sendeth salutem
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Ultima Thule Sendeth Greeting: Part I - Matthías Jochumsson
sendeth salutem
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Bygones cannot by bygones - Faustas Kirsa
Only streets and squares have forgotten the smell of fire.
Only fields
have forgotten the taste of blood.
Monday, 18 August 2025
Of the text - Juan Calzadilla
Sunday, 17 August 2025
Get Down Ye Angels - John Agard
Try a few of earth’s numinous delights:
the orgiastic rustling of the grass.
The wind’s brazen feather tickling your arse.
Saturday, 16 August 2025
Roses - Suzanne Urbanczyk
Violets are blue
Thursday, 14 August 2025
A beautiful start to the end of the world - María Turrero-García
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Lucky Men - Partaw Naderi
your despair itself becomes a star.
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Ulysses - Miguel Ángel Asturias
Close friend of dreams, Ulysses,
Returned to his fog-bound destiny,
A homecoming from foreign countries,
Back to his own. A salty memory.
Monday, 11 August 2025
Hero and Leander - Musaeus Grammaticus
Neighbours that faced across the narrowing seas,
Lay Sestos and Abydos, and on these
Love bent his bow; a single arrow flamed.
Saturday, 9 August 2025
Today I do not want to be a doctor - Glenn Colquhoun
Nobody is getting any better.
Those who were well are sick again
and those who were sick are sicker.
Friday, 8 August 2025
Puddles - Uroš Zupan
43 years old. Long blots of sunlight
are broken off by sharpened shadows. The clouds
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Blinded by Love - Rycha Heemachal Devi
searching for the moon to illuminate my life.
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
The Wishes - Johannes Ewald
Now spring'st like a youth from eternity's breast!
Oh! say, dost thou come from the bright throne of greatness,
Our herald of merey, of gladness, and rest!
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Splashes of Light - Mahmud Yussop
That the brightest splashes of light are seen
Just as the dreamer is awakened
He sees the brilliance of day
Monday, 4 August 2025
Snow Fell On Winter Gardens - Galaktion Tabidze
a coffin was brought out
and the standards unfolded
caught by the dishevelled breeze.
Sunday, 3 August 2025
To Ausonius - Paulinus of Nola
And through all fates that be,
So long as this close prison shall contain me,
Yea, though a world shall sunder me and thee,
Saturday, 2 August 2025
Once the wind - Shake Keane
Friday, 1 August 2025
Babylon - A G Stephens
Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon endures
Wherever human wisdom shines or human folly lures;
Where lovers lingering walk beside, and happy children play,
Is Babylon! Babylon! for ever and for aye.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
To the Dear Memory of Mishginiz Khanim - Nigar Rafibeyli
I feel as if my own soul has just left my body.
The inspiring shrine of a great poet
Has closed, closed her eyes forever...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
The Unknown Snipers - Boghos L. Artinian
how many times snipers had had me
clearly in their view,
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Elders of revolution - Thabang Waba Moabi
Life being the only time they had, measured by the rise and fall of the sun
Upon the sky they called up light to lead their odyssey
Monday, 28 July 2025
Epigram to a Friend - Kasım Pasha
Too little salt was in thy songs, too much about thy meats and salads:
Sunday, 27 July 2025
The Master’s Touch - Horatius Bonar
In the rough marble beauty hides unseen:
To make the music and the beauty, needs
The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen.
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Song - Olof von Dalin
The goose in the oven roasting;
And he who has his heart’s desire
Has no need for idle boasting.
Friday, 25 July 2025
A small quake - Eugénio de Andrade
as you say my name.
Thursday, 24 July 2025
I loved you blindly and fully - Ilyas Zhansugurov
On the golden beach of Irtish
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Lament for the Fall of Seville - Abu al-Baqa' al-Rundi
Monday, 21 July 2025
We Care in Silence - Ghenname Zohra
People are deaf
they cover their ears for not to hear
the taken life
Sunday, 20 July 2025
Empty Me of Everything But Your Love - Abdullah Ansari
Of Your love!
