Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Monday, 30 January 2017
How beautiful is Yak Legpai Lhadar’s face! - Ap Chuni Dorji
How beautiful is Yak Legpai Lhadar’s face!
Yak Legpai Lhadar- the god-sent calf!
Yak Legpai Lhadar- the god-sent calf!
Sunday, 29 January 2017
When the apricot tree blossoms - Hamid Olimjon
Flowers have decorated the branches
Calling the name of life at dawn,
And naughty wind on the first morning
Stole away the aroma of the blossoms.
Calling the name of life at dawn,
And naughty wind on the first morning
Stole away the aroma of the blossoms.
Friday, 27 January 2017
The boat of words casts anchor - Mohamed Al-Harthy
Remarkable, the three of them together:
the mouse,
the keyboard
and the word processor
the mouse,
the keyboard
and the word processor
Thursday, 26 January 2017
Message from a Martyr - Mbarka Mint al-Barra’
Fire your bullets -- our hearts are already ablaze
In this land, grief wells up from my distress
In this land, grief wells up from my distress
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Because Of You - Amir Hamzah
'Flowers burst into bloom,
Loving life because of You;
Love spreading like flowers in my heart
Filled it with the fragrance of blossoms, and their dust.
Loving life because of You;
Love spreading like flowers in my heart
Filled it with the fragrance of blossoms, and their dust.
Monday, 23 January 2017
We don’t sing anymore - Jeffrey Mane Febi
Here! Comfort and solace we seek. Where we love and beloved.
Once a promise I smell; of together hearkening to sounds of poetry;
Of to the beat of alliterations together dancing;
Of together in fields of metaphor, cuddling and be cheery;
Of through the bars of many a rhyme kissing.
Once a promise I smell; of together hearkening to sounds of poetry;
Of to the beat of alliterations together dancing;
Of together in fields of metaphor, cuddling and be cheery;
Of through the bars of many a rhyme kissing.
Sunday, 22 January 2017
Sand - Rolf Jacobsen
There is a precise total for all the grains of sand on earth,
as well as for the starry worlds above our heads
as well as for the starry worlds above our heads
Saturday, 21 January 2017
Don’t stay far away from me for long - Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
Don’t stay far away from me for long
unless you want memory to devour all
unless you want memory to devour all
Friday, 20 January 2017
Pop Melody - Sigfús Daðason
The dream is as moonlight
the moonlight as a dream
as moonlight
the dream I finally had last night
the moonlight as a dream
as moonlight
the dream I finally had last night
Thursday, 19 January 2017
1886 - Abay Kunanbayev
Oh, my luckless Kazakh, my unfortunate kin,
An unkempt moustache hides your mouth and chin.
Blood on your right cheek, fat on your left —
When will the dawn of your reason begin?
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
To the Bío Bío - Andres Bello
Blest were he, O Bío Bío!
Who could dwell forevermore
In a deep grove, cool and shady,
Upon thine enchanted shore!
Who could dwell forevermore
In a deep grove, cool and shady,
Upon thine enchanted shore!
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Read - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Make no sound, do not speak:
off to explore a forest, eyes, heart,
mind, dreams . . .
off to explore a forest, eyes, heart,
mind, dreams . . .
Monday, 16 January 2017
Chernobyl - Volha Ipatava
House. Hundred-year oak. A well-spring flowing
And storks winging from a distant strand.
'Human, grant that we may make our home here,
Very sweet to us appears this land.'
And storks winging from a distant strand.
'Human, grant that we may make our home here,
Very sweet to us appears this land.'
Sunday, 15 January 2017
Decora Lux Aeternitatis - Elpis
Eternal glory, with the streaming ray
Of holy fire, has filled the golden day,
Crowning with light the apostolic chiefs,
And opening through the stars their luminous way.
Of holy fire, has filled the golden day,
Crowning with light the apostolic chiefs,
And opening through the stars their luminous way.
Friday, 13 January 2017
a sudden fear of coming home - Naja Marie Aidt
a sudden fear of coming home
like meeting up with a sect one has left
and what if one can’t hold out against them
like meeting up with a sect one has left
and what if one can’t hold out against them
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Year of Tango - Varand
Sunset, you sombre sunset,
Ardent music, boundless sorrow.
New stairs, new terrace, a new abode,
Golden age of dreams, of senses…
Ardent music, boundless sorrow.
New stairs, new terrace, a new abode,
Golden age of dreams, of senses…
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Homo sapiens - Ludwig Steinherr
The man down on his knees who's fated
to scrub the cobblestones
with a toothbrush —
to scrub the cobblestones
with a toothbrush —
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
I miss you - Bongiwe Dlamini
your hands, your eyes
I miss exploring your mouth, your mind
I miss exploring your mouth, your mind
Monday, 9 January 2017
Minchmoor - William Hamilton
Sweet smells the birk: green grows, green grows the grass,
Yellow on Yarrow's banks the gowan,
Fair hangs the apple fraie the rock,
Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan.
Yellow on Yarrow's banks the gowan,
Fair hangs the apple fraie the rock,
Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan.
Sunday, 8 January 2017
Shepherd of tender youth - St. Clement of Alexandria
Shepherd of tender youth
Guiding in love and truth
Through devious ways;
Christ our triumphant king,
We come Thy name to sing;
Hither our children bring
Tributes of praise.
Guiding in love and truth
Through devious ways;
Christ our triumphant king,
We come Thy name to sing;
Hither our children bring
Tributes of praise.
Saturday, 7 January 2017
Has My Heart Gone To Sleep? - Antonio Machado
Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
Friday, 6 January 2017
The Return - Claribel Alegría
How will the return be?
My parents won’t be there
I won’t climb the volcano
with them
to gather orchids.
My parents won’t be there
I won’t climb the volcano
with them
to gather orchids.
Thursday, 5 January 2017
At Euroma - Henry Kendall
They built his mound of the rough red ground,
By the dip of a desert dell,
Where all things sweet are killed by the heat,
And scattered o’er flat and fell.
In a burning zone they left him alone,
Past the uttermost western plain;
And the nightfall dim heard his funeral hymn
In the voices of wind and rain.
By the dip of a desert dell,
Where all things sweet are killed by the heat,
And scattered o’er flat and fell.
In a burning zone they left him alone,
Past the uttermost western plain;
And the nightfall dim heard his funeral hymn
In the voices of wind and rain.
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
The Horror of the Rain - Jean Delville
Implacably, dismally, prophetically,
It is raining, interminable tears of rain, it rains
Death upon the dismal city, long bereaved of sun.
It rains annihilation, immensely, upon my sleep
and my tormented dreams and, in the night, it rains
It is raining, interminable tears of rain, it rains
Death upon the dismal city, long bereaved of sun.
It rains annihilation, immensely, upon my sleep
and my tormented dreams and, in the night, it rains
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
The Cloud Rains - Amir Khosrow
Cloud raining, and I from my friend am separated:
how can, on such a day, the hearts be so separated?
how can, on such a day, the hearts be so separated?
Monday, 2 January 2017
What do animals dream? - Yahia Lababidi
Do they dream of past lives and unlived dreams
unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial?
unspeakably human or unimaginably bestial?
Sunday, 1 January 2017
A war-torn wife - Chenjerai Hove
This war!
I am tired
of a husband who never sleeps
I am tired
of a husband who never sleeps
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