloud of Coffee
3. Barista as Superhero
4. The Heart Wants
5. A Senseless Joke
Margaret Duda
1. Seeing Gracie Hall – Short Story 95-103
Ram Krishna Singh (R.K. Singh)
1. Tanka and Haiku Poems 103-105
Shelley Tracey
1. The Properties of Glass 106-108
2. Kindling
3. Seeing in the dark
4. Waitingscapes
Jim Meirose
1. Out the End of the Dark – Short Story 109-114
Miriam Manglani
1. Dream Lover 114-118
2. The Big Lice
3. Falling to New Heights
4. Ode to My Breasts
5. My Father’s Yahrzeit
Susan Isla Tepper
1. Oblivion 118
Neal Whitman
1. The Last Laugh 119-122
2. Pepperoni Pizza just before Bedtime
3. If I Say It Won’t Work, My Clients Go All In
4. A Punch in the Nose or a Bop on the Head
5. Martial Law
Sharon Whitehill
1. Ode to the Mushroom 123-128
2. Water Snakes
3. The Perverted Imp
4. A Several World
5. Bits and Pieces
James Higgins
1. Torn Photograph 128-133
2. Trying on Hats
3. Time
4. Train Watch
5. Flight
Dr. Mona Bedi
1. Six Haiku Poems 133-134
Angela Hoffman
1. Regret 134-137
2. Threads
3. loVe
4. Commitment
5. We Were In It Together
Mykyta Ryzhykh
1. Poem - Untitled 137-138
2. Poem - Untitled
3. Poem - Untitled
Gina Maria Manchego and Richard M. Ankers
1. Other Autumns – Flash Fiction 139-141
Ozan Baygin
1. The Fig Tree – Translated by Sila Ellie Kutu 141-142
2. Anthill in Handprint
3. Bad Trip
Shelly Blankman
1. The Villain 143-147
2. Legacy
3. Remembering Freya
4. The Dark Window
5. Tropes
Gary Glauber
1. Option 147-153
2. One Bad Man Leads to Another
3. Crisis of Reflection
Deborah A. Bennett
1. Five Haiku Poems 153-154
Digby Beaumont
1. Falling in Love 154-155
2. What’s Mine is Yours
3. The Nature of Being
Lilija Valis
1. Neighbourhood Star 155-160
2. Eight
3. 10
Rustin Larson
1. Poem Beginning in Iowa and Ending in Round Top..160-166
2. Hamburgers
3. Transplants
4. Photos from 1947
5. Bottle and Glass
Michael T. Young
1. By Phoenix Fires 167-171
2. Learning the Right Words
3. The Land of Sweet Dreams
4. Mistaking Each Other for Gods
5. Finding the Song
Ryan Keating
1. To Seeking 171-174
2. Flamingos in the Salon
3. Stretch
4. Or My Skin
5. Elisha and His Servant
Nathan Anderson
1. Empty Sentence + Vanity + 175-181
2. Glass Magnolia House
3. Levitating [sentence]=pulp
4. Persimmon Symphony (otherwise)
5. Promulgated (tepid+tepid+tepid)
Matthew Borczon
1. My third year of college 182-183
2. On the drive to work I pretend I am someone else
3. The vet
Royal Rhodes
1. Bog Boy 184-189
2. Halley’s Comet
3. Hansel and Gretel
4. Childhood
5. Being Young in Truro
R.A. Clarke
1. Friday – Flash Fiction Story 190-192
Ken Allan Dronsfield
1. Beckoning Sea (version 3) 192-195
2. Weightless in Snow
3. Of Sallow
4. Dead Sunflowers
5. Sonnet of the Silent Man
Amanda Erin Miller
1. The Past is Here 196-198
2. Rockabye
3. The Amethyst Forest
Gordon Ferris
1. The Brood – Short Story 198-205
Ken Goodman
1. empty glass on picnic table 205-208
2. envy
3. when I stood in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom
4. apologies to DT
5. their names
Margaret Duda
1. American Tragedy 209-214
2. Harmony on the Hudson 1927
3. Home After Forty-Five Years
February 2023 – Poetry and Fiction
Hansha Teki
1. Five Parallel Form Poems 215-216
Julie Ann Thomason
1. Golden Manifestation 217-218
R. Gerry Fabian
1. Exchanging Glances with Dangerous People 219-221
2. Charting Failure
3. Childhood Secrets Revisited
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
1. Five Haiku and Senryu Poems 221-222
Mariel Herbert
1. Ten Sijo, Haiku and Senryu Poems 222-223
Stephen House
1. freak 224
Linda King
1. that middle space 225-226
2. the new melancholy
Bhuwan Thapaliya
1. coming home 227
Samuel Armen
1. Subterranean Drama 228-229
2. Unstressed
Ivars Balkit
1. You Seeking I Seeking You 229-231
2. Alas ashes, alack lashes
3. Redux from Redux
Nancy Taylor
1. The Song of Cinderella 231-232
Jeanne Griggs
1. Premonitions 232-234
2. Home for the Holidays
Gabriel Awuah Mainoo
1. sermon 235-238
2. Relieving the soul from its winter
3. Whispering
4. Trails – Four Tanka Poems
Kenneth M. Kapp
1. Like Roses – A Tale from the Times of the… 239-240
Kushal Poddar
1. On the First Day of the Year 241-242
2. Fish
3. Kerouac
4. Narrative
5. Winter Estuary
Borkhan
1. Leaf 243-246
2. sea talk
3. I never knew you
4. Dust, friend
5. I am an idiot
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 19
The Rhapsody of Words
End of November 2022 - Mid December 2022
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 19 – The Rhapsody of Words features the best fantasy and contemporary poetry and fiction from over70 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows.
Thank you to the following internationally renowned poets and fiction authors for their superb contributions in this volume of Lothlorien Poetry Journal:
End of November 2022 Poets and Fiction Authors
John Tustin Edgar Rider Lynn White Fabrice B. Poussin
R.W. Haynes Edward Lee Darren Lynch Michael H. Brownstein
Ivan de Monbrison Ron Wilkins Tony Stowers
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia Relvin Gonzalez Rodriguez
Pawel Markiewicz Karoly Bari–Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics
December 2022 – Poets and Fiction Authors
Heath Brougher Christina Martin John Drudge
Adele Ogier Jones Ed Lyons Ursula O’Reilly John Doyle
Lara Dolphin E. Martin Pedersen Karen A. VandenBos
J.B. Hogan Laura Stamps Paul Demuth Susan Taylor
Lawrence Moore Ann Privateer Henry Wolstat
Sharon Waller Knutson Steve Klepetar Linda King
Wayne F. Burke – from Out of My Mind
Julie A. Dickson Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
J.D. Nelson Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
Mike Gallagher Margaret Coombs John Brantingham
Carella Keil Terry Wheeler Lynda Tavakoli
R.W. Stephens Margaret Duda Stephen A. Rozwenc
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh Wendy Webb John Harold Olson
Becky Parker Bruce Robinson Mary Ray Goehring
Nolo Segundo Lithica Ann Joshua St. Claire
Nolcha Fox Jim Hart Gina Maria Manchego
Roseanne Freed Ken Gosse Yuu Ikeda Palash Mahmud
Kimberly Kuchar Eavonka Ettinger
M.R. Defibaugh Christina Chin
LindaAnn LoSchiavo Livio Farallo Amrita Valan
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe
There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away, / Nor any Coursers like a Page / Of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson
If you tell a novelist, ‘Life’s not like that’, he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, ‘No, but I am.’ – Philip Larkin
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can’t. – Sylvia Plath
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
End of November 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
John Tustin
1. The Ghost of Blaze Foley 16-20
2. It Rarely Comes Down All At Once
3. Somebody Terrible
4. She Writes a Letter
5. Waiting for the Birds to Return
Edgar Rider
1. Slither On Gutter Snake Soul… Short Story 21-23
Lynn White
1. Green Dragon 23-25
2. Metamorphosis
3. I was Always Afraid of Rabbits
Fabrice B. Poussin
1. In Search of the Word 26-29
2. Noise
3. Ritual
4. Little Thing
5. Symphony
R.W. Haynes
1. The Wheels 30-34
2. Not Enough Betrayal
3. Demanding Humiliation
Edward Lee
1. This Inexplicable Need 34-37
2. Lies/Truths
3. Wife and Child
4. Silence
5. Rope for Soul
Darren Lynch
1. The Dust of Heaven 38-40
2. The Dance of Eventide
3. The Requiem House
Michael H. Brownstein
1. Cloud Vapours 40-41
2. Individuality
Ivan de Monbrison
1. The Snake Man 41-43
2. The Target
Ron Wilkins
1. Innocence 43-48
2. The Silence Between
3. Sieste
4. Mayhem in the Rubens Room
5. Exceptions
Tony Stowers
1. Into the Valley of the Clones 48-53
2. The Ticket Inspector
3. The Problem with Chocolate
4. Being British Abroad
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia – A Trilogy of Descort Poems
1. Stay Put 54-56
2. Pale Hands
3. Dilemma
Relvin Gonzalez Rodriguez
1. The Butcher – Short Story 56-59
Pawel Markiewicz
1.1 Arethusa and Alpheus – Eight Sonnets 59-63
Karoly Bari–Translated from Hungarian by Gabor G. Gyukics
1. Journey at Night 64-74
December 2022 – Poems and Fiction
Heath Brougher
1. The Poetry Addict 75-77
2. Anti-Ode to the Crooked Police in York, PA
3. Monopolie
4. Roulette
5. Built to Vomit Vaseline
Christina Martin
1. The Invisible Voice 77-79
2. Bare Places
3. Wind Haiku
John Drudge
1. A Long Thin Spring 79-80
Adele Ogier Jones
1. Poets on St. Cecilia’s Day 81-82
Ed Lyons
1. Friendship Sonnets 82-88
2. In Those Moments
3. Welcome to Your Evening, Love
Ursula O’Reilly
1. In Primrose Wood 89-91
2. Gnomes
3. Magic Found
4. Where Roses Bloom
5. Voices
John Doyle
1. Sound Techniques Studio, London: 1971 92-95
2. The Brothers Horwitz and Their Associate Mr Feinberg
3. A Stranger Animal
4. Song for Huzama Habayeb
5. The Experiment
Lara Dolphin
1. Not, Not, Pennsylvania’s Laureate 96-98
2. Wikipedia Bronde and the Case of the Missing Multiverse
3. The Revanchist Lego Dragons of Cornwall
4. Haibun – Deep Time Meal
5. Tree of 40 Fruit Harvest (a sijo)
E. Martin Pedersen
1. Amazon Lesson 99-102
2. bird baths
3. The Graveyard Two-step
4. In the Tunnel
5. Their seven-story apartment building
Karen A. VandenBos
1. We Wanted for Nothing 102-105
2. Born of Many Mothers
3. Sing the Stars Home
4. Running for Too Long
5. Of Wool and Waves
J.B. Hogan
1. If I Were Elon Musk 106-107
2. Our Time
3. Primer
Laura Stamps
1. Yellow - Prose Poem 108
Paul Demuth
1. The Ball Bearing 109-110
2. Magpie
3. Masque
Susan Taylor
1. Morgana, Caught in Her Own Spell 111
Lawrence Moore
1. Cupped Inside My Hand 112-114
2. Kaleidoscope
3. Another Vicious Storm
4. Crystal Blue
Ann Privateer
1. My Life 114-115
2. My Childhood
3. Dreaming
Henry Wolstat
1. Forever a Runner 116-118
2. Basque Coast Tour
3. Running
4. The Rain in Spain
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Cactus Wren 118-123
2. Buzzard
3. Gila Monster
4. After the Cat Dies
5. Abandoned
Steve Klepetar
1. Sweatshirt 123-126
2. Black Wings
3. Long Days
Linda King
1. lines from the blue notebook 126-128
2. love poem to the existentialists
Wayne F. Burke – from Out of My Mind
1. sinners 128-131
2. sitting on a park bench
3. pick up the words again
4. storm
5. feeling alone and lonely
6. 9 billion years
Julie A. Dickson
1. The Perhaps 131-134
2. Winter burns cold
3. Touching Time
4. Making Music
5. Yielding
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. November 134-140
2. Twilight
3. Insomnia
J.D. Nelson
1. Ten Haiku Poems 141-142
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
1. Until the Light Fails 142-145
2. Uncapped
3. Morning Glories
4. For My Father, Gidio
Mike Gallagher
1. Ten Haiku and Senryu Poems 146-147
Margaret Coombs
1. The Panther 148-150
2. The Visitor
3. Trance Song
John Brantingham
1. Since COVID 151-154
2. Grass Farm
3. All the Way at the End of August
4. They’ve All Gone Away Now
Carella Keil
1. Stilettos in the Rain 154-155
2. Infinity
Terry Wheeler
1. safe 156-159
2. luna
3. the solid mandala
4. after the gold rush
Lynda Tavakoli
1. War and Want 159-162
2. Game On
3. St. Symphorien Cemetery, Mons
R.W. Stephens
1. Etienne 162-166
2. Three Churches
3. Angst
4. Ha’penny
Margaret Duda
1. Coming to America 166-169
2. Hungarian Angels Trimmed Our Tree
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Oh, All About the West Wind 169-172
2. Poem - Untitled
3. Poem - Untitled
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh
1. Kings’ Crowns (English Ghazal) 172-174
2. Havoc (English Ghazal)
3. Ebrahim
Wendy Webb
1. Driving Down Under, or Dreaming the Emerald Isle 174-177
2. Elijah in the Walled Garden
3. Volodymyr’s Bear (Michelangelo’s David, Villanelle)
4. Treasure Chest Gift
John Harold Olson
1. Understanding Your Air-cooled Volkswagen Engine177-182
2. Rotator Cuff
3. Sunday
4. Road to Cripple Creek
Becky Parker
1. The Willow’s River 183-187
2. Goldilocks, Resembled
3. It’s cold here
4. It’s time to catch the metro
Bruce Robinson
1. Tork Is Cheap 188-191
2. Customer Relationships in the Postmodern Era
3. Birds on Parole
4. 4:31
5. Caffeine Rondelet
Mary Ray Goehring
1. Courir de Mardi Gras – Mamou, La 191-197
2. Invocation
3. Medusa: The Reproductive Life of Jellyfish
4. Reservoir
5. What April Showers Bring
Nolo Segundo
1. On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard 197-203
2. Tasting Eternity
3. On the Way to the Ballet
4. What Is Ego
5. What Is This Thing Called Love
6. My Dreams Are Like Poems
7. Now That I Am Old
Lithica Ann
1. Ten Haiku, Senryu and Monoku Poems 203-204
Joshua St. Claire
1. Ten Haiku Poems 205-206
Nolcha Fox
1. Why did you look back? 206-208
2. Snow stars
3. Clouds blanket
4. You send your hands
5. Pull yourself together
Jim Hart
1. Mother Load 209-213
2. Secrets
3. Remembering
4. Perfect Timing
5. Lucky Break
Gina Maria Manchego
1. The Cowboy and His Hometown Girl 213-215
Roseanne Freed
1. Datura 216-220
2. Middle Schoolers Today
3. “In the middle of war, he’s asking for poems”
