Youth and Love: I - Robert Louis Stevenson

Once only by the garden gate

   Our lips we joined and parted.

I must fulfil an empty fate

   And travel the uncharted.

Poetry and I - Mbarka Mint al-Barra’

The sin is that I wasn't a stone

     And the troubles of the world make me sleepless

And I shield myself with poetry

     And it keeps me company when I'm far from home

The Black Streets - Emmanuel Moses

The soldiers on their way to lay siege to the mountain

stopped here to let blue wine blot out

steaming blood

The Beggar - Carl Spitteler

He was my foe, and friend he was to none.

I read his death, unmoved, but yesterday.

jumbo-jet vs jackdaw - S. Zaynub Kamoonpuri

I wish to fly like a bird that chirps or hoots

without any jet or parachutes.

Gazal - Zeyneb

Cast off thy veil, and heaven and earth in dazzling light array! 

As radiant Paradise, this poor demented world display! 

Epigram - Niels Hav

You can spend an entire life

in the company of words

not ever finding

the right one.

The Shining Hours (V) - Emile Verhaeren

Each hour I brood upon your goodness, so simple in its depth, I lose myself in prayers to you. 

So I Am Persuaded - Jaime Saenz

Everyone lives in one

—I, you, they.

We all live in all, no one lives or dies, and each is on his own

—but nobody knows what happens.

Peggy - Allan Ramsay

My Peggy is a young thing,

      Just enter'd in her teens,

Fair as the day, and sweet as May

Fair as the day, and always gay.