Pre-Publication Endorsements and Review

In this brilliant anthology, two remarkable young poets from Liberia have collaborated to bring us a glimpse of the pain and emotion, and yes, even the hope that still glimmers in the hearts of the disenfranchised human being who struggle their every day. In the author's words, some souls are like rejected stones, dusty pages of books left for years on a shelf or withered flowers in a vase besides broken windowpanes.

--Bill Ward - Publisher "World Voice Magazine"

 The poems reflect truth of life, genuine feelings of the young heart of teenagers and soul's quest for original freedom in light, power of wisdom and enlightenment - but never yield to slavery of the senses. The soulful tones of Anne Frank's diary are heard behind the presentations at times.

--Bijoylakshmi Das, Writer and Blogger of Speaking Tree website of Times Of India.

  Finally, boys, a tribulation to the life of a poet from beginning to end and all trials and tribulations of said life, poetically rehearsed in a format for the reader's pleasure.

Robert Gillette, Founder of Gogyohka, USA.

 The poets brightly emphasized on the life an average African Child finds his/herself, with so much focus on the theme of lamentations in Africa. The writers however put a perfect touch to this collection as they further established the factor/ theme of hope.

 --Adanu Michael, Founder of Mental Blinkers, Nigeria.

In this book, through poetry and prose, Slavica Božićević offers her historical story, her experience and the wisdom gained through her life. In Defiance of Time is a record of a life that still lasts and will still last for long, since there are a lot of emotions composed in it, the emotions which defiantly break through the future days as the guardians of time. By writing this book of memories, she left for us a trace of the experienced love, happiness, sorrow, and suffering, but as a strong woman, she goes on, leaving for us her experience written by her heart and soul, completely sincerely and with no reserve. She continues to live her love in defiance of time!