4. Can my words dance the tango while California burns?
Ken Gosse
1. Eight Senryu Poems 220-221
Yuu Ikeda
1. Indelible Clouds 222
2. Hazy Night
Palash Mahmud
1. Horizontal Lines of Lady Lazarus 223
Kimberly Kuchar and Eavonka Ettinger Collaboration
1. Tan-Renga, Haiku and Tanka Poems 224-225
M.R. Defibaugh and Christina Chin Collaboration
1. Five Tan-Renga Poems 225-226
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
1. Golden Shovel: At Night Alone 227-229
2. Golden Shovel: Untimely Death
3. Speculative Poeming
4. Secrets of the Night: A Golden Shovel
5. Cento: Benighted Night
Livio Farallo
1. outback 230-235
2. lay of the land
3. climate dream
4. one last trip
5. my answer
Amrita Valan
1. Morning 235-241
2. Asana
3. Packing
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 19 – The Rhapsody of Words features the best fantasy and contemporary poetry and fiction from over70 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows.
Thank you to the following internationally renowned poets and fiction authors for their superb contributions in this volume of Lothlorien Poetry Journal:
End of November 2022 Poets and Fiction Authors
John Tustin Edgar Rider Lynn White Fabrice B. Poussin
R.W. Haynes Edward Lee Darren Lynch Michael H. Brownstein
Ivan de Monbrison Ron Wilkins Tony Stowers
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia Relvin Gonzalez Rodriguez
Pawel Markiewicz Karoly Bari–Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics
December 2022 – Poets and Fiction Authors
Heath Brougher Christina Martin John Drudge
Adele Ogier Jones Ed Lyons Ursula O’Reilly John Doyle
Lara Dolphin E. Martin Pedersen Karen A. VandenBos
J.B. Hogan Laura Stamps Paul Demuth Susan Taylor
Lawrence Moore Ann Privateer Henry Wolstat
Sharon Waller Knutson Steve Klepetar Linda King
Wayne F. Burke – from Out of My Mind
Julie A. Dickson Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
J.D. Nelson Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
Mike Gallagher Margaret Coombs John Brantingham
Carella Keil Terry Wheeler Lynda Tavakoli
R.W. Stephens Margaret Duda Stephen A. Rozwenc
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh Wendy Webb John Harold Olson
Becky Parker Bruce Robinson Mary Ray Goehring
Nolo Segundo Lithica Ann Joshua St. Claire
Nolcha Fox Jim Hart Gina Maria Manchego
Roseanne Freed Ken Gosse Yuu Ikeda Palash Mahmud
Kimberly Kuchar Eavonka Ettinger
M.R. Defibaugh Christina Chin
LindaAnn LoSchiavo Livio Farallo Amrita Valan
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. – Robert Frost
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg
Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe
There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away, / Nor any Coursers like a Page / Of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson
If you tell a novelist, ‘Life’s not like that’, he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, ‘No, but I am.’ – Philip Larkin
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can’t put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can’t. – Sylvia Plath
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
End of November 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
John Tustin
1. The Ghost of Blaze Foley 16-20
2. It Rarely Comes Down All At Once
3. Somebody Terrible
4. She Writes a Letter
5. Waiting for the Birds to Return
Edgar Rider
1. Slither On Gutter Snake Soul… Short Story 21-23
Lynn White
1. Green Dragon 23-25
2. Metamorphosis
3. I was Always Afraid of Rabbits
Fabrice B. Poussin
1. In Search of the Word 26-29
2. Noise
3. Ritual
4. Little Thing
5. Symphony
R.W. Haynes
1. The Wheels 30-34
2. Not Enough Betrayal
3. Demanding Humiliation
Edward Lee
1. This Inexplicable Need 34-37
2. Lies/Truths
3. Wife and Child
4. Silence
5. Rope for Soul
Darren Lynch
1. The Dust of Heaven 38-40
2. The Dance of Eventide
3. The Requiem House
Michael H. Brownstein
1. Cloud Vapours 40-41
2. Individuality
Ivan de Monbrison
1. The Snake Man 41-43
2. The Target
Ron Wilkins
1. Innocence 43-48
2. The Silence Between
3. Sieste
4. Mayhem in the Rubens Room
5. Exceptions
Tony Stowers
1. Into the Valley of the Clones 48-53
2. The Ticket Inspector
3. The Problem with Chocolate
4. Being British Abroad
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia – A Trilogy of Descort Poems
1. Stay Put 54-56
2. Pale Hands
3. Dilemma
Relvin Gonzalez Rodriguez
1. The Butcher – Short Story 56-59
Pawel Markiewicz
1.1 Arethusa and Alpheus – Eight Sonnets 59-63
Karoly Bari–Translated from Hungarian by Gabor G. Gyukics
1. Journey at Night 64-74
December 2022 – Poems and Fiction
Heath Brougher
1. The Poetry Addict 75-77
2. Anti-Ode to the Crooked Police in York, PA
3. Monopolie
4. Roulette
5. Built to Vomit Vaseline
Christina Martin
1. The Invisible Voice 77-79
2. Bare Places
3. Wind Haiku
John Drudge
1. A Long Thin Spring 79-80
Adele Ogier Jones
1. Poets on St. Cecilia’s Day 81-82
Ed Lyons
1. Friendship Sonnets 82-88
2. In Those Moments
3. Welcome to Your Evening, Love
Ursula O’Reilly
1. In Primrose Wood 89-91
2. Gnomes
3. Magic Found
4. Where Roses Bloom
5. Voices
John Doyle
1. Sound Techniques Studio, London: 1971 92-95
2. The Brothers Horwitz and Their Associate Mr Feinberg
3. A Stranger Animal
4. Song for Huzama Habayeb
5. The Experiment
Lara Dolphin
1. Not, Not, Pennsylvania’s Laureate 96-98
2. Wikipedia Bronde and the Case of the Missing Multiverse
3. The Revanchist Lego Dragons of Cornwall
4. Haibun – Deep Time Meal
5. Tree of 40 Fruit Harvest (a sijo)
E. Martin Pedersen
1. Amazon Lesson 99-102
2. bird baths
3. The Graveyard Two-step
4. In the Tunnel
5. Their seven-story apartment building
Karen A. VandenBos
1. We Wanted for Nothing 102-105
2. Born of Many Mothers
3. Sing the Stars Home
4. Running for Too Long
5. Of Wool and Waves
J.B. Hogan
1. If I Were Elon Musk 106-107
2. Our Time
3. Primer
Laura Stamps
1. Yellow - Prose Poem 108
Paul Demuth
1. The Ball Bearing 109-110
2. Magpie
3. Masque
Susan Taylor
1. Morgana, Caught in Her Own Spell 111
Lawrence Moore
1. Cupped Inside My Hand 112-114
2. Kaleidoscope
3. Another Vicious Storm
4. Crystal Blue
Ann Privateer
1. My Life 114-115
2. My Childhood
3. Dreaming
Henry Wolstat
1. Forever a Runner 116-118
2. Basque Coast Tour
3. Running
4. The Rain in Spain
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Cactus Wren 118-123
2. Buzzard
3. Gila Monster
4. After the Cat Dies
5. Abandoned
Steve Klepetar
1. Sweatshirt 123-126
2. Black Wings
3. Long Days
Linda King
1. lines from the blue notebook 126-128
2. love poem to the existentialists
Wayne F. Burke – from Out of My Mind
1. sinners 128-131
2. sitting on a park bench
3. pick up the words again
4. storm
5. feeling alone and lonely
6. 9 billion years
Julie A. Dickson
1. The Perhaps 131-134
2. Winter burns cold
3. Touching Time
4. Making Music
5. Yielding
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. November 134-140
2. Twilight
3. Insomnia
J.D. Nelson
1. Ten Haiku Poems 141-142
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
1. Until the Light Fails 142-145
2. Uncapped
3. Morning Glories
4. For My Father, Gidio
Mike Gallagher
1. Ten Haiku and Senryu Poems 146-147
Margaret Coombs
1. The Panther 148-150
2. The Visitor
3. Trance Song
John Brantingham
1. Since COVID 151-154
2. Grass Farm
3. All the Way at the End of August
4. They’ve All Gone Away Now
Carella Keil
1. Stilettos in the Rain 154-155
2. Infinity
Terry Wheeler
1. safe 156-159
2. luna
3. the solid mandala
4. after the gold rush
Lynda Tavakoli
1. War and Want 159-162
2. Game On
3. St. Symphorien Cemetery, Mons
R.W. Stephens
1. Etienne 162-166
2. Three Churches
3. Angst
4. Ha’penny
Margaret Duda
1. Coming to America 166-169
2. Hungarian Angels Trimmed Our Tree
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Oh, All About the West Wind 169-172
2. Poem - Untitled
3. Poem - Untitled
Aftab Yusuf Shaikh
1. Kings’ Crowns (English Ghazal) 172-174
2. Havoc (English Ghazal)
3. Ebrahim
Wendy Webb
1. Driving Down Under, or Dreaming the Emerald Isle 174-177
2. Elijah in the Walled Garden
3. Volodymyr’s Bear (Michelangelo’s David, Villanelle)
4. Treasure Chest Gift
John Harold Olson
1. Understanding Your Air-cooled Volkswagen Engine177-182
2. Rotator Cuff
3. Sunday
4. Road to Cripple Creek
Becky Parker
1. The Willow’s River 183-187
2. Goldilocks, Resembled
3. It’s cold here
4. It’s time to catch the metro
Bruce Robinson
1. Tork Is Cheap 188-191
2. Customer Relationships in the Postmodern Era
3. Birds on Parole
4. 4:31
5. Caffeine Rondelet
Mary Ray Goehring
1. Courir de Mardi Gras – Mamou, La 191-197
2. Invocation
3. Medusa: The Reproductive Life of Jellyfish
4. Reservoir
5. What April Showers Bring
Nolo Segundo
1. On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard 197-203
2. Tasting Eternity
3. On the Way to the Ballet
4. What Is Ego
5. What Is This Thing Called Love
6. My Dreams Are Like Poems
7. Now That I Am Old
Lithica Ann
1. Ten Haiku, Senryu and Monoku Poems 203-204
Joshua St. Claire
1. Ten Haiku Poems 205-206
Nolcha Fox
1. Why did you look back? 206-208
2. Snow stars
3. Clouds blanket
4. You send your hands
5. Pull yourself together
Jim Hart
1. Mother Load 209-213
2. Secrets
3. Remembering
4. Perfect Timing
5. Lucky Break
Gina Maria Manchego
1. The Cowboy and His Hometown Girl 213-215
Roseanne Freed
1. Datura 216-220
2. Middle Schoolers Today
3. “In the middle of war, he’s asking for poems”
4. Can my words dance the tango while California burns?
Ken Gosse
1. Eight Senryu Poems 220-221
Yuu Ikeda
1. Indelible Clouds 222
2. Hazy Night
Palash Mahmud
1. Horizontal Lines of Lady Lazarus 223
Kimberly Kuchar and Eavonka Ettinger Collaboration
1. Tan-Renga, Haiku and Tanka Poems 224-225
M.R. Defibaugh and Christina Chin Collaboration
1. Five Tan-Renga Poems 225-226
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
1. Golden Shovel: At Night Alone 227-229
2. Golden Shovel: Untimely Death
3. Speculative Poeming
4. Secrets of the Night: A Golden Shovel
5. Cento: Benighted Night
Livio Farallo
1. outback 230-235
2. lay of the land
3. climate dream
4. one last trip
5. my answer
Amrita Valan
1. Morning 235-241
2. Asana
3. Packing
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 18
Poets in the Van of the Tuatha Dè Dannan
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 18 – Poets in the Van of the Tuatha Dè Dannan features the best fantasy and contemporary poetry and fiction from 72 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows.
