With our best wishes for the New Year Germain Droogenbroodt and Stanley H. Barkan Painting by Karthik Cherry, Hyderabad, India   The Last Man after Mary Shelley Comes

Painting by Leon Santiago, Puerto Rico-USA Tryst She who accompanied me yesterday At first call, after years of absence She hugged me warmly in front of the guards

Painting NCT Leopard TASHLICH I have no hooks, neither have I nets, to cast down into the moving waters. Only small bits & pieces for the fish waiting

Schilderij van Mirek Kuzniar, Duitsland IN A METRO STATION Unhappy those who saw a girl in the Metro and all at once fell in love and followed her

SETBACKS There are setbacks in life, so fierce, I don’t know anymore!                                 

I left my heart I left my heart like a ball of yarn at the borders of my home a thread of it in my hand close to

Detail, Painting by Issmat Abdulkader I SAW HER Was it dream or reality? I don’t know … But I saw her in the colors of the springtime, In

Deforestation © Greenpeace   Lobotomy Do not deforest the woods without first cutting down one by one our neurons. What seed, what forest could then still germinate in

                                        Painting Leonid Afremov In the Rain City I come to my hometown it is noisy and crowded now it blocks movement It is raining hard, almost every

©Schilderij van Andreas Feininger – Image 251 POETRY WITHOUT BORDERS And if the poem breaks all frontiers And if the poem leaves no wall standing What would happen