Stone Song - Vijf Gedichten

Words going backwards

are on their way to you:

so that you may hear

your ears are gone.

The Moon over Mtatsminda - Galaktion Tabidze

My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;

In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night.

Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light;

O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!

The difference between you and myself - Nicolas de Chamfort

“The difference between you and myself,” said a friend to me, 

“is that you have said to all the masqueraders: ‘I know you,’ 

the sole survivor - Saba Hamzah

In the conversation that lasted until 3 AM, she questioned, "Has

not the hour come

to forge a means of connection

that would bridge the chasm between my life and your death?"

Indian Ocean - MAB Elhad

string of islands that I shell

I put so much hope in your name.

IOC!

He is the One in many - Namdev

He is the One in many,

countless are His shapes and forms.

He pervades all that exists;

wherever I look, He is there.

But very few perceive this reality,

for Maya ever enchants us

with her multiple reflections

of color and alluring beauty.

It’s Not Love… - J-Rae Tedtaotao

When I was 13 I experienced loss before love

and for that I never stepped up to love’s challenge

since then I have been running from it,

and now I can feel it catching up and

its breath on my neck

but I am too scared to turn around.

Ay Ay Ay de la Grifa Negra - Julia de Burgos

Ay ay ay, that I’m kinky-haired and pure black;

kinky hair, Kafir lips

and my flat nose Mozambiques.

I wish I was blind - Alesana Kleis Seluka

To see things truly

Of what and who they are

Lament the ability to see

Eyes that are ever so deceitful

To my own mind

Rio Grande de Loiza! - Julia de Burgos

Rio Grande de Loiza!... Elongate yourself in my spirit

and let my soul lose itself in your rivulets,

finding the fountain that robbed you as a child

and in a crazed impulse returned you to the path.

Got up wet - Delno L.A. Tromp

Yesterday the whole day I was walking around

Thinking about you

Love does not deceive me - José Afonso

Love does not deceive me

With his slightness

If of an old flame

badly lives, bitterness

De Gloria - Peter Damian

There nor waxing moon nor waning, 

Sun nor stars in courses bright; 

For the Lamb, to that glad city. 

Shines an everlasting light: 

There the daylight beams for ever, 

All unknown are time and night. 

Images - Juan Sánchez Peláez

I

You, who likewise

in the cup of your verb

overflow the liquid.

Water Buffalo Cobra and the Prisoner of War - U Sam Oeur

Work, work—hacking at trees, uprooting them, clearing bushes,

transplanting rice, no time to rest.

At noon, alone, as I cleared the canebrake,

a beautiful black cobra

opened his hood before me, displaying his power.

Apple - Grace Chia

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                                         P

          It's                        p               not

   that Adam didn't      l        know what he was

 in for when he took    e   a bite of it; he wanted

Another kind of Mathematics - Nichita Stãnescu

We know that one times one is one,

but an unicorn times a pear

have no idea what it is.

I am bold - Benina Nicolina Rangvanu

To wear makeup

or not to wear makeup?

To wake up

and put those strong chemicals in my hair

to have that sun silk asian hair.

This house we live has now become our home - Dennis Sobers

This house we live has now become our home

Despite the roof that leaks and walls tattered and is torn

Looking in the past at what this mansion once was

How has it come to be this way, what is the cause

My Love - Ryna.S

A suitable life partner is what all women hope and pursue

And a fairy tale handsome prince is usually how it starts

A tall, loving, suave and romantic prince charming

Is what we dream of..

Policemen - Mvula Ya Nangolo

Looking at me

That way

My baas?’

Prelude - John Millington Synge

Still south I went and west and south again,

Through Wicklow from the morning till the night,

And far from cities, and the sights of men,

Lived with the sunshine, and the moon's delight.

Poetry - Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya

One person said,

you are not a poet,

but forgot that,

poetry is an art and –

Art is meaningful rhythm.

No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame - Loy Ching-Yuen

No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame;

Nurturing these, how can we calm

Our fluttering heart?

The Poor - Roberto Sosa

The poor are many

and so—

impossible to forget.

 

I Don’t Have Time - Souad Massi

I have been told that life is beautiful

But me, I find it cruel sometimes

The dark smoke has taken the place of the sky

Bearslayer: Canto II - Bearslayer begins his life as a hero: The first heroic deed (Scene 1) - Andrejs Pumpurs

The slaying of the bear

Since ancient times, in fruitful Baltic lands,

Where flows the Daugava in its winding bed,

And in the fields the barley ripening stands,

A life of joy the Latvians all have led.-

Upon the bank once stood by Kegums town,

Of Lielvarde's Lord the famous halls.

There yet today a cataract pours down,

And through the cliffs into the river falls.

To Amoret. The sigh - Henry Vaughan

Nimble sigh, on thy warm wings,

    Take this message and depart ;

Tell Amoret, that smiles and sings,

At what thy airy voyage brings,

    That thou cam'st lately from my heart.