ILA  Magazine

By Leonard W. Maero You stood shoulders high, in the entire region Your three long nostrils pointed to the sky, breathing out white fumes...

Come back O' Lover! The valley of love is deadly more than a thousand deaths... It hurts...Love is infectious, it never cures, it is...

RICE IN STOMACH The sun is sweating profusely today I'm gasping for breath. I bought pineapple paste this simmer I will eat what? Empty...

Written in Poet's native language of Vietnamese and translated into English Cúi hôn tóc mẹ chiều xuân Tờ lịch vô tình đâu phải chỉ riêng...

The mind is a writer. It imbibes the stresses and strains Joys and sorrows Of the day More than we'll ever know. Then In the stillness of...

Oh, the Magnificent! I was lost Wondered Looked East and West North and South Above and Below My vision sealed Was indulged in worldly...

This Will All Make More Sense Four Years Hence By Scott Thomas Outlar Reishi and chaga and maitake mushrooms on an empty stomach help...

She dothed her everything to me. Lured in instances of security to my company and wrote my name in her heart with empathy. Neither I...

Featured poem of SHASWATA GANGOPADHYAY from INDIA Translated from Bengali to English by Rajdeep Mukherjee. ALTAMIRA The artist who...

"Good morning," I yelled as I came into the room. "What are you yelling for?" Mr. Frederickson hollered back. "Oh, I am so sorry, sir," I...

RETURN For the soul, when it has been taken the body off, is justification of blindness. And for the empty body...is the darkness. And...

Skin soft as sorrow Eyes deep as the seas, Hair warm from sunlight With no one to please; Words without voices Pain without tears, Lips...

Throughout the earth has become a battlefield Endeavouring and battling to obtain own right But not fetching peace and freedom for each...

A myriad of deadly bullets fly across the battlefield. Not at all selective of man, woman or child. Oft times slaying innocent victims,...

Much we have seen and scenes are heart wrenching For a dusty coinage, how many have fallen Come to my land, will show you tulip gardens...

Window panes of glass are feeling The heat of molten steel, and The flames of fire emerging out, are Indulging in the demonic dance; The...

© Joey V. Fernandez War is evil personified, While peace is goodness bonafide. Creation is out of love and peace. As destruction from war...

Ah! That I'd but in dreams, Sought thy visage for years and eons, To heal good men from anguish'd moans, And purge ill ones in thy pious...

Humanity doubtful about future still hungry for peace and harmony. We inhibit the world where there's no dearth of reasons to worry....

Bloom of joy suddenly got lost, I hardly hear those smiles anymore, The city roars destitute in its wake Wailing here, sorrow there....