ADESANMI: RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL By Mike Ekunno | Essay | PAROUSIA Magazine
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For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate : Angelic Vision of Love for a New World Title: For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate Author: Amirah Al Wassif Publisher: Poetic Justice Books & Arts Year: 2019 Pages: 44 ISBN 10: 1950433013 … Continue reading For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate : Angelic Vision of Love for a New World by Joseph. S. Spence, Sr. | Book Review | PAROUSIA Magazine
Have Faith (Senryu) Bitterness shall not Have victory over souls A new dawn will come! Joseph S. Spence, Sr., is the author of three poetry books. He invented the, “Epulaeryu Poetry” form. His writings have appeared in national and … Continue reading Have Faith (Senryu) by Joseph S. Spence, Sr. | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Windows of Life…I See God’s Light! Looking out the window yesterday I saw Illnesses and plagues, sadness and failures Lives short lived with dreams not met Things wished for not coming to past The love from God not resonating Looking out the window today I see Families’ growth and failures Needs, wants and wishes on the table … Continue reading The Windows of Life…I See God’s Light!
IN NEED OF A NEED! A need is something that is an absolute requirement for survival primarily and every living thing, man especially has got survival instinct in him. On this side of creation, we all do all we can to make ends meet, in order to keep body and soul together; no breathing human is exempted from the rat race for relevance, eminence, and excellence to keep one’s social influence or prominence. If one doesn’t achieve all in his life time, he transfers the desire to his children and that continues for generations. There is no end to … Continue reading IN NEED OF A NEED! by Mary Joy Orola | PAROUSIA Magazine
1. Before you met me, my life. was a series of unfortunate events. this body was not mine and how to get away with murder was my google top search. I. in this deadpool too. needed no sense 8 to … Continue reading Poems from Prudence Okeoghene Emudianughe | PAROUSIA Magazine
God is making you feel like a worthless being… “You heard him vividly saying, you knew you were a sinner looking for a way out, you knew the way. But that your sins are just too lovely … Continue reading God is making you feel like a worthless being… by Olude Peter Sunday | Fiction | PAROUSIA Magazine
His Shining and Unconditional Love (Septolet) Love Gracious savior Preserving our souls Such comfort Resurrection Saving grace His love for us Author’s Comments: The Septolet poem has seven lines with a total of fourteen words. It has two parts … Continue reading His Shining and Unconditional Love by Joseph S. Spence, Sr. | PAROUSIA Magazine
SLIPPING OFF I see Him healing my wounds, wounds that words cannot say Scars fading Filling my void, voids that I have long lived with I never believed in a God for a while Though, I dare not question or … Continue reading Three Poems from Damilola Omotoyinbo | PAROUSIA Magazine
NOTES TO GOD You guide the Pencil from My teeth As I write Words – Touching You. You spin Me dizzy Never lost But always Present. You are so Close to me And micromanage My happy soul With alluring … Continue reading NOTES TO GOD by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
Angelica Always eager for the cheap laugh, I’d make fun of her brown teeth, dandruff, moustache, and long chin hairs. She’d park her fender-bashed car in the middle of Main and shuffle into senior lunch. She’d drink too much coffee, … Continue reading Angelica by Bruce Pemberton | PAROUSIA Magazine
A Plea to Dear Lord I ask Not for silver and gold Nor for the luxuries that make one err I ask not for joy That makes for grief at sunset But that I may be your mind The best … Continue reading Two Poems from Olatubosun David | PAROUSIA Magazine
THE WISDOM OF ART The rain Is steady As I let The dog in. Playing with her I activate Tender hemispheres – Just unwinding In the nothingness Of being – The Divine Reaches down Like a hand And lost, … Continue reading THE WISDOM OF ART by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
true self: lying on the pillowy bed i count my breath running from random thoughts like jonah fleeing nineveh i encounter a system of larks realizing that the observable universe is transient and less than real as i eclipse the … Continue reading true self: by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER Sin Like rain Drumming Causes me To feel Prayful So, with Veneration And dragon Fierceness I spiritually Fly Inside, Through the Vastness Of the galaxy, Leaving behind A crowd Of sorrows And stars Begin to Burn Beginning … Continue reading CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
Inhale Easter Grubby months of heat, dawn hauling dry days of dust, wearing down, wearing through Lenten testing northern people discover resurrection in pastel flowers and trees bursting leaves while in this tropic land of dry and wet, … Continue reading Inhale Easter by Victoria Crawford | Easter 2019