This Evening Hoard in heart holding the ears of this stormThat, like a tormenter, entered the gardenTo rob it of its beautySome bright dayWe can talk about this dark time. Don’t allow an easy fallTo the tears falling from your … Continue reading Three poems from Chandra Gurung | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

THE EPIDEMIC (NEW CORONA) Woe bring’st thou and woe thee betide.For all that sorrow to thee are tied.And for fatalities by yours upon our comrades;First the SARS, then MERS; all in raids,Usurping our dominance over lower beings,From bats and cats … Continue reading Two Poems from Anayo Valentine Dioha | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands The Universal creator took a paint brush and flicked it across the world. It landed where it did. The people didn’t see it coming, even though it was quite a bright white, … Continue reading The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands by Elizabeth Robyn Stanton | Short Story | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

How Invaluable Can Life Be? If anyone told me that I’ll lose a loved one to viruses which I’ve been studying in the university, I’ll call it the biggest lie of the century. I will gather strength to discredit such … Continue reading How Invaluable Can Life Be by Ololade Edun | Fiction | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

To heal is to let go of your broken past,Retold sins and the will to forgo those ills,Creating a new human from the ruins of old souls,A new you baptized with abundant Grace. To heal is to merge your present … Continue reading What Defines Healing by Ololade Edun | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

The babbling brook grows silent before the still watersjoining forces reports exchanged about upriver quartersthe redwood forest’s shafts of light through the sacred steeplethe sound of silence the soul soaring to galaxies beyond gospel the silvery sequined sleeve of the … Continue reading IF SILENCE COULD SPEAK by Roberta Monokroussos | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

O Hope As light filtered through the crackour faces densely packedwith ragged-looking petalswere similar to a burgundy varietyof sunsetwe were tangling our majestic spireshands floating like fliesfalling like spiders along our armsa new day was starting,we were recoveringfrom the night … Continue reading O Hope by Aldo Quagliotti | Poetry | Heal The World Issue #12 | PAROUSIA Magazine

I ESTHER walked into the king’s lairwith little hope whatsoever her first attempt was at dinner her shaking voice asked forpityjusticeandrevengepray about the plot of peoplelike Hamaneating with youand beating bones into your throat:an enemy. II LISTEN TO GOD What’d … Continue reading Three poems from Abigail-Tydale Bassey | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine