Air Pollution - Adrianna Ennelinda Pedro

Oh, my dearest, beautiful Tuvalu,

Bicycles are seen less and less on your roads every day,

And your people walk less and less every day,

Afterwards - Homero Manzi

Afterwards…

the bloody moon and your emotion,

knowing that the end is coming

on a dark stormcloud.

Andorra: The Voice of the Mountain - Ester Fenoll García

I open my eyes

fine snowflakes

blanket Andorra

Breathless Postcard - Armando Freitas Filho

Nature doesn't nurture anything

it never looks back

parasols and paradise

and every verb in the infinite

Song - Hovhannes Hovhanessian

How often in my life to find

Tranquillity I yearned!

Ever with visions infinite

My heart within me burned.

Frithiof Saga, Canto I: Frithiof and Ingeborg - Esaias Tegnér

Two plants, in Hilding’s garden fair,

Grew up beneath his fostering care;

Their match the North had never seen,

So nobly tow’r’d they in the green!

Wishes are fulfilled - Fujiwara no Tokifusa

Wishes are fulfilled

In these rushing waters of the god

Sunny Prestatyn - Philip Larkin

Come To Sunny Prestatyn

Laughed the girl on the poster,

Kneeling up on the sand   

In tautened white satin. 

Liber IX.V (You wish to marry) - Marcus Valerius Martialis

You wish to marry, Priscus;

I don't wonder, Paula; you are wise.

jericho - Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

J is for Jericho because walls exist

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J is for Jericho because it has an incredible history.

J is also for John Wilkinson.

The Old Town of Plovdiv - Ivan Theofilov

Your ancient floors float among the stars.

Blue donkeys graze the silence around.

A philosopher’s agony - Augusto dos Anjos

I read the Phtah-Hotep, I read the obsolete

Rig-Veda. Yet  nothing gives me rest…

The Unconscious haunts me and I swirl possessed,

Restless harmattan in aeolian rage!

A Persian Song - Hafez

Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight. 

And bid these arms thy neck enfold: 

That rosy cheek, that lily hand, 

Would give thy poet more delight 

Than all Bocara's vaunted gold. 

Than all the gems of Samarkand. 

A Queer Challenge - Satish Verma

World wanted

to know, how I am.

I say, ask my poems.

Not He is a Great Man - Vincas Kudirka

Not he is a great man before whom the millions

In manacled meekness, in fetters bow down

Yet inwardly curse him; it is not the tyrant

Whom thankful descendants with glory will crown.

A Detail - Uroš Zupan

Bathed in red light,

seated at a table,

alone, an unknown woman gets ready

to light a cigarette.

Out - Agron Tufa

You get up in the morning

And remember you don't know where you left your eyes.

Concening Arion - John Tzetzes

Arion was also from Methymne playing the cithara, as well,

During the times of Croesus and of Periander.

He went to Italy and, specifically, to Sicily.

Dedication - Peter Foersom

Snatch'd from the scenic monarch's glorious crown, 

     A few stray gems I bring. Before thy feet, 

     Exalted fair, in every charm complete, 

With rev'rence and delight I lay them down. 

I learnt Emmy Noether’s Theorem at uni - Monika Herceg

Therefore I may suppose

that were both sinewy female flesh

Our features tell us

every day was a lonely Wednesday

as symmetrical as the hemispheres of our mind 

Pilgrim Song - Gerhard Tersteegen

On, O beloved children,

The evening is at hand,

And desolate and fearful

The solitary land.

Take heart! the rest eternal

Awaits our weary feet;

From strength to strength press onwards,

The end, how passing sweet!

The Dawn - Lillian Ingonga

In the twilight (sic)

The first bird sings a melody

To break the darkness silence

On Health - Jan Kochanowski

My good and noble health,

Thou matter’st more then wealth.

None know’th thy worth until

Thou fad’st, and we fall ill.