THE PAWN ~BY MESHACH NYARKO
In life’s grand game, I’m born to play,
A humble pawn with dreams astray.
Others rise—queen, knight, bishop bold,
While I, a pawn, my fate unfold.
BEHIND THE SCREEN ~BY ABIMBOLA T. ALABI
It’s a game of let’s pretend,
Played behind the little screen.
Statuses, selfies, the texts we send,
I’m sure you know what I mean
TEMPORARY TRANQUILITY~ BY SAMIKSHA SUNWAR AND MANASWINI JHA
I’m just breathing in oxygen,
Why’s it got to be so hard?
All this air, trapped in my chest,
Like a noose tightening in the dark.
SUNSHINE AND HOPE ~BY VANDANA MARTIN
In the calm dawn of hope’s first gleam,
I was just a dreamer—a girl with a dream.
A world of colours, a canvas so wide,
With hope as my compass,
And nowhere to hide.
MARANATHA ~BY ANGELINA ROLSTON
Jesus,
Your immutable Holy Spirit,
Alongside that very long-awaited special visit,
Invisible-coloured tears shaped as raindrops oozing down,
Making the red devil satan a painted clown,
Your Majesty authority felt,
Like a hard strike on the leg from a belt
YOU ALONE ~BY GLORIA PRAKASH
As the dawn breaks, a new light shines,
Promises of the future woven in its beams.
Yet worries sometimes creep in like shadows,
Casting doubts that run so deep in our souls.
SEA IS A WOMAN ~BY GLORIA PRAKASH
Beneath the sky, where dusk meets the sea
A wild expanse of magic, untamed and free
The whispering sea moves, a steady refrain,
Like a woman’s gaze, her power to explain,
how she holds the strength of tides within her soul.
SILENT CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU ~BY GLORIA PRAKASH
In those quiet moments when the world settles down,
I find my thoughts intertwining with yours, all around.
They fill the empty spaces of my longing heart,
Creating a tender ache that never wants to part.
ECHO ~BY SHEENA SARAH WINNY
Lovely to know
It is time to fly – rather flee
chained in the sockets of politeness.
My persona wished
to chase the unknown in the waters
blue and green
HUMMING BIRDS AT THE FEEDER ~THERESA NEMETH
Each Song A Phrase Of Chattering Color.
Each Baby, Each Bird, Each Song, Each Mother
In A Fluttering Sip, A Game Paradise