Shattering Mirrors - Lauren Li

I always thought that she was happier here than there
Her home without love, without life
We would have shared the same happiness, but
My happiness and my love
She took it all away

A pilgrimage to Angkor (extract) - Suttantaprija Ind

Oh, how pitiful is the sacred Singha, built by our ancestors
Once so lively, as if brimming with movement.
Now broken, collapsed upon the earth
What a tragedy, to see you rendered powerless.

Arguing Over Where To Live In Singapore - Toh Hsien Min

You’d lived in Tampines and Pasir Ris,
so you’ve a base of knowledge to proclaim
with no room for debate that Bedok is
the liveliest town centre in the East.

Love simple and pure - Juste Olivier

I love you, so sweetly dressed
In tenderness and love;
To sit with you, I'm blessed
As one from heaven above.

Fleeting Joys - Ismaaciil Mire

Downpours of rain, dry valleys newly watered,
Hillsides resplendent with new verdant growth
And clans assembling under and acacia tree –
On such things were my thoughts and affections set,
But this world provides no lasting satisfaction.

Safety - Evelyn Underhill

Most wonderful, most deep security
That circles in the soul at hours of pain.
When the assaulting harms
Of death and love and treachery set on,
When we must con
The dreadful lessons of mortality;

To hold our language high - Michaël Slory

Don't make this language
get lost so carelessly.

On the day we met
we saw it fit
to speak it well.

The world - Henry Vaughan

            1.

I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,
    All calm, as it was bright, 
And round beneath it, Time is hours, days, years
    Driven by the spheres 
Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world
    And all her train were hurl'd; 

Izina - Ketty Nivyabandi

History will remember this man
Our grandchildren will study him between school recesses
Old women will speak of him as a strange enigma
A myth, an eccentric aberration . . .

Credo - Guy Tirolien

me too, I have my pocket credo
but don't go and repeat it before the garrulous winds
and the passing crowds
they'd laugh at you

My only begotten - Nadezhda Chernova

A strange kind of wish we have here,
to grasp at a moment’s picture
of a tomtit, a cloud, or a deer,
then flick through our pages even quicker.

My world - Anonymous

Say goodbye to our courtyard.
Tomorrow we’re setting out on the road,
leaving our little courtyard to be demolished.

Speak Up - Yesenqul Jaqypbek

I have a secret that hurts my soul.
There is one night I will remember forever.
There is a debt I still owe to society.
There is a complaint I couldn’t voice to the UN.

A wonderful night - Jontemir

The night bus stop.
Waiting in the corner.
Smoke rises from my cigarette.
“Are you waiting for the 94?”
I shake my head.

Mt. Paektu (Chapter 1: 1) - Jo Ki Chon

Hills and mountains, hills and cliffs
Stretch unending out of sight.
Pass one valley on your way
And another lies before you.

Dandelions of Hope - Park Soo-jin

Amidst concrete walls and barbed wires
Dandelions bloom, defying despair

Turning to God - Pietro Bembo

If, gracious God, in life’s green ardent year,
A thousand times thy patient love I tried;
With reckless heart, with conscience hard and sear,
Thy gifts perverted, and thy power defied!

I Walk On Water - Aisha Al Saifi

Like prophets
I gently walk on water
I do not stumble 

Mist on the Menai - Daniel Dwyran

There's mist on the Menai
There's geese in the sky
There's snow on the Mountains
As the mist rolls on by

Night of Sorrow in the Mountains - Numa Pompilio Llona

The tempest raged; and I, meanwhile,
from mountain crest to foothill, my face in my hand,
shed tears—bitter, unending tears.

We have to cross the river - Zamenga Batukezanga

We lead a hard life
For a grain of salt
     We have to cross the river

Tiare - Konai Helu Thaman

drenched in the sprays
of Tangaloa
you are born
fragile silence falls
gently from the eyes
of the sky