Mayari Literature Volume 2, Special Issue ii: #sixwordlovestories
14 February 2025-20 February 2025, Part II
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corner of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.” - Jamie Anderson
intimacy dances eyes on the prize - Sandra Anfang
Sandra Anfang is the founder of Rivertown Poets, a monthly reading series, and author of (the recent poetry collection) Rara Avis: for the birds
your touch burns like holy fire - Alex Zhiganova
Alex Zhiganova is a multilingual poet and writer, whose main theme at the moment is love. They enjoy unconventional and unique things in life, as well as a good challenge.
Honeyed love: Sticky sweetness curing heartaches. - Easter “Poetik Desire” Dodds
Easter “Poetik Desire” Dodds is a tech savvy creative who resides in Chesapeake, VA. Her “poetry is like a diary she shares with the world.” This poet is a hopeless romantic where love is the revolving theme for the majority of her writings.
On Valentine’s I kissed her headstone. -Don Narkevic
Don Narkevic lives in Buckhannon, West Virginia, where he writes and loves.
seeking: love-bites of the delicate variety. - Phynne~Belle
Phynne~Belle snacks on decadent, no-no candied hearts for breakfast. They have a tendency of bite-bite-biting back.
Assorted lovers in box of nuts - Terri Rose-Jertson
Theresa Rose-Jertson likens herself to the inspirational Bathsheba of the infamous David’s realm…inadvertently a temptress who was seduced by a love that transcended all time.
Me: An acquired kind of love. - Mo’Neeck Verse
Mo’Neeck Verse is a multi-talented writer, artist, and poet in South Carolina who founded and hosts the group Verse Bringerz in 2021. She encourages people to make the most silenced voices heard by asking, “Which verse will you bring?”
Love is a verb
Called action
- Elemen2alElemen2al
The x-quotient of this unbalanced equation,
Dancing with my reflection,
Under the pale moonlight. #StormGodBusiness
Once strangers, now lovers, forever entwined. - Karina Guardiola-Lopez
Karina Guardiola Lopez is a NYC-born writer and poet based in New Jersey. Her work appears in Press Pause Press, Acentos Review, and more. For more information go to kglopez.com.
Love has developed my sixth sense. - Vanessa Chica
Vanessa Chica Ferreira (she/her) is a dynamic New York City educator, poet, playwright, and fat activist whose works challenge societal norms and invite deep vulnerability.
Interesting possibility. Potential apparent. Touch confirming. - Diane Murray Ward
Diane Murray Ward: My “brains” caught attention which someone claimed “mind-blowing” though betrayed their intent by his lowered side-swinging gaze because my brains are still located above my neck! He “racked” another potential-date-candidate erasure in my undergrad Little White Book. I knew that “even liking” requires a cogent IQ and unmeasurable attributes!
Mom remembers!
Speaks unintelligibly.
We’re thrilled.
- Merilee JohnsonMerilee Johnson is a New Yorker who aspires to be a comedian but still has one foot in the poetry and writing community. Her children's book The Boy Who Caught the Moon was published by Mayari Literature, and her poems, short fiction, and monologues have been included in anthologies. She participates in various open mics, both online and onstage.
Tumultuous, Titillating, Telepathic - Together Till six-Ty!!! - E-justin
E-justin read with Kemlyn Tan Bappe's Between the Lines from 2022 to 2024. He also takes part in SingPoWriMo.
I especially liked Phynne's Mo'Neeck's, and Elemen2al's ones. But I commend all of y'all on six word love stories!!