POETS and AUTHORS
David Adès
Susan Wilson
Mark A. Fisher
Patricia Furstenberg
Alan Catlin
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Ken Gosse
Elancharan Gunasekaran
Robert Fleming
Bernard Pearson
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Pawel Markiewicz
John Harold Olson
Sushant Thapa
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Sherry Steiner
John Drudge
Kelly Sargent
Richard Weaver
Jessica Weyer Bentley
David J. Delaney
Nolcha Fox
Dennis Daly
Elena Malec
Douglas K. Currier
Linda Imbler
Laszlo Aranyi – Translated by Gabor Gyukics
Randy Barnes
Margaret Kiernan
Raymond Alexander Turco
Lynda Tavakoli
John Grey
Celestine Woo
Steve Klepetar
Lea Nagy – Translated by Helene Cardona
Scott Thomas Outlar
Renee Williams
Alec Solomita
Smitha Sehgal
Ahmad Al-Khatat
Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan
Rose Mary Boehm
Gordon Scapens
Stephen Kingsnorth
RC deWinter
Bradford Middleton
Rustin Larson
Jeanna Louise Ni Riordain
Elliot Slater
Elaine Reardon
Peter J. Donnelly
Liza Wolff-Francis
Wayne F. Burke
Jackie Chou
Damon Hubbs
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia – A Trio of Odes
James Moran
Kushal Poddar
Abigail George
David Alec Knight
Marianne Tefft
AE Reiff
Laura Daniels
Samo Kreutz
Digby Beaumont
Bel Schenk
Clive Gresswell
Angel Edwards
Neal Whitman
Greg Patrick
Santosh Bakaya
petro c.k.
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
End of October 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
David Adès
1. Today’s Weather 16-22
2. A Blink of Time’s Eye
3. Such is the Gifting, Such the Receiving
4. Making My Way
5. Beyond Blue
Susan Wilson
1. The Easy Beats 23-26
2. Feed Thy Fear
3. The Blessed Angel Teddy of Tralee
4. The Acorns of Anguish
5. Out of Space
Mark A. Fisher
1. rain shadow 26-28
2. hike
Patricia Furstenberg
1. White on Blue 28-29
2. Sapphire Planet
3. Light, Evanescent
4. Blue Flower
5. If They Call You White Rose
Alan Catlin
1. Seven Untitled Poems 30-33
Pravat Kumar Padhy
1. I am a woman 33-39
2. The Living Fossil
Ken Gosse
1. Consensus for the Census 39-41
2. Sonnetiquette
3. Where has all the Magic Gone?
4. A Courtly Gesture
5. Natural Songs
Elancharan Gunasekaran
1. Five Tanka Poems 42-43
Robert Fleming
1. Interview (I) with the Forest (F) 43-45
2. Sores came before the nose
3. When all water is drained what is left?
4. When diplomacy fails turn to goats
5. Lung Apple
Bernard Pearson
1. Approaching Halloween 45-46
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Seven Poems – Poetry Collaboration 46-48
Pawel Markiewicz
1. Autumnal Sonnet 48-50
2. Flower-like Sonnet
3. The Flower-like Second Sonnet
John Harold Olson
1. Oceanside 50-51
2. Circe
Sushant Thapa
1. Fare-thee-well 51-52
November 2022 – Poems and Fiction
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Wads 52-56
2. End Tables for the End Times
3. Twist Enough Stories and All You Have Are Pretzels
4. Don’t Be All the Rage
5. Only the Best
Sherry Steiner
1. A Bowl of Fruit 57-62
2. Pearls Wrapped in Diamonds
3. Five Times Three
4. That Steady Rhythm
5. Where Daisies Go To Die
John Drudge
1. Across the Bank 63-66
2. Around Town
3. As Tears Glisten
4. Moving On
5. Night’s Lament
Kelly Sargent
1. Drought 66-68
2. Revelation
Richard Weaver
1. Callahan’s Irish Social Club 68-71
2. Reptilian Brain Grammar
3. Front Porch
4. A Tortoiseshell Rabbit Sits
5. A Cat Sneezed at a Large Animal Clinic
Jessica Weyer Bentley
1. A Widow’s Daybreak 71-72
David J. Delaney
1. Time no longer Rules 72-77
2. Male Dilemma
3. Why I Live Where I Live
4. Waking
5. Captured Moments
Nolcha Fox
1. Grief is a 77-79
2. Alone
3. What’s Wrong with the Old Normal?
Dennis Daly
1. Three Untethered Psalms Composed by…Faustus 79-81
2. Playing Pinball at the All-Souls Lounge
Elena Malec
1. single room 81-82
2. the branch
Douglas K. Currier
1. Last Dance 82-85
2. Dancefloors
3. Ballast
4. Lasts
5. Fast Food
Linda Imbler
1. Quite the Collection 85-89
2. The Only Letter from Ultima Thule
3. The Perfect Form
4. All Those Saints
5. Dreams Sent from the Moon
Laszlo Aranyi – Translated by Gabor Gyukics
1. Gerilla Perseus 89-91
2. The Ghost Diver
Randy Barnes
1. The Gates of Heaven 91-93
2. Stabs On the Rise
3. Travelin’ Dustbowl Blues
4. Disguise Meant to Mumble
5. Glandular Wreckage
Margaret Kiernan
1. Voice for the Wolf 93-96
2. Geranium Pots and Keys – Poetry Essay
Raymond Alexander Turco
1. The Ship of My Brothers 96-99
2. The Shepherd of Many Turns
3. The Gods Who Rule the Earth
4. Letters
5. That Empty Jar
Lynda Tavakoli
1. What It Does to You 100-101
John Grey
1. A Maine Winter 101-105
2. A Boy at a Father’s Grave
3. Early to Bed in a Fishing Port
4. How We See Ourselves
5. This Hold
Celestine Woo
1. The Sound of Silent Snow 106-116
2. My Mother’s Wedding
3. Filigree
4. Exoskeletal
5. False Lashes
Steve Klepetar
1. Lesson 116-119
2. Lullaby
3. The Same Disease
Lea Nagy – Translated by Helene Cardona
1. Sharp 119-120
2. The Furious and the Mad
Scott Thomas Outlar
1. Lizard Crown – Short Story 121-123
Renee Williams
1. Midnight Hour 124-129
2. Bears
3. Father’s Day
4. Ghosts
5. Saturation: The Story of a Life
Alec Solomita
1. Folies Bergere 130-131
Smitha Sehgal
1. In Hamlet’s Name 131-133
2. How Women Become Poems in Our Town
Ahmad Al-Khatat
1. Distance Burnt 133-135
2. Immigrant Dream
3. Simple Orders
Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan
1. Brigid 135-140
Rose Mary Boehm
1. A Matter of Faith 141-144
2. Curses
3. Louise
4. Music Under Cover of Night
5. Prayer
Gordon Scapens
1. A Measure of Winter 145-149
2. Being Human
3. You’ll Know
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Moment 149-153
2. Connections
3. Mugs
4. Past Death
5. Following the Grain
RC deWinter
1. entropy 154-157
2. Christmas Corpse
3. upon close inspection
4. starting over
5. lullaby for Ukraine
Bradford Middleton
1. The Inevitable Comes As No One Cares 158-160
2. A Routine Kjnd of Guy
3. Roll and Spark Until Madness Comes to Save Me
4. I Dream
5. And When I Wake It’ll Start All Over Again
Rustin Larson
1. Corridor X 160-166
2. Maslow
3. It’s a Damned Interesting Thing to Say
4. Two Scenes in Late Winter
5. Archangel
Jeanna Louise Ni Riordain
1. Clair-Obscur 167-170
2. Strafsingen
3. Death Camp
4. Untimely
Elliot Slater
1. Confession – Short Story 170-175
Elaine Reardon
1. The Banshee 175-177
2. Thanksgiving
3. November
Peter J. Donnelly
1. Margot Asquith 177-180
2. Beatrix Potter
3. Mary Ann Evans
4. My Fourth Visit
Liza Wolff-Francis
1. Tale of the Ghost of a Wolf – Flash Fiction Story 180-182
Wayne F. Burke
1. Honey 182-184
2. Death
3. A Fat Man in a Car
4. Vacay
Jackie Chou
1. Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Poems 184-186
Damon Hubbs
1. Fog Deer, Southern Catskills 187-190
2. Toadstone
3. Deadheading
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia – A Trio of Odes
1. The Flow of Time (Pindaric) 190-194
2. Ode to the Deegha Malda Mango (Horatian)
3. Restlessness (Irregular)
James Moran
1. The Burning Attar of Alabast – Flash Fiction 195-196
Kushal Poddar
1. The Way We Depart 197-199
2. Winter
3. Hibernation
4. Fields
Abigail George
1. The alone bird in the blue forest 200-206
2. The angel tongue of a man…
3. Anemones and bee killers, darling
David Alec Knight
1. Fighting Hell to Hold 207-210
2. City of Crows
3. This Street
4. As Conflict Corrodes
5. His Ninth Life is With Me
Marianne Tefft
1. Osuna 210-214
2. The Roots of Trees
3. Hummingbird Days
4. Rainbow Country
5. You Have Never Seen the Ocean
AE Reiff
1. Lebensraum Burgers A Space Odyssey 214-223
2. Gravediggers on Ben Bulben
3. Description of the Self
Laura Daniels
1. Joe 223-226
2. Nomenclature Ghazal
3. Progressive Garden Stating
4. Sitting by Myself
5. Sensuality of Cooking
Samo Kreutz
1. Seven Haiku Poems 226-227
Digby Beaumont
1. One-Man Band 228
Bel Schenk
1. Some things go unnoticed, but then again others.. 228-229
2. We wanted to be adults that spring
Clive Gresswell
1. Battle Royal 230
Angel Edwards
1. Guardians 230-231
Neal Whitman
1. Ten Haiku/Senryu Poems 231-232
Greg Patrick
1. Allhallowtide Revels 233-237
Santosh Bakaya
1. The Grumpy Man at the Door 237-240
2. Do…do…do
3. The Howling Owl
petro c.k.
1. Sugar and Crematory 241-242
2. Inhaling Osiris
3. Remember That Little Doubt
4. Don’t Bogart the Norm
5. That Birds Dredged Idyllic Beds
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 17
Landscapes of the Mind
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 17 – Landscapes of the Mind features outstanding poetry and fiction from 70 internationally renowned poets and authors who explore the life and landscapes of the mind through folklore, romance, realism and dystopia.
