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.

Master or Slave - Björnstjerne Björnson

Lo, this land that lifts around it

Threatening peaks, while stern seas bound it,

With cold winters, summers bleak,

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.

On his Friends - Meskin Aldaramy

With conscious pride I view the band 

Of faithful friends that round me stand, 

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.

Corroboree - Nola Gregory

I can hear the chanting

Of the language loud and clear

I can hear them singing

Without prejudice or fear

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

What's left - Hagop Djelalian

What’s left of the sunlit days of holidays?

Of the golden sun of a summer now complete?

Spirits - Birago Diop

Listen to Things

More often than Beings,

Hear the voice of fire,

Hear the voice of water.

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

Seeing - Teweiariki Teaero

anybody

can look

but artists

‘see’

Grace - U2

Grace, she takes the blame

She covers the shame

Removes the stain

It could be her name

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,

 

A Little Toy City - Riak Marial Riak

at the tip of toy city

parades a thousand cadres

with helmets prehistoric to their coming

Water Rushes Like Memory - Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

Notes of evening

            play upon sand,

                        scatter dried stars

                                    from treetops.

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.

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!!

The Grasshopper - Anacreon

Happy insect! what can be

In happiness compar'd to thee?

Fed with nourishment divine,

The dewy morning's gentle wine!

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.

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.

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.

An Autumn - Kapardeli Eftichia

The seed of silence 

unites Heaven 

the earth 

Autumn and lost 

in that veil 

rain constellations 

True Person Manifest Throughout the Ten Quarters of the World - Dōgen

The true person is

Not anyone in particular;

Twilight - Hanne Bramness

I would

                lift up my eyes

            see the evening

sink down into the light

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.

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.