This love
So violent
So fragile
So tender
So hopeless
Monday, 29 February 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
There Is a House in Heaven - Spervogel
There is a house in heaven, they say;
You reach it by a golden way.
You reach it by a golden way.
Saturday, 27 February 2016
New Year's Watch - Su Shi
Soon now, we'll mark the year's end that approaches,
It's like a snake that crawls into a hole.
It's like a snake that crawls into a hole.
Friday, 26 February 2016
Lullaby - Fenny Sterenborg
Softly lie down
and close your eyes so blue
worry no more
for tonight I'll watch over you
and close your eyes so blue
worry no more
for tonight I'll watch over you
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Watermark - Fatima Naoot
They will ring the bells the first of June
Some good reasons for that
The most important one is that
It is the first of June
Some good reasons for that
The most important one is that
It is the first of June
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Moonshine - Kate Jennings
Yesterday I was sick, sick
in the head,
panic and paranoia,
it's been like that for years, used to say
I was a victim or the victim.
in the head,
panic and paranoia,
it's been like that for years, used to say
I was a victim or the victim.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Inkerman: The Battle Field by Moonlight - Caroline Hayward
Above the vale of Inkerman,
Calmly the moon's rays fell,
Revealing as by light of day,
That deep and lonely dell;
Tchernaya's waters as a band
Of silver graceful flowed,
But who can paint the ghastly scene,
Which those bright rays disclosed!
Calmly the moon's rays fell,
Revealing as by light of day,
That deep and lonely dell;
Tchernaya's waters as a band
Of silver graceful flowed,
But who can paint the ghastly scene,
Which those bright rays disclosed!
Monday, 22 February 2016
The Fight With The Dragon - Friedrich Von Schiller
Why run the crowd? What means the throng
That rushes fast the streets along?
Can Rhodes a prey to flames, then, be?
In crowds they gather hastily,
And, on his steed, a noble knight
Amid the rabble, meets my sight;
That rushes fast the streets along?
Can Rhodes a prey to flames, then, be?
In crowds they gather hastily,
And, on his steed, a noble knight
Amid the rabble, meets my sight;
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Love, Love - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
What is the glory far above
All else in human life?
Love! Love!
All else in human life?
Love! Love!
Saturday, 20 February 2016
Mirroring - Alessio Zanelli
We are all the others.
Each of us.
All we are or attain in life
is also due to all the others.
Each of us.
All we are or attain in life
is also due to all the others.
Friday, 19 February 2016
Hope - Juan Esteban Yupanqui Villalobos
So I want to see you again
even in my sleep.
You have to know: now again
I grieve for you a lot.
even in my sleep.
You have to know: now again
I grieve for you a lot.
Thursday, 18 February 2016
A Day in Bed - Katherine Mansfield
I wish I had not got a cold,
The wind is big and wild,
I wish that I was very old,
Not just a little child.
The wind is big and wild,
I wish that I was very old,
Not just a little child.
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Odd - Philippe Soupault
A thread tightens
a shadow descends
a butterfly distends
a shadow descends
a butterfly distends
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Forgiveness - George William Russell
At dusk the window panes grew grey;
The wet world vanished in the gloom;
The dim and silver end of day
Scarce glimmered through the little room.
The wet world vanished in the gloom;
The dim and silver end of day
Scarce glimmered through the little room.
Monday, 15 February 2016
The Prayer of the Cockerel - Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
Do not forget, Lord,
it is l who make the sun rise.
it is l who make the sun rise.
Sunday, 14 February 2016
My Time Is Brief - Solveig von Schoultz
The holy disquiet knocked at my door.
‘I haven’t the time, I’m baking my bread,
the dough is rising, the oven is red.
Wait, as you’ve had to wait before.’
‘I haven’t the time, I’m baking my bread,
the dough is rising, the oven is red.
Wait, as you’ve had to wait before.’
Saturday, 13 February 2016
De Spectaculis.III (What race is set so far) - Marcus Valerius Martialis
What race is set so far,
what race so barbarous, Caesar,
wherefrom a spectator is not in thy city?
what race so barbarous, Caesar,
wherefrom a spectator is not in thy city?
Friday, 12 February 2016
Border Song IV - Lu Lun
A sumptuous banquet is spread, in the wild, the open air:
Our tribal allies have come, our hard-won victory to share.
Our tribal allies have come, our hard-won victory to share.
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Before the sun comes up - Katlego K Kol-Kes
Before the sun comes up:
When the eyes of those
who creep around in day, alight,
yet dance with tender
taps and bats.
When the eyes of those
who creep around in day, alight,
yet dance with tender
taps and bats.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Make me teach me - Mirjam Tuominen
Make me pure
teach me silence
make me whole
teach me silence
make me whole
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
The Trunk of the Olive Tree (The Odyssey, Book XXIII) - Homer
An old trunk of olive
grew like a pillar on the building plot,
grew like a pillar on the building plot,
Monday, 8 February 2016
A Visit to the Clockmaker - Kristin Dimitrova
I crossed the street
to enter a secret shop
where hundreds of hands grind time.
to enter a secret shop
where hundreds of hands grind time.
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Bless You - Drora Matlofsky
She sneezed, then muttered 'Thank you'
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Amnesia - Ilire Zajmi
My memory has been erased
It is not stored either in a hard copy
Nor in a disk a flash or a CD
It is not stored either in a hard copy
Nor in a disk a flash or a CD
Friday, 5 February 2016
On Prose - Kiwao Nomura
Then I
committed to memory everything
I felt compelled to remember
committed to memory everything
I felt compelled to remember
Thursday, 4 February 2016
One life - Inua Ellams
In a farm in Mexico, a grain of corn
is armed with faith. Half covered with soil
it trusts the wind will guide it water, waits
as sunlight plaits itself into photosynthesis,
germinates and listens for the world’s pay.
is armed with faith. Half covered with soil
it trusts the wind will guide it water, waits
as sunlight plaits itself into photosynthesis,
germinates and listens for the world’s pay.
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
A Poem - Kapardeli Eftichia
Snow... the last
white flakes
fall on the earth
white flakes
fall on the earth
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
The Grave of Shelley - Oscar Wilde
Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun bleached stone;
Here doth the little night-owl make her throne,
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun bleached stone;
Here doth the little night-owl make her throne,
Monday, 1 February 2016
February - Margaret Atwood
Winter. Time to eat fat
and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
a black fur sausage with yellow
Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries
to get onto my head. It’s his
way of telling whether or not I’m dead.
and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
a black fur sausage with yellow
Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries
to get onto my head. It’s his
way of telling whether or not I’m dead.
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