tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91519271519787130472024-03-13T03:23:38.221-04:00Aida BodeWords to Breathe - Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, TranslationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-49552321277854308722022-08-18T10:01:00.000-04:002022-08-18T10:01:41.003-04:00Tagged<p><span style="background-color: white;">This is a recent publication and I hope you'll read it and find the fragility of humanity to be something we all need to be grateful for, - and who knows, perhaps we can hope for a better future than what seems to darken the horizon at the moment...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Here's <a href="https://www.cephalopress.com/post/tagged" target="_blank">Tagged</a>. Thank you Cephalopress for your warm welcome!</span></p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-47382287120709230972022-04-30T11:14:00.005-04:002022-04-30T11:14:45.775-04:00Instinct of 1985<p>I was so looking forward to this publication. I hope this piece of my past exposes a tiny spec of what it meant to live in a dictatorship.</p><div>I am so thankful that Santa Clara Review accepted and published <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://issuu.com/santaclarareview/docs/master_cover_volume_109.1_front_and_e6279150754ec5&source=gmail&ust=1651417964834000&usg=AOvVaw33VaH5MSv6Jsdp48yVLr8I" href="https://issuu.com/santaclarareview/docs/master_cover_volume_109.1_front_and_e6279150754ec5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Instinct of 1985</a> which you can find on page 110 of the publication.</div><div><br /></div><div>Do browse through these pages for some really poignant selections. </div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-31490485453872382052022-04-20T08:25:00.004-04:002022-04-20T08:25:48.599-04:00Fingering<p>Here comes Spring, melancholy and ironic.... yet, hopeful and seeking truth with all its might. Here is <a href="https://grand-little-things.com/2022/03/26/fingering-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Fingering</a>, published by Grand Little Things, seeking and hoping, just as as this Spring :)</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-62055328786014371882022-02-23T10:12:00.000-05:002022-02-23T10:12:09.187-05:00Odysseus and My Father<p>This is another true story that touches on the subject of migration, which although is not tabu, it is not spoken or perceived for what it is - a painful uprooting of one's life and livelihood. But this story is about those left behind and the struggle for some sense of identity people try to find while knowing that part of them is cut off, almost lost.</p><p>I hope this story, <a href="https://theravensperch.com/odysseus-and-my-father-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Odysseus and My Father</a>, will enrichen your view of the not so often talked about migration - the one that doesn't go anywhere...</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-37814963269822434742022-02-17T10:19:00.016-05:002022-02-23T10:22:45.200-05:00Invisible HateI often think how resentment, bitterness, and finally - HATE - can turn one into a living dead, a poison.<div>Here's <a href="https://theravensperch.com/invisible-hate-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Invisible Hate</a> - and the ruin that inevitably follows it</div>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-88355888381478967982022-01-29T14:20:00.002-05:002022-01-29T17:53:53.337-05:00Memory of a Soul<p>How grateful I am to share <a href="https://mortalmag.com/2022/01/29/memory-of-a-soul/" target="_blank">Memory of a Soul </a>and how happy that the piece has a home at The Mortal Mag. </p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-30424827167093732652022-01-29T14:15:00.001-05:002022-01-29T17:16:12.482-05:00Lost and Found<p>I try to find courage in the bravery of those who raised me. <a href="https://thewritelaunch.com/2021/12/lost-and-found-creative-nonfiction/" target="_blank">Lost and Found </a>is for my grandfather. I am so pleased that The Write Launch welcomed this piece in its pages!</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-87693978341076975432022-01-29T13:30:00.001-05:002022-01-29T17:16:21.201-05:00In the Blink of an EyeSometimes revenge and justice share space together - that space is called VOID. <div>Here is <a href="https://underwoodpress.com/bakerstreetlit.com/?p=99" target="_blank">In the Blink of an Eye</a> published by Underwood Press for their inaugural Baker Street issue.</div>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-62693129264932366252022-01-29T12:00:00.003-05:002022-01-29T17:16:30.267-05:00Before the Words, There Were Echoes<a href="http://entropy2.com/blogs/100words/2022/01/06/before-the-words-there-were-echoes/" target="_blank">Before the Words. There Were Echoes</a> is the 100-word reflection that tries to, perhaps, feel that pre-existential substance that brought forth the something before the nothing. Thank you Entropy Squared!Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-46281452707787668762022-01-28T15:52:00.002-05:002022-01-29T17:16:38.661-05:00Hagia SophiaSometimes we're caught up in the past, but not in our own, but in that of those who came before us. I was so touched when San Antonio Review informed me of publishing my poem <a href="https://www.sareview.org/pub/a10majsy/release/1" target="_blank">Hagia Sophia</a>, for this poem is not for me, but for those that have passed on to me their love and their faith.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-21489384419587309662022-01-24T11:01:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:55:59.036-05:00Sisyphus and Truth<p>Have you ever wondered if the myths were not really myths, but a way that truth revealed itself? Well, here's <a href="https://www.neurologicalliterarymagazine.com/post/sisyphus-and-truth-aida-bode" target="_blank">Sisyphus and Truth</a>. How honored I am that Neuro Logical published my take on the Greek narrative of this masterful cheat.</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-31268475680059912552022-01-19T12:06:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:59:14.806-05:00There Is Always HopeSometimes hope is absurd, and perhaps, it should be. Here is my 100-word take <a href="https://thedrabble.