One Hundred shepherd boy with sheep sweeping through Canaan’s plain — ninety-nine palms & arms bears scars — paws — bear’s &beast’s yet, a stray, weighs ward – west, to waste wool in wolves’ wood. But would he? Wheel, he … Continue reading A Poem from Grant Williams | PAROUSIA Magazine
HEAVEN’S GATE When I get there amidst filthy souls late,You will open heaven’s gateWith the high pitch of your honey voice,I will sing like angels with no noiseTo trace in my beautiful voice,For all I have is you as my … Continue reading Three Poems from Daniel Yohanna | PAROUSIA Magazine
HALO I don’t have enough of myself to confront living. So I let grief have its way, Piling regrets where a heart should be. The sun is licking on souls, again.And I hand over mine like a coin too rusted … Continue reading Two Poems from Prosper Enotor| PAROUSIA Magazine
DIVINE TOUCH I took a huge step back from lifeWith the hopelessness of each passing day I wore a smiling face with disillusioned heart My inside was too damp with uncried tears No one knew the depth of my drowning … Continue reading Three Poems from Pele Banji | PAROUSIA Magazine
In those happenings:The immediate intimacy of a night’s traveling companion.The ease of revealing selves without consequence.While closely distant in adjoining seats.And the miles sail by.And the eyes grudgingly slide shut. Now escaping the fog of a traveling sleep.With reality coming … Continue reading In those happenings by John Sullivan|Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
An Auroral Psalm The heavens declare the glory of God. The trees sway their arms in a verdant hallelujah. Cardinals and robins, kingfishers and cranes warble their mighty hymns. Evening raindrops linger awakening incense from loamy soil; rose and jasmine … Continue reading Three Poems from Aimee Selah | PAROUSIA Magazine
It was a Sunday, twenty years ago, when a balding red-haired man approached me on the Philadelphia Parkway. He asked if I believed in Jesus. He told me that his name was Joe, and I said to him that mine … Continue reading Joe on the parkway by Mark Tulin | Creative non-fiction | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Changing Narrative of TOUCH: A Poetry Review of ‘Touch’, A Spoken Word Piece by Donna Ogunnaike By Joseph Jegede and Glory Diamond Around the world, there is a drastic change in what we once called life; living has been … Continue reading TOUCH by Joseph Jegede and Glory Diamond | Poetry Review | PAROUSIA Magazine
Mama was never the same after losing Grandpa, her twin sister, Charlene, and my brother Braylon. Mama stared into my brown eyes, grabbed ahold of my braids and whispered, “I will keep you safe Ashanti, no matter what. My life … Continue reading LOSS by Carol Lauver | Flash Fiction | PAROUSIA Magazine
Rolling Gray purple Waters Revelatory. Anonymous Dry leaves Blow Across Cracked Sidewalks. An open Window I shoulder Past. Dancing glances Of animated Strangers. My sleep is Undone By paradox, And then I quickly Fall back Asleep. Whispered Voices In a … Continue reading DREAM #4 by Rick Davis | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
Holy Romance In that Holy romance. To dream- and love with no end. In that which is promised, but invisible. Accepting present grief as the price of expected joy. Embracing love lost as love first received. For the best of … Continue reading Holy Romance by John Sullivan |Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
AFTERNOON WALK Agitated birds swoop in a funnel-blur of blue color. Garden dandelions in oceanwater dark grass. Parting sky shimmers in blueberry stain glass. God’s fiery face in the miracle of sunblessed sky. The dog howls, playfully at synergistic shadows. … Continue reading Afternoon Walk by Rick Davis
We have come to the age and era where we have less kids. We can say for sure that we have children based on their age groups, but the mind sets of these children have been tampered with by the … Continue reading SEXUAL ABUSE by Temitope Awonusi | PAROUSIA Magazine
An Ark of survival Little by little , bit by bit Under the sun & in the rain Just like Noah in the forest of fate My dreams from the scratch Sprouted into grains of gain Secretly , silently with … Continue reading A Poem from Adeyeye James Oluwatobi | PAROUSIA Magazine
Let there be Light! I parted the lips of my curtain today, & saw particles of voidness over the town; News of chaos and confusion like a sweeping wind, running riot in the desert scattering pyramids … Continue reading Three Poems from Olaewe David Opeyemi | PAROUSIA Magazine
MOTTO (after Bertold Brecht) After these dark times will we still sing? Yes, we will sing. We will sing loudly and clearly about these dark times. LAMB Not the knife or the wound the knife makes not the … Continue reading Three Poems from Jamie Parsley | PAROUSIA Magazine
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