Weekly Poems

01/09/2022

Wax Poetry and Art presents:

Poetry World #4

Capturing the poetic breath of humanity, this new issue presents 25 new poems from an international roster of poets. Take a journey around the world, in poetry.



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Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #4. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

18/09/2021

Wax Poetry and Art presents

Poetry World #1

Read new poems from around the world. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network. Enjoy and share the poems in this collection, and submit poetry for the next.

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Wax Poetry and Art presents Poetry World #1. Poetry World collects new poems published on the Wax Poetry and Art Network.

21/08/2021

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 17 of 17

Published in US Poetry Magazine

Afro-Latina

by Vasti Carrion
(Pacoima, California, USA)

He dissected my face
with his scalpel eyes,
my face is like a math equation
they have to solve,
Trying to make sense
of a wonderous face.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/usa/2020/carrion.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 16 of 17

Published in UK Poetry Magazine

Sunday

by Thomas Mitchell
(Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK)

Morning proceeds, not rushing nor slowing for me to awaken from my slumber,
When I do arise the thought of nothingness and cease of activity increases the sloth within me.
Away from the dredges of toil, this small margin of comfort will be
realised.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/uk/2020/mitchell.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 15 of 17

Published in Toronto Poetry Magazine

From the Maddening Crowd

by Ramesh Dohan
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

I trudge
Down the road with the others
We don’t hold hands
or speak to each other, or
peer in the distance
Nobody mutters

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 14 of 17

Published in Ottawa Poetry Magazine

Fabrications

by Margaret Code
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Wouldn’t this be foxy with
a salmon sheath
underneath
…the fall ballet gala?

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http://waxpoetryart.com/ottawa/2020/code.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 13 of 17

Published in Nigeria Poetry Magazine

Break-in-Transmission

by Osuluku Woyengideigha Favour
(Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria)

Break in, Transmission!
Transmission is a burglar
Cracking through the windows of routine
Inputting and displaying
Broken news on untampered screens
Tonight

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http://waxpoetryart.com/nigeria/2020/favour.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 12 of 17

Published in Montreal Poetry Magazine

Grief, Waiting

by C. A. Legault
(Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada)

The foundering of my hobby-horse heart
or of whatever other vessel that once faced the sun.

I feel the way a ceiling lamp moth does, now,
as dust.

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 11 of 17

Published in London Poetry Magazine

Imaginings of the Familial

by Joel Schueler
(Stroud, Glouchestershire, England)

Bandaging the bloodied sceptre
passed down like the baton from generations passed,
must you hold up those warring, quarrelling words,
watching the watering can
bathe the blade, watching the watering can
moisten roots of family trees?

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http://waxpoetryart.com/london/2020/schueler.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 10 of 17

Published in Wax International

Meditation at Night

by Marina Jarra
(Berlin, Germany)

At half past three
My dog will bark
He follows me
Into the dark
To shadows of the moon's bright light

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 9 of 17

Published in India Poetry Magazine

Stories Inside Her

by Anjali Chaturvedi
(New Delhi, India)

She carries a bookshelf inside her heart
With ink flowing in her veins.

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 8 of 17

Published in Europe Poetry Magazine

Promenade

by Aleks Wruk
(Edinburgh, Scotland)

Nothing
That’s where I
Start
Filling
The world
With sun
And sea

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 7 of 17

Published in Eleventh Transmission

What Say the Trees of Compiègne?

by Sylvia Anne Telfer
(Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland)

Stiff-legged all the elevens goose-stepped in
on one date in late 1918, and in that lean dawn
the Armistice swooped down with wing-clipped
black eagles bulging in beak, hurtling them to railcar
deep in the forest of Compiègne, to the trees.

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 6 of 17

Published in Edinburgh Poetry Magazine

At Low Tide

by Aleks Wruk
(Edinburgh, Scotland)

At the last pages
Of my book
I sit aside
Watching life
At forty-five
Degree angle
Amused

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 5 of 17

Published in Canada Poetry Magazine

Upon the Wind

by Steve Carter
(Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada)

Upon the wind my lover sighs,
In wheat I stand beneath blue skies.
Her face appears across the grain.
Wide swaths bend down as if in pain,
And in so doing vocalize.

