SIJO/MICRO PASSAGE
From September 12 - 16, 2023, our ILA Magazine Facebook Group challenged the poets to combine both a SIJO Poetry form (consisting of 3...
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Sep 21, 20235 min
Room With A View
Imagine stepping into a room that takes your breath away, especially if it's a window, terrace, in the confines of your home or in...
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ilamagazine1
Sep 16, 20234 min
POETIC SPRINKLINGS
From inspirational to the seasons, to flora and fauna or spiritual, Seema Sharma from India, covers it all in the six poems we've...
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ilamagazine1
Sep 16, 20234 min
A Half Dozen plus One
Featuring poetry by a most prolific bard, Sir SAI PRAKASH, from India, a collection of poetry (half dozen plus one), his poems chosen...
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ilamagazine1
Sep 16, 20236 min
Amer Al-Tayeb
"Untitled Poem" Translated by: ILA Magazine Editors English translation and original poem (without diacritics), featured. Departure...
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ilamagazine1
Sep 12, 20236 min
"Light Needs Darkness To Shine"
The title above is a prompt we offered poets based on the title of AUTHOR MEHRAN HASHEMI'S recently published book, which he so kindly...
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ilamagazine1
Sep 12, 20234 min
AN ENSEMBLE OF POETS
Recently, our guest editor, Mayyu Hamim, offered a prompt challenge to poets with the option of choosing one of ten prompts presented to...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 29, 20233 min
Book Feature:
"Yearlong Flames of Yearnings" Tuesday, August 29, 2023 Collaborating Authors: HARSH SHARMA and JACQUELINE VILLOSO-VENTO HARSH SHARMA is...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 28, 20232 min
Poetry of Anna Ferriero
Three poems featured by the poet, in both Italian (mother tongue) and English. ZELO D’AMORE Quel verso leopardiano che ispirò la sua...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 28, 20233 min
Musings of A Troubadour
ACROSTIC An angel upholds an ample umbrella 'Neath which many multitudes of the songsters thrive Novice in the arts and the erudite both...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 26, 20232 min
Poetry of Michael Lee Johnson
SUMMER IS DYING (V4) Outside, summer is dying into fall, and blue daddy petunias sprout ears - hear the beginning of night chills. In...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 25, 20234 min
Unbreakable Ties
© By Dexter Amoroso Like two stars destined to shine in the same sky, Don and Dona's paths converged, creating a celestial bond that...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 25, 20235 min
Friday Night Meeting of the Minds
A special feature of Gloria Magallanes-Loeb interviewed by our Contributing Editor/Interviewer, Carl Scharwath. Photo above is Author,...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 24, 20232 min
Gwawdodyn Hir (Sestet)
On August 13 - 18th, 2023, we held a Gwawdodyn Hir Poetry Form (Sestet) Prompt Challenge for writers on our ILA Magazine Facebook Group....
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ilamagazine1
Aug 24, 20232 min
A Hallmark of Poetry
Featuring the poems of Tohm Bakelas "porch rain" beads of water pool in the palm of my right hand - the left holds nothing "perspectives"...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 19, 20235 min
KENNETH MASWABI
THE WORLD IS NOT A SONG BUT A POEM In its ridges, lies the clues The world is folded into ripples of pain and joy It appears that sadness...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 19, 20233 min
Pir Abdul Gani
TO MY MOTHER ‘Tis thou where the ogin of love streameth, ‘Tis thou where the beauty of the world floweth, ‘Tis thou whose absence maketh...
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Walid Boureghda
Aug 17, 20233 min
THEME: ELEGIAC REFLECTIONS
I DIED THE DAY I WAS BORN I am a little girl! Yes I am a little girl! Do you think I am the daughter of a pale- pearl? Born to...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 16, 20233 min
An "Anything" Offering
The "Anythings" are an offering we present to our ILA Magazine Facebook Group usually on a Friday, and occasionally on a weekend day. We...
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ilamagazine1
Aug 11, 20234 min
Poetry of Michael Ryan
RAIN Last night, while you were asleep I climbed through the clouds To stand on the moon So I could shoot at stars And tell the heavens...
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