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At ManicWorld Magazine, we like words, love them even. More so when genius poets arrange said words in ways that pull at our heart strings. This here is our prized collection of poems submitted to us by people with poetry running through their veins. We present the heart of the magazine to you in form of running lines and a liberal use of poetic license. Enjoy!

Is it okay? – EiiGee PiiGee

The Accidental Art Walk – Tim Boardman

Man on the bus – EiiGee PiiGee

October – M. Anne Avera

Fly in the Gallery – Tim Boardman

The Hour Collapses Inward – Zazie Kanwar-Torge

1000 1st St N* – M. Anne Avera

Practical Wear – Tim Boardman

Miles to go – M. Anne Avera

Vanilla Sunscreen – Jess Logan

Indentured – Jess Logan

The Deer’s Altar – Hannah Clare Jellen

April 1993 – Hannah Clare Jellen

Midway – Tim Boardman

Inheritance – Tim Boardman

An Angel in Morrisons – Tim Boardman

Spring Can Fade – Debadrita Sarkar

Daniel Christensen – Decaying Light Empire

Uzomah Ugwu – A Forgotten Son

Alchemy of the answers – Elizabeth Moroz

Doug Walters – Phosphenes

Uzomah Ugwu – Perfect Hell

Doug Walters – When the armor comes off

Uzomah Ugwu – The Man He Couldn’t Be

The age of lies – Elizabeth Moroz

Another Sunday – Cleo Griffith

Would I be? – Cleo Griffith

Craving the Elements – Cleo Griffith

Red sediments on riverbed – Darshanika Panda

Condolences, Smoke and Lilies – Darshanika Panda

Yet the doves of Kabul sing – Darshanika Panda

Reverence – Erica Willis

Shadows – E. C. Traganas

Conventionally Lost – Regina Keough

Between Footsteps – Regina Keough

What Autumn Left Behind – Dibyangana Maji

buzzfeed quizzes for the desperate – MK Zariel

White-knuckled fists – John Swofford

Arise – Grace Lee

Spellbound – Grace Lee

The Deal – Ali Ashhar

Summer Haze -Sadiya Ali

Garden of Need – Franklin Dandridge

In My Bed – Sadiya Ali

Polished – Franklin Dandridge

Trust Fund Jack – Sadiya Ali

At the corner of Lakeview and Deming – Franklin Dandridge

Lost Smiles – Katharine Cossham

If You Cannot – MK Kuol

It started with my feet being dipped in cool paint – Katharine Cossham

A Place of Solace – Chris Foster

Bittersweet Beltane – Katharine Cossham

Little Prayers – MK Kuol

Hey There Buddy – Peter Shukie

Burnt Alleys – Berrin Yakar

It’s a Privilege – Andrea Simpson

The Dance Over Fire – Kimutai Allan

Unwanted Hymns – Kimutai Allan

Improperly Vaccinated – Peter Shukie

So This Woman – Melanie Hess

TWENTY YEARS – Grant Foxon

Quandry – Melanie Hess

Suppertime – Melanie Hess

Say Sam’s Name – Axton Mitchell

Freedom of Speech– Axton Mitchell

1/3 – Axton Mitchell

Applesauce – Sarah Butkovic

Fourth of July – Sarah Butkovic

The Brutalist – Sarah Butkovic

Stalker’s Winter – K.G. Munro

Glenmore Forest – K.G. Munro

Vanquish all the anger (Sonnet 243) – David Stanley

A Church of Kindness (Sonnet 412) – David Stanley

Let go the Grief (Sonnet 259) – David Stanley

Out Into the World – Valérie Piché

A Safe Place for Secrets – Valérie Piché

Reclaiming Myself – Valérie Piché

A Colorful Carnival of Us – Valérie Piché

River – Bethany Camille James

Where Do I Sleep Tonight – Mohua Chinappa

When Scientists Accidentally
Discovered Changes to the Earth’s Core – Robin T Dake

Permafrost -Robin T Dake

Jangled in January – Robin T Dake

Imagine: But Not the John Lennon Version – Jess Logan

The Girl Between The Sheets – Doris AC Johnson

A Leaf – Stephen Ferry

Secrets – Stephen Ferry

When debt is paid – Anita Cruz

The Forbidden Forest – Anita Cruz

What happens to the soul and body? – Corvus

Time – Stephen Ferry

Healing – Louise Kerr

Bound – Louise Kerr

Jerusalem Star, Rome, Egypt and the North – Corvus

Responsibility – Phil Vas

Suburbanists – Phil Vas

Short Circuit – Phil Vas

Another Morning – Stephen House

On a corner – Stephen House

It Has Always Been Here – Phil Vas

Eternal Life – Keith Burkholder

Creating a new universe as we know it – Keith Burkholder

Daybreak- Siobhan M Whelan

The Reaper- Siobhan M Whelan

Searching- Siobhan M Whelan

You- Siobhan M Whelan

Nocturn- Siobhan M Whelan

Vixen- Siobhan M Whelan

A poem about the view I saw from the plane – Jayden Alexander

Midnight Bloom – Jayden Alexander

In The Courtyard of The Dead- Patrick Bourke

Notes to a Daughter – Anya Nagle

This is for Wishing – Kit Fruscione

The Tears of Santiago- Kit Fruscione

Surrender- Tiffany Green

The Insomniac Lyre – Kuljot Harar

Schedule – Tyler Jackson

The Opposite Lane – Tyler Jackson

HONEY- Anthony Raymond

WILDFIRE- Anthony Raymond

Unsaid- Olamide Shobowale

My Thirteen Months of Amnesia – Danny D Bennett

Industrial Ketamine Synthesis-Danny D Bennett

CRUSH- Anthony Raymond

Being Nothing – Alistair Thaw

One day – Nathaniel Terrell

On My Way-Nathaniel Terrell

Forgotten love – Jay

The Apothecary of Hearts-Elly Veritas

Wet Room – Heledd Haf Howells

Gore Donuts –Heledd Haf Howells

One true love- Jay

Time has always been faster than me-Esther Adebayo

Ruin-Kat Welch

Love Lies– Esther Adebayo

Peace With Space Tourism – Aaron Murdoch

Endless love supply – Jay

Gifted Child– Elly Veritas

Spider Lily-R.M. Marques

Romance – Heledd Haf Howells

Red rose helping with expressing our love– Jay

Inertia – Esther Adebayo

The war has just begun –Esther Elliot

Immortalised in art-Esther Adebayo

Only one hope-Esther Elliot