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Wednesday, 20 November 2024
You Had Given Your Word - Candan Erçetin
You had given your word to me
To stay here always by my me
We swore all this this didn't we?
That whatever happened, we would be together
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Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Last Song of the Exile - Miguel Teurbe Tolón
I.
Hard my path on earth is closed;
Light is dead within my heart.
Star of Hope! thou art gone down;
Clay and spirit now must part!
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Monday, 18 November 2024
The Deep Song - Georg Trakl
From deep night I was released.
My soul is astonished in immortality,
My soul listens over space and time
To the melody of eternity!
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Sunday, 17 November 2024
Divine creator of the light - Gregory the Great
Divine creator of the light,
Who, bringing forth the golden ray,
Didst join the morning with the night
And call the blessed union day;
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Saturday, 16 November 2024
Poem V - Pablo Neruda
For you to hear,
my words
sometimes grow thin
as seagull tracks on the beach.
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Thursday, 14 November 2024
I have seen Yiddish words - Moyshe Kulbak
I have seen Yiddish words like small flames, like small flames,
like sparks, risen from dark ore.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2024
When poetry opens her doors - Mario Benedetti
When poetry opens her doors
One feels like time embraces us
A gratuitous and novel truth
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Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Breakfast - Dan Slobin
Making my breakfast
I look out through the kitchen window:
two deer
peacefully munching at my garden.
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Monday, 11 November 2024
A list of questions to measure love - Katrina Dybzynska
I
I know you wash the clothes not by the color
but by the type of fabric.
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Sunday, 10 November 2024
A celebration of peace (for Adam Curle) - Konai Helu Thaman
today we come together
to read and sing of peace
lay aside our differences
rise and greet the breeze
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