A Photo Series By Ilan parienté There are many ways of travelling a country. Either through sightseeing, enjoying a taste of the local food and alcohol down to the bustling streets, unique architecture or simply relaxing in nature. You have the choice to either bring along a loved one or friends or solely enjoy the mesmerising […]
Author: Odd Magazine
Ka Hum Lay Nawo Na
A Poem By Nicholas Bruce A green and white bolt of pure energy streams down from nowhere, piercing the suffocating blackness that threatened to stay. There is now a shimmering quality to the room, and he has no idea where he is or what he was just doing. He sifts through the fog of amnesia, […]
Persian Poetry: Eyes Must Be Rinsed
A Column By Mehdi Bagheri Eyes Must Be Rinsed I don’t know why they call Horse, a noble being? Pigeon, a pretty bird? And why no vulture is In anyone’s birdcage? Why a clover Is inferior to a red tulip flower? Eyes must be rinsed Something else must be seen Words must […]
neruda knows
A Poem By Juwayriya Bemath “…what spring does to the cherry blossoms…” ************** you picked at my thorns and resentment picked at me when you tried to force me to leave this darkened cavern of knuckles i call home. your vines grew into the spaces i found bare and deserted till you reached for my […]
Spring
A Poem By Nkwana Joshua this is how I welcome you – with flowers brooding in the yards, sun pulsating in wonder whispering and humming through our ears, we saw you moving our hearts to the hills we saw you chanting our names in laughter, we knew we have you when we saw you we […]
Snowdrop
A Short Story By jec. young I arrived in the bleak midwinter of a country without sunlight. The orange street lamps seemed as though they never turned off. I didn’t understand how to cope with the cold, so I sat with my back against the radiator constantly, and I slept in everything I owned. I walked […]
Beginning
A Poem By Tijana Šarac That it had been the end Never occurred to me For it was being buried And set free at once From every expectation Held against life None could rescue But neither imprison Me. What would become Of me If I were to let go Of it false hope, fair illusion […]
green sheen
A Poem By Roux Wessels and in the spring – when green and the absence of shivering nights becomes growth’s measure of water – i relax after every millimetre of rain thankfulness my only oblivious mantra throughout the seasons until a next winter – but long before the cold returns or frost creates a garden of […]
First Second Chance
A Short Story By Lauren Jacobs I tugged at the shoelace strings that held my shoulders. The humid air smudged my face as I walked the lazy, old streets of Bath in the British countryside. I shifted my weight as my mother, sister in law and I took another photo in front of the intimidating […]