Friday, 18 July 2025
The Bells - Śrî Ānanda Āchārya
Alone all night I watched the stars
through the opening in my Cave,
And the springing rays of the Northern
Light came as welcome guests to
my door,
Thursday, 17 July 2025
I saw my hand - Oktay Rifat
Softly fuzzed with pink holes
I said hi there, hi there hand of mine
Pick up a wineglass pick up a fork pick up a pencil
Picking up a sword picking up a gun
My brave young lad my lion my lovely one
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
My land - Martin Camaj
On my mountains in spring,
In autumn I will turn to seed.
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Obstinate - Ephrem Seyoum
said the beginning and end of
wisdom
is in the smoking of a cigarette
you laughed
Monday, 14 July 2025
GSIS XIII: 745 - Izumi Shikibu
Cold were we
Sunday, 13 July 2025
Oh, teach me - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
As in autumn the gloom of thy yellowing leaf,
That my spring cometh back after winter the sad,
That my tree gleameth green after mournfulness brief.
The roots of my tree stand strong, deep, and divine
In eternity's summer; oh, why then repine?
Saturday, 12 July 2025
Lift the goblets, loud and glinting - Jens Peter Jacobsen
That the burgundy is tinting
Red as dusky rubies are.
Friday, 11 July 2025
Let him be - Hazeem Hazmi
You see him not knowing how he feels
He sits there empty away all that is real
You don’t know anything
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Looking over the sheep one evening - Danzangiin Nyamsüren
blench the summer pastures like a growth of mushrooms.
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Caprice (A Summer’s Day, Sydney Harbour) - Louis Esson
Veils of colour blent and blown
In melodic monotone.
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Past Joys - Rodriguez Lobo
Our present from our former lot divides!
Glassy of yore, now turbid are thy tides,
Once smiles my brow adorned, now tears deface.
Monday, 7 July 2025
Pleading - Arthur Leslie Salmon
Home in the dusk, and speak to me again?
Tell me the stories that I am forgetting,
Quicken my hope, and recompense my pain?
Friday, 4 July 2025
Definitions - Sara Vanégas Coveña
migrating
between my heart and the void
Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Song of the Heavens, the Stars, Schumann and My Wife - Hanuš Jelínek
The heavens have cried their golden tears,
They have cried so still, they have cried;
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
In her shoes - Asante Lucy Mtenje
those two sizes too big,
worn out “kanavasi”
she drags along to the dumpsters
to rummage through the wilting,
rusty banana and mango peels,
disregarding the stench and the flies
that hover around her long
after she has retired to “bed”.
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
O the Chimneys - Nelly Sachs
On the carefully planned dwellings of death
When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke
Sunday, 29 June 2025
The world is being run on time - Francis Brabazon
Just to sit and enjoy even the outward forms of the Beloved's beauty.
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Discourse with Mara - Sisupacala
Setting at Savatthi. Then, in the morning, the bhikkhuni Sisupacala dressed... she sat down at the foot of a tree for the day's abiding.
Friday, 27 June 2025
When night draws on - al-Khansāʾ
When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful
And hinders my rest with grief upon grief returning
For Ṣakhr. What a man was he on the day of battle,
When, snatching their chance, they swiftly exchange the spear-thrusts!
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Before there was a trace of this world of men - Bibi Hayati
I carried the memory of a lock of your hair,
A stray end gathered within me, though unknown.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Hymn to Adonis - Praxilla
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The sixth love - Beatrice of Nazareth
she experiences yet another way of love,
Monday, 23 June 2025
I long for the land that is not - Edith Södergran
For all that is, I am weary of wanting.
The moon speaks to me in silvern runes
About the land that is not.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Longing - Juan Ramón Molina
by love, by war and by conquest,
when friars, soldiers and desperadoes
went off across unquiet seas
in search of distant lands,
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Boko Haram - Iron Bender
Organized by the so called defenders of Allah,
Killing and maltreating of human beings and
Opposing to modern civilization and human rights
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
They sold my soul - Alidou Tougma
Money is your giant bow
Jean of Arc is no longer alive but Jean of park is aiming at me
Monday, 16 June 2025
Beautiful Tears - Nametso Dorothy Phonchi
We were born crying before we knew time,
Our tears are beautiful like sun rays
like the moon and the stars,
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Ghazel 56 - Nesimi
Lo! the glorious sun is risen and of gloom is past the tide.
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Rova Blues, My Queen's Palace - Voahanitriniaina Rabary-Andriamanday
has been renewed with christian rhymes;
And for the glory of new days,
Let's sing and shout as the Queen prays.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Anti-Grace - Paulin Joachim
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
A tree was chopped down - Zindzi Mandela
and the fruit was scattered
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Linden tree whispers... - Pavlo Tychyna
In the springtime, at night, by the light of the moon?
Monday, 9 June 2025
Lament for a dead lover - Sraad Haad
(Now in your departure) you are the sky which gives no rain while mist shrouds the world,
Sunday, 8 June 2025
Pentecost - Malcolm Guite
Today the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
Saturday, 7 June 2025
Epigram on Sultan Mahmoud - Ferdowsi
Is like the ocean unconfined.
Friday, 6 June 2025
No Country to Own - Arathy Asok
Who have no city to call their own?
Whose houses are four corners they turned,
When life took them.
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Night - Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg
From the trees it steals so softly,
Spreads itself in widened circle,
Now, take care.
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
I Do Not Bow - Qassim Haddad
Alone
like the letter A
and I do not bow
Monday, 2 June 2025
In a Retreat among Bamboos - Wang Wei
Playing on my lute, singing without words.
Sunday, 1 June 2025
Not to - Tammy Stone Takahashi
but to become the ground,
at times porous and trembling,
but more often than not,
steady, sturdy, nourishing.
Saturday, 31 May 2025
Let Us Be Midwives! An untold story of the atomic bombing - Sadako Kurihara
Victims of the atomic bomb jammed the room;
It was dark—not even a single candle.
The smell of fresh blood, the stench of death,
The closeness of sweaty people, the moans.
Friday, 30 May 2025
Himalaya - Lekhnath Paudyal
Cascades like strings of pearls
Glisten on its breast,
A net of drizzling cloud
Encircles its waist like a gray woolen shawl:
An astounding sight, still and bright,
Our blessed Himalaya.
Thursday, 29 May 2025
This journey - Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe
We’ve trudged through endless corridors of darkness
Trying to find ourselves in the maze of our lives.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Laying on this uncomfortable couch - Imthishal Mohamed
Made me realize,
I am living and breathing in a shantytown
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
African Woman - Elizabeth Njeri Waweru
I am a proud African.
I am very rich in kindness.
The kindness I often extend to the enemy.
Before they attempt to assassinate my authentic being.
Monday, 26 May 2025
To the Spanish Expedition for the Promotion of Vaccination in America, under Don Francisco Balmis - Manuel José Quintana
Thou who so innocent to heaven display'st
Thy bosom stored with plenty's rich array,
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Penitence - Andrew of Crete
What first-fruits shall I bear
Of earnest sorrow for my sin?
Or how my woes declare?
O thou! the Merciful and Gracious One!
Forgive the foul transgressions I have done.
Saturday, 24 May 2025
I love you - Lörinc Szabó
All day I look for you, seek for you
All day when you’re gone I’m in tears for you
Friday, 23 May 2025
City Night - Tahir Hamut Izgil
Myriad people emerge
Crazily they throw themselves at the city
Seeping with anger into the ground like dirty water, splattered
But I enter its night, walking
Thursday, 22 May 2025
For My Eightieth Birthday - Eugenio Montejo
as the moment I was born.
In the distance, the clocks are erased,
but tonight I open my home to my friends,
I want them all to come
to celebrate at my side.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Such, Such is Death - Charles Hamilton Sorley
Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean,
A merciful putting away of what has been.
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Paradise. Storefront. Monte Street - Reina María Rodríguez
blades are tired of lifting dust over
these lifeless objects
objects in disuse.exhaling.restlessness.
Monday, 19 May 2025
A horse beyond compare - Raage Ugaas
half-blackened from its formidable iron shaft,
that, when it is shot at you, flails frightfully through the air –
Sunday, 18 May 2025
Yearning - Anonymous
In the Eternal Father's mansion from the first have dwelt at home.