“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”
- Aristotle
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” ― Nikola Tesla
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” ― John Muir
“We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.” ― Lorraine Toussaint
“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.” ― Alan Rickman
“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.” ― Maya Angelou
Ian J McKenzie
Heidi Slettedahl
Jim Lewis
Nolcha Fox
DeWitt Clinton
TAK Erzinger
Ken Allan Dronsfield
Livio Farallo
Dana Trick
Nolo Segundo (L.J. Carber)
Marka Rifat
Joseph A. Farina
R.C. Thomas
Erik T. Johnson
John Doyle
Margaret Kiernan
John Drudge
Marie C. Lecrivain
Clive Gresswell
Louise Heywood
Ed Lyons
Dr Elizabeth V. Koshy
Christopher Barnes
Dr Anushna Biswas
Mark Young
Michelle Reale
Steve Klepetar
Ursula O’Reilly
Michael La Bombarda
Mikki Aronoff
Gary Bills
Karen A. VandenBos
Wayne F. Burke
Mandy Beattie
Mohibul Aziz
Joan Leotta
Jake Tringali
Bonnie Scherer
Petrouchka Alexieva
Jim Meirose
Wendy Webb
Brian J. Alvarado
Sharon Waller Knutson
Bobby Parrott
Sandra Kolankiewicz
Chad Parenteau
Jasna Gugic
Vyacheslav Konoval
Angela Hoffman
Bruce Morton
Auriane Loreley
Louis Kasatkin
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Laurence Levy-Atkinson
Sally Quon
Jonathan S. Baker
Bob Eager
Christina Chin and Jim Young
Nolo Segundo (L.J. Carber)
Anna Eusthacia Donovan
Richard Fleming
Marka Rifat
David Estringel
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia (Amita Paul) – Zejel Trilogy
Henry Wolstat
Amit Parmessur
Robin Ouzman Hislop
Amrita Valan
Christopher Collingwood
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
End of September 2022 - Poetry and Fiction
Ian J McKenzie
1. A Cracked Pot 16-20
2. Mercury Rising
3. The Coffee Drinkers
4. Talking to Buddha
Heidi Slettedahl
1. Paper Calendars 20-22
2. Untitled Poem
3. Final Clearance
4. The Cycle
Jim Lewis
1. August has Whispered 22-25
2. Extinguished
3. Her Father’s Shadow
4. Sonnet of Envy
5. Relevance
Nolcha Fox
1. Enthusiasm Without a Plan 26-27
2. Moonlight and Shadows
3. At Precisely the Time
4. Stranger
DeWitt Clinton
1. A Simple Zero Sum Conundrum 28-33
2. Troubled
3. On Fire
4. Yes, Dear, Only I Didn’t Say Yes Dear
5. And That’s the Way It Is
TAK Erzinger
1. Mid-life 33-36
2. In (im) Perfect Agreement
3. In Between Days
4. Waterway
Ken Allan Dronsfield
1. Soft Silky Breeze 36-39
2. Meadows in the Sky
3. Dipping the Falcon’s Wing
4. Shaken Not Stirred
5. Obsequy – Burial Rites
Livio Farallo
1. Imposters 39-46
2. Transitory Storms
3. Protein Alley
4. A Classroom Without Supper
5. Kafka Said
Dana Trick
1. Grieving Paradox 46-48
2. How to Mourn a Creator
3. How to Mourn a Creator II
Nolo Segundo (L.J. Carber)
1. An Old Poet’s Walk Through an Old Graveyard 49-55
2. Sentience
3. Will My Soul Fly?
4. I Have Been to Places of Great Death
5. Vanity and Dust
Marka Rifat
1. Extempore – Flash Fiction Story 55-56
Joseph A. Farina
1. Dominion of Shadows Returning 57-58
2. Sun Dress
3. Cold Front
4. Last Swim
5. Enduring
R.C. Thomas
1. Ten Haiku Poems 59-60
Erik T. Johnson
1. Parable 61-65
2. I Am the Woman
3. Facelessly True
4. The Witch Hunt
5. The Gone for Good
October 2022 – Poems and Fiction
John Doyle
1. Coaling Tower, Marion, Ohio 66-72
2. The Rapture
3. Just
4. Fugazi
5. Psychological Warfare
6. Song for Elmore James
7. Saturdays and Sundays
Margaret Kiernan
1. Pig-slayer 72-74
2. Fishmongers’ Elegy
John Drudge
1. A Narrow Path 74-77
2. Pressure
3. Stirred Up
4. Footsteps
5. Rambling
Marie C. Lecrivain
1. Haiku 77-79
2. Tanka
3. Strength (viii)
Clive Gresswell
1. Tears Trace Down 79-80
2. Albion Fracture
Louise Heywood
1. Midnight in the Wychwood 81
Ed Lyons
1. The Temptation of Galahad 82-83
2. Reply to the Protestant
3. Waiting without Knowing
Dr Elizabeth V. Koshy
1. Yearning for Yet Another Round of Play 83-85
2. Charmed by the Sun
Christopher Barnes
1. Propaganda 26 86-89
2. Propaganda 27
3. Propaganda 28
4. Propaganda 29
5. Propaganda 30
Dr Anushna Biswas
1. Life of Sissyphus 89-92
2. Light Women Exude
3. Vice Strikes Thrice
4. The Way I Am
Mark Young
1. A Session in Hell 92-95
2. De-sert/des-ert
3. Meanwhile, at the Globe Theatre
4. Freedom
Michelle Reale
1. My Father’s X-Ray 95-96
2. When Summer Begins to Die
3. Plenary, 1972
Steve Klepetar
1. On the Ferry 97-99
2. City Bus
3. Until the Light Returns
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Strange House 99-101
2. Hidden
3. Heatwave
4. Watcher
Michael La Bombarda
1. If Poets Were Painters 102-104
2. Seascape
3. Leaf Blowing
4. Looking Back
Mikki Aronoff
1. In Which I Visit the Goddess Henwen… 104
Gary Bills
Six Pantoum Poems
1. Sleeping Mandolin 105-108
2. The Cries of Birds
3. Change Among the Statues
4. Above the Malverns
5. Quests
6. The Elf King
Karen A. VandenBos
1. Sometimes I Wish 109-113
2. Just Because
3. Taste of Freedom
4. Blue Twilight
5. The Bitch of Boulder
Wayne F. Burke
1. Friends 113-116
2. Catholic
3. Play
4. Cosmology
5. Advice
Mandy Beattie
1. Raven Signpost 116-120
2. Decoupage of Autumn
3. Leaving the Ark
4. Corvid’s Eye of Hag-stone
5. Stroma: A Leaving and Returning
Mohibul Aziz
1. Train Journey 121-123
2. To My Iranian Friend Jhila
Joan Leotta
1. Mike’s Mountains 123-126
2. My Neighbour Died Last Night
3. Listening to Sunset
4. A Haiku About the Sun
5. Why I Love the Moon More
Jake Tringali
1. How to Pronounce Wolf 127-130
2. Untitled Poem
3. I Just Ate a Columbian Ant
4. The Villanelle of The Liege
5. The Shape and Wonder
Bonnie Scherer
1. Haiku and Senryu 130-131
TS S. Fulk
1. The Forest Wife 131-134
2. Salvage
3. A False Fresh Start
4. The Prisoner
5. Old Magics
Petrouchka Alexieva
1. My Heart 135-137
2. I Want You
3. I Was Never This Far
4. Don’t Tell Me
5. If I Ask You
Jim Meirose
1. Out From Our Moon-Men – Short Story 138-141
Wendy Webb
1. Gifts from My Mum 141-144
2. Audiologically Sound
3. Butterfly On Glass
Brian J. Alvarado
1. jot them down, ask them later 144-146
2. perigee
3. outliers
4. ultimate sacrifice
Sharon Waller Knutson
1. Temperatures in Triple Digits 147-151
2. Father’s Day 2022
3. Watching Over Ben
4. All My Sorrows Soon Forgotten
5. July 16, 2022
Bobby Parrott
1. Sweet Grass Woven Through My Chest… 151-155
2. We Take Laughter Seriously
3. Ukuleles
4. The Suitcase Logic of a Stuttering Smokestack
5. Robotic Shrubberies of the Well-Weeded Mind
Sandra Kolankiewicz
1. Considering the Magnolia 155-157
2. Brood Parasite
3. Meanwhile in Houston
4. Irreconcilable Differences
5. Stripped Bare
Chad Parenteau
1. Two Tanka Poems 157-158
Jasna Gugic
1. Disquiet 158-161
2. You
3. Silence
4. Hope
5. Life
Vyacheslav Konoval
1. Painful Condition 162-165
2. Feat of Tankers
3. Nightmare of Russians
4. Bohdana, She is a Woman, a Defender
5. Ukrainian Coolon
1. Baptism by Water Bath 165-168
2. Boundaries Are Hard to Define
3. Skinny-dipping in the Church Basement
4. Compressing Time into Wide-open Moments
5. When Clouds Break Open
1. Museum (Berlin) 168-169
2. Statues
Auriane Loreley
1. The Tale of a Queen Who Turned Into a Bird 170-174
2. Cena, the Bloodthirsty Land
3. Guardian of Ichor (or: The Blood of the Gods)
Louis Kasatkin
1. Heavy Metal 4.0 174-176
2. Heavy Metal 3.0
3. Heavy Metal 2.0
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Laurence Levy-Atkinson
1. Say the Roses 181-183
2. We Can’t Escape Witches
3. Preparing the Soil
Sally Quon
1. Imagine 183-185
2. Dreams of Flying
3. Moonlight
Jonathan S. Baker
1. Unopened 185-186
2. County Roads
3. Ed’s Fire
Bob Eager
1. Peritoneal Exit Site Poem 187
Christina Chin and Jim Young
1. Five Renga Poems 187-188
Nolo Segundo (L.J. Carber)
1. The Day I Remembered My Soul – Non-Fiction 189-195
Anna Eusthacia Donovan
1. Dreaming Spider 196-199
2. Lightning
3. When We Were Birds
4. Time
5. Skeleton Birds
Richard Fleming
1. The Big Guy – Short Story/Flash Fiction 199-201
Marka Rifat
1. Drawing the Line – Short Story 201-202
David Estringel
1. A Scene Outside the Window of a Country Church 203-205
2. Dusk
3. Fall
4. Winter Comes
5. Return of the Holly King
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia (Amita Paul) – Zejel Trilogy
1. A Short Zejel 206-208
2. A Classic Zejel
3. A Jewelled Zejel
Henry Wolstat
1. Cape Cod September 208-210
2. The Merry Month of May
3. Morning Walk
4. A Fresh Baguette
5. Toronto Visit
Amit Parmessur
1. Five Haiku Poems 211
Robin Ouzman Hislop
1. Axial Perspectives – Epic Poem 212-222
Amrita Valan
1. Rising in The Fall 222-234
Christopher Collingwood
1. A Detour Invites the Golden Dancer 235-237
2. The Past Reclaimed in Silent Lies
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 16
Voices from the Dreamtime
September 2022 Continued
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 16 - Voices from the Dreamtime, features the contemporary free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories and flash fiction of 65 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Journey with us into the Dreamtime to explore and enjoy poems and stories that linger and haunt. Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Cover Image Painting – Aboriginal-painting-Greetings by-Melanie-Hava-Brolga
We let life live us, instead of us living life. — Helen M. Ryan
Aborigines believe in two forms of time. Two parallel streams of activity. One is the daily objective activity to which you and I are confined. The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the "dreamtime," more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the dreamtime. — Peter Weir
Yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world. — Huston Smith
Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime. — Billy Marshall Stoneking
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site, and invite your friends.
Copyright 2022. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover Image – Aboriginal-painting-Greetings by-Melanie-Hava-Brolga
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978-1-4709-6833-5
Imprint: Lulu.com
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
September 2022 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Anna Maria Mickiewicz
1. The Cottage and Old Tree 16-18
2. Regents Park
3. The Ballad of Penzance
4. Canvas in Cornwall
5. Miracles of Socrates
John Grey
1. What If 18-23
2. The Dangers of Living in Society
3. Separation Prerequisite
4. Separation Prerequisite (ii)
5. The Jewelled Honeybee
6. Matriarch
Elaine Reardon
1. In These Hard Times 23-26
2. Provence of Winter
3. Guenevere Remembers Long After
4. Guenevere To Her Teacher, Long After
John Drudge
1. Background 26-29
2. Into the Hills
3. New Beginnings
4. Survival
5. The Birth of Europe
Elizabeth Reames
1. Thorin Oakenshield and I Get Stoned… 29-36
2. The Boxer (or, What Survived the Fire)
3. An Elegy, Upon Parting from Long Held Griefs
Harris Coverley
1. A Semi-Untitled Story – Flash Fiction Story 36-39
Cynthia Anderson
1. The Friend Who Finally Arrives 39-43
2. Grandmother Returns to Sedona Through My Eyes
3. Petal and Gale
4. The Woodcutter
5. Iphigenia
Tom Brami
1. God’s Stars, or the Automatic Screen 43-47
2. Manifesto Destiny
3. Vampire’s Kiss
4. How they Fought TV
5. Father’s Photo of the Actor
Hedy Habra
1. To Henriette 47-51
2. Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis
Michael H. Brownstein
1. Strength 52-53
2. Synonyms
3. Sometimes You Have To Pay Attention
Sharon Ferrante
1. Three Haiku 53-54
2. I Want That Cactus
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Gleefully the Butcher Cleaves, He Cleaves 54-57
2. Flipping my Mattress, I Think of Gymnasts
3. Bag of Guppies
4. The Coo Birds Coo No More
5. Weather Vane
6. Away, Away Say Distant Telescope Stars
Carol Tahir
1. Music of Escape 57-58
2. The Pool
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
1. Less Than Immortal 59-62
2. Beginners of Sorts
3. On the Porch
4. Grandiosity Blues
Shelly Jones
1. Reflections from Mimisbrunnr 63
John Doyle
1. Lasting Impressions 64-66
2. Crazy Times at the Staff Barbecue and Friday Night…
3. Bland
4. Everyone from the Ramones is Dead
petro c.k.