Zdravko Odorčić,

the editor

Contents

EDITORIAL DESK  2

PRODIGY MAGAZINE-Editorial team 3

Great Thanks 4

Content 5

POETRY 8

Carlos Garrido Chalén-Peru  9

Jeanette Eureka Tiburcio-Mexico 14

Eva Petropoulou Lianou-Greece 16

Zlatan Demirovic-USA 18

Lidia Popa-Italy 21

Bhagirath Choudhary-India 25

Sajid Hussain-Pakistan 27

Rahim Karim-Kyrgyzstan 30

Dr Shalini Yadav-India 32

Ewith Bahar-Indonesia 35

John Adnan Karajoli-Greece 38

Rozalia Aleksandrova-Bulgaria 40

S Afrose-Bangladesh 42

Rita Chugh-India 45

Imen Melliti-Tunisia 47

Elham Hamedi-Iran 49

 Emanuela Rizzo-Italy 52

Tapas Dey-India 55

Sayeeda Sharmin-Canada 57

Shakil Kalam-Bangladesh 60

Aleksei Kalakutin-Russia 63

Pham Van Anh-Vietnam 66

Dr. Miltiadis Dovas-Greece 69

Md. Hedaetul Islam-Bangladesh 71

Maxwanette A Poetess-USA 73

Maki Starfield-Japan 77

Madhu Gangopadhyay-India 80

Kyriaki Drakou-Cyprus 83

Aldo Quagliotti-GB-Italy 86

Ifigenia Metochi-Greece 89

Rezauddin Stalin-Bangladesh 92

Hannie Rouweler-Netherlands 94

Chrysoula Plokamaki-Greece 96

Antonis Filippeos-Greece 99

Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak-Poland 103

Brian Burchette-USA 105

Bill Stokes-USA-Alaska 107

Amphitrite Constantelos Manuel-USA  110

Angeliki Zevgolati-Greece 112

PROSE 114

Smaragdi Mitropoulou-Greece 115

ART 117

Nena Sesic Fiser-Netherlands 118

Amb. Dr. (HC) Sonjaye Maurya-India 126

Spyridon Trousas-Italy-Greece 131

Jacob Lawrence-Nigeria 133

Amy Kartam-Egypt 137

INTERVIEWS 141

Eva Lianou Petropoulou with Dr. Jernail S. Anand, India 142

Zlatan Demirovic with Rahim Karim-Kyrgyzstan 149

BOOK REVIEW 152

Imen Melliti, review of the book-Souls in Bloom by Stefania Miola-Italy 153

Zlatan Demirovic, poem Review-SAFFRON COLOR, by Alexey E. Kalakutin-Russia 156

Dear reader, I assume that, as soon you open this book, you'll immediately recognize its uniqueness, at the very first page, usually titled, “CONTENTS”!

Millions of published books contain a list of Contents written on several more pages, giving the reader a chance to engage his creative mind, to contemplate the topics before he decides to start digging deeper into the material.

We make it easier for you, offering Content in just one topic, COMPASSION, saving your time and allowing you to spread your imagination over this one poem (created by 120 authors) immediately and decisively.

Dear poet, contributor, and creator of this extraordinary anthology, with one poem on the topic

COMPASSION,

It was a great pleasure, and at the same time, surprise, to reveal the natural flow during the process of pluralization, creating a unique field, radiating the oneness, confirming that raising a global consciousness is the exclusive way to point out our Universal creativity.

I would like to express my profound gratitude to all, for your persistence in proving a universal law of synchronicity of existence.

Zlatan Demirovic

Foreword

There is no better passport to travel nowadays than with a book of poems. Through it, we get to know people and it allows us to travel all over the planet, regardless of any border. This is the case of Ormus, Fahredin Shehu's book.

Every time and always, I recall the mossy ruins of my distant past where the soul wandered.
On the aquamarine velvet notebook, a heavy Pen writes harshly with blood instead of ink and straight letters for the curved world.
His pages contain in their verses a universal message that allows us to know it in all its magnitude. These poems that you are going to read contain time, memory, nature and love, integrated into a pure and meaningful language.
Dark forces wearing shinny accoutrements, blinding thus the easy goers and the poor
I heard every move, each of them releasing a weeping sound between Knowledge, Destiny, Experience and slides of Life's occurrences
Ormus refers to the land of the poet, a land that bleeds and flourishes with a strong hopeful breath, not only for her but for a world that blurs in torment.

Preface This poetry collection is a fractal of my augmented soul; therefore, I wanted to entangle my readers in its vibration to elevate them to another state of consciousness. The book is a representation of the power of the kind of word that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence cannot reproduce. Nothing new was intended to showcase despite the reflection of vision, dream, and the untold truth that each and every one of us possesses as a hidden gem deep within ourselves.
Ormus is an extract of gold, the monoatomic particles of gold that I used in my meditations to enhance higher states of consciousness. In this case as an author, I wanted to endow this Ormus for the Soul to those who through Love attain the Divine.
There are two, so to say, train tracks that made possible the birth of this artistic book which emancipated to the level of Theurgy and objective art (something to experience in hush, serenity, solitude while being united with the universal reality of synchronicity and quantum reality). The first one was inspired by the following quote from Arthur Schonberg: “If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.” As for the second path, it

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was shaped by my desire to create as genuine a book of poetry as I have not written before, and as something that cannot be reproduced in the future.
In Ormus, the reader has the opportunity to touch and tackle the most subtle partiture of the infrasonic music of the soul the frequencies of which shall vibrate from the outer to the kernel of Hesh (“Hesh” stands for androgynous, a joint male and female entity that is just like the Soul and Light in themselves).
All I wish here is to thank all whom I have encountered either virtually or in person, by the vibration of whom the invisible tapestry of creation took a visible form. My thanks also go to those who contributed either with their reviews, words of dedication, art work, editing and publishing in order for the reader to have a piece of our souls. Ormus is another tribute to humanity and an example that good deeds and togetherness may create a synergy and beautiful art in its full beauty.
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What may a poet do for tomorrow Other than guess the future As a blind seer, thus, To ridicule and mock himself Of what the machine can’t Calculate and call it Love
Finally, the poet takes us on an inner, humanistic and existential journey, from which we return full, satisfied and with images to remember. But with a certain mandate, we too must do something. Hopefully in poetry.
Esteban Charpentier Poet Argentina

