The Creativity Issue: Poetry Roundup

Each issue we feature the work of Asian female writers all over the world. Here are this issue's poems:

MB Marckus

Saba Sheikh

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Not the Real Opponent by Lisa Luu

Silence those empty words you call “jokes”

Masked by a poker face when confronted

The overpowering noise

Being accustomed to the sense of peace one day

Being hurled in the lion’s den with daggered stares that could slice right through the next day

Prejudice

Judgment

Accusations

In this world, they don’t disappear

No

If only this were just a dream

Wake up from it in 3, 2, 1…

Violence erupts

What have we come to in this day where innocents are targeted, when they are as much as a victim as you

One bites the bullet

Others knocked down

When will it be enough?