Venice masks

Friday, 17 January 2025

The wooden Christ - Faustas Kirsa

In his fathers' home, a farmer who's a hundred 
Carves a wooden model Lord that works some wonders.

Thursday, 16 January 2025

Dog - Boris Maruna

In the bare mountains between Marbella and Ronda
That pitilessly recall our native Velebit
That could be Velebit
But aren’t Velebit
Just as I could be God
But am not God

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

In the Ashtray - Vasko Popa

A tiny sun
With yellow tobacco hair
Is burning out in the ashtray

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

My Song - Almas Ildirim

I am a lover, if my body burns in icy hell,
These fearful mountains cannot stand my inexhaustible mourning
If the angels present paradise to me
I would tell them:
I don't want paradise,
Give me my Caucasus!

Monday, 13 January 2025

If my heart - Eunice Mtavangu

If my heart could grow
You could have seen its seed
Augmenting
Pushing through the light
Ready to produce fruits.

Sunday, 12 January 2025

The Greatest Song of All - Spike Milligan

There is a song in man
There is a song in woman
And that is the child’s song.

Saturday, 11 January 2025

When I’m gone - Phusathi Liyanaarachchi

Don’t cry me a river,
When I’m gone…
as you
stare at the patterns
that my presence
has left….

Friday, 10 January 2025

A Song of Winter - Alexander Bathgate

Bird on the leafless bough. 
Summer has fled;
Bird on the leafless bough, 
Flowers are dead.

Thursday, 9 January 2025

Copenhagen Watchman's Song - Thomas Kingo

Eight o'clock
When darkness blinds the Earth,
And the day declines,
That time then us reminds 
Of death’s dark grave;
Shine on us, Jesus sweet,
At every step To the grave place,
And grant a blissful death.

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Shepherdesses' song - Gil Vicente

Turn away your eyes from mine,
O my life and consolation! 
Wherefore fill me with such passion?