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Apetites - Elena Alexieva
I will be somebody's spoon of honey
unless I turn into another thing
Friday, 16 May 2025
The lost mate - Arabel Moulton-Barrett
Mate of my heart,
Tho' I call out to thee,
Silent thou art.
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Requiem to the Yard - Vizma Belševica
Some rotten eaves and posts.
Underneath lies my childhood
Along with a clearing’s bright sun,
With a shepherdess’ barefoot steps
There, under the ruins of a shed.
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
May Day - Bernard Patrick O'Dowd
A butt for burgess scorn;
Its flags are ragged sentiments,
And its music's still unborn.
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Made to punish men - Akiko Yosano
The smoothest skin
The longest black hair…
Monday, 12 May 2025
Robenson - Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
you don't know how I envy you.
If you could only show me your island,
there I would find peace of mind.
Sunday, 11 May 2025
Antonio machado - Roberto Armijo
a sprig of violets
they sprouted tears
Saturday, 10 May 2025
Kids Play Outside and I Write Kaiju Dreams - Tawanda Mulalu
Misato (who isn’t a girl because she drinks a cold beer after a hot shower
Friday, 9 May 2025
Shadow - Zvisinei C. Sandi
She stood – waiting
Down the dark avenue a car was coming
Thursday, 8 May 2025
White Smoke White Smoke - Bukang Liwayway
Voting is over for the new pope,
It’s a sign of our great victory,
Memorable moments in the history.
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
I, the Pastoral - Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo
I am the great-great-granddaughter of Ramatoulaye Télico, the first storyteller and poet of Fouta Djallon.
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
what’s the use of poetry - Jürgen Rooste
I ask you – what
does poetry reconcile
our divorced parents
Monday, 5 May 2025
Your Father - Saba Kidane
with a few coins near her legs
and a child wrapped in the folds
of her scarf worn to shreds,
she holds out her hand in the cold.
Sunday, 4 May 2025
Word of Life, most pure, most strong! - J.F. Bahnmaier
Saturday, 3 May 2025
Since the pure flow - Priest Nōren
Of Iwashimizu
Is unending,
Friday, 2 May 2025
Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death - Dieu Nhan
Birth, old age, sickness, death
Are commonplace and natural.
Should we seek relief from one,
Another will surely consume us.
Thursday, 1 May 2025
The Revenants - Mohamed Sehaba
because they held the words
still tangled with seaweed, with earth
or attached to spears.
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
F E E L - Ben Caesar
I been kissing the sky, I been hitting the ground
None of us know what tomorrow may hold
I guess we just hope it doesn't let us go
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Soon enough - Maura Eidabugi Thoma
As the waves comfort the sand.
Monday, 28 April 2025
For Jasmine - Ernest Pépin
Like a sun demanding justice
Time has not fallen silent
It has not forgotten how you left
Sunday, 27 April 2025
Justice - Hussein Al-Jassmi
And goodness always asks evil what for
Man with his actions or with his money
What good is money if everyone is wronged
Saturday, 26 April 2025
Fiery Ocean Sky - Hariz Fadhilah
The indigo ocean skies,
Scorching, titillating turquoise waves,
Emanating clouds of ashy gray
Friday, 25 April 2025
My island lies o'er the ocean - Amata Kabua
My island lies o'er the ocean;
Like a wreath of flowers upon the sea;
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Us White Policemen - Iron Bender
powerful, Civillzed, and democratic,
Blacks and Whites in the same Army
Whites and Blacks in the same Navy;
Both of them in the same Police.
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
My Poem To Naa - Nii-Ayi Solomon
This poem tells the story of my heart,
It’s the true reflection of my fondness for an African queen,
Naa, your beauty overwhelms me.
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
How I love her way - Tangatailoa
Love her way that is hers alone,
Little green pigeon still unlearned;
The pigeon we’re seeking is a maiden.
Monday, 21 April 2025
Where has she gone? - Naupata
She disappeared at the edge of the horizon
Where the sun drops through.
We weep for you.