Now and Forever Our Love and Other Love Poems Copyright©2021 Noreen Ann Snyder and Garry A. Snyder All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means- electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise- without prior written permission of the authors, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.
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https://garryandnoreensnyder.wix.com/poetry
Introduction
Hello everyone! We were planning on publishing our poetry book before Valentine's Day 2019. Sadly, Garry passed away on January 18, 2019. And that is a tragic to me and to everyone. I am happy that Garry Snyder is in Heaven not suffering in pain any longer. Yet I still miss him very much and wish he were here with me at home. I will always be in love with him and always love him forever and more. He will always be My Teddy Bear Darling for always. We will always be a husband and wife team. When God says it's my turn to go, then I'll be with him again. Until then, I will keep on writing, publishing poetry books, and I will not give up. I won't let Garry be forgotten. In his honor, I will publish our poetry book “Now and Forever Our Love and Other Love Poems”. These poems in this book are about love, true love. I hope you will enjoy reading our love poems just like we enjoy writing them. I have other projects in the works and it will be in Garry's honor. You can subscribe to our official website to keep up with our updates, oncoming projects. Just go to: garryandnoreensnyder.wix.com/poetry and sign up and look around our site.
Thank you all for your support, time and for buying our poetry book(s). We would love to hear from you all. Remember to live your dreams. You are never too young or too old to live your dreams. Most important of all believe in yourself. Enjoy! Noreen and Garry Snyder October 27, 2020

English Literature: poetry 

Zlatan Demirovic (USA)-105, Dervisa Grabus Colakovic (USA)-105, Abdallah Gasmi (Tunisia)-106, Shikdar Mohammad Kibria (Bangladesh)-107, Dr. Bodrul Alam Shohag (Bangladesh)-107, Dr. Gazi Abdulla-hel Baque (Bangladesh)-108, M A Zaman Ahasanuzzaman (Bangladesh)-109, Sabyasachi Nazrul (Bangladesh)110, Dr Lazar Belhadz (Algeria)-111, Rahim Karim (Kyrgyzstan)-112, Ruki Cokan (Netherlands)-113, Alab Sibel (Albania)-113, Natalie Bisso ( Germany)-114, Principal Dr. Nazibar Rahaman (India)114-115, Ainur Kumarkhanova (kajakhstan)-115, Md Ejaj Ahamed (India)-116, Anowar Hossain Siddique (India)-116, Imdadul Islam ( India)-117, Rajab Ghaffar (Tajikistan)-118, Ubaidullo Sanginov (Tajikistan)-119, Prof. Biswanath Saha (India)-119, Dr. Prasanna Kumar Dalai (India)-119, Ayesa Siddika (Murshidabad, India)120, Binod Dawadi (Nepal)-120, Shirin Aktar (Bangladesh)-121, Dr. Md Tafazzal Ali Bhuiyan ( Bangladesh)-122, Melita Ratcovic (Serbia)-123, Dee Weeper (South Sudan)-123, Dr. Tasneem Ustad (India)124, Yusuf Aslan (Turkiye)-126, Dr. Germain Droogenbroodt (Belgium-Spain)-126, Nguen Chau Ngoc Doan Chinh (Vietnam)-127, Lidia Chiarelli (Italy)-127, Jiang Yimao (China)-128, Lyudmila Sadovskaya (Belarus)128, Fernando Matos (Brasil)-129, Eva Petropoulou Lianou (Greece)-129, Nasser Alshaikhamed (Saudi Arabia)-130, Eralieva Umutkan Polotovna (Kyrgyzstan)-131, Irma Kurti (Italy)-131, Tanza Ajtic ( Canada/Serbia)-132, Mahzabin Afroza (India)-133, Masooma Islam (India)-134, Sudip Kumar Chakraborty ( India)134 

Article Sakil Kalam (Bangladesh)135 

Satire Muktar Sherim (kajakhstan)136  

A Collection of Poems against War.

