THE SPECIAL EDITION

PREFACE

We wish all our readers, members, writers and poets a happy and peaceful world to live in. THE SPECIAL ISSUE of our monthly poetry journal “OUR POETRY ARCHIVE” is now online. In this special issue we are focusing on INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM and war to lend our individual voice for promoting world peace and prosperity. Let us speak out against terrorism, violence, blood bath, and for peace prosperity and harmony among different cultures, religions, race, and nationalities to make this world a better place for our future generations.

We think it is also the moral responsibility of poets and writers alike to put their protest, agony, pain and sufferings in words in this period of political turbulence everywhere. Nobody is sure about who is the offender or protector. Innocent people are dying in the most violent manner one can imagine. There is no security for the citizens around the world. People have lost their belief in the honesty and integrity of the society and political institutions alike. You don’t know where to turn for shelter and security. You don’t know when the next suicidal terrorist attack will occur and where. Such is the situation in most of the regions of the world. 

So this is the moment to shift our focus from mere literary work to use literature to voice our individual protests in a collective manner. No, this is not a political debate for us. We are only concerned with the security and prosperity of human beings everywhere irrespective of their cast and religion, race and nationality, beliefs and doubts, language and culture. This is the time we thought OUR POETRY ARCHIVE should come out with this special number focusing these issues and addressing the world in poetry for peace against war and terrorism. And we are glad; we have got a huge response from the literary communities all around the world.

We are also happy to announce that our friends and members around the world have contributed their time and provided suggestions, guidance and strong support to make this special edition possible. We especially thank Dr. Mary Miraglia of Italy for her guest editorial for this edition. We also thank Ms. Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa for extending her kind support and working hard to make this edition possible. Our thanks goes to all the members, poets and friends who were directly involved in this collective project. This edition really belongs to them. Without their support and contributions we couldn’t have made it possible.

We invite everyone to visit this edition and share it with your friends and families. We would also like to request our readers to provide us with your valued feedback so that we can carry on with our journey improving OUR POETRY ARCHIVE in a continuous manner.

Thank You All.

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Let's feel no wonder because of the terrorist attacks that so much have made the media talk all over the world. This would be a colossal naive and make us ignore all the historical events that have so often stained with blood the fields of the world and still do, most of the time, for questionable reasons. Besides, if we simply wanted to analyze the causes of wars and conflicts on a worldwide basis, we'd find that they were raised for reasons the ordinary people usually didn't understand nor share. Wars have never changed for the better the man's quality of life, but left destruction and deaths involving in that people whose innate desire was to live long their ordinary lives, not to break them on a battlefield, but called to war in the name of their country. So the question comes naturally: what is a country if not an extension of land of a common house called world? Some of them were also given medals for their value misused according the numbers of deaths left on the fields.

Being so wide and deep the extent of the issue, some moments of collective outrage can't be enough to aspire to a lasting harmony among the people of our planet, it requires the perseverance, on the part of intellectuals around the world, in the defense of peace, universal rights, the rights of all children, regardless of genders, to education, which alone can free from intellectual slavery more dangerous and frustrating than labor slavery.

Poets, among them, endowed by life or by Someone up there, of the ability of large visions, have the chance to spread awareness of the value of each single person, of the possibility that the political -economic power be exercised for the good of a global community.

This is the aim of all the friends and poets who have contributed to this work, and surely they will keep going on persisting in their desire for a better world where religious diversity, skin color or political affiliation do not make us see in the other the enemy and consider diversity as a common richness not as division. Meanwhile, let us all rethink of a new order of the public thing that can see in the citizen of the world the main actor of the socio-economic and political choices, that's of his destiny, what is, instead, held in the hands of few even in the most advanced democratic societies. Their dominant ideology to preserve nationalistic structures ignoring the common good. The territorial divisions have been thought by men and can be torn down by them to consider each and all citizens of one world.

Dr. Maria Miraglia

ABDULLAH ALHEMAIDY

ABDULLAH 

ALHEMAIDY

IS IT COMPLICATED.

Looking at the walls of my room,

Thinking of the political borders, worldly zoom,

Want to write about the terrors and wars

Such problems can be solved by words

Of better understanding, will, and right

Right for sure not by illegal gain and fight

Killing innocent people has no good reason

Love grows naturally. Yet, hate is learned on

And on by evil people and media

Is it complicated idea?

Shall evil people ever learn?

Good words instead of terrors and wars.

Evil is evil here and there

Anytime anywhere

What is the best effective solution to local, national,

And international conflicts, wars, and terrors?

