Mayari Literature, Issue II: Abundance

A Literary Micro-Journal

Letter from Our Guest Editor

Dear Reader,

Abundance begins within. This collection has made me journey through a portfolio of the different aspects of what abundance can be. Many people would always associate abundance with positivity, but the poems in this selection shows us; there is also abundance in the dark, and its in-betweens. Some people see it on cats, a boss or a coffee house; abundance has many faces.

Every gift is unique to each person, and the poets had laid on this collection; a plethora of dialogues, as a conversation of abundance manifests in each perspective that the poets have carefully crafted for Mayari Literature. 

Laura Grevel introduces abundance with the mundane aspects that are easily neglected; those simple joys that we take for granted. She also celebrates the intimacy of gratitude, through faith and nature. Dee Allen and Jennifer Nuesi brought it closer to home, as they sat side-by-side, juxtaposing their contexts between city lights and parenthood. Clive Oseman’s abundance of distractions was intriguing, Diane Murray Ward’s question on to fathom and Julian Matthews’ abandoning abundance, brings forward the heavier and usually hidden side of the theme. Marianne Tefft anchored the bravery to acknowledge the moments we can be grateful for in her poem. Ron Bremner threw the door open with his poetry, as he uses words that would bombards one with crisp language. The collection’s dismount held the subject with much grace and urgency with Sudipta Mishra’s piece.

Stay lit. Stay brave.

LKN

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Preface

Mark Fishbein, Chancellor of The Poetry Academy, 08 January 2024

Abundance…

The word itself is filled with abundant definitions. In the modern age, it is too often a theme for consumerism, as the Industrial Revolution has allowed almost all people on the economic scale to possess goods and services once only available to the aristocracy. Besides common things like running water and air-conditioned rooms, we are inundated with an abundance of products and options. Who could have imagined going to a local market and having a choice of twenty-five brands (or more) of tomato sauce, or a fifty-yard aisle of cold cereals? Or the infinite possibilities from the internet?