Dedicated to:
All People who are Peace loving, throwing a fist of Earth of their own share on the sinking Iceland of Peace.

POEMA O ZEMLJI, ČOVJEKU I DOMOVINI u akrostihu

„Mlinarica“ je sedma knjiga Zdenke Mlinar, pomno strukturirana, a temelj poetičkog stvaranja autorice je akrostih. Riječ je o postupku u književosti u kojem početna slova ili početni slogovi u pjesmi čitani odozgo prema dolje daju riječ ili sintagmu. To je najčešće, kako piše Mlinar, tema pjesme, ime autora ili osobe kojoj je pjesma posvećena. I u čitavoj zbirci autorica dosljedno primjenjuje isti princip. Zbirku otvara jedna od ponajboljih pjesama u knjizi „Mlinarica“, pjesma u kojoj pjesnikinja autoironično se igra sa svojim prezimenom i njegovim mogućim značenjima. „Mlinarica ja sam, od rođenja bez žita i mlina...“ To je prvi stih, no ono što je temelj je riječ i ljubav, vrijednosti kojima uči i vlastitu djecu. Metaforički, riječi se melju u mlinu poezije, pa tako nastaju nizovi pjesama koje se čitaju u dahu, kao cjelina, mali ep. Zanimljivo je da pjesnikinja aludira na carevine zla koje bi „mljela u prah“, ali svojom poezijom ipak odlučuje širiti ljubav, pronositi svjetlost i nadu, vjeru, ljubav prema rodnoj grudi koju vlastiti stanovnici napuštaju jer moraju. Stoga, poezija Zdenke Mlinar ne ostaje okrenuta tek lirskim hiperboličkim zanosima koji dominiraju, već se često osjete odjeci stvarnosti, rata, bijede, siromaštva, nestanka duhovnosti. Upravo riječima i njihovoj svetosti, posvećen je niz pjesama, one su „vrelo moći“, a sve je prožeto božanskim, panteističkim, uznosito, u slavu Boga i čovjeka. Mlinar ne izbjegava u svojim pjesamama sve ono što mnogi drugi prešućuju, ono „nekazano“, jer upravo poezija lomi traume, ona mora govoritii o boli: „Elegije neispjevane na tone se mogu vagati, / Kao i bolî svakojake na dušama i srcima“. Mlinar uznosito pjeva ode majci, naziva je „Bezvremena moja“, u pjesmi „Mirisi lipe“ evocira djetinjstvo, ali uz slike i mirise sjetnih dana, pjesnikinja veže brutalne slike svagdana: „Plačem i
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danas, gledajuć’ kako naše lipe sjeku; / Elem, ode stabala 9, a betonizacija je u tijeku.“ U potresnoj odi sinu „Nemoj sine nikud ići“ majka se obraća sinu i moli ga da ostane u domaji, ali je svjesna svega što se neumitno zbiva: „Istina jeca, k’o i Slavonija, koja svoje sinove više vidjeti neće!“. Pjesme voljenim osobama odišu ljubavlju, hiperboličkim izrazom, himničkim tonom kojim se slavi ljepota duša. U idućem ciklusu „Lijepom našom Hrvatskom...“ Mlinar posvećuje pjesme gradu Zagrebu, referira na njegovu prošlost, a od tih pjesama posebno bih izdvojila „Zogreb i jo“ koja je pisana na kajkavskom. Pjesme su posvećene moru, gradu Splitu, Dubrovniku, a na čakavskom piše „Kaštelanske štorije“ i na taj način povezuje sva tri dijalekta, zapravo jezika u jednu cjelinu, a riječ je ujedno o hrvatskom identitetu kojeg čine svi ovi idiomi. Opjevava i Slavoniju kao mjesto na kojem je nekad bilo more: „Slavonijo, Zemljo, pa ti more nekad si bila.“. Nikolu Teslu, „Aurom svjetla ovjenčana...