A clear clean judicial systems

Am I right?

Abdullah Alhemaidy

SAUDI ARABIA

ALBERT SITHOLE

ALBERT

SITHOLE

NO TO WAR

Bloody fields,

Rivers of blood,

Why risk that all?

Peace..!

Let’s talk peace everywhere,

In the neighborhood, the world.

Let others know we care,

For war, we don't dare,

Stop fighting, and say NO!

Open hearts people,

Let love flow and lead,

And nurture those broken homes,

And victimized souls,

Take heed, take peace.

Smile all the way,

Save the world,

Stop the Wars!

No to War!

Albert Sithole

ZIMBABWE

ANCA MIHAELA BRUMA

ANCA MIHAELA BRUMA

SACRAMENT

Bend the knees of the Moon

to undress the Cosmos,

and torch my Heart

along the flaming grass.

Sketch merely for yesterday’s tomorrow,

caress the moments

to denude the World

from hypnotic garments.

Then…. Only then it is possible!

To discover your Every-Ness…

To become a No-Body among some bodies.

Unfolding centuries of untold hidden stories,

where... hellos transform into goodbyes,

and... the ritual commences.

Anca Mihaela Bruma

ROMANIA

ANDRE ROBERTS

Andre

Roberts

QUIET STEPS

I

somehow sit

this rocker fits

inside of me

i dwell

moments

of mention

a detention

invoked by myself

twas my intention

whats said is love

but is it really?

dark avenues

the ones I treck

those

hardened

corners

with no return

wallow

i must

lifes crazy fuss

for here inside

of my head rush

every time

i see me

i wonder if

how lone am i

the days begin

a coffee filled

inside my grin

but deep inside

this crazy ride

as life does view

mistakes

now written

people pass me

on the streets

some

even greet

to say then

that they did

how

is it then

we say

we are sane

we see such things

as birds do sing

so ears may ring

to such tones

of

lost

a man

carrys a child

whos life did pass

before his eyes

looking on

his fight of war

with some remains

inside a jar

in as much

so prince appalled

invincible

retrace able

re tracked able

as they matter

i dont think so!!!!!!!!!

then i see

that lady then

wanting to be

friends again

after all

she sells

whats

dearest held

as her youth

slides away

that drug

overdone

the flee for fun

has left her side

for 25

assured a ride

to please a habit

one

just cant buy

whipping stones

are that our bones

as we fall

upon the ground

and then a group

makes ones head

loose

in the name

of mans disgrace

how inhuman

how sub human

how

so

grew and some

inside of that

is some ones fun

fed is cattle

but

man cant feed

and no one cares

of human needs

the clothes we wear

the phones we share

and tablets there

under

developement

a rustic pose

for those who

knows

and in

a shell

we stand alone

maybe its safe

not to look

might just see

what we impose

and so i sit

here home alone

as i watch

TVs throne

ITS SAFE!!!!!!!!!

OR IS IT?

___________

IN SLAVE,

THE GREAT

MISTAKES

of the chosen!!!!!!

It

was

her

curse

TAKEN

AS

A

YOUNG WOMAN

GROWN TO SERVE

TAUGHT TO PLEASE

DROPPED

TO THE KNEES

BITTER THE FEELS

LOVE IS NOT HERE

To her

confines

lust the tool

her live by rules

to this she

was shown

her

grow to known

Sad

end

and

Bitter

Her best friend

mans lesson

to

brake

the horse

His

in chains

employers gains

the work horse strain

MAN and DINGOED

FRAMED

WOMANS

desired mains

the tears of pains

HE

HAD

LIVED

THROUGH

THE LONG KISS

of Darknesses

WE STill

seem to Grope

shack killed and

led and roped

the bad

Still Taught

and used today

Now

pills and drugs

takes its place

and prostitution

plays its game

and labor

via children

remains

the same

ONE

Still Feels

they must control

the streams of flows

to pin the cost

of being bold

And

Mothers eyes

who have

lost their Prize

the rivers

of tears

oh how

they share !!!!!!!

and

Fathers

laments

his child

sold

at birth

to pay

the rent

of their toils

HOW FLUID

this

thought remains

to increase

the damaged stains

our hearts display

in this Rental

our time in days

CAN NOT

CONTINUE

CAN

NOT

REMAIN

the theft of children

to their dismay

THIS TWO MUST END!!!!!!!~!!!!!!

