Warm Greetings to all creative artists including poets, short story writers published in this latest edition of Taj Mahal Review. Welcome to the June 2020 edition of Taj Mahal Review. I am quite thankful and indebted to all authors across the globe published  in this  issue.

The latest  issue of TMR features haiku, poems, book reviews, short stories and several other interesting things.

No doubt, the world of poetry opens the door to the divine sanctuary. The poems and haiku included in this edition reveal a remarkable lyrical intensity. Some of these masterpieces written in a simple style full of cadence and simple harmony will certainly attract all readers due to their spontaneous way of composing and vivid power of imagination.

It is really very sad and tragic that due to dangerous coronavirus an increasingly large number of people have died. It is true that our beloved earth has suffered a lot due to our greed and cruelty toward plants and nature. We have failed to experience the 'ancient rapture' in the world of nature.

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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

The middle way, for if your pinions dip

Too low the waters may impede your flight;

And if they soar too high the sun may scorch them.

Fly midway.  

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The June 2019 issue of Taj Mahal Review presents some of the best  contemporary writings by  poets and creative artists across the globe. The fact is that the latest journal includes not only quite attractive poetry, short story and  book reviews, but also remarkable haiku by international poets. The poems and haiku selected for publication in this newest edition of TMR undoubtedly reveal rare and precious quality of spontaneity and emotional depth. It may be be added that great poetry has a highly attractive quality of simplicity blended with intensity of emotions as visible in the following immortal lines by the great  American poet Robert Frost, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes:

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — 

I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference.

The fact is that a poet is ‘a winged and a holy thing’, and there is no poetry in him until he has been inspired  by the beauty and power within his own innermost self. The inner vision enables John Milton to write such immortal poetry:

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would

By her own radiant light, though sun and moon

Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self

Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,

Where, with her best nurse Contemplation,

She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.

Milton is quite right when he says that only inner light can nourish and instruct us, and illumine our path and lift our soul to the sublime standard of perfection. The following lines reveal a great lesson for our postmodern world afflicted with violence and chaos:

He that has light within his own clear breast

May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts

Benighted walks under the midday sun

I make grateful acknowledgement to  all creative artists including poets and short story writers, whose poems, short stories and haiku are published in this edition of TMR. It is quite true that without your kind cooperation and gracious support it was not possible to publish the June 2019 edition of TMR.  Best Wishes. 

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Happy New Year. The latest issue of TMR reveals that the poems and haiku selected for publication in this issue are full of ease and variety, and never tend to monotony. In the poems, haiku and short story included in this edition, we find a wonderful union of  intellectual power and creative power. The Dec 2018 issue of TMR reveals altogether quite attractive features: poems, haiku, short story, book review and many other interesting things. Edgar Allan Poe aptly remarks that a great poem elevates the reader's soul: " I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only in as much as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse of half an hour, at the very utmost, it flags—fails—a revulsion ensues—and then the poem is, in effect, and in fact, no longer such."

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The June 2018 issue of TMR features some of the best  modern and postmodern authors across the globe. The fact is that their poems and haiku were selected for publication in this latest issue, because they reveal exciting heights and depths of their highly imaginative and observant mind.  In this issue there are so many interesting features haiku, artwork, poems revealing “inner mind” of the poet, literary criticism, book reviews and several other attractive things. The poems included in this latest issue reveal fresh originality and truly spontaneous imagination.

 It is quite apparent that  for enriching  the quality of  TMR we always look for  the creative artists who are able to write spontaneous poems and haiku.  William Wordsworth aptly remarks: “Poetry is the spontaneous  overflow of powerful feelings;  it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility: the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction,  the tranquility gradually disappears  and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does its actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on.”  For example, we are deeply attracted by  the artless and spontaneous  emotion in the following highly spiritual and mystical lines by Walt Whitman:

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;

How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

Or I guess if is the handkerchief of the Lord,

A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,

Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we

may see and remark, and say Whose?

It will be good  if the contemporary poets break new ground by writing spontaneous poems.

I am filled with very deep sense of gratitude to the authors included in this edition. There is no doubt that without the cooperation, kind help and generosity of these creative artists, it is not possible to publish the June 2018 edition of Taj Mahal Review.

SANTOSH KUMAR

Editor

The December 2017 issue of the Taj Mahal Review  aims to present some of the best contemporary  poets across the world, richly  gifted with an impressive scholarship and intense imagination. This latest edition of Cyberwit’s international journal  full of the exuberance of rich poetic expression and imagination, the charm and richness of images in the included haiku, shows immense variety with publishing short stories, haiku by the  poets across the globe,  artwork, book reviews and many other interesting features. It is necessary to reveal that though we receive a large number of poems, short stories and haiku from across the globe, I always try to do my best in selecting and including only those compositions, artwork, short stories and poems that are full of insight and valuable contribution to the world of literature and arts.  I trust that you will enjoy these poems, short stories and haiku. The most important  criterion for including the creative artists and poets in the Taj Mahal Review is their chief endeavor to create and invent new and original writings. This has certainly enhanced the prestige of the international journal TMR. The poems and haiku included in this latest TMR reveal ‘the inner core’ of the poets’ profound emotions.  M'Dermaid aptly comments: “Poetry lies hid within the inner core of man's thoughts and feelings and affections. It pervades the glorious universe in which the Almighty has placed him. It shines forth from the starry heavens, and from the deep blue vault of the summer sky. It lurks amid the green leaves of the groves, and gushes forth in the "wood notes wild" of their sweet songsters. It sparkles and plays in the flickering eddies of the stream.” Congratulations to Kazuo Ishiguro who  won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.  The British writer, famous across the globe for his novels The Buried Giant, Never Let Me Go, and The Remains of the Day, “has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of the world.”I am full of profound gratitude to all the creative artists whose abundant help and cooperation highly inspired me in this work of editing ad selecting. There is no doubt that I look forward to receiving your cooperation in the future issues of Taj and thank you again. Thanks again for your tremendous support, help and cooperation.

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