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Basra existed – Poetry from Iraq

I used to visit there night and day, When sun and moon were locked in intimate embrace. Faleeha Hassan, a poet and writer from Najaf, Iraq, based in USA, shares her poetry Faleeha Hassan, a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright, born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, now lives in the United States. Faleeha was the first woman to

What will remain – Poetry from Belgium

Everything that ever lived Is sooner or later erased by time. What remains Is the beauty on earth! Germain Droogenbroodt, a world famous poet from Belgium, shares his poetry Germain Droogenbroodt was born 11 September 1944 in Rollegem, the Flemish part of Belgium. In 1987 he moved to the Mediterranean artist village of

I won love – A Poem from Yemen

I won love and did not lose my heart, and for the sake of her heart, which I love, I wove from my vein a silk shawl of longing and called out in an emotional voice. Abdulbasset ALsamadi Abu Omaima, a renowned poet from Yemen, shares his poem Abdulbasset Abdulsalam Qassem Alsamadi, known in literary world as Abdulbasset ALsamadi

Classic Water and Geometric Life – Poetry from Bangladesh

Life is geometrically formative too Through a shower of classic water. Shikdar Mohammed Kibriah, a renowned poet from Bangladesh, shares his poetry Shikdar Mohammed Kibriah, born on 1st July, 1968, in Sylhet, Bangladesh, has Masters in philosophy, and is a globally published, awarded, translated and featured renowned poet,

The Lament of the Earth – A Bouquet of Poems from Kosovo

Will Earth colonies remember the homeland they left behind or they will only like a snake that chucked its skin, never turn their head back Fahredin Shehu, an accomplished Independent Scientific Researcher, poet and multilingual writer from Kosovo, shares his poems Fahredin Shehu, born in Rahovec, South East of Kosova, is an