The December 2019 issue of TMR features some of the best modern and postmodern poets across the globe. The latest issue includes some magnificent poems and haiku devoid of banal epithets and any type of false elegance.  In this newest edition of the journal, we will find other interesting features: artwork, literary criticism and book reviews. It is beyond comprehension why a few writers criticize poetry. It is not possible to agree with the view that we should 'shut our eyes to poets and pipers'. It will be good if we peruse Defence of Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney. In this famous work Sidney "analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence,—its development from, and operation on, the mind of man". Philip Sidney aptly remarks that poetry is better than philosophy and history: "The poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs, the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher.Essentially, poetry shows history more brilliantly than history, and explains philosophy more cogently than philosophy." It is good to remember that Buddha's middle path philosophy is quite prudent and wise for our contemporary world afflicted with violence and brutality. The great Roman poet Ovid aptly says:
I caution you to keep