ILA Magazine
Where Culture Meets Creativity
MicroPoems
In 20 words or less, 14 poets wrote by evoking a strong sensory experience with brevity.
The wind is blowing
I feel frissons
Combined with eleutheromania
But I want to be the bird
That escapes
© Bogdana Gageanu
Romania
Faded impressions
Vacant expressions Time's aggressions, Losing directions. Withered passions, Screaming depression, Unasked questions, Unlearned lessons, Ellipsism of life's lessons. © Radhakrishnan Krishnan
India "A NONCHALANT BIRD" In cozy cocoon of homefulness a bird developed frisson of cosmic mission, driven by eleutheromania its liberosis, nonchalance overcame acrophobia! © Subhashchandra Adhav India "CYCLE" Seasons change and you evolve from green to yellow just like life, itself. In mind's frisson, you come and go. © Gus Perez Amio Philippines Beneath open skies stormy life walls wear damp night. In eleutheromania, between the bodies a gift of dead souls. © Fatima Z. Sarah India Frisson in the vernal wind, Cloudlets floating Flock of birds there. Flowers look, struggling as if, to enjoy liberosis. © Tapas Dey India "AN AUTUMNAL FEELING" The golden leaves of fall's beauty instill liberosis and eleutheromania into my exhausted mind and soul. © Gheorghe Laura Romania "THE MOMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT" When things flounder, A frisson of excitement Rends you asunder. The moment of enlightenment Reverberates like thunder In the firmament. © Kalucharan Sahu India Homefulness imbued peace Serenity in place Alone and nonchalant Of vagaries at large Home defines me Love and gratitude exist. © Leah Dancel Australia "SUNSET" A stage of life's journeys when we can relax and think probably Homefulness finally realized Oh, what a sweet prize! © Joey V. Fernandez Philippines "MISS LONELY" She walked swinging her hips, A soul resigned to be lonely. Her actions, nonchalance, Her feelings just as cold. © Livia York (The Poetic Phoenix) Australia "AUGUST RAIN" Spatter of water Untether the glum sky, Depeopling the bustling bazaar. Frisson in raindrops tinkle like The big piano keys. © Rafiya Sayeed India Ain't Your Cup Of tea Liberosis Of halitosis Nonchalance By The side Of the Sea Nah... Just Homefulness I see © Floyd Gale Cabus Philippines People forget 'bout verse With nonchalance That they forget 'bout the hearse: The frisson of poesy, Your shelter to ensconce © Walid Boureghda Algeria