“ Zanimljivo je da Mlinar opjevava i ljepotu Bosne i Hercegovine, posebno zbog njenih ratnih rana, ali i zbog „ljepote raznolikosti“. Niz pjesama posvećen je, s ljubavlju, gradu Sarajevu, Bihaću, bosanskim rijekama i ženama, pjesnicima. Pritom, Mlinar u svoj jezik unosi riječi iz Bosne, prilagođava se, pa upravo ta lakoća igre s jezikom i jest temelj njezina pjesništva. Ciklus „Biseri duha“ donosi iz alegorijskih i apstraktnijih pjesama o poziciji jastva u svijetu, o majci Zemlji, miru, vrijednostima koje promiče kroz svoju poeziju zastupljenu inače u brojnim zbornicima i antologijama. Jer, svi smo mi „djeca svijeta“, obraća se ona „Svim na zemlji“, zagovara mir i ljubav, uz motive iz Biblije, u svom poetskom izrazu, ona promiče ekumenizam. Smisao i samog pisanja je na kraju osjetiti oslobođenje, oslobađanje od tereta svijeta, predrasuda, idola spilje i emaniranje čiste ljubavi. O svemu tome, o svijetu bez podjela govori
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jako dobra pjesma „Podjele, podjele“, niz pjesama slavi i ljepotu i snagu žene, majke, prijateljice, ženu koja je za ljubav stvorena, ali i uplakana, okrvavljena. Mlinar posvećuje pjesmu i Toši Proeskom, Mezopotamiji. Zadnji ciklus, posvećen majci Zemlji, donosi niz ekoloških pjesama, koje slave Zemlju kao roditeljicu, odgojiteljicu i hraniteljicu. Ona poziva čovjeka da bude Čovjek, da se pokaje za grijehe koje čini majci Zemlji... Treba napomenuti kako je naslovnicu knjige i ilustracije u knjizi napravila likovna umjetnica Azra Arapović. Riječ je o sjajnim, višeznačnim, kolorističnim i eteričnim slikama koje ukazuju na unutrašnje biće žene koje se ogleda u snažnoj, gotovo božanskoj pojavnosti. Zdenka Mlinar napisala je osviještenu, pomno koncipiranu poemu „MLINARICA“ u nekoliko ciklusa, u kojoj zagovara ljubav prema čovjeku i prije svega prema Zemlji kao utočištu svijeta, pa nije niti čudno da su njene pjesme našle svoje čitatelje i u udaljenim dijelovima svijeta, posebno onim azijskim.

prof. Darija Žilić

The book 'Buddhi Boloy Darshane' is an Epic which is written in Bengali by Shamima Sultana. Its English term is 'The Philosophical Route and Intelligence'. Philosophy of 2500 years has played the key role here. Mankind is directed by philosophy and suffering the shortages of wellness, which is caused by man. In most cases they fail to follow truthfulness and logic. It's a vast poetry having about twenty thousand words in ten chapters. It is written in the form of a play or drama where Greek Philosophers Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Indian Philosophers like Siddharth Gautam Buddha (Buddhist), Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel laureate poet) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (The National Poet of Bangladesh) have made their conversations. There are also Sephalas, Polymarcus, Thrasimacus, Glocon and Adimantus as discussants. They crossed each other with their logic and philosophy. Finally, the day came when the laureates had to stopped. The day is 399 B.C, when Socrates had to commit suicide by drinking poison called Hemlock. The poet used Plato's 'Republic' as think tank. All the players played their role on their scripted literature, philosophy and logic.

Shamima Sultana is a Bangladeshi poet and writer. She was born on 24 June 1979. She has published books on poetry and novel. But she has called this book a poetry, because of its presentation and rhyming form. She believes that it is a great work on historical human beliefs and tragedy.