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Love Letters in the Sand by Khalil Gibran

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“True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives color and scent to a flower.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

Poem by Langston Hughes

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Being walkers with the dawn and morning
Walkers with the sun and morning, 
We are not afraid of night, 
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness, 
Being walkers with the sun and morning. 

Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright. He is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.

Tanka by Sadakichi Hartmann

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I.

Winter? Spring? Who knows?
White buds from the plumtrees wing
And mingle with the snows.
No blue skies these flowers bring,
Yet their fragrance augurs Spring.

II.

Oh, were the white waves,
Far on the glimmering sea
That the moonshine laves,
Dream flowers drifting to me,—
I would cull them, love, for thee.

III.

Moon, somnolent, white,
Mirrored in a waveless sea,
What fickle mood of night
Urged thee from heaven to flee
And live in the dawnlit sea?

IV.

Like mist on the leas,
Fall gently, oh rain of Spring
On the orange trees
That to Ume’s casement cling—
Perchance, she’ll hear the love-bird sing.

V.

Though love has grown cold
The woods are bright with flowers,
Why not as of old
Go to the wildwood bowers
And dream of–bygone hours!

VI.

Tell, what name beseems
These vain and wandering days!
Like the bark of dreams
That from souls at daybreak strays
They are lost on trackless ways.

Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, born in the late 1860s in Japan, was a dramatist, fiction writer, and art critic. His poetry collections include Naked Ghosts: Four Poems (Fantasia, 1925), Tanka and Haiku: 14 Japanese Rhythms (G. Bruno, 1915), and My Rubaiyat (Mangan, 1913). He died in November 1944.

Nucleosynthesis by Cyn Bermudez

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Fusion of hydrogen
breathing life
into the stars
burning brightly

Proton chain dangling
as the mighty ones
press helium into carbon

Nitrogen to oxygen
then iron halts it all
in a bang the dragon
brings death and life

Cyn Bermudez is a writer, poet, and artist living in California. She is the author of And the Moon Follows, Brothers, Graffiti Heart, and The Dragons Club (forthcoming). She writes in various genres: general, science fiction, fantasy, weird, horror, and more. She has short stories, poetry, and art published in various journals and anthologies. Cyn serves as the current president, program chair, and webmaster for the Writers of Kern, a chapter of the California Writers Club. She enjoys other creative outlets like photography, sketching, digital art, and painting. For more information, visit her website at www.cynbermudez.com.

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Sirena by Cyn Bermudez

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Cyn Bermudez is a writer, poet, and artist living in California. She is the author of And the Moon Follows, Brothers, Graffiti Heart, and The Dragons Club (forthcoming). She writes in various genres: general, science fiction, fantasy, weird, horror, and more. She has short stories, poetry, and art published in various journals and anthologies. Cyn serves as the current president, program chair, and webmaster for the Writers of Kern, a chapter of the California Writers Club. She enjoys other creative outlets like photography, sketching, digital art, and painting. For more information, visit her website at www.cynbermudez.com.

Stay Connected! blog wordpress | instagram @cyncbermudez | twitter @cyncbermudez | editor Planisphere Quarterly | president Writers of Kern.