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When The Skies Wept
Written by Andronicus Enoch Muwanguzi The once familiar streets are now rivers, my roof-top an island in the raging lake around. The rain is falling with such fervor it seems the skies migh...
A Cloud
Written by Yongbo Ma As I walk down the street the city descends into a mirror. A shadow unfolds slowly, the hair cries for help, and a clamor steps in front of the sun. In the sky, a clo...
Being And Nothingness
Written by Lynn White If all the world is a stage then nothing is happening in this theatre of the absurd. Nothingness is being played out now the gods have lost control of the merry go rou...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/04/21/being-and-nothingness/
Nanofiction Set # 7
Written by Norbert Kovacs UNTOLD PAIN Judgmental, hard, he avoided any mirror. SIGNAL Ear caught, she ran from home. FULL ACCOUNT Nails torn, he wrote with blood. MODEL He rode into the sun...
Early Spring Morning Gloomy Mood Relieved After Translating On Dickinson
Written by Yongbo Ma The body is floating on dim water Feathers of seagulls fall on the stones The morning light slants into the water The broken shadows of peach flower are swirling Shad...
One Last Time
Written by Lynn White Before the trees begin to fall I’ll take a walk through the woods one last time, hear the leaves glistening and shaking in fear of what is to come some are already f...
Nanofiction Set #6
Written by Norbert Kovacs TENSION Anger unresolved, they lived together quietly. ACCEPTANCE The debris offered them a home. IDENTITY She decided to change her race. FORM Heap piled...
Tropical Garden Stories Photography & Poetry By The Hermit Poet
Edge of Humanity Magazine eBook Series PRESENTS Tropical Garden Stories: Photography & Poetry Whether located in your backyard, in the English countryside, or at a Japanese Buddhist te...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/04/09/tropical-garden-stories-photography-poetry-by-the-hermit-poet/
On The Phone
Written by Yongbo Ma “Where are you?” which suggests people may not be where they’re supposed to be: home or at work Escape or pilgrimage？what does it matter if we’re on the way...
The Bucket Man
Written by Lynn White I saw the Bucket Man today, Upside down, his head in his bucket, his arms folded tight to entertain the crowd. “It’s my living”, his sign says, “puts a roof ov...
Torpor
Written by Ann Privateer Absurdity Lives beneath Mushrooms Where they discover Mystery in moments Laughing, undressing How they electrify. Text © Ann Privateer * Edge of Humanity Mag...
Nanofiction Set #5
Written by Norbert Kovacs A HEART His song quick, he died soon. FATE Walls faced, he tried to roam. DANGER Hearing yells, we practice careful silence. AMBITION Smoke everywhere,...
Always Won
Written By The Hermit Poet Never melt from heat Never retreat Reinforced concrete Completely invincible On his deathbed so fearful This piece is part of the Rewind Series Copy...
Black
Written by Pallavi Gandhi Throbbing drum beats and numbing numbered chants Be still my heart And let the darkness spread … Over days, months and years a deafening silence still I wait hopele...
The Ballad
Written by Ann Privateer Asks, questions Submits to disparity Trifles not, nor Ignores perversity. Text © Ann Privateer * Edge of Humanity Magazine for Poets & Writers Poetry & Poetr...
False Flags
Written by J H Martin @ A Coat for a Monkey I am running out Sanctions do not work In this floating world The time is never enough My ideas My plans My battles My wars They wi...
This Exact
Written by Ann Privateer Space, time, quadratic equation keeps me from going insane some times while cramped quarters impinge my psyche, sand runs through the hour glass fast my eyes travel...
Paper Thin
Written by Pallavi Gandhi a race to rampage on tears of old I feed the young. imitation debris fragile abundance ripped edges on gilded gold my city …it feels paper thin Text © Pallav...
Poems By Offorjamah Ogonna Felicitas
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-offorjamah-ogonna-felicitas/
Poems By Randy Plym
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
Poems By Joni Caggiano
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-joni-caggiano/
Poems By Edward L. Canavan
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-edward-l-canavan/
Men, WomenMarriage, Relationships, Friendship, Love & SexPeeling Off The Human Condition Volume II By The Hermit Poet
Edge of Humanity Magazine eBook Series PRESENTS ‘Men, Women, Marriage, Relationships, Friendship, Love & Sex’ is volume II of the Peeling Off The Human Condition eBook series. In the fi...
