The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday October 14th, 2023
Endlessly Alone by Abigail George
Another relationship has come to an end. Perhaps it was the love of my life, perhaps not. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. The sunflowers in the backyard are telling me to put a sock in it and to stare at their yellow beauty. The rain pours from a gray sky, my wrists are blue, my hands pale and ice cold. It feels as if the rain has slipped through my soul. It’s autumn. The air is dry now and still. The day is a vision and I am in the zone. There is dirt under my fingernails. I sit and bite my nails checking my emails sporadically. I sit in the family room on a comfortable sofa. The foam oozing out of the chair I am sitting on is covered by a soft blanket, and then I remember you. I start playing all the memories I have of you in my head. You come to life as if on the big screen of my mind. You were beautiful and strong, fragile and delicate. Whatever that means. Whatever purpose, ministry, anointing and calling means you taught me certain aspects of those words with the best of intentions.
“Of to the mental hospital. The villagers of Smarty Town are waiting there for you crazy crackers. Can you do nothing? Don’t just stand there!” As my mother screamed at me I put her words into the context of a song. “Yellow” by Coldplay hit the back of my head like a wave, resonating in my shoulder blades, the tightness in my neck until it buried itself in my soul. I was all choked up inside. No one present could see.
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Growing Old #poem by Virginia Maria Romero
“Summers bloom, gives way to rich hues of autumn
to rough and weathered landscapes…
faces creased,
like rugged dirt roads that meander across the land”
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Ephemera #97 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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