Woman, Life, Freedom | Call for Poetry Submissions
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by The BeZine Editors
9M ago
Since September 2022, protests by the longstanding women’s movement in Iran have been violently repressed by Iran’s government and complicit police forces. Among many incidents, hundreds of girls in Iranian schools have been targets of chemical attacks. Increasing rates of executions have emboldened solidarity across entire families to continue the protests for gender equality and ..read more
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Unicorn Diasporic Birdwatching | Gili Haimovich
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11M ago
Unicorn latent love contrived happiness kindness that can’t be helped excluded from my own language how can one be mad at a unicorn for its rarity? Diasporic Nostalgia We don’t feel shame when we share memories of when being in love was a novelty. We’re nostalgic once a year and hug a bit more often ..read more
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When The Queen Came to Tea | John Anstie
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by The BeZine Editors
11M ago
A little boy in awe, aged six, perhaps more …or thereabouts, it matters little or less. Four years had passed since She had been proclaimed our Queen, our first coronation for a Queen Elizabeth in nearly four hundred years. So young. So pretty. So popular and pure. Around my age there was another little boy ..read more
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Outcasts Gate Grieving | Linda Chown
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
Outcasts have a way of touching When I start the night I think Eskimo’s and seashells: Places of open abandon Like black sheep and the wild ones- Outcasts have a way of touching Those forlorn places that you hide Beside the beauty of your mind Sather Gate Taking me higher than I was Pairing with ..read more
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Stop Gun Deaths
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by Michael Dickel
1y ago
Special Section for Summer 2023:Stop Gun Deaths “Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. [aged 1–19].” Full stop. Think about that for a long moment. As motor-vehicle caused deaths for children (ages 1–19) have declined steeply in the U.S. during the first part of the 21st C., gun deaths ..read more
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Invisible Fog | Eve Otto
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
Invisible Fog Many years ago, people said "Radio waves are harmful" 100 years later, the list of 'waves' is rather scary radio, television, GPS, shortwave, WiFi, smart phones, tablets computers, transmitters, smart meters, satellite dishes, etc. like walking running through an invisible fog computer and cell phone reception on Mt. Everest. How rare to live ..read more
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Red Sap | Mykyta Ryzhykh
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
* * * Stiletto in the red sap of the cherry orchard birches. The saber of the kagan shines. The clatter of hooves resounded, and a shiny dress shoe fell on the Alai carpet. Then the door of the hall opened, and the Mongol Shah himself entered. He was in festive attire; musicians and dancers ..read more
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A shadow lurking—3 poems | Mitko Gogov
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
[just a little prayer] Translated by Tom Phillips when you’re silent, you say the most, when you dream, you see the most. elephants wake to the orchestra inside you —for the first time the hunters are scared by their own trumpets. take a look inside yourself while you’re taking care not to           tread on the ..read more
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Am Feel Month | Brittney Cotrona
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
I Am… I am Strong, I am Invincible, I am Kind, I am Funny. I am Smart, I am Loyal, I am Happy, I am Joyful. Abundance of love, Is all I have. For those around me, And for anyone I come in contact with. I make others happy, I can make, Myself, Happy. I ..read more
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Probation Plea | Pek-êng Koa
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by The BeZine Editors
1y ago
My Probation Plea Is Rejected Again Translated by C. J. Anderson-Wu 1 They shouted, Democracy! Freedom! I don’t know Democracy And Freedom doesn’t know me 2 A Cockroach has climbed over mountain after mountain Desperately, it rushes forward but crashes into a slipper at the gate of Freedom 3 A lone hawk’s wing broke It ..read more
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