1. Meagre Hopings 66-68
2. Imaginary Good Friends
3. Extension Denser
4. After Dumping Out the Coffee Offal
5. Telemetry for Hours
Michael Lee Johnson
1. My Life 69-71
2. Jesus and How He Must Have Felt
3. Most Poems
4. Poets in the Rain
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
1. The Better Desires 72-90
2. and every range has its story
3. Root Cellar Dugout or Harmony According to…
4. incaendo
5. Dumbarton Oaks…
Dan Provost
1. Mirror 91-93
2. View from the Window
3. Lonely at the Pub
Dr Mona Bedi
1. Five Senryu Poems 93-94
Dr Koshy A.V.
1. Jesus is in the Details – Short Story 94-95
Carolyne Van Der Meer
1. At Felix Leclerc House, Vaudreuil 96-100
2. Black Bird, Grocery Store Parking Lot, St. Bruno
3. The Sound of Snow in Dudswell
4. Parc de la Promenade Bellerive, Montreal Est
5. The Journey of Robert Merriam
Louis Kasatkin
1. Sans Culottes 101-103
2. Night and the City
3. Leadership Contest
4. Maria Alvarez: Scenes from an Undistinguished Life
Laura Stamps
1. Lazy – Flash Fiction 103-104
Damen O’Brien
1. The Drawing of Lots 104-109
2. Medium Testimony
3. The Aerodynamics of Mythical Creatures
4. The Market
5. Tyranny
Michele Rule
1. Attached 109-110
2. Flow
Jack Galmitz
1. He Is Risen 110-112
2. March with the Zappatistas
3. Evasive Action
Emily Bilman
1. The Lightkeeper 112-115
2. Hubris
3. Synchronicity
4. The Body-Dam
5. Challenger
Perry McDaid
1. Swallowing Aneto – Short Story 116-124
Rose Mary Boehm
1. Life and Death Tree 125-128
2. Waves
3. The Prophet’s Vision
4. Snow
5. yin and yang
Terry Wheeler
1. the old people 128-132
2. while sheep bleat
3. new day
4. Walt Whitman
Jeannie E. Roberts
1. The Ethereal Effect, Stirred, Not Shaken 132-136
2. The Wilderness of Survival
3. Sacred Moments with the Flowers in My Garden
4. Viceroys Visit a Villanelle of V’s
5. Water, It Animates Life Wherever It Flows
Kyle Hemmings
1. winter kills 136-137
2. club kids
3. dancin’ w/jack and Jill
4. jack and Jill as prophets
5. after hours
Lorette C. Luzajic
1. The Meerkat – Short Story 138-140
Michael Pollentine
1. Cancer Sticks 140-142
2. Obscura
3. Container
4. Why
Neera Kashyap
1. Dawn 143-144
2. Senryu Poems
Dennis Williamson
1. Late Rain 144-146
2. What the Devil Grew in Eden
3. Zap!
Cindy Rinne
1. Rest is a Form of Resistance 146-150
2. Mark Time
3. Fins to Feathers
4. Dear Snowy Owl
David Parsley
1. When Samantha Left 151-155
2. Van Gogh’s Pipe
3. What the Bullets Found
Julia Kaylock
1. Little fish 156-158
2. At the intersection of receding lines
3. Water always wins
Michael James O’Neill
1. The Boy That Was and Is – Flash Fiction 158-160
Dr Ajanta Paul
1. Caesura 160-163
2. Tonight I Shall Sleep
3. Distance
Greg Patrick
1. Samhain’s Eve Song – Prose Fiction Story 164-168
Skaja Evens
1. In the Town Formally Known as Torah 168-170
2. Separating the Signal from the Noise
3. Fall or Fly
John Copley Alter
1. Spinning 170-178
2. Three transpositions of Wang Wei…
3. Autumn Dusk, Mountain Home
4. The monosyllabic suicide note
L. Acadia
1. Omkarasana 178-181
2. To My Grandfathers
3. Flightpath of a Cicada
Peter J. Donnelly
1. The Shrew 182-185
2. Services
3. Waking Up
4. Granny’s Roast Dinners
5. My Second Letter to Rosemary
Margaret Duda
1. Fostering to Freedom 186-196
2. Gifts from a Stranger
3. Losing Everyone She Loved
4. On the Wall Forever
5. Amber Alert in Oswego County
1. The Sacred White Elephant 197
Angel Edwards
1. In for the long long con 198
Pawel Markiewicz
1. In the bewitched aviary. The sonnet… 199-200
2. Poem of not-Hindu for Goddess Krishna
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Tanka collaboration 201-202
Daipayan Nair
1. Haiku 203-204
Geetha Ravichandran
1. Haiku and Senryu 205
Stephen House
1. in a whisper 206
John Harold Olson
1. Beach Grass 207
Debendra Lal - Translated by Pitambar Naik
1. The Wild 208-210
2. Dad
3. Ram
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
1. On War and Love 210-213
2. Chronology of the Pleasures
3. Desires
4. Gloomy Days
5. Rewriting Paradise – Pandemic Midsummer Night’s Dream
C.G. Inglis
1. Dundas Square 214-215
2. King Palace
3. Highway
Irene Voth
1. Choices 215-218
2. When It Comes to Cats
3. Spaces
Ramesh Dohan
1. Eclipse of the Heart 218-219
2. Diaspora
3. Solitude
Vipanjeet Kaur
1. Frozen Memories 220-223
2. A Hazy Outline
3. Gulmohar Tree: The Glowing Flame
David Leo Sirois
1. Night-blooming jasmine 224-234
2. Nectar is the Best Medicine
3. Sacred Sound
4. Rotting Rue Dejean
5. From Words Heard or Seen in Dreams
Angel Edwards
1. Awake While Dreaming 234-235
POETS and FICTION AUTHORS
Anna Maria Mickiewicz
John Grey
Elaine Reardon
John Drudge
Elizabeth Reames
Harris Coverley
Cynthia Anderson
Tom Brami
Hedy Habra
Michael H. Brownstein
Sharon Ferrante
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Carol Tahir
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Shelly Jones
John Doyle
petro c.k.
Michael Lee Johnson
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Dan Provost
Dr Mona Bedi
Dr Koshy A.V.
Carolyne Van Der Meer
Louis Kasatkin
Laura Stamps
Damen O’Brien
Michele Rule
Jack Galmitz
Emily Bilman
Perry McDaid
Rose Mary Boehm
Terry Wheeler
Jeannie E. Roberts
Kyle Hemmings
Lorette C. Luzajic
Michael Pollentine
Neera Kashyap
Dennis Williamson
Cindy Rinne
David Parsley
Julia Kaylock
Michael James O’Neill
Dr Ajanta Paul
Greg Patrick
Skaja Evens
John Copley Alter
L. Acadia
Peter J. Donnelly
Margaret Duda
Angel Edwards
Pawel Markiewicz
Christina Chin and Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Daipayan Nair
Geetha Ravichandran
Stephen House
John Harold Olson
Debendra Lal - Translated by Pitambar Naik
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
C.G. Inglis
Irene Voth
Ramesh Dohan
Vipanjeet Kaur
David Leo Sirois
Angel Edwards
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 15
Nighthawk Shadows
August Continued - Early September 2022
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 15 – Nighthawk Shadows features the best contemporary poetry and fiction from fifty-eight internationally renowned poets and fiction writers. Read their exhilarating Nighthawk tales from the light and shadows.
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― The Bell Jar
“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.”
― A Clash of Kings
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Little Women
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Götz von Berlichingen
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
― The Dyer's Hand
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
― A House of Pomegranates
“Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadows
where you accompany me in your dreams
and tell me the hour of light.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“Awakened ones are like the cool shadow of a tree. Light is harsh because of ego. Shadow has all the qualities of light except the ego. It is compassionate towards darkness also but it never steps into darkness.”
―
“Only he whose bright lyre
has sounded in shadows
may, looking onward, restore
his infinite praise.
Only he who has eaten
poppies with the dead
will not lose ever again
the gentlest chord.
Though the image upon the pool
often grows dim:
Know and be still.
Inside the Double World
all voices become
eternally mild.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
“as the shadows assume
shapes
I fight the slow
retreat
now
my once-promise
dwindling
dwindling
now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring more
drinks
it has been a beautiful
fight
still
is.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site, and invite your friends.
Copyright 2022. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover Image Photograph – Nighthawks – Painting by Edward Hopper
