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POETRY SELECTION: Fundamental Right to Dream By Debasish Parashar Imagine you are a little weird and you dream of yellow rivers gathering tea leaves to the tune of ardent Erhu music in the heart of a Syrian child imagine you believe her tears, flying samurais, can flood rice fields of gold transform into maritime Silk-routes ancient as hope through Silk-routes of tear you sail on a tiny boat from Kunming to Mediterranean shores kissing continents of solitude will you be wrong ? no, not at all because you have a fundamental right to dream a natural right to dream Imagine you are listening to a relaxing composition of Spanish guitars lying on your bed of windows lights off and fog outside you sleep down the slippery melodies of a candle-lit evening from the 90’s you feel strongly you could still live that innocence will you be wrong ? no, not at all because you have a fundamental right to dream an inalienable right to dream Imagine it’s a stormy night and you are sailing through the Silk-routes of tear on your tiny boat You come across a dream-seller carrying fallen leaves you ask for a dream and he offers his palms instead you hold his hands and cry will you be wrong ? no, not at all because, without sweat and blood and tears there is no right to dream as a three-year old I used to scream seeing butterflies in my dreams I could not tolerate those intense dreams I used to wake up in tears, tired and terrified I have seen dreams growing to words and butterflies shaped into swords butterflies with edges of sword can cut you into doubles my dreams have been weird your dream will be different no matter what you have a fundamental right to dream a different dream an inalienable and a natural right to dream just like your right to breathe you have a right to dream. Debasish Parashar is a Multilingual Poet, Creative Entrepreneur, Singer/Musician and Lyricist based in New Delhi, India. He is an Assistant Professor of English literature at the University of Delhi. Parashar is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Advaitam Speaks Literary journal and is associated with the World Poetry Movement. 36 www.reddoormagazine.com
Internet by Taylor Walters Trapped in a world of filters – Double tap or swipe right to show interests What’s Pinterest? A site of inspiration… creation. We live in a sphere that is trying to define the term “perfection” The idea that there is an ideal image of life and happiness. So, tell me this…. does the amount of likes you receive give you bliss…? When you miss out on human connections and affection? Is it possible to obtain this gain over a screen? A touch. A feel. A kiss is all missed when your head is down and facing the ground. Lift up your thoughts and let it be said that there is more to life than a screen…it’s ruining your dreams. Taylor Walters is a teenage writer studying film/television and theatre design/scenography at Aberystwyth University. She grew up in foster care and has been writing using her story as inspiration. Voyage Like a pendulum I am stereo rushing from ear to ear, languages merge, Left, Right, across the ocean I hear your voice sharp; fresh, as is wit, I am your love by Patrick Williamson Patrick Williamson is a writer who is alo active in filmpoems (Afterword, with Mauro Coceano) and other multimedia or text-object projects, often in association with Transignum in France. Editor and translator of The Parley Tree, Poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab World, Arc Publications, 2012. Notably, three poetry collections published by Samuele Editore from Pordenone, in English-Italian and translated by Guido Cupani: Traversi (2018), Beneficato (2015), and Nel Santuario. Founding member of transnational literary agency Linguafranca. crossing oceans & we transgress, transcend. Je frappe. Ouvrez la porte, c’est moi; this city is the venus of the nprth this, the torrid summer cyclone; this city state is ours Melia, Melba, polis and cosmos combined. ISSUE # <strong>23</strong> - LANGUAGE 37
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