BE FOOLISHLY WITH ME By Qasim Kashmiri (Poet, Novelist)
Be foolishly with me Once you know me, Depart, Gather the blood shrouds Take me home, And depart Adorn my ugly face With eighty veils,...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 27
- 1 min
A Shared Symbiosis
Two poems written by Carl Scharwath and narrated by Jeanette Skirvin "Abandoned" "Even a Poet Has Writer's Block" Carl Scharwath is from...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Quotes and Poetry
By Aliu Kazeem "Whatever comes as a challenge has also way to chance." © Aliu Kazeem "Life is a risk in giving tests to know our stand."...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Unwrapped Novel Gift
My fortress fave song for Christmas season Can't hold back the rhythm 'till my Savior was born The melodic sound of His company Resides...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 25
- 1 min
"Better Songs"
I'm glad my worse songs are the worst songs I've ever heard I'm under grand delusions of escaping the grave dodging eternity soundly...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Flutter Your Wings
Many nerds on this planet, Not show their guts and Achieve their aspired dream To me, they can't realize What they've inside. Though...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 2 min
A Moment of Monorhymes
"THE MURMURING STREAM" Farewell to the murmuring stream Flowing away lives in cordial team Set like sun to somewhere with their seam...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Poetry Collaboration
"TO SHINE IN EVERY COLOR" Which plead I should share with you? I chose to evoke my solemnity, While you were sleeping in your sojourns,...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Feature of Dr. Yogendra Arya
Dr. Yogendra Arya is gifted in both literature and visual arts. Recently, we chose him as Poet of the Week (January 8 - 13th, 2023) and...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 1 min
VIRELAI Poetry Form: "Tonight"
© Written by Jeffrey Cejero Watching the stars at night While you hugged me tight, Gives smile And brings me to height, And sees all the...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Triolet Poems
On January 6-8, we offered a Vocabulary Word of the Week (Perseverance) to poets, who were required to write in the Triolet poetry form...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 16
- 3 min
POETRY FEATURE
LEARN TO LOVE WOUNDS Continue the story In the folds of time In the days in the rain Even in storms Incessantly goes on Nothing stops it...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Palette of Dreams
Dreams deferred are not stale like vegetables in pale and pink, Nor leak like water from a blocked kitchen sink; They have colors to...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 7
- 3 min
Abdul Karim Al-Ahmad Feature
I was always The passenger Who made the boat more likely to sink (Birth) I was born A little before my due date On the night when...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 7
- 1 min
Poetry Feature of Shafkat Aziz Hajam
I am a bulb, thou art my filament. How would I glow without thy attachment? O thou ignite me inside And the glare goes outside. But for...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Poetry Feature of Amrita Valan
LANCELOT AS SHALLOT You are asleep, Wrapped in your cocoon Of silk. Where you weave blind tapestries On an island Sequestered with sable...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Beauty
I lost so much of your beauty! A shop with no much except some necessities. The tick of every clock with fatigue Each second returns...
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ilamagazine1
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Poetry Feature of Khursheed Wani
"The Poet's Jasmine" Let me sit next to you In a corner of blue The voice of your emotion' Still as calm as the ocean, You are the poet's...
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ilamagazine1
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
Ray of Love
The Moonlight Dance he caressed nature with the scent in love rose.. With a delicate flower in her hair and in the eye a stray ray of...
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ilamagazine1
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
SHADOWS
The trees cast shadows across the deserted scene And a breeze stirred in the cool air which pervaded a benign dominion Beneath vast...
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