ISBN 978-1-4709-9688-8
Imprint: Lulu.com
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
August 2022 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Sterling Warner
1. Sky Fires 17-20
2. Touchstone’s Crown
3. Viviane’s Almanac
4. Phantom Ship Fibonacci
5. Lisbeth Flashing
Wendy Webb
1. Pecking Chicken Feed 1920s to 2020s 21-26
2. Caps, Melodies and Motorbikes
3. Father’s Day 2022 - 1965
4. Walk to Weybourne Station
5. Dreaming a New Dream
Alex Budris
1. Take Your Muddy Shoes Outside 26-33
2. Adoinos (Death Of)
3. This Is Not An Exit
4. Sitting Alone on Ben’s Porch
Elana Malec
1. New York deli 34-35
2. Shooter
3. candour revisited
J.B. Hogan
1. Will We Never Wake 35-37
2. This Milky Spiral Above
3. Ever Even Here
Fay L. Loomis
1. Lost in the Plaza – Short Story 38-39
George Gad Economou
1. Crumbling Walls 39-47
2. The LakeHouse
3. Turtledoves on the Windowsill
4. Ghost Love
Chris Bullard
1. Amaryllis 48-50
2. Orpheus Famous of Name
3. Alice in Analysis
4. Ghosts
5. Household Objects
Nadia Arioli
1. Hole Shapes 50-53
2. Watching Perry Mason with a Mouth Full of Vomit
Rp Verlaine
1. Exquisite 53-58
2. For Masha Bruskina
3. Drinking to Li Po – for filia
4. Ever Present Yet Invisible
5. Hooking Up
Tatjana Bijelic
1. A Balkan Woman Archetype in Transition 59-62
2. Persephone’s Letter to Demeter
3. Peaceful Stranger
Tom Bakelas
1. detritus 62-65
2. fig fork
3. souvenir
Carol Tahir
1. A Mother’s Comfort 65
Robert Walton
1. Only Two Silvers – Short Story 66-69
Stephen Anderson
1. Under the Olive Tree 69-72
2. Bandwagon
3. Fortitude of a Modern Day Godiva
4. Resettlement
5. the fall
Kyle Hemmings
1. Five Senryu Poems 73
John Raffetto
1. Blind Walls of Twisted Love 74-76
2. Nocturnal Fever
3. Firefly Night
4. Planet Motives
Arthur Turfa
1. The Lament of Heloise 77-78
2. The Patte Mall-Center of my Universe
3. Often in Motion I Remember Him – for AT
Aine Rose
1. Blood Brothers 79-84
2. Mi
3. Spinning Class
4. Sunset
5. Where’ll we go
6. Canteen
Andrew Cyril Macdonald
1. A lost verve shelters the tone 85-86
2. In it a mortal game wires
3. It’s the happy sky’s abundance
Greg Patrick
1. Fitzgerald’s Dream – Prose Poem 86-89
Patricia Furstenberg
1. Tread Where There’s No Path 89-92
2. The Chart on My Hands
3. Cold Under the Sturgeon Moon
Stephen A. Rozwenc
1. Oh, All About The West End 93-95
2. Poem - Untitled
3. Poem - Untitled
Susan Tepper
1. Dead 96
Steve Klepetar
1. Island Song 97-99
2. A Cup of Wine
3. The Opening
John Harold Olson
1. Frozen Woods – Flash Fiction 100
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Mislaid 101-103
2. Carousel
3. The Day the Pixies Came
4. Life
Michael Ball
1. The Beard Brushes the Stones 103-107
2. Faith in Fasteners
3. Exorcism by Furniture
4. The Fatal Kindness
5. Yesteryear’s Bowl
6. Oak Traitor
Amrita Valan
1. Profound 108-117
2. Now is the Only Time
3. Cessation
4. Nondescript Voices of the Evensong
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Swaddling 118-122
2. Scrabble
3. Hoops
4. Splashers
5. The Wizard was Late
Peter Penda
1. Poets 123
Lynn White
1. After Time 124-127
2. Like Alice
3. Little Sister Lost
Victor Kennedy
1. Diamonds 127-128
2. Idol (a tree)
Cheryl Snell
1. Commitment – Flash Fiction Story 128-130
Robin Ouzman Hislop
1. Dialogue with the Trees – Epic Poem 131-145
Prithvijeet Sinha
1. Paradise 146-150
2. Bejewelled
David James
1. A Walk by the Lake 150-154
2. In the End, You Have to Say Something
3. A Cycle for the Unborn
4. The Last Straw in Leelanau
Ivan Jenson
1. Afterglow 155-158
2. First Impression
3. Love Abuse
4. Deep Advice
5. Arts and Crafts
David Alec Knight
1. The Last Night of Hidetsugu 159-163
2. Illumination
3. Digging Machines
4. Almost Angling
5. Indwelling
Wayne F. Burke
1. from Out of My Mind – Poem - Untitled 163-166
2. Poem – Untitled
3. Van Gogh the insufferable “fixer”
4. Poem – Untitled
5. sunset
Madhu Gangopadhyay
1. The Lingering Fragrance 166-168
2. Emptiness
3. Parturition
4. Aniline Dyed Heart
Chad Parenteau
1. Suburban Jesus Tanka 169
2. Groomer Jesus Tanka
3. Anti-Woke Jesus
Angel Edwards
1. Scared Rabbits 170
Alec Solomita
1. In the Home 171
Ken Gosse
1. The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring 172-173
2. The Learning Curve
3. Guttle Language
4. A Phrase by Many Other Words
5. Pirate Weddings: (You Can Dress Him Up…)
Dr Anissa Sboui
1. The Quranic School 174-177
2. Read to Lead
3. Dancing with the Wall
4. The Little Thief
Gordon Ferris
1. When my genie appears 177-179
2. Who Are You?
3. The Outsider
John Wesick
1. On the Day of My Cancelled Surgery 180-183
2. Dangerous Vegetables
3. Packing A Life
4. Jeff Cottrill’s Pink Blanket
5. Tara Elliott’s Horseshoe Crabs
Richard Long
1. Auger 183-186
2. Dream Big
3. Sanctuary Light
4. The Desert of Lost
5. The Good Semblance
Samo Kreutz
1. Imperfectnesses 186-188
2. Summer Poem
3. Aging
4. New Places – Haiku Sequence
5. Melancholy -in the autumn
Ajit Kumar Bhoi – Translated by Pitambar Naik
1. Our Hunger is your Curiosity 189-193
2. The Fate of the Burnt Bricks
3. The Moon Over My Village
4. Tracing the Roots to the Earth
5. Tree
Early September 2022 – Poetry and Fiction
Jodie Baeyens
1. Deliver Us from Evil 193-196
2. Goddess Body
3. Mommy, put the stars on
Clive Gresswell
1. Poem - Untitled 196-200
2. in memory of sean bonney
3. meanwhile
4. Poem - Untitled
5. Poem - Untitled
6. Poem - Untitled
Susan Wilson
1. Chain Gang 201-205
2. Lamentable
3. Saturday Girl
4. They Didn’t Close the Bus Stop
5. Old Rain in the City
Mark Parsons
1. Bottle and Sell It 206-225
2. Mask
3. Salesmanship…The Guest…Re-writes
4. Poem - Untitled
Salamot Fakoya
1. The Act of Staring 226-228
2. A Ritual
Alex Antiuk
1. Pet Shop Boys – Flash Fiction Story 228-232
Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
1. There Is Dignity In Labour 233-235
FEATURED POETS & FICTION WRITERS
August 2022 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Sterling Warner Wendy Webb Alex Budris
Elana Malec J.B. Hogan Fay L. Loomis
George Gad Economou Chris Bullard
Nadia Arioli Rp Verlaine Tatjana Bijelic
Tom Bakelas Carol Tahir Robert Walton
Stephen Anderson Kyle Hemmings
John Raffetto Arthur Turfa Aine Rose
Andrew Cyril Macdonald Greg Patrick
Patricia Furstenberg Stephen A. Rozwenc
Susan Tepper Steve Klepetar John Harold Olson
Ursula O’Reilly Michael Ball Amrita Valan
Stephen Kingsnorth Peter Penda Lynn White
Victor Kennedy Cheryl Snell
Robin Ouzman Hislop Prithvijeet Sinha
David James Ivan Jenson David Alec Knight
Wayne F. Burke Madhu Gangopadhyay
Chad Parenteau Angel Edwards
Alec Solomita Ken Gosse Dr Anissa Sboui
Gordon Ferris John Wesick Richard Long
Samo Kreutz
Ajit Kumar Bhoi – Translated by Pitambar Naik
Early September 2022 – Poetry and Fiction
Jodie Baeyens Clive Gresswell Susan Wilson
Mark Parsons Salamot Fakoya Alex Antiuk
Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 14
Living in the Worlds Between Worlds
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 14 – Living in the World Between Worlds features outstanding contemporary poetry and fiction from fifty-six internationally renowned poets and fiction writers. Join them on their journey where realism and fantasy share a dystopian world.
“Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories
“Our ancestors said to their mother Earth: 'We are yours'. Modern Humanity said to Nature, 'You are mine'. The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe: 'We are one'.”
― Sharon Brubaker, The Blossoming
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity. — John Ruskin
Cernunnos was a god of the wild who ruled over pristine nature and uncivilized ways. Animals were his subjects, and free-growing fruits and vegetable his bounty. Classical depictions of the deity included gatherings of animals such as elk, wolves, snakes, and aurochs. Such gatherings were possible thanks to Cernunnos’ abillity to bring natural enemies into peaceful communion with one another. This ability may have cast Cernunnos as a protector and provider amongst rural tribes and hunters.
Similarly, Cernunnos may have been a fertility god or god of life. In some classical societies, the natural world was the origin of all life. Under this schema, the god of the wilds would also have served as a god of life, creation, and fertility.
Gregory Wright
POETS and AUTHORS
Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan Helga Kidder Rustin Larson
Ursula O’Reilly John Wesick Michele Rule
Susan Tepper Edwin Staples Dr. Elizabeth V. Koshy
John Bennett Katie Nickas M. R. Defibaugh and Christina Chin
Angel Edwards Nolo Segundo Stephen Kingsnorth
Rose Mary Boehm Julian Grant Tatjana Bijelic
Allan Lake Madelyn Morrissey John Drudge
Louis Kasatkin Freya Pickard John Tustin
Mokhira Eshpulatova – Translated by Hilola Mirzayeva
Uchechukwu Onyedikam Stephen Guy Mallett
Roger Harvey Steve Deutsch Linda Imbler
John Doyle Dana Trick Rob McKinnon
Thomas Davis Damon Hubbs Lee Clark Zumpe
Matthew Freeman Chris Courtney Martin
David L O’Nan
Early August 2022 – Poetry and Fiction
J.D. Nelson Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
David Leo Sirois Nolcha Fox John Sweet
Juliet Wilson Joshua Martin
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo Dr Anissa Sboui
Fotoula Reynolds Dr Stephen Paul Wren
Poems from John Dorsey by Scott Preston & Kim Stafford
Julia Vaughan Steven Bruce Gina Manchego Zufall
Jeanna Ni Riordain Daipayan Nair
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
July 2022 Continued - Poetry and Fiction
Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan
1. I Born in Amniotic Infused Grief – Epic Poem 15-45
Helga Kidder
1. Closing In 45-48
2. When Rain Speaks
3. Listening
4. Symphony in Four Movements
5. Dear Scale
Rustin Larson
1. The Midway 49-54
2. The Cottage on the Hill
3. Shelter
4. Real Peace
5. California
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Shelter 54-57
2. Eagle Rises
3. Greatest Love
4. Free As The Wind
John Wesick
1. Abscissa 57-60
2. Arrogance
3. I Love the Smell of Covid in the Morning
4. Uncle Stan’s Advice
Michele Rule
1. Confinement 60-61
2. Foot Loose
Susan Tepper
1. Tree to Tree – for Ukraine 61
Edwin Staples
1. Somebody 62-66
2. A Thousand Books
3. Rides of Life
4. Did You Hear?
5. Invisible Servants
Dr. Elizabeth V. Koshy
1. A Summer Reverie! 67
John Bennett
1. The Marble Woman Above Athens 67-76
2. To Greece We Return
3. In the Roman Wilderness
4. Oedipus Can Not Cry
5. Rupert Brooke and I Confront the Spinx – A Play in Two
Parts
Katie Nickas
1. Becoming a Tree – Short Story 76-82
M. R. Defibaugh and Christina Chin
1. Eight Tan-Renga Poems 82-84
Angel Edwards
1. Blind Faith 84-85
2. Any Ghosts
3. Cloud Wings - Haiku
Nolo Segundo
1. On Eating an Orange and Seeing God 86-90
2. I Sing to Eternity
3. Some Are Not Meant for This World
4. Time Is a Magician
Stephen Kingsnorth
1. Mysterish 90-92
2. Lexiconography
3. Gradle
4. Thinplace
5. Spellbonding
Rose Mary Boehm
1. A good day for love in Madrid 93-98
2. Aum Manu Padme Hum
3. Dead Machines
4. Goose lessons
5. Some of My Rains
Julian Grant
1. The Whispering Prince – Short Story 98-100
Tatjana Bijelic
1. What the Priest Didn’t Say 100-101
Allan Lake
1. Small Meteorite 102
Madelyn Morrissey
1. 1953 103-105
2. Dormancy
3. Salt
4. My Fault
5. Poem
John Drudge
1. A Curious Art 105-109
2. Broken
3. Close Shave
4. Downswing
5. Truth as Story
Louis Kasatkin
1. Eeny, Meany, Miny…Murder – Short Story 109-110
Freya Pickard
1. Dark Earth – 9 Haiku Poems 110-111
John Tustin
1. Grieve 112-116
2. The Grinder
3. A Man Who Looked Like Me
4. Ramblin’ Man
5. This Homely Girl
Mokhira Eshpulatova – Translated by Hilola Mirzayeva
1. The Forty-First Day – Short Story 116-126
Uchechukwu Onyedikam
1. Eight Tanka Poems 127-128
Stephen Guy Mallett
1. Acinetos and Syncrasis 129-130
2. After Hui Ti Xiu and the Practice of Drawing Weeds
3. Plank Length
4. Theurgels
5. The Loci of Fluid Points
Roger Harvey
1. Breakfast with the Contessa – Short Story 131-135
Steve Deutsch
1. Accidie 136-138
2. Poetry
Linda Imbler
1. In the Midnight of Time 139-142
2. Fallen
3. Future Numbed
4. Learning to Breathe Courageously
5. We Are
John Doyle
1. I Hope No-One Gets Angry With Me Today 142-146
2. The 1970s
3. Spiaggia Di Portobello Nord
4. The Earwig
5. Pat Hingle is a Component Part of the Multiverse
Dana Trick
1. Long, Ryu, Naga, Draco 146-148
2. Quetzalcoatl
3. Praise to the Kyorinrin
Rob McKinnon
1. Snow Globes 148-152
2. Purple Jacaranda Flowers
3. Hometown Visit
4. Cluster Bomb
5. Travelling North
Thomas Davis
1. Carver of Birds 152-160
2. A Poets Age
3. Woman, Wolf, and Bear
4. Four Black Cormorants
5. The Cougar
Damon Hubbs
1. Hawk Tree 160-164
2. Strawberry
3. The Red Squirrel
4. Witch’s Ladder
Lee Clark Zumpe
1. Reservoir 164-167
2. London, 1940
3. Lillian
4. Lautrec
5. White Goddess
Matthew Freeman
1. What We Are 167-171
2. Numb All Day
3. More Charity Needed
4. Who Cares
5. Heartways
Chris Courtney Martin
1. Capital Punishment 171-176
2. The Land, Lord, Is Scum
3. (OB)Noxious Musings171
4. The Words
5. Rover
David L O’Nan
1. A Quicksilver Trilling 176-185
2. Callie’s Dad: Obituary
3. Corpse Flowers
4. Fishkill, NY
5. The Lukewarm Train
Early August 2022 – Poetry and Fiction
J.D. Nelson
1. midnight birthday poem 186-187
2. earthling akin
3. milk, um
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. On My Milky Way 187-192
2. Pierced-Tongue Pierced-Heart
David Leo Sirois
1. Cinnamon Winter, Ginger Spring, Sugar Summer... 192-200
2. Do you mind living in a haunted house?
3. Heart-Rust
4. from Words Heard or Seen in Dreams
Nolcha Fox
1. Leaves are Lace 200-202
2. Miss Bunny
3. Loose Head
John Sweet
1. in the morning 202-205
2. the minotaur in defeat
3. that summer on tracy street
4. diode
5. preliminary sketch for the human condition
Juliet Wilson
1. Haiku and Senryu 205-206
Joshua Martin
1. Foundational Models Distil Facial Hyperbole 207-211
2. Curiously Huddled
3. tall change building fault
4. Hit Parade Syndrome
5. swinging/twitching
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
1. Animalia 211-212
2. Ventilator
3. [bleep]
Dr Anissa Sboui
1. Perfume 212-216
2. The Co-Authored Poem
3. Charm
4. The Leopard Can’t Change His Spots
5. Archaic Thoughts
Fotoula Reynolds
1. The Duration of Life 216-217
Dr Stephen Paul Wren
1. Clearings in the Wood 217-219
John Dorsey by Scott Preston & Kim Stafford
1. The River Bones 219-220
2. Mad Junction
3. Pine Mountains
4. Sun Worm
Julia Vaughan
1. Colin 220-225
2. Road Trips
3. I am waiting
4. Looking out the window
5. Metamorphosis
Steven Bruce
1. Fractured 226-228
2. Solace
Gina Manchego Zufall
1. Green Man – Short Story 228-231
Jeanna Ni Riordain
1. A Trip to Garnish Island 232
Daipayan Nair
1. Haiku, Senryu & Tanka Poems 233-234
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 13
Seeing Through a Poet's Eyes
Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh. — W.B.Yeats
“It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.”