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poem 4 of 17

Published in Calgary Poetry Magazine

from a sickbed

by James Thurgood
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

between giddy sleeps
I read poems
(which may not speed recovery)

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 3 of 17

Published in Axil Poetry and Art

Flipped Fate

by Lorwin Marie S. Baculanta
(Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines)

By flipping the coin, you can win or lose
You'll survive in a fifty-fifty chance
Otherwise, you'll die so don't miss a glance

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14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 2 of 17

Published in Angela Poetry Magazine

The Dentist Said

by Bruce McRae
(Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada)

Let me hand you your head.
He said your mouth
is Ali Baba’s cavern
filled with treasure beyond measure.

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http://waxpoetryart.com/angela/2020/mcrae.html

14/02/2021

Poetry World #1: Poet 1 of 17

Published in Africa Poetry Magazine

A Confectionery Post

by Chukwunenye Glory Ngozi
(Ketu, Lagos, Nigeria)

Sunset finds me dreaming:
Of bites of pleasure, each melting flavor -
My tongue is a store of every taste.

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13/09/2020

First Place – Poets of Nigeria Contest #2

Someone's Been Living Inside Me

by Chigeru Delight
(Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria)

I never believed in me,
bewildered by the lustre I see now.
I tried a little shivering through fright.

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13/09/2020

First Place – Poets of India Contest #2

Addiction

by Pranav Krishna
(Kozhikode, Kerala, India)

I don’t remember the day
or events that led me to take
that breath of smoke

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29/08/2020

Attn. Poets in the United Kingdom!

Poets of the UK Contest #2 closes at midnight, August 30.

This contest is free to enter and open to residents of the United Kingdom only. Read the submission guidelines to submit:
http://waxpoetryart.com/uk/submissions/poetsoftheuk2.html

27/08/2020

New in NYC Poetry Magazine:

Playing Around With Time

by Jacques Rey Charlier
(Astoria, New York, USA)

Playing around with time,
we found that we were
darkening a little space.
The one where, before,
your eyes used to wait

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27/08/2020

New in Nigeria Poetry Magazine:

Unrequited Love

by Progress John Attat
(Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria)

Unrequited love
Is a phenomenon,
One I’m experiencing right now.
I sit waiting for just a little attention from you

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27/08/2020

New in Europe Poetry Magazine:

Shrouded in the Spartan Gloss-fire

by Pawel Markiewicz
(Bielsk Podlaski, Podlachia, Poland)

the meek family of four
- quaint-dreamy perioikoi

are sitting around a Spartan glamorous fire
- endearing glittering

before myths-like holt
- where ghostlets lived in divine owls

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27/08/2020

New in Montréal Poetry Magazine:

again, again, and again

by Pancy Rush
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

sometimes i try my luck
and go for the night

cheating on life,
flirting with death

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New in Montréal Poetry Magazine

again, again, and again

by Pancy Rush
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

sometimes i try my luck
and go for the night

cheating on life,
flirting with death

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http://waxpoetryart.com/montreal/2020/rush.html

23/08/2020

*Featuring New Cover Art*

City Heat

by Despina Alexopoulos
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Repeated waves of heat
begin to burn the bodies
chaotically crushed together
waiting,
with their homes
in their hands,
to eat.

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22/08/2020

New in Wax International:

Paean to a Summer Morning

by John Grey
(Johnston, Rhode Island, USA)

Summer morning’s Rorschach test:
I see safe passage, peaceful ambience,
suspension of all fear,
an entire day slowly ripening,
and laid out at my feet.

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22/08/2020

New in India Poetry Magazine:

Actual Independence Day

by Devanshi Soni
(Delhi, India)

The day she will go somewhere which is not near,
And yeah, that too without any fear;

The day she will walk on the road very late at night,
And yeah, she will come back totally alright;

The day she will wear short skirt,
And yeah, she will not come across any flirt;

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