I have seen Yiddish words - Moyshe Kulbak

I have seen Yiddish words like small flames, like small flames,

like sparks, risen from dark ore.

In winter - Maksim Bahdanovich

Hail, frosty evening, ringing, calling,

Hail, crunching crisp, soft spread of snow,

No snowstorm blows, the wind has fallen,

And freely the light sledges go.

Song Of The Bells - Yakub Kolas

Silver-copper booming clamour,

In the belfry, bells are ringing.

In the dawnlight, bells are ringing,

In the twilight's shining pallor.

First Rain - Avrom Sutzkever

What shall I do with so much memory?

Where shall I hide it,

Infuse it in veins —

For my grandchild to find it?

Frozen Jews - Avrom Sutzkever

Did you ever see in fields of snow

Frozen Jews, in row upon row?

From the Forest - Avrom Sutzkever

Of grass and flowers, the substance dissolves
Into drops of dew.
And he who wants can see
The subtle play
Of black and fire, silver and blue.

A laboratory - Viktar Licvinau

In a small lab
resembling a box
the planets, meteorites,
sun and stars,
nitrogen and cosmic ice
revolve in their orbits.

Factory of Tears - Valzhyna Mort

And once again according to the annual report
the highest productivity results were achieved
by the Factory of Tears.

Chernobyl - Volha Ipatava

House. Hundred-year oak. A well-spring flowing
And storks winging from a distant strand.
'Human, grant that we may make our home here,
Very sweet to us appears this land.'

I Absorbed - Celia Dropkin

I absorbed the sky,
the woods of my old home.