Poems By Mary Anne Abdo
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-mary-anne-abdo/
Poems By Luvgood Carp
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-luvgood-carp/
Poems By Brian Hardie
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-brian-hardie/
Peeling Off The Human Condition By The Hermit Poet
Edge of Humanity Magazine eBook Series PRESENTS Peeling Off The Human Condition: Poetry | The Hermit Poet. In the eBook ‘Peeling Off The Human Condition’, ‘The Hermit Poet’ explo...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/peeling-off-the-human-condition-by-the-hermit-poet/
Poems By Laura Berry
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
Poems By JezzieG
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
Poems By Melissa Lemay
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-melissa-lemay/
Poems By George Gad Economou
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-george-gad-economou/
Poems By J H Martin
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
Poems By Algo
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
The World Is Made Up Of Elements Blog By Drager Meurtant
The World Is Made Up Of Elements “My amazement about the world is transformed into visual art and poetry and shared also by photos.” Poem for a statue Statue, you look at me with your...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/the-world-is-made-up-of-elements-blog-by-drager-meurtant/
Poems By Darrell Smith
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-darrell-smith/
Poems By Bogdan Dragos
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-bogdan-dragos/
Poems By Katherine Ottaway MD
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-katherine-ottaway-md/
Travels With The Hermit Poet Stories Of Human Condition Poetry & Photography
Edge of Humanity Magazine eBook Series PRESENTS Travels With The Hermit Poet | Stories Of Human Condition Poetry & Photography Confused by megacities chaos, that invites, whips and repels his ...
Poems By Phillip Woodruff
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-phillip-woodruff/
Poems By AO
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
Poems By Bartholomew Barker
World Poetry Day Celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguis...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/21/poems-by-bartholomew-barker/
To Rest In Peace
Written by Lynn White They were men of the north suitably suited in black dense as new hewed coal or dark grey shiny as wet slate or, rarely, the midnight blue of a northern night sky. It w...
Penelope
Written by Kenneth Hickey Let us go then, I and you, To the bar of the Roaring Donkey, On the eve of Christmas Eve There’s a guiding star up in the Heaven shining clear d...
Puri In Piety
Written by Sudipta Mishra As the twilight twinkles the entire street The distant lanes reverberate with the chanting White faces dazzle with confidence Blazing eyes assemble in one ...
Delusion Battles Reality
Written By The Hermit Poet Outside just distractions Mind only true confrontation STOP Savor Tranquility This piece is part of the Rewind Series Copyright© Edge of Humanity L...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/12/delusion-battles-reality/
Rainy Day
Written by Lynn White Is anyone watching from the towers I wonder. I can’t see. I can’t tell if I’m being watched. The drizzly, misty rain is shrouding me in a fog of fear. I can�...
An Ode To Stenography
Written by Mary Anne Abdo Fifth period class. The boredom of all boredoms. Steno class and Sister Venard. Hiding in the back classroom, behind that olde ink well desk. As if my gawky life d...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/12/an-ode-to-stenography/
Beauty
Written by Kenneth Hickey But then Helen came A woman of troy Who sprang a war upon them all A dervish dancer aflame with life An alternate wife Made me feel whole again, a man again The ro...
A Fleeting Thought
Written by Pallavi Gandhi a lifetime of immortality an eternity of chaos yet I stand on portals of past glory ‘My place in the sun’ a moment of disbelief time flies quicksand under my f...
Born Ready
Written by Brenda Mox
En Pente
Written by J H Martin @ A Coat for a Monkey The drip Then the drop Becomes a flood Only the castle Can feel secure Sat by my tent I look up With bitterness Not with the stars Or ...
Body Politics: Left vs Right
Written by Changming Yuan 1/ Brain My left brain has everything right While my right one has nothing left 2/ Heart My left chamber’s been reserved for someone Right, yet my right one...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/10/body-politics-left-vs-right/
Car Festival In Puri
Written by Sudipta Mishra Blue hues of the serene sea startle the entire town, Puri looks radiant with the resplendent rays of the shining sun, Crowds assemble here to behold the divi...
Morass Of Loss
Written by R.K.Singh The chimneys around my home print black spots on the walls darken the air I breathe and the water I drink or bathe in the owners know how to shut the mouths of ins...
A Rose For Gaza
Written by Lynn White Gaza is a garden full of roses. Stone roses. Rock roses. No petals to crush and bruise to release their fragrance. Only dust. Dust and the stench of death. No green sp...
The Color Of Humanity
Written by Mary Anne Abdo Are we not brothers and sisters in Christ’s name? This violence against each other, is against the very nature of our being. God’s tears are streaming onto the...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/03/the-color-of-humanity/
Silence!
Written by Sudipta Mishra Silence travels more quickly than noise! Have you ever heard of it? I silently lament with my unspoken grief I listen to the stillness oozing from the Univer...
