The necessity of anonymity – editor’s note

I am not a silent poet

I know there are many countries, such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, China, etc. which control or try to control people’s (especially writers’) activity on the social networks in an attempt to prevent dissent becoming public. If anyone wishes to submit their work to me for possible publication and actually finds a way to do so, in a message on Facebook, via email, in any way what ever… I should like to assure them that I will respect their anonymity in an effort to protect them from any repercussions that publication might have if the real authorship were to be known by the authorities in their country.

I can’t do much, but I can and shall refuse to reveal these brave writers/artists to any and all authority.

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soft it is we drown by Reuben Woolley

I am not a silent poet

here
……..on
red sand & sifting
……..i’ll find no diamonds
……..& no
………..dark
………..pearls

a treasure
………..drowning
………..dry

………………………deep
the tide
that didn’t rise
………………………the green
sea
that doesn’t cover
………..we’ll walk
a land that bleeds
the dunes the red & sinking

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Voices in Time by Pamela Ireland Duffy

I am not a silent poet

For years,

we sat in silence

tearing out our eyes

for fear of darkness,

biting off our tongues

for fear of lies

for years

fearful and lost

whilst gaolers jangled keys

and swaggered

and echoes whimpered

in the endless corridors

each blind eye

and silent tongue

turns the key more surely

on each hostage heart

and walls each one of us

into the solitary prisons

of an aching world

but it is time now

time to look

time to speak

we are humanity

and we are neither blind

nor silent

only look evil in the face

and speak its name

and all the choirs of history

shall sing unbound

and before us

no dark lie shall hold.

Pamela Ireland Duffy

I have written poems since childhood, but rarely showed them to others.  I have lived in France since 1988, and although I haven’t abandoned my native tongue, I write mostly…

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