___________________________

LIGHT

i wish

the things i saw

spoke

to me sooner

perhaps they did

just

didnt

hear

it

as

ears do ring

:AR

i thought

the things i knew

would put me threw

so confused

as birds do fly

so consistant

so resistant

so involved

with selves advice

i walked

many a mile

and the smiles

the gin in gisters

a

mile

in

shoes

burnt

many a sole

the storys told

for wisdoms sake

now unfold

to raise the soul

to see

in light

and in some cases

a waltz

through fright

of some delights

in blow by blow

remembered of

the we in heat

the many feats

of life we drank

as so it goes

the missing tones

required notes

to fill this song

in that we touch

and so we share

the pleasent trees

abreast and flowered

like the branch

of many limbs

twisted in rhyme

as winds do blow

the spoken chimes

as they sway

as they speak

on two each other

as time goes by

i chose

to wonder

did i see?

AND OF WHICH LIGHT!!!!!!

_____________

I BOW DOWN

IT IS THIS GIFT

EMOTIONS BRING

IT IS A LIFT

THE HEART

DOES SING

IT IS IN PRESENTS

THE LIGHT

TO SEE

NOT OF BLINDERS

SOME FOLKS

DO BRING

OF HAYTREDS

BEST

SOME OF THEM!!!!

FEAR VENDERS

INVENTERS OF

JELOUSYS MYTH

CREATORS OF

THE UNREST

THE REST

LOST IN LIFE

LOOSE

IN THE WAY OF

STREETS

THE PARENT BODY!!!!

UNJUST FINGERS

IS THEIR ROMANCE

AS THEY POINT

AND SHOW THE YOU

OR IS IT?

A SEASONED BATCH

OF ILL FAY TEDDY STEW

JUST TO CONFUSS

REVERSE THE VIEWS

OF THIS FOGGY DANCE

BEAT DOWN MONGERS!!!!!

OH THEY HUNGER

TO BRING THE DOWN

IN TALENTS UP

IMAGINE

HARD TO FOCUS

IN THE RUSTY

TO JUSTIFY!!!!

THE WHY

THEY LIED

AND TRIED

PAST REASON

TO REPLY

IS IT NOT

INTERESTING AT BEST

THE TIME THEY TAKE

TO CREATE THIS STATE

ILLUSIONS !!!!

on painted tint

shady hits

upon the mists

a war!!!!

of spoken words

FIC-TICH-IOUS FRIENDS

INTO THEIR BENDS

WANTING THE END

OF PIECE

AND PLENTY

THEIR OWN

grown mistakes

no retakes

a glance

of fancy

i bow down !!!!!

for this i know

for in its show

ALL DOES GLOW

one does look:

_______________

MY TEARS:

SHAKEN MOMENTS

my tears

cry their own

so tested

in emotions

fears dwelling

within the heart

to release

and grasp

the edgings

of visions

so moved

invented events

a hearts laments

in shares

of caring

i weep

internal

for seeing brings

contested views

i swell within

my convictions

and share pain

with every drop

as angry thoughts

convince emotions

dont

want

ever

mists

my tears hear

the seeing eye

as we distroy

ourselves in life

and human

i bend at thoughts

wars best friend

we never look

and see us well

the land we have

oh we must fight

and stand a ground

mens just and gist

incorrect evils

with a twist

to reinvent

just what means all

now we have gone

and our children

grow to know

those mistakes

of our folleys

and in our lake

of tears we shed

and in its crys

the wars must stop

a child hearts lost

by our dispears

they will have the tears

of their own

and in those hearts

theyll grow to know

I CRY OUT:

MANY HAVE SAID (BRING OUR GIRLS HOME)!!!!!!!

many thoughs

have passed this way

a worldwide view

i would say

can you not ,

boko

hear your own hearts

as it yells

and speaks to you

i cry out!!!!!

to open minds

i feel those!!!!!

so closely touched

i reach for

the thoughts

of serious man

to try remember

of that your mothers

pains

for if she lost you?

what would it be

the desease that killed

of broken heart

the pains of knowing or not

if you survive

how do you face her?

in your plight

i know

in your heart

THIS

IS

NOT

RIGHT!!!!!!

and in this

as you attempt

to envoke your wisdom

you have lost face

not more than a common thug!!!!!!

you take and rape

our youngest flowers

if done to your mother

how would you fare

as you try to devour

the world sez

these are my daughters

and we wont stand

for their slaughter

race and religion

gains no ground!!!!!!cc

the dumb

founded nesses

so blindly seeked

makes our world stand

in front of you

DISGUSTED IS YOUR NAME!!!!!

BRING OUR DAUGHTERS BACK

!!!!!!!!! SAID LOUDLY :

Andre Roberts

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA