This Evening Hoard in heart holding the ears of this stormThat, like a tormenter, entered the gardenTo rob it of its beautySome bright dayWe can talk about this dark time. Don’t allow an easy fallTo the tears falling from your … Continue reading Three poems from Chandra Gurung | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE EPIDEMIC (NEW CORONA) Woe bring’st thou and woe thee betide.For all that sorrow to thee are tied.And for fatalities by yours upon our comrades;First the SARS, then MERS; all in raids,Usurping our dominance over lower beings,From bats and cats … Continue reading Two Poems from Anayo Valentine Dioha | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands The Universal creator took a paint brush and flicked it across the world. It landed where it did. The people didn’t see it coming, even though it was quite a bright white, … Continue reading The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands by Elizabeth Robyn Stanton | Short Story | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
SUNLESS DAYS Our hopes have flownAnd our dreams drownedIn the shattered streamsOf anxiety and perplexityShadowed by dreariness. Die not the smearing sunFor thy creatures need it.Die not the scorching sunFor the whole world weepsFor the coldness of the dawn. Our … Continue reading Three poems from Kwaghkule Jacob | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
How Invaluable Can Life Be? If anyone told me that I’ll lose a loved one to viruses which I’ve been studying in the university, I’ll call it the biggest lie of the century. I will gather strength to discredit such … Continue reading How Invaluable Can Life Be by Ololade Edun | Fiction | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
To heal is to let go of your broken past,Retold sins and the will to forgo those ills,Creating a new human from the ruins of old souls,A new you baptized with abundant Grace. To heal is to merge your present … Continue reading What Defines Healing by Ololade Edun | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
COME ALL YE To the ones whose eyes have seen gory daysAnd those whose hope went up in flamesThere’s a panacea to every hurt, every painCome all ye, let this name be your shade.To the ones who’ve had their backs … Continue reading Four Poems from Emmanuel Momoh | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
The babbling brook grows silent before the still watersjoining forces reports exchanged about upriver quartersthe redwood forest’s shafts of light through the sacred steeplethe sound of silence the soul soaring to galaxies beyond gospel the silvery sequined sleeve of the … Continue reading IF SILENCE COULD SPEAK by Roberta Monokroussos | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
O Hope As light filtered through the crackour faces densely packedwith ragged-looking petalswere similar to a burgundy varietyof sunsetwe were tangling our majestic spireshands floating like fliesfalling like spiders along our armsa new day was starting,we were recoveringfrom the night … Continue reading O Hope by Aldo Quagliotti | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine
I ESTHER walked into the king’s lairwith little hope whatsoever her first attempt was at dinner her shaking voice asked forpityjusticeandrevengepray about the plot of peoplelike Hamaneating with youand beating bones into your throat:an enemy. II LISTEN TO GOD What’d … Continue reading Three poems from Abigail-Tydale Bassey | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
Dying to Live I feel the hell in the stressFor hyperthermia is burning me,Its eating the remain of meAs the new terror in my own town. Oh! Gracious Lord, take my handUndress this scary terrorThat’s here to eat my bodyFor … Continue reading THREE POEMS FROM DANIEL YOHANNA |PAROUSIA Magazine
Man – Divine Am I an agnostic, atheist or just live by plain logic?Why there should be any barriers between you and me?Your omni-potency or omni-presence might have been exaggerated / hyped up!Neither it impresses me nor I am going … Continue reading Man – Divine by V. Chandeeswar |Poetry |PAROUSIA Magazine
“THE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY” Religion is religionSo stick to one,If you are a traditionaliststick to it,If you are a Christianstick to your faithIf you are a Muslimembrace your faith. Then be faithful to itBe diligent in serviceLet your deeds and works … Continue reading The Religious Hypocrisy by Jude Chukwuemeka |Poetry |PAROUSIA Magazine
Sin, Selah – My cursed-prayer. God shall destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck theeout of thy dwelling place, and rootthee out of the land of the living. Selah – Psalm 52. Man, there is a … Continue reading Two Poems from Shitta Faruq |PAROUSIA Magazine
“DIVORCE“ Marriage sacred and sanctifiedWhy divorce?Who divorced who?Both agreed till death,Marriage is pain and gain. Though many a woman divorcedAccused of infidelity,But many a man cheatsThey call it games,Her heart wounded and piercedBut she forgave and bear thesweet pains. All … Continue reading Three Poems from Jude Chukwuemeka |PAROUSIA Magazine
The Work of Priests Lazarus is the Greek form of Eleazar—the Hebrew nameof the son of Aaron (the brother of Moses), a high priest. After Lazarus twitched back to lifea week before the Passover,synagogue leaders trembledat the truth they desperatelytried … Continue reading Three Poems from John C. Mannone | PAROUSIA Magazine
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