Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 21 – Underground Poets features the best contemporary poetry, fiction and fantasy from 70 internationally renowned poets and fiction authors. Join them, above and below ground, on this journey through life and its myriad relationships, real and imagined, where folklore, romance, realism and dystopia mingle and merge casting light on secrets and shadows. Lionmouth Door Knocker At any given moment in the middle of a city there’s a million epiphanies occurring, in the blurring of the world beyond the curtain From Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. From I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost i carry your heart with me here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart From i carry your heart with me by EE Cummings