Noises
Written by R.K.Singh I can’t hear my self their noises erase my world choices are denied- questions of being wound me courage and strength fade away noises mute my voice distract us ...
It’s Clear
Written by Lynn White On a clear night I should see the moon full silver in a sky shot by moonbeams. Not greyed by a smoky mist and dust clouds rising from the ruins. I should see a bl...
Khöömei
Written by Changming Yuan A deep double- Throat, singing From beyond Heaven (or hell) Echoing in nature As it finds itself Heard in A human voice Like a whale’s call Perceivable By it...
A Song Of Exile – For Ovid
Written by Algo Passed by all past high tides. There am I in exile. Passing ships , Unparted lips, There am I in exile. Cast away, cast out smiles. There am I in exile. An outcast cries ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/25/a-song-of-exile-for-ovid/
Bird Child
Written by Brenda Mox Wrapped in an invisible robe of peace, on a stroll toward the m...
St George And The Dragons
Written by Lynn White A long time ago St George killed all the dragons in England. All of them, the black ones, the green ones and the white. He killed all the dragons in Sweden and in th...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/19/st-george-and-the-dragons/
Climbing
Written by Algo Mountains hide more diamonds Than the rich have clasps and holds. I climb this face in winter’s depths, Tides of endless snow. Ascent accents the brevity Of breath for nar...
War In Gaza
Written by R.K.Singh Unchanged human nature eternity passed with each prophet spirit’s realms in rumbles… how to search peace in depths of tunnels through misery and degradation? A...
Winter Wait
Written by Changming Yuan With their most tender touches, snowflakes Have painted the whole night white Including the darkest corner in sight Even within a forgotten dream Except the p...
Naked King
Written by Brenda Mox As if some unholy valve had opened up his larynx, the naked king cried happily through his layers of fog. A hiss of suppressed amusement escaped his sheathed fangs. ...
The Loss Of The Healing Tree
Written by Algo Know where grows the healing tree, So why go sow the barren seed? Flames took over heart’s desires , Now burnt down in desert fires. In complete and in too deep A wake fre...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/12/the-loss-of-the-healing-tree/
The Strongest Force
Written by J. B. Hogan Science proposes four fundamental, powerful forces in the universe and that gravity is the weakest of the four. But gravity is the one we deal with daily, the one tha...
Sunflowers
Written by Frankie Heartless January made me a stranger to mornings, unable to sleep, drenched in decisions turned sour, heavy and rotten. At my lowest point I am asked if I would like to...
Longing For The God Who Stays
Written by C L Couch Now to say Something about God Whom I do not know A phantom lover Cupid to Psyche Embodied in the night Gone by morning And there the myth must end For there’s a p...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/06/longing-for-the-god-who-stays/
Mayuhe Revisited: A 50-Word Trilogy
Written by Changming Yuan Behind the shadow Of this tall pine I left all my dreams About your face & Smiles for a bright Future (with a rosier Romance) ahead, but Only to return here �...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/05/mayuhe-revisited-a-50-word-trilogy/
Of Shreds and Patches
Written by Frankie Heartless Sometimes I see myself as a pile of rags, Loved by people before my time, A collection of stories loosely sewn together, inherited against my will, but still ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/05/of-shreds-and-patches/
The Invisible Man
Written by Lynn White There was a large handwritten sign ‘Invisible man – naked and destitute’ I could see where he was standing he was wearing shoes naked except for his shoes. In fr...
Path of Least Resistance
Written by J. B. Hogan Dreams floated in the brain like slow-moving, puffy white clouds, there were plans and hopes, assumptions and expectations, many starts and stops, time came and went ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/04/path-of-least-resistance/
Myself, Home And Its Border Lines
Photographer Acyle Beydoun is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the series ‘Border Lines’. To see Acyle’s body of work, click on any photograph. ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/01/myself-home-and-its-border-lines/
The Simplification Of Chinese Characters Reviewed
Written by Changming Yuan 1. Is it a linguistic coincidence or an undeclared prophesy? But 60 years after Mao Zedong approved The scheme for simplifying Chinese characters We are now living ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/30/the-simplification-of-chinese-characters-reviewed/
Nanofiction Set #4
Written by Norbert Kovacs SEED Spring joy sowed our autumn regrets. GROWTH Asking for more, she learned hunger. THE ANSWER #2 We listen, hoping, in the silence. WARMTH Bodies pr...
The Shape And Change Of Things
Written by C L Couch The wars I cannot stand them I want them to be over The one who started it Run down The way my dog Ran the cat who started All the mischief At the time Into a corner ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/29/the-shape-and-change-of-things/
Eye to Eye
Written by J H Martin @ A Coat for a Monkey I have no confidence In this Love Trust Belief They have all been blown to Smithereens By the past And all the fucked up mistakes Repeated What...
