ILA  Magazine

I am a man singularly composed of words. But I refuse to dignify it as poetry. I am utterly incapable of stopping the diarrhea of my...

Love is the soul of peace. Peace leads to prosperity. Hate causes disorder. Disorder brings decay. The world was made for love, mutual...

(© Photo above by Yogendra Arya) I wonder and wonder even more to see the tendencies of my mind. Getting fixed ideas and afraid of...

April 2025 "Editor's Choice" Life goes on, and we follow the course, Like skiffs lost on seas without recourse. Our thought, fragile rows...

You ask me, "what is life, my friend?" It's not just days that start and end. To see and know what life can be, Step inside...

Sweet rain, A melancholic beauty, In every drop's flow. Your memory haunts me so. Your gentle touch, On my skin so fair, Brings solace to...

Tell me, what else should I write to you! You don't want to hear anything Yet I want to say, How many words should I say to the wind that...

(Photograph above, © Peter Davies) Who am I to love you, The flower of my sight, Who am I to need you, In colors burning bright, Who am I...

Each day brings new opportunities to honor, defend, respect and restore the only home we've ever known. "EARTH REVERENCE" I walk gently...

Journey through the ascending syllables of nine visionary voices, whose etherees climb from whisper to crescendo, revealing and reveling...

The beauty of Haiku is in the ability to capture a moment of awareness, featuring fifteen remarkable poets. "SKIES and CLOUDS" The...

"REVISITING THE OLD HOME" There are still traces of the broken walls, Now overgrown with moss, The opening where the door once stood -...

"MY FALLEN CAMELLIAS..." Beside the walkway to my door, I can hear my fallen Camellias whispering my name, chocked in tears, and I cry...

March 2025 Editor's Choice featuring Gabriel S. Weah "MASK OF A BROKEN KID" I have a mother, A beautiful mother, Gifted by God, yet...

Gloria Magallanes-Loeb "UNCERTAINTY" The blood moon, eerie yet with a mystic glow Shrouded in shadows above a celestial show Depicting...

The poet, as the life force, what fuels their muse, and the inspiration of their poems. "WHY I WRITE?" They say You are different How am...

From symphonies of sorting, to reflections in a sea of plastic, to recycled treasures of love letters to Mother Earth, the dance of three...

Theme: "TWITTERPATED" Brevity in Micro Poetry refers to expressing a complex thought or emotion using a small amount of words. Poems are...

Expressing in poem or prose form, poets in this feature have woven beautiful compositions of the unsung heroines, their strengths,...

Wildlife and Habitat's Edge Haiku expressing the essence of endangered species in their natural habitats. Prose expressing perspectives...