When poetry opens her doors - Mario Benedetti

When poetry opens her doors

One feels like time embraces us

A gratuitous and novel truth

Breakfast - Dan Slobin

Making my breakfast

I look out through the kitchen window:

two deer

peacefully munching at my garden.

A list of questions to measure love - Katrina Dybzynska

I

I know you wash the clothes not by the color

but by the type of fabric. 

A celebration of peace (for Adam Curle) - Konai Helu Thaman

 today we come together

 to read and sing of peace

 lay aside our differences

 rise and greet the breeze

Longing Soothed - Friedrich Rückert

Bathed in the golden evening glow,

How solemn the forests stand!

Into the gentle voices of little birds

Breathes the wafted evening breeze.

A Masnavī Satirizing a Barber - Ghanī Kashmīrī

1. My every hair’s a tongue standing to order.

In verse I now describe a certain barber.

Litany for Dictatorships - Stephen Vincent Benét

For all those beaten, for the broken heads,

The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,

The ghosts in the burning city of our time ...

Balige - Sitor Situmorang

I feel like nothing's changed 

in this small city 

though it's half a century since 

I first entered school here

There is slavery in Mauritania - Alexander K. Opicho

There are black slaves in Mauritania

Indentured Patel Slaves in India

Black Slaves in Mali

Black Slaves in Nigeria

Black Slaves in Niger

White Slaves in Russia

Muslim slaves in Senegal

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

Now we are writing dirges - Debebe Seifu

The fire blazing

Its tongue flowering

Called on us

Holy Spirit, come with light - N. F. S. Grundtvig

Holy Spirit, come with light,

Break the dark and gloomy night

With Thy day unending.

Help us with a joyful lay

Greet the Lord’s triumphant day

Now with might ascending.

The Master Brewer - Ladé Wosornu

There is a distillery in our brains

Its cane and malt, its hops and grains

Are the stuff our lives are made of.

Where I am from - Ammar AlShukry

I am from where kids smile sweet

And Niles meet, ⁣

Where the sun always shines

And grandfathers tell tales of golden times, ⁣