Sunday, 20 April 2025
On Easter Sunday - Taras Shevchenko
Out in the sun the children played
With Easter eggs in colors braw
Saturday, 19 April 2025
A woman is a woman - Milena Ercolani
Each time she speaks to you
And says nothing of the ghosts
You would have wanted
To stitch across her lips
And on her shoulders
Friday, 18 April 2025
Gentleman of the Night - Claudia Torres
all over my skin,
scent of cinnamon,
of guava.
Thursday, 17 April 2025
Aurora - Caetano da Costa Alegre
You are the day, I am the thick night,
Where I end, your being does alight.
You don't love!... this soul of mine worships you, flora.
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Bonaire National Anthem - Hubert Obdulio Booi
Proud fatherland risen from the sea
Humble people, always happy,
Whose spirit is admired by all
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
A Dark Alley - Zahir al-Ghafri
Monday, 14 April 2025
Female 2000 - Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
I could have courted the mirror.
Sunday, 13 April 2025
Willow Sunday - Anonymous
It’s the willow hitting you,
Saturday, 12 April 2025
Watching Raindrops - Celestine Kulagoe
charged with lightning, I love
to sit by the roots of the banyan tree,
Friday, 11 April 2025
Empty Confesions of Time - Nkosilathi Sibanda
to the hard to remember night outs,
coupled with joys and fears.
Thursday, 10 April 2025
On a blind girl - Baha al-Din Zuhayr
I love her more for that, I said;
I love her, for she cannot see
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Our Homeland - Michel Lentz
The Sauer plays wild pranks,
Where fragrant vineyards amply grow
On the Mosella's banks;
There lies the land for which we would
Dare everything down here,
"Our own, our native land which ranks
Deeply in our hearts."
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Scattered or alone - Bruce Levitan
of a clear sky
is just
I L L U S I O N
Rayleigh scattering
Friday, 4 April 2025
Do not obey - Edouard J. Maunick
to shoot
at the terrified
horrified crowd.
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Raighnbow - Sharah Parks
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Here I stand - Simon Ng'uni
A man. Borne riddle in places.
This curvature of space. All that needs to fill,
Only a stroke. Working to undo errant stitches
More than a needle thread. A loom with which to.
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
That World of Rapture - Kim Su-yeong
Of the flying creatures that pass over the roof where l live
I try not to be enraptured.
Monday, 31 March 2025
Casino - Rasha Omran
Sunday, 30 March 2025
Doubting With Faith - Jordan Legaspi
But I believe God does
I cannot say God is this or that
But I feel Gods presence
I cannot prove what I believe
But I cannot disprove God
Saturday, 29 March 2025
The witch - Francisco Gorrindo
that rises up from my chest
and arrives on my lips full of malice,
I return to your side, with my hands tied,
Friday, 28 March 2025
There was a beauty - Attila József
I contemplated
a delicate rose.
And reality smashed down on me
like a loose boulder.
Thursday, 27 March 2025
staircase from which amman is seen burning - Zein Sa’dedin
the archaeological museum, baba and i watch
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
The Language - Gerrit Kouwenaar
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
A message from a lost soul - Esther Ayak John
Monday, 24 March 2025
Incomplete silence - Lêdo Ivo
Now, and only now, they are trying to tell us
that they loved and they forgot, and always remained far
from any final truth. Love is an unredeemable
debt contracted in the dark
and only death can free the debtors from default.
Sunday, 23 March 2025
Uriah - Theophilus Kwek
to passing merchants, bathe on the roof. Sell what was mine,
ours, night upon silken night. Once, pitched near Jerusalem,
I broke ranks in the evening, left my dagger by the door. Found her
painting her lips in the mirror, jewellery strewn across the floor.
Saturday, 22 March 2025
The world is an open sea and you’re my anchor - Farhan Ejat
You’re my savior
Friday, 21 March 2025
I don’t like the song of time - L Ölziitögs
From the song of time,
I hear my mother’s steps, growing distant.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
What is happening beneath the earth - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
at the remote nadir?
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
A fleeting moment - James Julius Catalyn
I travel back in time
To the days of my youth
And I remember a happening, a tune,
A softly spoken word, a caress;
So real, so very real.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Be our guest - Alykul Osmonov
The tastiest dishes for guests – that’s understood.
Monday, 17 March 2025
Chestnuts - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
They lie, scattered and subdued.
Brown, like a soft mouth smiling
Full and round and finely shining,
I hear them like a rippling Etüde.
Sunday, 16 March 2025
When vi’lence leads to vi’lence - John Miller Campbell
and pain just births more pain,
when savagery keeps cycling
and hoped for peace seems vain:
Saturday, 15 March 2025
Friday, 14 March 2025
The new world - Sabri Rahmouni
Because this world has become terrible
And on TV they warn us against each other
Now no one is safe
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Has love been blood-written - Hadraawi
has marrow yet
been poured for it
a person peeled
the skin from their back or ribs
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Pan is the Speaker - Diodorus Zonas
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Opinions no Pinions - Lâmiî Çelebi
They—may—lay snares for thy shameful fall:
Monday, 10 March 2025
O Love Divine! - Alexander Chavchavadze
Even monarchs bend their knees to you, and on your shrine prostrating fall.
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Beauty Will Save the World - Tihomir Jančovski
I didn’t know that I would be afraid to fall asleep in the evening.
For sometimes, I’m dying at night.
I have died in the dreams of others and in those of my own.
So, it would not be the first time.
Saturday, 8 March 2025
Lakansyèl - Émile Roumer
A rainbow emerges,
Arching across the sky,
A symbol of hope.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Cowichan Bay - Charles Van Gorkom
On a hot day,
Thankfully,
I sit in the shade on an old wharf.
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Yola so far - Eduar Ramos
grandma Yola.
I love you so much grandmother
and from that day where you took
me to live with you.
I couldn’t live with my step dad Tono.
Because my mom Yolany
went to the United States
so that I and my brothers
Would have a better life.
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
untitled - Henry Parland
and applied Eau de Cologne at Gamla Passagen
and called
to say I’ll be back at 1:10.
Monday, 3 March 2025
In an Oppressed Country - Gerhard Fritsch
angry, bent, in the middle of the field,
if someone drives past along the road.
One of them, the
people in motion.
Sunday, 2 March 2025
The Hymn of Glory - Judah He-Hasid
For Thou art all for which my spirit longs—
To be within the shadow of Thy hand
And all Thy mystery to understand.
Saturday, 1 March 2025
Sisters, you sold your jewellery - Hawa Jibril
Enriching the struggle.
Friday, 28 February 2025
Journey's End - Jónas Hallgrímsson
over Steeple Rock
is cloaked in clouds of night.
It laughed, once, from heaven
on the lad grieving
deep in the dark valley.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
No Life - Aminath Neena
for the might
of the pen,
there is no life
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Being a Palauan - Hermana Ramarui
But a state of being,
Is capability
And is freedom.
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
The Lake of Van (1) - Raffi
Wilt thou not lament with luckless me?
Move, ye zephyrs, move the rippling wavelets
With this lake my tears shall mingled be.
Monday, 24 February 2025
O My Libya - Laila Neihoum
Our palm trees blossom from your secret springs.
Your face redeems us.
Sunday, 23 February 2025
Miracle - Seamus Heaney
But the ones who have known him all along
And carry him in —
Saturday, 22 February 2025
Hour of sadness - Israel Emiot
rain all the time
everything close
and full of goodbyes;
Friday, 21 February 2025
Colour Me Blue - Nicole Grandaho
conjure a tune to which this heart could leap
maybe then would she dance her pains away.
Cast upon trees soulful lyrics
make them bend with the weight of their essence
maybe then would you write this torment right.
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Egg Of Light - Frankétienne
I speak the lunacy of contrary winds.
Every evening I use the patois of furious rains.
I say the fury of water is spilling over.
Every night I talk the language of hysterical tempests
to the Caribbean islands. I speak the hysteria of the sea in rut.
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Offspring of the Distant Word: II - Susy Delgado
everyone
must go away;
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Fountain - Astrid Cabral
Somersault of rain
In a mortar of stone.