A Limited Open Call for Setu: December 2024: Sweet-bitter Farewells!

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,

But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;

The little waves, with their soft, white hands,

Efface the footprints in the sands,

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

 ---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Brief Description of the theme:

Bidding goodbyes can be both sweet and sorrowful!

Lot depends on the contexts of saying goodbyes.

 

Farewells can be liberating also.

They can also cause suffering and take a psychosomatic toll.

 

In life, humans come across such shared situations where farewells become inevitable with their attendant consequences and emotional binaries.

 

Time to say goodbye!

How do you say that in real time to your friends, family, neighbours, colleagues, strangers (on a train, bus, plane, etc.)?

That brave attempt at turning around, hiding unbidden tears in red eyes and overcoming a choked voice at the inevitable parting.

The final parting!

The meaning of being human in separations, ad-hoc or permanent.

 

Well!

So many ways of recalling those moments.

 

Please send your works around this theme.

Interpret your own way.

Send us the best ones for review.

 

We are waiting.

 

Details:

Theme: Sweet-bitter Farewells!

Deadline: December- 25^th, 2024 (strict adherence)

E-mail: setuedit@gmail.com

Subject line: Submission for the Special Edition

Title: Only the first letter in the uppercase, not the full title in uppercase and without underline or fancy decoration (full title in Bold)

Author Name: Immediately below the title (Bold)

Word Limit: 40 lines maximum (poetry); 500-1000words (prose)

Instructions:

---Please send poetry (three poems of 20 lines, maximum), prose piece of max 1000 words, themed-painting/drawing (three-five), with a brief bio of 100 words only, along with a recent pic, as two separate attachments, for the editorial evaluation.

---Text in the Word format, font 14

---No PDFs

---Mention, in the brief cover note that it is an original, unpublished work

---Only the best works will be featured

---Non-compliance will lead to the summary rejection

---No notification of the rejected pieces will be sent.

 

Meanwhile, take a quick dive here:
---https://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html

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Setu, November 2024