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🧡 A place for curiosity, joy and the bittersweetness of life with the mission to keep wonder alive and kicking. // Est. 2022 // Subs CLOSED 💜
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Our wonderful contributor Rachel Turney presents her #photo collection “In Japan”, published on The Amazine in December, 2024.

Watch it below 🧡

#travelphotography #japan

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In Japan, 5 travel scenes by Rachel Turney
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November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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“I think of tenderness, of soft moments — of snapshot colors, like the train”

🎧 We proudly present another amazine #poetryreading!

Our wonderful contributor Stacie Eirich reads her #poem Siren Song, published on The Amazine in July 2025.

Give it a listen below 🧡

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Siren Song, by Stacie Eirich
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November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted.
The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.

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Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC and TM logos. Text: EMERGENCY Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla. Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping.   The flotilla did not break any laws. What is unlawufl is genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilians vessels and abduction of all those on board. Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC amd TM logos. Text: We will never stop challenging Israel's illegal blockade - a siege weaponized to starve, silence, and imprison Palestinians.  Stand with us to break the siege and hold governments and institutions accountable for enabling Israel's crimes.
October 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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“One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image – things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why – is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.”

-- Tracy K. Smith
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“Hope hope hope 
for a free Falastin.”

Couldn’t have finished off the season with a better message 🍉🕊️

Thank you warmly, our dearest contributors 🧡

Read the new poem by Nitika Balaram, now published on our webzine 😊

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Quote:‏‏ Pick pick pick me! Turn off my people-pleasing pleas, dig dig dig deep for nourishment  within my own mind for a morsel of hope hope hope  for a peaceful planet. Hud Hud of Hope, by Nitika Balaram
September 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance':

77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Hang them. Carry them. Remember.

All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.

Follow link in bio for more.
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Read 2 new #poems by Brian Ji, A Slow Decline & Tripping the Sky, now published on our webzine 😊

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#poetry #literarymagazine
Quote:‏‏ And still, the land moves forward—  not with collapse, but erosion A Slow Decline, by Brian Ji
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Read a flash #personalessay by Haley Young, now published on our webzine 😊

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#litmag #travelpiece #nonfiction #vanlife
Quote: I’ve learned traveling full time means leaving parts of myself all over the country. I scatter them to the wind and road and subway; I give pieces to new cities, offer bites to strangers in coffee shops, bury thoughts on public land, tuck them beneath park benches. I leave drips of tahini on New York sidewalks and footprints on Outer Banks sand and tiny heartstrings everywhere Sean has held my hand. Diary of an adventurous homebody, by Haley Young
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Read a new #poem by @hibahshabkhez.bsky.social Shabkhez, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/09/09/t...

#poetry #literarymagazine
Quote:‏‏ I speak of red roses called by other names
To you, who do not yet know this one. I sing
Of suns xanthic, amarillo, jaune, before
You even know yellow; find you poems and games
That spin out sentences like candy-floss Talking To a Baby, by Hibah Shabkhez
September 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Read the new #prose piece which is also a music review by Easter Mukora, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/09/05/f...

#literarymagazine #music #writing
Quote: it’s so late into the night that it’s morning and i am better off waking up than sleeping. so i am writing. free dreams about dunya, by Easter Mukora
September 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Read a new #poem by Irina Vérène, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/09/02/b...

#poetry #literarymag
Quote:‏‏ meet me
under the celestial croissant
with its ridged crispy dough
and cream-colored insides
dreamy craters
perfect for scooping up space breakfast in the sky, by Irina Vérène
September 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Because the sky still hangs its blue between the bombs. Because your mother’s voice is a compass needle trembling north."

Oladosu Michael Emerald's "Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns"

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Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns
by Oladosu Michael Emerald
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August 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Read the new #nonfiction piece about exploring Gouda's charm and unmasking history's wounds by @gillywater.substack.com, now published on our webzine 😊

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#writers #literarymagazine #travel
Quote: But this time, we’re not tourists; we’re immigrants. Say Cheese, by Gillian Fletcher
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Read a #newpoem by Wing Yau, now published on our webzine 😊

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#literarymagazine #poetry
Quote:‏‏ One day you’ll wake up
when the black threads of your sewn heart
entangled like chained demisemiquavers
in an epic theme song.
Up in the sky you’ll sing:
“Happiness is not too high
when it’s upside down
like rain.” The Doraemon Theme Song (Backmasking), by Wing Yau
August 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Read a new #poem by Nitika Balaram, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/08/22/b...

#poetry #literarymagazine
Quote:‏‏ Yesterday in my Arabic class I learnt how to say En-naes betmoot fi kol makaen  Ana za3laena wa alby beyo3ga3ni People are dying everywhere I’m sad and my heart hurts Broken Hearts and Cages, by Nitika Balaram
August 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Read a new #poem by Cally Lim, now published on our webzine 😊

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#poetry #litmag
Quote:‏‏ It is not your fault, my child, but I have a confession: This whole thing is increasingly an irrition on us both. Inner Child Work, by Cally Lim
August 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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New Issue drops August 28th. It's FREE to subscribers and it's FREE to subscribe at our website. Cover by the amazing Alvaro P-FF. More details to follow...
#new #news #art #coverart #Gaza #breakingnews #litmag
August 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Sometimes when your mentals are out of alignment you could reimagine childhood moments for something more sustainable; see 'washed out' as my offering. Geoffrey. Thanks to the Amazine Community for making this shareable.
August 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Thank you Iva and The Amazine Community for accepting and now publishing my poem 'washed out'. Extremely grateful. GA✔️
August 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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A new #poem by @8cakey.bsky.social is now live on our webzine 😊

Read more here 👉 theamazine.com/2025/08/16/w...

#literarymag #poets #poetry
washed out disturbingly, starlight is displaced by city neon brightness in colour codes that dim our senses our wonder at the night sky. i took my earliest memories indoors to be kept alive with foster and nurture so that i would never lose sight of myself by Geoffrey Aitken
August 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Read the rest of the #newpoem by Josh Young, now published on our webzine 😊

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#litmag #poetry
Quote:‏‏ The bacon and hashbrowns sizzled. The dishes and forks in the sink bickered with each other as they were carelessly dropped in a soapy bath. The fluorescent lights pummeled my eyes in sharp contrast to the outside where rain drizzled in the dreary night. The Diner, by Josh Young
August 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Read 3 new #poems, I Sit With Him By The Water, Pet & 29, by @riversnowdrop.bsky.social, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/08/12/3...

#litzine #poetry
Quote:‏‏ i am twenty-nine  and sewing a fresh lining, buying flowers for the living room table i am twenty-nine winding the soft cable of my body into fluid contortions, all forms available my altered shape born 29, by River Snowdrop
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Israel is starving Palestinians to death.
Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza with impunity.
Israel openly plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
Israel is openly planning concentration camps in Gaza.
Israel kidnaps and targets doctors in Gaza.
August 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Read the new #nonfiction piece by Charlotte Deason Robillard, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/08/09/o...

#literarymagazine #writers
Quote: Some time last year I started making morning coffee shop trips a priority again. Three of my pottery friends and I started meeting on Fridays at a cafe in my neighborhood, and I started stopping for coffee on my way into work two days a week. I found that on the nights I knew I was going out for coffee the next day, I was excited to wake up in the morning. I put more thought into pulling together a good outfit, and it was easier to get out of bed and dressed when I knew the day would start with gentle, friendly exchanges that reminded me of the tenderness humans show towards each other even when they have no strong ties, no obligation. On Getting Dressed and Getting Coffee, by Charlotte Deason Robillard
August 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM