EDITORIAL

This issue marks another "first time" for ONE Magazine, the first time a group of poems, rather than an article or story, should be used as a feature. Also, it is the first time a photograph of any of ONE's authors has been used on the cover.

So much interesting poetry has been submitted during the past year or two that the Editors decided to give readers the opportunity of seeing a variety of examples of these modern "POEMS OF OTHER LOVE," some by authors well-known to ONE's readers, and a few by new names.

Poetry is so much a vehicle for the expression of very personal emotions that it is unlikely any of us will find each example pleasing. Even should some of them seem repellant, it must be remembered that ONE Magazine is not directed at a single class of readers, nor for a single standard of taste. It cannot be regarded, either, as a "poetry magazine," whether traditionally oriented or avante garde.

Poetry, as a medium for expressing homophilic ideas and emotions, does appeal to some readers in ways that neither articles nor fiction do. The Editors, recognizing this, have included poetry in ONE's pages ever since the first issue, and plan on continuing to do so.

Down through the ages poetry by homophiles and poems treating of "OTHER LOVE" has with distinction and honor graced the literatures of every people. Four thousand years ago, the Sumerians listened in their great palaces and walled cities to bardic recitations of the GILGAMESH EPIC, which told the heroic exploits of King Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu and how Ishtar, goddess of love, tried to seduce Gilgamesh away, but failed.

The Homeridae, with their lyres, sang the inconsolable grief of Achilles over the loss of Patroclus, his comrade at arms and at love. Sappho wrote, "I am overwhelmed through Aphrodite with love of a slender maiden." Rennaissance sonnets, Persian poets and French symbolists told of this "OTHER LOVE" now featured in this current issue of ONE Magazine.

Ann Carll Reid, Editor

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