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Friday, 30 September 2022
My Mother’s Brain - Avinab Datta-Areng
The shrub billows and glows in heat.
Monkey shadows lead me on to an
Unremembered line in my mind.
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Thursday, 29 September 2022
Master or Slave - Björnstjerne Björnson
Lo, this land that lifts around it
Threatening peaks, while stern seas bound it,
With cold winters, summers bleak,
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Wednesday, 28 September 2022
This island's parched - Clare Azzopardi
They fed her a scrap of bread —
and tendrils of injera clung to my fingertips
with stories
of sleepless nights in Safi cells
spent thumbing the darkness.
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Monday, 26 September 2022
On his Friends - Meskin Aldaramy
With conscious pride I view the band
Of faithful friends that round me stand,
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Sunday, 25 September 2022
The Mind of Absolute Trust - Seng-Ts'an
The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
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Saturday, 24 September 2022
Corroboree - Nola Gregory
I can hear the chanting
Of the language loud and clear
I can hear them singing
Without prejudice or fear
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Friday, 23 September 2022
Meet - Ryner Lai
Meet me by the river
When the sun sinks into the rising blue
When fatigue lines the faces of men
And the scent of home flickers to life
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Thursday, 22 September 2022
What's left - Hagop Djelalian
What’s left of the sunlit days of holidays?
Of the golden sun of a summer now complete?
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Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Spirits - Birago Diop
Listen to Things
More often than Beings,
Hear the voice of fire,
Hear the voice of water.
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Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Boy And The Unwinged Biped - Gitan Djeli
Wings broken we collapse on warm basalt hearts pumping under iridescent blazing ocean scapulars.
we still colour the skies of the nicobar isles and follow the currents sea and winds one storm thousand years ago we swirl loop low
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Monday, 19 September 2022
Seeing - Teweiariki Teaero
anybody
can look
but artists
‘see’
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Sunday, 18 September 2022
Grace - U2
Grace, she takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name
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Saturday, 17 September 2022
Give Me Love - Dimash Kudaibergen
My heart carries a touch of sadness
Like the moon in a faint light
Please take me to the future,
Ladder of destiny,
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Friday, 16 September 2022
A Little Toy City - Riak Marial Riak
at the tip of toy city
parades a thousand cadres
with helmets prehistoric to their coming
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Thursday, 15 September 2022
Water Rushes Like Memory - Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Notes of evening
play upon sand,
scatter dried stars
from treetops.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2022
All Adam's race are members of one frame - Saadi Shirazi
All Adam's race are members of one frame;
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Love sonnet from the perspective of Rod, a jock mouse who lived on my animal crossing island for 3 months - Jiaqi Kang
My house is blue, inside and out, and I
a purple mouse. The sea and sky are blue
and fish, some bugs, my neighbor Stu: it’s true!!
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Monday, 12 September 2022
The Grasshopper - Anacreon
Happy insect! what can be
In happiness compar'd to thee?
Fed with nourishment divine,
The dewy morning's gentle wine!
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Sunday, 11 September 2022
The noise of the lover - Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī
The noise of the lover is only up to
the time when he has not seen his Beloved.
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Saturday, 10 September 2022
A Second Charles - John Wade
Our Age strange things hath brought to light,
And time hath chased away the night;
Now doth our Sun his beames display
And shows to us a lightsome day.
England cheer up, do not repine,
A second Charles his Sun shall shine.
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Friday, 9 September 2022
There is a lady sweet and kind - Thomas Ford
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleas'd my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
An Autumn - Kapardeli Eftichia
The seed of silence
unites Heaven
the earth
Autumn and lost
in that veil
rain constellations
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Wednesday, 7 September 2022
True Person Manifest Throughout the Ten Quarters of the World - Dōgen
The true person is
Not anyone in particular;
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Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Twilight - Hanne Bramness
I would
lift up my eyes
see the evening
sink down into the light
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Monday, 5 September 2022
What a Smile Can Do - Erna Loraine Narcisso Walters
A smile is costless, but productive
It refreshes the ones to whom it is given.
Although it doesn't last for hours,
but maybe a minute.
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Sunday, 4 September 2022
Hide yourselves, you who search for knowledge - Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba
Hide yourselves, you who search for knowledge, this will save you from trials and sorrows,
have determination, thus you will surpass your generation.
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