I Am Burned By My Memory
Written by C. J. Anderson-Wu Half a century after my wrongful incarceration, I am deemed as a fighter, a model dissident during the dark era of authoritarianism, and a hero. The daily threa...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/28/i-am-burned-by-my-memory/
Down That Long, Empty Road
Written by J. B. Hogan is a dream, a hope a wish, a vision, maybe a destination just beyond that far ridge ahead, the ridge so distant, the ridge so unattainable, so long in reaching, mile ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/23/down-that-long-empty-road/
Potato Soup
Written by Frankie Heartless I will find comfort in potato soup. Fresh rosemary from my mother’s garden, And roasting garlic while I dance around my kitchen. Carefree and easy. I’...
Shock
Written by Catherin J Pascal Dunk Honeybees are sunny, golden things like their manna. And they’re dying in droves. I remember: one caught in my hair, lured by apple shampoo; the burn of ...
In Memoriam
Written by Lynn White She thought her large hands and feet were due to her hard labour one summer vacation on an archaeological dig in Germany. It was there she met Max, an Art student, a S...
East vs West A Synoptic Cultural Comparison
Written by Changming Yuan During the great flood, Noah hid himself in the ark While Dayu tried to contain it with his bare hands Prometheus stole fire from Olympian gods While Sui Ren got it...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/21/east-vs-west-a-synoptic-cultural-comparison/
Cathatonia
Written by Catherin J Pascal Dunk Shut-down mode is a misery hole the zombie apocalypse Hiroshima, after It’s a lingering s l i d e soul ache sabotage lac...
Cornrows
Written by Grace Davies He only wanted cornrows, didn’t think he’d be pursued, but they filled him with bullet holes, his face imprinted with shoe soles, by the screws he was screwed...
Nanofiction Set #3
Written by Norbert Kovacs FOILS His cage secure, he walked freely. JOURNEY Seeking himself, he wandered amid fires. GENIUS Key stuck, she moved the door. LIONESS Her hide gone, ...
The Keys Of The Kingdom
Written by Lynn White The kingdom had so many keys, keys to its doors, keys to its gold, keys to its time, keys to its secrets. Nothing moved without a key. Everything was controlled. Nothi...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/14/the-keys-of-the-kingdom/
Political Prisoners
Written by C. J. Anderson-Wu Walking one hundred circles in the 13-square-meter cell after lunch. There are four of us, and in such a small room, every one of us must walk at the same time,...
Peru
Written By The Hermit Poet Hacienda Well-protected Magnificent view Señora Controls time Gringo Understands her mind Summoning him Funds wired Flight reserved She Whispers “Occasionally,...
Tulum, Mexico
Written By The Hermit Poet Sexo Caliente Cheap room with mosquito net Forget Internet Our sweaty bodies gyrate With Moonlit beach break This piece is part of the Rewind Series ...
The State Sanctioned Taking Of Children
Written by Grace Davies The children were missing from the garden that day, their toys abandoned, left lying in the flower bed, no bouncing of balls, no cackling calls, no signs of play. ...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/09/the-state-sanctioned-taking-of-children/
Nanofiction Set #2
Written by Norbert Kovacs VOYEUR In our passion, Death was roused. NEEDS Water gone, they settled for oil. SUFFERING Once freed, he never spoke anymore. STEADINESS ...
Watering Hole
Written by Lynn White We all need a watering hole bug or beast, fish or fowl, mammal or mayfly, we all need it sometimes. Sometimes our eyes can catch sight of it in the deserty distance an...
Growing Up
Written by C. J. Anderson-Wu is to be surprised by realizing how young the martyr was the day he burned himself for the freedom of speech You grew up and gradually learned what it meant to ...
I Shall Wear Infamy Like A Shroud
Written by Christopher Hayes Fluid for the lies that seem to blind us all, From Eve’s first words that presided Adam’s dramatic fall! History declares a form of words that ever lack tru...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/01/03/i-shall-wear-infamy-like-a-shroud/
The Weight Of It
Written by Grace Davies She went to school today, her bag weighed heavy on her small shoulders, she must carry it alone. Her bag weighed heavy as her friend said, she must carry it alone...
Boom Boom (you’re dead) Out Go The Lights?
Written by Christopher Hayes Taken from The Book of Idiots Chapter Four (our two soldiers of fortune are recruited as World policemen) The Sewer King contemplates the complex issues of worl...
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2023/12/25/boom-boom-youre-dead-out-go-the-lights/