VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1 JUNE 2006 (9th Issue)

© Pepita Selles 

An International Literary Journal 

Edited by: Dr. Santosh Kumar Binding: Hardback (pp: 544 with a separate section of authors bio) ISSN: 0972-6004  Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, India Pub. Date: June 2006 Front & Back Cover Art: Ladymaggic

The mission of TMR is to promote creative writing and arts by both known and unknown contemporary poets and artists transcending geographical barriers and nations, defend freedom of expression, and to promote literary fellowship across the globe without any distinction of religion, race, nation, or gender. This issue is for those who love poetry, short fiction and artwork. All creative souls endowed with a poetic temperament will be inspired to become poets, who alone are the chosen agents of God. The variety and intense melody of English verse, which has been a tradition since Shakespeare, is again shown in several poems selected for this issue. TMR assimilates poems and short stories from different nations, and presents a homogenous work of original creative writing.

US president George W. Bush was in India March 1-3 to finalise the civilian nuclear cooperation deal. It is good that America is recasting its relationship with India. The world's oldest and the world's largest democracy-both America and India-are fighting terrorism and extremism. It's most unfortunate and tragic that the jihadi terrorists on Tuesday March 7, 2006 targeted Sankat Mochan temple in the holy city of Varanasi, and a chain of blasts killed several persons. In India, the temples are generally crowded on Tuesday, the day of special prayers. The timing of the blast was probably to maximize casualties. Like Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gipsy, I'm 'Still nursing the unconquerable hope, \ Still clutching the inviolable shade' and trust that terrorism, fundamentalism can never solve problems.

President Bush used the word 'Namaste' in his speech. 'Namaste', a Sanskrit word, means 'the God in me honours the God in you'. 

The poems included in this issue are marked by intensity of feeling, the vivid pictorial quality of imagination, an extraordinary feeling for the music of words, absence of obscurity and artistic monotony, breathtaking individuality and energy. They differ from conventional thought and customary morality. By the charm of style, the subtle harmonies of verse, and the splendor of their fancy, the poets of June 2006 issue have achieved spontaneous poetic cadences and sustained depth. The vowel music in several poems is unsurpassable. There is no trace of anything impure, or ugly, or violent in the creative compositions included in this issue.

I humbly express my sincere obligations to all the authors of the issue for their kind help and generosity. The gratitude that Cyberwit wishes to acknowledge is to the creative artists, without whose cooperation, kind support, donations and subscriptions, the publication of TMR June 2006 would not have been possible.

SANTOSH KUMAR
Editor

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