REFLECTION: Mei Yee Chin remembers the woman who took care of her day by day in her childhood.
Category: Poems
Mother tongue
POEM: Dunja Kaczmarek tussles with her dear mother tongue.
The Rising
POEM: Ibtisam Shahbaz reflects on her journey over the meditative practice of crafting tea.
#3
POEM: Margarita Gurgutsova flits through uncertain thoughts, trying to pin down what both is and isn’t.
An immortal hug
POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin savours an embrace that mixes past and present, living and gone.
I envy the tree that is always a cedar
POEM: Jasmine Soukieh ponders the distortions we make of ourselves to fit in.
Arabic
POEM: Miriam Riad poignantly ponders linguistic connections underneath the night sky.
#2
POEM: Margarita Gurgutsova considers the sense of distance that can arise, inwardly and outwardly, in a life across cultures.
The Elements
POEM: Ryan Keating finds the fundamental in the food and drink that have made him homes in the places he’s lived.
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