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/there-is-always-hope/" target="_blank">There Is Always Hope</a>, published by The Drabble.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-91195943870267258642022-01-18T05:00:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:58:56.569-05:00A Daughter's ConfessionI am so honored that my poem <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Harbinger-Asylum-various-authors/dp/0692537481/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1476825960&sr=8-2&keywords=Harbinger+Asylum" target="_blank">A Daughter's Confession</a> was included in the 2015 Fall Edition of Harbinger Asylum by Transcendent Zero Press.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-26971201038009430942022-01-17T12:00:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:58:33.897-05:00The Last Leaf<p>Often, childhood is where we face and overcome demons, but often, we don't know how we did that and how we experienced our first understanding of tabu and sorrowful events. I have attempted to explore such an event of my own childhood in my short story <a href="https://www.clayliterary.com/post/raven-issue-15-december-15-2020" target="_blank">The Last Leaf, </a>published by Clay Literary for its Raven issue.</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-2361240769686126672022-01-16T16:32:00.006-05:002022-01-29T16:33:51.212-05:00PatmosI spent two of the most beautiful months of my life in <a href="https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/patmos-by-aida-bode-landmarks-series/" target="_blank">Patmos</a>, and so, I was beyond happy when Silver Birch Press included the poem in their wonderful Landmark series.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-14357463423456589972022-01-15T16:29:00.016-05:002022-01-29T17:06:37.384-05:00Past Is a Dimension<a href="https://www.cathexisnorthwestpressarchive.com/past-is-a-dimension/" target="_blank">Past Is a Dimension</a> is the first poem accepted and published by Cathexis Northwest Press. I am always glad to be included in this wonderful publication!Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-3332361689363119372022-01-14T16:25:00.018-05:002022-01-29T16:28:53.516-05:00OmnipresentI am grateful to Ephemeral Elegies for publishing my poem <a href="https://ephemeralelegies.com/2021/02/05/omnipresent-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Omnipresent</a>, and helping me use my poetry to experience those moments that define life's features and make us understand.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-91624883740501365982022-01-11T13:03:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:57:01.017-05:00Milk Line<p>If there could be such a thing as poetic creative-non fiction, well, <a href="https://www.allegropoetry.org/p/issue-5.html" target="_blank">Milk Line</a> is and I am so happy that Allegro Poetry Magazine has published it.</p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-35963684373625359952022-01-10T11:23:00.000-05:002022-01-29T15:56:15.149-05:00St. John the Baptist<p>Who said that Halloween is scary? It may be that it is plain merciless and a tiny bit sarcastic. I guess you can decide as you read <a href="https://oddballmagazine.com/flash-fiction-by-aida-bode/?fbclid=IwAR2RdaRVuCctTSbRLjJbssHd9Oc9ClppM6G41UDqCEJ33sC-CSmOtSAdQFE" target="_blank">St. John the Baptist</a>, so graciously shared by Oddball Magazine. </p>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-20778715303840890332022-01-09T13:00:00.000-05:002022-01-29T16:00:20.476-05:00DisappearanceI am thrilled that <a href="https://preludemag.com/issues/2/disappearance/" target="_blank">Disappearance</a> is featured in Prelude's pages. Please read this poem which tries to describe the horrors of dictatorship.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-41938807393026698042022-01-08T11:25:00.000-05:002022-01-29T16:00:01.401-05:00A Death Without MourningThere are the times when life is hard, but then there are also those times when life simply passes by silent and without anyone noticing it. Here's the sad story of <a href="https://thepunchmagazine.com/the-byword/fiction/a-death-without-mourning" target="_blank">A Death Without Mourning</a> published by The Punch Magazine.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-64747272909162769492022-01-07T15:48:00.001-05:002022-01-29T16:59:28.716-05:00Indifference and Memory of DustPoetry is about exposing wrong and shaming society for its silence. I'm honored that Oddball Magazine has published my poems <a href="https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Indifference</a> and <a href="https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-aida-bode-2/" target="_blank">Memory of Dust</a> and has allowed me to make noise.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-30064792362801680112022-01-06T15:32:00.008-05:002022-01-29T17:16:52.566-05:00Alpha to Z<div>For some companionship with your random reflections, here is <a href="https://vitabrevisliterature.com/poems/alpha-to-z-poetry-by-aida-bode/" target="_blank">Alpha to Z</a> - published by Vita Brevis Press</div>Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-41118320301690512402022-01-05T16:21:00.000-05:002022-01-29T16:25:09.878-05:00Myth and Twelve BreathsDelighted that Boston Poetry Magazine shared in its beautiful pages my poems <a href="https://bostonpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/myth/" target="_blank">Myth</a> and <a href="https://bostonpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/twelve-breaths/" target="_blank">Twelve Breaths</a>.Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151927151978713047.post-67567653975538405472022-01-04T15:28:00.003-05:002022-01-29T17:17:02.028-05:00A Woman Re-WrittenThe New Haven Poetry Institute has included in its Circumference, Issue 4, my poem <a href="https://poetryatpi.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/circumference-issue-4-630-pdf.pdf" target="_blank">A Woman Re-Written</a> (page 15) alongside some wonderful prose and poetry. What a collection!Aida Bodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15545776005140933481noreply@blogger.com