Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 8
Echoes Dancing with Shadows
American poet Carl Sandburg said "poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. " Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 8, features 74 internationally renowned poets and fiction writers as scintillating Echoes Dancing with Shadows including 2022 Pushcart Prize winner - Kurt Fuchs.
“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance” –
Carl Sandburg
"Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerely putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."
- Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved." - Gregory Corso
"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future." - Jack Kerouac
"And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm." - Jack Kerouac
The POETS/AUTHORS
Margaret Kiernan
Fred Johnston
Lisa Marguerite Mora
Peter Knight
John Drudge
Karen Mooney
Michael Igoe
Catherine Arra
Julian Matthews
Afiah Obeneewaa Grace Danquah
Adrian David
Susan Tepper
Greg Patrick
Yuu Ikeda
Terry Wheeler
Pragya Suman
Rustin Larson
Imelda O’Reilly
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
Steve Klepetar
Brittany Hause translations of Ricardo James Freyre
Peter F. Crowley
Fiona Perry
Paul Demuth
Lynn White
Eric Burgoyne
Sana Tampeen Mohammed
Ernesto P. Santiago
Debbie Robson
Gary D. Maxwell
Mandy Beattie
Gale Acuff
Mona Bedi
Sam Barbee
Kushal Poddar
Kim Malinowski
Julian O. Long
Rowena Newman
Heath Brougher
Hibah Shabkhez
Ken Gosse
Margaret Kiernan
Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Debbie Robson
Kurt Luchs
RC deWinter
Douglas V. Miller
David Ades
Alan Catlin
Ursula O’Reilly
Peter Magliocco
Dmitriy Galkovskiy
John Grey
Richard M. Ankers
Wayne F. Burke
Dana Trick
Ethan Vilu
Duane Vorhees
Les Wicks
David Alec Knight
Adele Ogier Jones
James Miller
Angel Edwards
Christopher Barnes
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia
Daniel Nemo
Doris Wei Tan
GJ Hart
Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
Sunil Sharma
Joe Sebastian
Mohibul Aziz
Bhuwan Thapaliya
Salim Yakubu Akko
Editorial Poems by Strider Marcus Jones Pages
January – Mid February 2022 - Poems and Fiction
Margaret Kiernan
1. Trip to the Mountain 16-17
Fred Johnston
1. How to Save a Life 18-21
2. An Event
3. Song of a Child in an Atlantic Liner
4. Arc
5. Lake Incident
6. Bone Room
Lisa Marguerite Mora
1. Surfeit 22-26
2. Yesterday Paris
3. King Lear
4. Winter, Winter
Peter Knight
1. Brust, the Witwerd 27-34
2. boggart hole clough: silent eyes speak
3. Humpty doo
4. Childbane
5. that stranger eye
John Drudge
1. A New Voice 34-37
2. Brambles
3. Into the Machine
4. Loss
5. On the Horizon
Karen Mooney
1. beginnings 37-40
2. I think of you as a tree
3. Apple Tart and Lemon Meringue Pie
4. I Touched You
Michael Igoe
1. All Skin And Bone 41-44
2. Think This Way
3. Fissure
4. Waiting for St. Stephen
Catherine Arra
1. Wheel of Fortune 44-48
2. The Tower
3. The Sun
4. Writer’s Block
5. High on the Slanted Ceiling
Julian Matthews
1. I am not an Xmas tree 48-50
Afiah Obeneewaa Grace Danquah
1. Red in Pink 50
Adrian David
1. Tribulations 51
Susan Tepper
1. Conspiracy – Meditations on dear Petrov 52
Greg Patrick
1. Raven’s Night – Short Story 52-55
Yuu Ikeda
1. Whiskey’s Kiss 55-56
2. I’m an Impatient Poet
Terry Wheeler
1. Timothy Leary 57-61
2. open the hive
3. dark ages
4. there is no end of talking
5. sound effects
Pragya Suman
1. A Pink Postmodernist Crept in Pale Prague 62-64
2. Cold Coffee
3. The Bier’s Bench
Rustin Larson
1. Houdini 64-71
2. Song of September
3. Overripebananas
4. The Make No Sense Room
5. Silence, Earthling
Imelda O’Reilly
1. Hoax 72-74
2. Pomegranate and Plums
3. Gas Bottles to the Soul
4. Back
5. Holes
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
1. Every Night She Has Dinner With Me 74-77
2. The Junkie in the Bathroom
3. We Don’t Care What You Say
4. Grapes of Wrath
5. Sitting in a Dark Bathroom
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
1. Dear Mom – Flash Fiction 77-79
Steve Klepetar
1. My Parents Walked by the Sea 79-81
2. The University of Forgotten Names
3. The Velvet Dark
Brittany Hause translations of Ricardo James Freyre
1. Song of Evils 81-86
2. The Heroes
3. The Hero’s Death
4. The Sword
5. Valhalla
Peter F. Crowley
1. Alissa – Short Story 86-90
Fiona Perry
1. Everyday Goddess 90-91
Paul Demuth
1. Twins 91-92
Lynn White
1. The Crimea Pass 92-94
2. The Fallen Ones
3. A Hair’s Breadth
Eric Burgoyne
1. Pretty Girl On The Beach 95-98
2. 5,000 Miles Away
3. Pineapple Stain
4. Nearing Hanales
5. Manhattan Island
Sana Tampeen Mohammed
1. Arabesque 99
2. No Casualties
Ernesto P. Santiago
1. Haiku 100-101
Debbie Robson
1. Passage 101-102
Gary D. Maxwell
1. Sonnet 102
Mandy Beattie
1. Asleep - Awake 103-107
2. Through the Turnstile Between Two Fields
3. Here Meets There
4. Inside The Kist of Caithness
5. Neeps and Pumpkins are not just for Halloween
Gale Acuff
1. When the world ends I guess I will too, but 107-109
2. One day when I’m dead you’ll be sorry I
3. One day your dead so they tell me at church
4. I don’t want to die, not that I’m happy
5. Everybody goes to heaven they say
Mona Bedi
1. Haiku 109-110
Sam Barbee
1. Tissue 110-114
2. Urbia
3. Bonsai
4. Evened Temper
5. The Telephone Game
Kushal Poddar
1. Politics 115-116
2. The Slow Dog
3. Hunger
4. Calendar
Kim Malinowski
1. Who will sing our names to the stars 117-120
2. Unfastened by magnets
3. Stonehenge Bluestone
4. Wing
5. Shade
Julian O. Long
1. Loss of Birdsong 120-124
2. No Kid is Safe
3. Doe In the Headlights
Rowena Newman
1. Sheela-Na-Gig 124-126
2. Beautiful ice cream
3. What the leaves said
Heath Brougher
1. Kerouacian Haiku 126-130
2. Sleep Deprived Personification of Motionless Cars
3. The Phony
4. Everyone Pays a Toll
5. Dark Side of the Bed
Hibah Shabkhez
1. Plenicorn, Not Cavicorn 130-132
2. Would We Love You Then
3. Painted Flower and Dying Flower
4. Authorship
5. Please Go Back
Ken Gosse
1. The Foggy Foggy Dews and Don’ts of Dewy..Fog 132-136
2. When in France, Spell as the French Do
3. A Diamond on the Beach (Walrus & Carpenter poem)
4. My Side of Genius
5. The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Margaret Kiernan
1. Venetian Sojourn 137-139
2. Venusian Retro-grade
3. Wheel of Shadows
Nicholas Alexander Hayes
1. Five Untitled Poems 139-140
Debbie Robson
1. Passage 140-141
Kurt Luchs
1. Baby’s First Lie 141-144
2. Tabula Rasa
3. What Borges Said
4. Robin
5. Nonbeing
RC deWinter
1. the treachery of mirrors 144-148
2. after the battle
3. agent provocateur
4. 9 Lines for June 9
5. moving day
Douglas V. Miller
1. A Chance Encounter – Short Story 149-150
David Ades
1. New Year’s Day 151-156
2. If You Could Change One Thing
3. The Benefactor
4. Men’s Group Zoom Meeting, Eight Locations
5. Blinkers
Alan Catlin
1. Southern Gothic: Romance..Antietam (Black Sun) 157-159
2. Southern Gothic: A Romance After Sally Mann. The Turn
3. Southern Gothic: A Romance After Sally Mann. Blackwater
4. Southern Gothic. Blackwater. (Valentine Windsor)
Ursula O’Reilly
1. Do Not Disturb the Gnome 159-161
2. Enchanted
Peter Magliocco
1. Phalanx of Wing 161-164
2. Street Music Outside Taco Bell
3. Broken Window in Winter
4. The Alien Portrait
5. Living the Dream
Dmitriy Galkovskiy
1. Yuletide Bestiary –Translated by Alexander Sharov 165-166
John Grey
1. The Guy 169-170
2. The Job Interview
3. The Names Have Been Changed
4. Lying In The Meadow
5. Sunday Morning
Richard M. Ankers
1. The Endless Night – Short Story 170-174
Wayne F. Burke
1. Old 174-177
2. Air Force
3. Day Dreaming
4. Ache
Dana Trick
1. Praise to Poetry 177-179
2. How to Write Poetry
3. Pens
Ethan Vilu
1. My Very Own Command Core 179-181
2. After Barnett Newman’s Note XII (State I)
3. Into The Trench
4. Third Rondel – Reno, NV
5. Fourth Rondel – Blue Palace
Duane Vorhees
1. The Calligrapher Writes the Landscape 181-184
2. Mirrors, Heroes and Seers
3. The Actual Anatomy
4. The Pit
5. My Lovers, a Puzzle
Les Wicks
1. Against the Grain 184-188
2. Report
3. What is Believed
4. Time Taken
5. The Session
David Alec Knight
1. Old Scarification and New Wounds 189-192
2. Wool Portraiture
3. The Vernal Morning
4. Grendel Descent
5. Saxon Shore
Adele Ogier Jones
1. On William Blake’s Tyger 192-194
2. The Tiger Called Caspian
James Miller
1. New Year’s Eve 194-197
2. Stormy Night
3. Fire
4. Moon Sheen on the Lake
Angel Edwards
1. All in Your Mind 197-198
2. Beauty Problems
Christopher Barnes
1. Almanac 26 199-200
2. Almanac 27
3. Almanac 28
4. Almanac 29
5. Almanac 30
Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia
1. Coincidence 1 (Canto Pastiche) 200-203
2. Coincidence 2 (Allusion Pastiche)
3. Coincidence 3 (Imitation Pastiche)
Daniel Nemo
1. A Forest 204-207
2. A Victory for the Sultan and the Queen of Spades
3. Central Locking
Doris Wei Tan
1. Two Paths 207-208
GJ Hart
1. What They Say 208-209
Ngozi Olivia Osuoha
1. Black Child 209-215
2. The African Girl
3. Letter to my Teacher
Adrian David
1. Petrichor 215
Sunil Sharma
1. One Flower – Three States of Mind 215-218
Joe Sebastian
1. Tanka, Haiku and Senryu 219-222
Mohibul Aziz
1. To Me Sorrow’s Like 223-224
2. A Rare Encounter
Bhuwan Thapaliya
1. Lily in my hand 224-225
Salim Yakubu Akko
1. Grief as My Uncle 226
2. Another Beginning
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