―
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 12
Roads to Serendipity
May - Early June 2022
Serendipity is known by many names including, synchronicity, fate, or even coincidence.
"What you seek is seeking you."
- Rumi
“The universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.”
- Nancy Thayer
“We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.”
- Ansel Adams
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
- Amedeo Modigliani
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
-Lawrence Block
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
-Albert Einstein
POETS and FICTION AUTHORS
John Drudge Bertha Rogers Gordon Ferris Rafaella Del Bourgo John Doyle
Cynthia Anderson Steven Fortune Nolcha Fox Mohibul Aziz Salvatore Difalco
Geetha Ravichandran Fahredin Shehu Angel Edwards G.J. Hart Joe Sebastian
Matt Gilbert Alec Solomita Jeanna Ni Riordain Steve Klepetar Sultana Raza
ScottWaters Adele Ogier Jones Fabrice Poussin Lynn White Ivan Peledov
K.B. Ballentine Stephen House Bob Beagrie Samo Kreutz Dennis Williamson
John Patrick Robbins Robert W. Stephens Rebecca Dempsey Kushal Poddar
Edward Lee Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia ( Amita Paul ) Francisc Edmund Balogh
Alan Britt Robert Fleming Karol Nielson Randy Barnes Kim Ports Parsons
Stephen Page Greg Patrick Lynda Tavakoli Richard M. Ankers Shelly Jones
Duane Vorhees B. Pargeter George Gad Economou Dr. Ajanta Paul
Pawel Markiewicz Antonia Alexandra Klimenko David Alec Knight Carol Tahir
Ninko Kirilov Ana Nikvul – Translated by Petar Penda Ralph Monday
Deborah Purdy Angel Edwards Stephen Kingsnorth Roger Harvey
Ursula O’Reilly Jim Meirose William Allegrezza Robert Walton
Janice D. Soderling Karlo Sevilla John Thomas Allen A.E. Reiff
Serendipity is known by many names including, synchronicity, fate, or even coincidence.
"What you seek is seeking you."
- Rumi
“The universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.”
- Nancy Thayer
“We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.”
- Ansel Adams
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
- Amedeo Modigliani
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
-Lawrence Block
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
-Albert Einstein
POETS and FICTION AUTHORS
John Drudge Bertha Rogers Gordon Ferris Rafaella Del Bourgo John Doyle
Cynthia Anderson Steven Fortune Nolcha Fox Mohibul Aziz Salvatore Difalco
Geetha Ravichandran Fahredin Shehu Angel Edwards G.J. Hart Joe Sebastian
Matt Gilbert Alec Solomita Jeanna Ni Riordain Steve Klepetar Sultana Raza
ScottWaters Adele Ogier Jones Fabrice Poussin Lynn White Ivan Peledov
K.B. Ballentine Stephen House Bob Beagrie Samo Kreutz Dennis Williamson
John Patrick Robbins Robert W. Stephens Rebecca Dempsey Kushal Poddar
Edward Lee Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia ( Amita Paul ) Francisc Edmund Balogh
Alan Britt Robert Fleming Karol Nielson Randy Barnes Kim Ports Parsons
Stephen Page Greg Patrick Lynda Tavakoli Richard M. Ankers Shelly Jones
Duane Vorhees B. Pargeter George Gad Economou Dr. Ajanta Paul
Pawel Markiewicz Antonia Alexandra Klimenko David Alec Knight Carol Tahir
Ninko Kirilov Ana Nikvul – Translated by Petar Penda Ralph Monday
Deborah Purdy Angel Edwards Stephen Kingsnorth Roger Harvey
Ursula O’Reilly Jim Meirose William Allegrezza Robert Walton
Janice D. Soderling Karlo Sevilla John Thomas Allen A.E. Reiff
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 11
Windmills of the Mind
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 11 - Windmills of the Mind features outstanding contemporary poetry and fiction from 70 internationally renowned poets and fiction writers. Join them on this journey through the Windmills of the Mind.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Cervantes
Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony. Little did they suspect that la mancha and montiel and the knight’s frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than sinbad’s haunts or ariosto’s vast geographies. For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Jorge Luis Borges
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.
Michel Legrand
POETS and FICTION AUTHORS Contributors
John Doyle RC deWinter David Alec Knight Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Alan Catlin Caroline Johnstone
R. Gerry Fabian Yuu Ikeda Phil Wood Joan McNerney Michael Ceraolo Dana Trick Ivan de Monbrison
Mini Babu Sanjeev Sethi Margaret Kiernan CL Bledsoe Mark Young Susan Tepper Paul Tanner Gail Little
Duane Vorhees Karen A VandenBos Dr Stephen Paul Wren Jade Nicole Beals Petar Penda
Roberta Beach Jacobson Jerome Berglund Lynda Tavakoli Lawrence Moore Charmaine Traynor-Ruitenberg
Ken Gosse Dr Anushna Biswas Koshy AV Rp Verlaine Sean Bronson Robert Halleck Stephen McQuiggan
Michael H. Brownstein Mike Wilson Christopher Barnes Kevin Brown Sharon Larkin Alec Solomita
Victor Kennedy Bryn Hammond Wayne F. Burke Diane G. Martin Stephen Kingsnorth Jay Passer
Ross Jackson Gopikrishnan Kottoor Subhankar Das
Early May 2022 – Poems and Fiction
Peter O’Neill Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Cleo Griffith Peycho Kanev Christina Chin Digby Beaumont
Melanie Chartoff John Grey Nia Harries John Riley Ursula O’Reilly Oz Hardwick Wendy Webb
Paul Brookes Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia/Amita Paul DAH Greg Patrick Sarah Clancy Peter Donnelly
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 10
On the Edge
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
Danny DeVito
To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in. — Steven Ramirez
Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 10 - On the Edge. LPJ is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, video poems and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt from seventy internationally renowned poets and authors.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks from our seventy featured poets and authors .
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site, and invite your friends.
Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover Image – Ad Marginem (On the Edge), 1930 by Paul Klee has its point of departure in a purely formal idea of pushing plants and crystals from the four edges of the frame toward a meeting with the dark sun, which from the inner part of A fabulous world from far away, engulfed, covered with rust and lichen, and flecked with stains, seems to be rising up.
My sincere thanks to the following internationally acclaimed poets and fiction authors for their superb contributions to Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 10. i am honoured to publish your sublime work in LPJ. ~ Strider
March 2022 Continued:
Ceinwen Haydon John Doyle Karen A. Vanden Bos John Brantingham
Kate Ennals Ken Gosse Margaret Duda Gopal Lahiri Margaret Kiernan
Gary D. Maxwell Karen Mooney Bruce Morton Angel Edwards
John Copley Alter Manuela Palacios Fadairo Tesleem David Russell
Jo-Ann Newton Kushal Poddar Carla Maria Kovsca Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D
Marie C. Lecrivain Michael Lee Johnson Adele Ogier Jones T.K. Edmond
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia Duane Vorhees Nolcha Fox Bernardo Villela
Linda King Richard Wayne Horton Kika Dorsey Mark Blickley Gabby Gilliam
D.J. Tyrer Sheila E. Murphy Jon Moray Laura Ann Reed Frederick Pollock
Christina Chin Victor Kennedy Jan Napier Greg Patrick Ben Nardolilli
Diarmuid o Maolalai Michael La Bombarda
Early April 2022
Laurie Kuntz Steve Klepetar Rose Mary Boehm Daniel J. Flosi Sunil Sharma
Ursula O’Reilly John Drudge Lilija Valis Susan Tepper J.D. Nelson Kirsty Niven
Timothy Resau Laurel Benjamin Roy J. Adams Janet McCann Askold Skalsky
Peggy Everett Michael Ball Jack D. Harvey Makhliyokhon Umirzakova
Steve Sibra Angel Edwards Ed Ahern Nolcha Fox
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 9
DarkLight Days
February - Early March 2022
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 9 – DarkLight Days, features the sublimely original poetry and fiction of seventy internationally esteemed poets and authors. Join us on a journey of fantasy and realism through these DarkLight Days as metaphysical survivors marooned in a material world.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, video poems and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site, and invite your friends.
Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover Image – Spiral Staircase
ISBN 978-1-4717-1142-8
Imprint: Lulu.com
The Poets /Authors
Contents
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones
February – Mid March 2022 - Poems and Fiction
Rose Mary Boehm Daniel Wade Lilija Valis John Doyle
Margaret Kiernan Gary Bills Nick Ingram Milton Ehrlich
Sergey Gerasimov translates Alexey Tarasov Mark Blickley
Ivan Jenson Lawrence Moore Paola Canale Geetha Ravichandran
Michael H Brownstein Peter J Donnelly Jim Meirose
Harris Coverley Joy Gaines-Friedler Sterling Warner Lara Dolphin
Stephen House Richa Sharma Joshua Martin Matt Sell
Toyb ben Uilliam Gary D Maxwell Linda Imbler David Alec Knight
John Chinaka Onyeche Sandrijela Kasagic translated by Petar Penda
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Christina Martin John Thomas Allen
Madhu Gangopadhyay Matthew James Friday Jade Nicole Beals
Ken Gosse Piku Chowdhury Alec Solomita Jennifer Pratt-Walter
Ralph Monday Steve Deutsch Michael Wooff Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
Ivan de Monbrison Stephen A Rozwenc Padma J Thornlyre
Jim Lewis
Poetry and Fiction March 2022(1)
Kevin McManus Lilija Valis PD Lyons Steve Klepetar
Ann Privateer Bob MacKenzie Lynda Tavakoli Rustin Larson
John Drudge RC deWinter Louis Kasatkin Ursula O’Reilly
JD Nelson Mihaela Melnic Terry Wheeler Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Prosper Ifeanyi Zvi A Sesling Mitali Chakravarty Joseph A Farina
Oonah V Joslin Ed Lyons
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 8
Echoes Dancing with Shadows
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance” –
Carl Sandburg
"Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerely putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."
- Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved." - Gregory Corso
"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future." - Jack Kerouac
"And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm." - Jack Kerouac
The POETS/AUTHORS
Margaret Kiernan Fred Johnston Lisa Marguerite Mora Peter Knight
John Drudge Karen Mooney Michael Igoe Catherine Arra Julian Matthews
Afiah Obeneewaa Grace Danquah Adrian David Susan Tepper Greg Patrick
Yuu Ikeda Terry Wheeler Pragya Suman Rustin Larson Imelda O’Reilly
Ryan Quinn Flanagan Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Steve Klepetar
Brittany Hause translations of Ricardo James Freyre Peter F. Crowley
Fiona Perry Paul Demuth Lynn White Eric Burgoyne Sana Tampeen Mohammed
Ernesto P. Santiago Debbie Robson Gary D. Maxwell Mandy Beattie
Gale Acuff Mona Bedi Sam Barbee Kushal Poddar Kim Malinowski
Julian O. Long Rowena Newman Heath Brougher Hibah Shabkhez
Ken Gosse Margaret Kiernan Nicholas Alexander Hayes Debbie Robson
Kurt Luchs RC deWinter Douglas V. Miller David Ades Alan Catlin
Ursula O’Reilly Peter Magliocco Dmitriy Galkovskiy John Grey
Richard M. Ankers Wayne F. Burke Dana Trick Ethan Vilu Duane Vorhees
Les Wicks David Alec Knight Adele Ogier Jones James Miller
Angel Edwards Christopher Barnes Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia Daniel Nemo
Doris Wei Tan GJ Hart Ngozi Olivia Osuoha Adrian David Sunil Sharma
Joe Sebastian Mohibul Aziz Bhuwan Thapaliya Salim Yakubu Akko
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 7
Beat Cafe
November - December 2021
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 7 - Beat Cafe, features the outstanding poetry and fiction of over 60 poets and authors from our virtual Beat Cafe with their own modern day take on dystopian reality and fantasy. These internationally renowned poets and authors continue the revolutionary legacy of the original Beat Generation poets and authors and bring their own original take on twenty-first century life and society.
