Grandfather Crocodile - Xanana Gusmão

The legend says
and who am I to disbelieve!

When I get to heaven - Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

When I get to heaven
I’m going to shout hallelujah all over the place.
Dancing the Dorklor, the Wahyee,
the Ballet, the Rock and Roll.

Blue Specks - Nurunnessa Choudhury

In the clear world
I blew a cage of glass
and hid myself inside.

Longing - Teodors Tomsons

Still are the trees, still the fields,
Still the distant forests;
Fair is my homeland, oh, so fair,
My land of dream-blue forests.

To my son - Luis M. Valdiviezo Arista

I want to teach you to walk
Between the stony life
And the liquid death
With a flaming smile

Ode to the sun - David Guramishvili

O radiant sun of light,
A soul-inspiring sight.
I Unrivalled king of kings,
Thy praise through ages rings.

To Swim with Eels - Emelihter S. Kihleng

part of me comes from rodents
a rat surrounded by kemisik¹
in Saladak, land of lasialap²
all my friends are kemisik
while I am only part kitik³

It kindles all my soul - Casimir of Poland

It kindles all my soul, 

       My country's loveliness! These starry choirs
       That watch around the pole, 

God’s Word is in all creation - St. Hildegard of Bingen

No creature has meaning
without the Word of God.
God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible.

Polderland - Gerrit Achterberg

I walk through the polderland
beneath the slanting rain;
unending is this land,
unending are the ways,