Glimmer Don’t forget, When you go to bed tonight, To close your eyes tightly, Wrap the blanket around yourself And pull it up to your forehead So that

Art: Reem Sameer Al-Bayyat – Saudi Arabia A Butterfly Crossing the Battlefield   I treaded the ground and heard it break I leaned on the pain, biting down

Painting ETSY – Zanns OriginalArt   Internal tear Their love is plunged by growth of unreal expectations intensifying thirst with the stream of consciousness short-lived as a rainbow

Painting by Manuela Villanueva, Spain   Poetry without borders 789 “Absent Voice” INÉS BLANCO, Luna de Abril, Colombia – All translations are made in collaboration with Germain Droogenbroodt

Painting by Rembrandt van Rijn   The Perils of Progress We’re aboard a rudderless boat, The pace lost between nature and species, Like two soldiers marching out of

                                                       

  Peace Artworks – Artlyst Poetry without borders 786 “A Living Miracle” Anna Maria Stępień, Poland – All translations are made in collaboration with Germain Droogenbroodt – A

Songbird and Lotus, Peinture de Ohara Koson, Japan 1877-1945   Banpo *   There are clouds in the water and coriander leaves. And, as in the summers of

Painting by Pamela Allegretto, USA-Italy A Human Being   One should come into the world humanely To grow up To get educated Should be in a human way

Painting by Ivan Aivazovski (1817-1900) Stay in Istanbul All kinds of versions are circulating about my stay in Istanbul: One: There was a question about a suspicious trip