Foreword

"We are all visitors to this time, this place, we are just passing through .
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love and then we return home."
Australian aboriginal proverb .

The Year of the Poet has taken ekphrastic poetry for 2021; reflecting the world famous pictures of our time. The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is the verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Any poem about art, whether rhymed or unrhymed, metrical or free verse, may be considered ekphrastic .

In August our theme is on the painting of Mundara Koorang .

Mundara Koorang is an Australian Aboriginal artist, designer, teacher, elder, actor, and author.He was born in 1952 in the Eora (Sydney) New South Wales and is descendant of the Gamilaroi people. Mundara's grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother were all born in the Barwon River, Brewarrina area. He is an internationally renowned Aboriginal artist and the recipient of the David O'Chin Photographic Award .His primary passion is the successful education of aboriginal people and he is a mentor of Indigenous people. He strongly believes that the indigenous people can and must be in control of their destinies.

In 2005 Mundara published a Dreamtime story entitled The Little Platypus and the Fire Spirit. Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, .They love Nature . Symbols are used by Aboriginal people in their art to preserve their culture and tradition. They are also used to depict various stories and are still used today in contemporary Aboriginal Art.

White is the spirit colour. Black is the colour of night and represents Aboriginal people . Red is the colour of the land or of blood. Yellow is the colour of the sun and sacred.

There are several types of and methods used in making Aboriginal art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, and weaving and string art. Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world.

The Inner Child Press with its mission of building bridges of cultural understanding takes the responsibility for global peace and harmony through poetry with International Anthologies.

We respect the land, nature, folk tales, culture, music, literature, perceptions, ideas, thoughts, language, art, artisans and all ethnic groups of the world

Literature has undergone a tectonic change .

We express our deep reverence to all for they are the apostles of a time zone who have solved the situations, saved human lives and helped the economic, cultural social growth of society .

Painting is poetry of Nature. Poetry is the living song of human race ........

We respect the humanity ...
We respect history and coexistence

Let us join our hands for peace and build a paradise on the Earth ...

Swapna Behera
Cultural Ambassador of India and south East Asia
for Inner Child Press International