DIVIDED LINES – A POET”S STANCE

Foreword . . .

In a world of ever increasing advances seemingly created to make our lives easier to manage, envisioned to bring us together, to draw us closer, we are still in many instances isolated and at odds and validly apart. Something is missing, there is a snag, a rip, a hole in the spiritual fabric that we all see; yet we continue to fail to address.

It has been said by self-proclaimed philosophers, theologians, scholars’ and politicians that the abuse of words can be a danger, there are those that believe words are a leading factor in what ills our society. Of this we do not deny in full, there have been abuses, history is but a melody to that fact, yet it is also true that words have the innate capacity to bridge, to heal that which divides.

Opinions, views, religions, nations, people, even love divides. The focus of this book and the poets here in, is to give breath to a wide range of issues both small and controversial that lie beneath the surface. Things that we are often hesitant to discuss. In saying that, I will offer that the role of a poet is not to persuade or to add more rhetoric to the static we hear. A poet’s responsibility is to shine the light of awareness, to create a platform for dialogue, for healing, to gather up the images in an attempt to understand what we see.  © Demitri Tyler

Contributing Authors:
Adam Levon Brown – Cinemark Bloodbath, White Privilege
Alexis McFarlin – Abortion
Amrita Valan – Even I’m Divided
Ana Leigh Sparks – Positive Reflections, Take It Back
Andrew Scott – Taking Liberties
Baidha Fercoq – Silent Voices of Servitude, Vanishing Gardens
Billy Charles Root – Salvation’s Helmet
Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak – The Last Heartbeat
Brian Crandall – A Toxic Trance
Brian L. Evans – Onyx Blood
Brigitte Poirson – The Leader (an Arabian sonnet)
Bruce Newman- Misnomer
Cecelia Grant-Peters – The Rage in Albion
Charlene Elson-Gustard – Fearless
Christena AV Williams – Child Abuse, It Threatens Social Order
Christopher Allen – Breidinger – Bleeding Freedom, Attention!
Cori deVilleaux – Cannabis Daydreams
Corey Cowan – My Bell, It Has Tolled
Darcy Brandel – Devil’s Tattoo
Damon E. Johnson – The Reassurance (Losing a Loved One), Bittersweet Melody
Debasish Mishra – My Neighbor
Debra McLain – United We Stand, Imperfections
Donna J. Sanders – Imperfection, Digital Wasteland
Fareeha Manzoor – Shhhhh!!!
Hannah Allen – The Workmen, Lost Tribes
Houda Kefi – A Poem to the Forsaken
Iram Fatima ‘Ashi’ – A Game
Jay Long – Blue Sky Dreams
Jo Resner – The Other Half
Joanne Dingus – Privilege, KC
June Barefield – Through These Corridors
Laura Clark – A Battle Against Depression
Lawrence Mashiyane – I Am
Lindsey F. Rhodes – Terms and Conditions, 50 Shades of Gray
Lynn White – A Rose for Gaza
Maggie Mae – Book
Mariane Kvist Doktor – Separation
Michael T. Coe – The 21st Century Decline
Paige Turner – Life Pangs, Self-Rejection
Riley James Neault – Worth
Ryan Vallee – Bad Math
Sameen Carter – Invisible
Sarah Herring – The Face of America
Shaziya Shaik – Eternal Kinship
Shihi Venus – Black Like Me, A Stand For Just Us
Stephanie Francis – Lines Drawn
Steve Lay – It’s Just a Joke
Steven T. Licardi – A to B
Sue Lobo – Slave, The Meddling Hand of Man
Tony Haynes – “Church On One Side (Part One), “Hate On Another (Part Two)”
Vallery Townsend – The Phoenix

Veronica Thorton – Ridiculous
Vincent Van Ross – Divisive Forces, Dividing Line
William L. Wright Jr. – Schadenfreude

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