Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry
Call
for submissions: Volume 7, Number 2 (November 2024)
Theme: Light
“And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light.” ( Genesis: 1:3)
The
light referred by the Genesis shows God's creative power to create and control.
Science interprets light as electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by
the human eye. “Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire
of desire!” (Gitanjali XXVII), wrote Tagore and Gibran's Lazarus bemoans
“We were in light/ and we were all light”. Light has been interpreted variously
as what enables us to see, metaphorically as hope, joy and even spiritual
enlightenment. In a world that is threatened time and again by engulfing
darkness, wordsmiths are invited to spread the magic of light by submitting poems
and creative pieces associated with the current theme. Sharing a poem by Dylan Thomas that uses light
as a motif:
Light
breaks where no sun shines
--- Dylan
Thomas
Light
breaks where no sun shines;
Where
no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push
in their tides;
And,
broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The
things of light
File
through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
A
candle in the thighs
Warms
youth and seed and burns the seeds of age;
Where
no seed stirs,
The
fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright
as a fig;
Where
no wax is, the candle shows its hairs.
Dawn
breaks behind the eyes;
From
poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Slides
like a sea;
Nor
fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout
to the rod
Divining
in a smile the oil of tears.
Night
in the sockets rounds,
Like
some pitch moon, the limit of the globes;
Day
lights the bone;
Where
no cold is, the skinning gales unpin
The
winter’s robes;
The
film of spring is hanging from the lids.
Light
breaks on secret lots,
On
tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When
logics dies,
The
secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And
blood jumps in the sun;
Above
the waste allotments the dawn halts.
HAPPY WRITING!
·
Teesta Review invites
submission of poems, short stories, articles and interviews. The pieces are
expected to connect with the given theme in some way. Poems should be within 40
(forty) lines, short stories and articles not longer than around 3000 (three
thousand) words.
·
The editorial team will
have full authority in selecting submitted items for publication.
· Please email your submission as an attached word document to ndteesta@gmail.com before November 15, 2024.
We’re
excited to see what you have for us.
Let us flow like
the river.
Guest Editor
- TEESTA REVIEW