Discover poems of enchantment, fantasy, fairy tale, folklore, dreams, dystopian, flora and fauna, magical realism, romance, and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks. Cover Image – Ed van der Elsken – Bohemian Life in Paris 1950-52 “It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.” ― Jack Kerouac “It really was a whole generation who were listening to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Fats Navarro and, a little bit later on, Mongo Santamaría and Chuck Berry, and these dozen or so guys gave them a voice. They led the way. They wrote what a whole generation wanted to read. The time was right and they seized the day by writing about their lives. They travelled, they got into scrapes, they got arrested, they got wasted … and they wrote about it. Isn’t that something?” ― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. BurroughsBiographical Notes
The Poets & Fiction Authors
Cait O’Neill McCullagh Tom Bakelas J.S. Watts R.T. Castleberry
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko John D. Robinson Janice D. Soderling Greg Patrick
Carrie Magness Radna David Booth Dr. Ajanta Paul James Eric Watkins
Mark Blickley Mark Saba Piergiorgio Viti Angel Edwards John Drudge
Margaret Kiernan Steve Klepetar Ursula O’Reilly John Dorsey Gaynor Kane
Alec Solomita Susan Tepper Johnny Francis Wolf Oriana Ivy David L. O’Nan
Elizabeth Marino GJ Hart Lilija Valis Richard Wayne Horton RC deWinter
Bruce Morton Hedy Habra Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan Lorraine Caputo
Dennis Villelmi (Williamson) Oonah V. Joslin Shine Ballard Grace Danquah
Jason Ryberg Sister Louella Hickman Andre F. Peltier John Doyle Karen Kerekes
Peter Lilley Cheryl Snell Ken Gosse John Knoll Ursula O’Reilly Douglas V. Miller
Michael H. Brownstein Rustin Larson John Guzlowski Adrian David Meg Freer
Dr Suleman Lazarus Lynda Tavakoli Kenneth Hickey Robert Nisbet
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 6
Druids of Cernunnos - October - November 2021
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” ―Greg Bear.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, video poems and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
In Druids of Cernunnos - Volume 6 of Lothlorien Poetry Journal, I am honoured to feature the work of more than seventy renowned poets and authors from the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Ireland, England, and most of Europe and South America. Like Druids, Poets are guardians of our past, present and future. This volume brings you mesmeric poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia and nature, with magical realism and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks about relationships and most aspects of life. Enjoy reading this superb eclectic collection by some of the finest contemporary poets and fiction writers.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site and invite your friends. Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover image - a black and white photograph of a Druid of Cernunnos.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jan 11, 2022
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781716010835
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- Edited by: Strider Marcus Jones
- Publication Date
- Jan 11, 2022
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781716010835
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- Edited by: Strider Marcus Jones
Specifications
- Pages
- 244
- Binding
- Paperback
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Densions
- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
- Thank you to the following esteemed poets and authors for your superb poetry and stories in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 6 – Druids of Cernunnos. You have my sincere respect and appreciation. I am honoured to publish your work. ~ Strider
- Pages
- 244
- Binding
- Paperback
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Densions
- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
- Thank you to the following esteemed poets and authors for your superb poetry and stories in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 6 – Druids of Cernunnos. You have my sincere respect and appreciation. I am honoured to publish your work. ~ Strider
The POETS/AUTHORS
Steve Klepetar Oonah V. Joslin Ivan de Monbrison Heather Cameron Jeremy Scott Mary Ellen Talley John Drudge Christine Tabaka Stephen Guy Mallett Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Robert (Roibeard) Shanahan Subraman David Russell Angel Edwards Adrian David Temani Nkalolang John Grey Adele Ogier Jones David L O’Nan Ursula O’Reilly Prince A McNally Margaret Kiernan Keith Hoerner Mona Bedi Scott Thomas Outlar M A Blickley Philip Dodd Sissy Pantelis Nathan Anderson Michael Lee Johnson Grant Tarbard Stephen House Dana Trick Vijay Nair GJ Hart Lara Dolphin J B Hogan Shelly Blankman John Patrick Robbins Lynda Tavakoli Ken Gosse Rose Mary Boehm Paul Edward Costa Jeanna Ni Riordain Alec Solomita David Parsley Lathalia Song Yash Seyed Bagheri J D Nelson Emma Jo Black John Drudge Mihaela Melnic A E Reiff Moe Seager Jyoti Nair George Sandifer - Smith Amrita Valan Kofi Fosu Forson Amita Paul Ryan Quinn Flanagan Candice Kelsey Edward Lee Jonel Abellanosa Stephen A Rozwenc Steven Deutsch S.C. Flynn Marie C. Lecrivain Silk Joshua Martin Margaret Kiernan Terry Wheeler Sandy Rochelle Alan Catlin Tricia Knoll R. Bremner Heather Sager
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 5
Metropolis Drift August - September 2021
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” ―Greg Bear.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, video poems and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
In Metropolis Drift - Volume 5 of Lothlorien Poetry Journal, I am honoured to feature the work of seventy-seven renowned poets and authors from the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Ireland, England, and most of Europe and South America, bring you mesmeric poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia and nature, with magical realism and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks about relationships and most aspects of life.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site and invite your friends. Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work.
Cover image - a black and white photograph of lovers in Paris caught up in Metropolis Drift.
Maria: "We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!" Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned. And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it. The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many - BABEL! BABEL! BABEL! - Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart.
Metropolis – Directed by Fritz Lang 1927
Thank you to the following esteemed poets and authors for your superb poetry and stories in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 5 – Metropolis Drift. You have my sincere respect and appreciation. I am honoured to publish your work. ~ Strider
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Steve Klepetar Mihaela Melnic John Drudge
Tobi Alfier John Doyle Marianne Szlyk Jim Lewis (j. lewis) beam
Tim Heerdink Jeana Jorgensen Marc di Saverio Margaret Kiernan GJ Hart
Susan Tepper Ken Gosse Lisa Reynolds Michael J. Leach Angel Edwards
J.D. Nelson Sherzod Artikov Joan McNerney Alec Solomita Kathryn Ann Hill
Michael Lee Johnson Hazel Storr Nick Newman Pea Flower Tomioka
Alan Catlin Dana Trick Gary Bills Adi Raturi Andrew Cyril Macdonald
Joe Sebastian Lauren Scharhag David Estringel RC deWinter Sterling Warner
Ellen Chia Moe Seager Rose Mary Boehm Philip Dean Brown Iulia Gherghei
Ivan de Monbrison Margaret Adams Birth John Doyle Adele Ogier Jones
Giovanni Mangiante Elana Wolff Marc di Saverio Ginger Covert Colla
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Charlotte Cosgrove John Drudge Sarah Robin
Tyler Letkeman Bob Beagrie Louis Kasatkin Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia
Tom Montag Susan Tepper Lynn Long Randy Barnes
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Margaret Kiernan Greg Patrick Ben Douglass
Susan Tepper R.W. Stephens Howie Good John Doyle Zvi A. Sesling
Ursula O’Reilly Stark Hunter Geoff Sawers John Patrick Robbins Paul Ilechko
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 4
Sentient Souls
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” ―Greg Bear Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a contemporary literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction, video poems and occasional interviews with poets. Journey with us on the road to poems that linger and haunt https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/ In Sentient Souls - Volume 4 of Lothlorien Poetry Journal, seventy-seven renowned poets and authors bring you mesmeric poems and stories of fantasy and folklore, dystopia and nature, with magical realism and anything hiding deep in-between the cracks. Lothlorien Poetry Journal nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Help spread the beauty of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Submit, follow, join the site and invite your friends. Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved. The artists have reserved their right under Section 77 Of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of their work. Cover black and white photograph by Markus Zaiser ISBN 978-1-7948-8738-1
Thank you to the following esteemed poets and authors for your superb poetry and stories in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 4 - Sentient Souls. You have my sincere respect and appreciation. I am honoured to publish your work. ~ Strider
The POETS/AUTHORS John Drudge Rose Mary Boehm John Doyle Sara Clancy D. R. James Elle Renee Morgan Steve Klepetar Margaret Kiernan Bruce McRae Catherine Arra Ken Gosse Miriam Sagan Tohm Bakelas Adele Ogier Jones John Grey Amrita Valan Danny D. Ford Mihaela Melnic Jason de Koff Gulchehra Asronova Louis Kasatkin Angel Edwards Michael La Bombarda Yuu Ikeda Alec Solomita Susan Tepper Johanna Antonia Zomers Sheila Tucker Tom Montag Afiah Obenewaa Adrian David Andrena Zawinski Greg Patrick Ursula O’Reilly R. W. Stephens pj johnson Stephen House Patricia Walsh Scott C. Kaestner RC de Winter Stephen Anderson Kathryn Ann Hill Chris Campbell Linda Imbler Catfish McDaris Jana Hunterova & Mark Blickley Nicholas Alexander Hayes Agnes Vojta Alan S. Kleiman Cornelia Smith Fick Math Jones Candice James Michael J. Leach Sadie Maskery Richard D. Houff Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews Rustin Larson Lilija Valis Nodirabegim Ibrokhimova Chad Norman Kaci Skiles Laws Shelby Stephenson Rafaella Del Bourgo Jonel Abellanosa Lynn White Lawrence Moore Aysegul Yildirim Sherzod Artikov Michael Igoe Geoffrey Prince Chae Paterson
Thank you to the following esteemed poets and authors for your superb poetry and stories in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 4 - Sentient Souls. You have my sincere respect and appreciation. I am honoured to publish your work. ~ Strider
The POETS/AUTHORS John Drudge Rose Mary Boehm John Doyle Sara Clancy D. R. James Elle Renee Morgan Steve Klepetar Margaret Kiernan Bruce McRae Catherine Arra Ken Gosse Miriam Sagan Tohm Bakelas Adele Ogier Jones John Grey Amrita Valan Danny D. Ford Mihaela Melnic Jason de Koff Gulchehra Asronova Louis Kasatkin Angel Edwards Michael La Bombarda Yuu Ikeda Alec Solomita Susan Tepper Johanna Antonia Zomers Sheila Tucker Tom Montag Afiah Obenewaa Adrian David Andrena Zawinski Greg Patrick Ursula O’Reilly R. W. Stephens pj johnson Stephen House Patricia Walsh Scott C. Kaestner RC de Winter Stephen Anderson Kathryn Ann Hill Chris Campbell Linda Imbler Catfish McDaris Jana Hunterova & Mark Blickley Nicholas Alexander Hayes Agnes Vojta Alan S. Kleiman Cornelia Smith Fick Math Jones Candice James Michael J. Leach Sadie Maskery Richard D. Houff Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews Rustin Larson Lilija Valis Nodirabegim Ibrokhimova Chad Norman Kaci Skiles Laws Shelby Stephenson Rafaella Del Bourgo Jonel Abellanosa Lynn White Lawrence Moore Aysegul Yildirim Sherzod Artikov Michael Igoe Geoffrey Prince Chae Paterson
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 3
Flowers in Stones May - June 2021
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 25, 2021
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781300155980
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- Edited by: Strider Marcus Jones, By (author): Kevin M Hibshman, By (author): Lynda Tavakoli, By (author): Michael Lee Johnson, By (author): Lilija Valis
Specifications
- Pages
- 252
- Binding
- Paperback
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
Lothlorien Poetry Journal's second published volume of poetry and prose features the exceptional poetry and fiction of 72 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join us on our journey in Bard Songs and Tales. Be moved and inspired by their sublime individual poetic voices from every continent and discover that there is more to life that unites us than divides us..~ Strider
The Poets:
Details
- Publication Date
- 7/14/2021
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781008904507
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Lauren Scharhag, Steve Klepetar, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Attracta Fahy, Antonia A Klimenco, J S Watts, Scott Thomas Outlar, Lorraine Caputo, John W Sexton, Louise Ceres, Moe Seager, Christine Tabaka, John Drudge, Denise O'Hagan, Edited by: Strider Marcus Jones
Specifications
- Pages
- 228
- Binding
- Paperback
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
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