ILA  Magazine

Contributing Editor, Carl Scharwath's Interview with Impspired Editor, Mr. Charlie Cawte: CARL SCHARWATH: This morning I had the pleasure...

Long after the garden had been destroyed, Its inhabitants fleeing into the wilderness, The charred remains of the great tree, Was all...

The book opens, and the night begins. The hand that holds it does not tremble. In the other, a bird that is not a bird. The sky is...

A cryptic mind silently beckoning Ahead of its mystic rudiments Conjuring in a flash of brilliance A myriad of mundane elements   A...

Feature "Editor's Choice" for February 2025 "BEFORE YOU SPEAK" Run your words through a filter of compassion, before letting them charge...

Feature "Editor's Choice" for February 2025 "VIVID FRIENDSHIP" An unknown meet At the destiny of syndicate He was in search of peace ...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 "SHOP LOCAL" I chewed the fat with a farmer the other day At a tiny roadside market around the...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 THE EMPTY SCREAM Cooling is the night air against my skin. But there is a power in silence...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 SHE EFFACED AN EFFULGENCE With a chortle the benison of her benign touch, Seemed to affect me...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 MATTHEW 5:5 1. If life is on a silver spoon, I didn't eat it. It's not what I needed. I...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 SO IS TOMORROW SOUGHT Is it in this day and time where the sunsets on oceans of ambition...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 SILENCED AGAINST OUR WILL Why be insensitive to those who are poor yet intelligent? Share...

Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 "TALK TO ME ABOUT..." Talk to me about hope because I see too many without it. Talk to me...

Featuring the work of nine poets "MORNING'S QUIET RETURN" The night, a hand long folded in prayer, loosens its fingers, lets go of the...

Featuring the work of Romanian artist/poet, Bogdana Gageanu Pyrography of "Hands" by Bogdana Gageanu (Pyrography is a form of art, also...

Featuring three poets, three twists and three very different poems. (Twist: "Card as Character" - personify a greeting card, giving it...

We highlight on ILA, the pen of a prolific bard and his poem, "Perceptions Beyond Derelictions" as our January 2025 Editor's Choice....

TIME How absolute in your power Dear time, you are a great leveler You keep all under your power An absolute concept that transcends...

Coffee and a book is the best comfort zone of traveling far and wide with the letters and words. It's like a feeling of peace engulfing...

Contributing Editor, Carl Scharwath's Interview with Barbara Leonhard I had the pleasure of speaking with Barbara Leonhard who is an...