Act - Mildred Sope

People of the earth

Where are you going

Fast

     Faster

          Faster yet

Where is the limit

To what end do we rush

Spring's Messengers in Australia - Frances Tyrrell Gill

Eve winds awake the crocus-flower. 

The faint narcissus dares unfold 

Her face uncaring of the cold; 

As though in dream she heard the shower, 

And breathed the sunshine of that hour 

The roses may behold. 

I traverse the world - Benumah

I traverse this world as though

As though I am not supposed to be here

Not as a Christian with a view of her heavenly home

No

In Damen - Frank Báez

In Damen there’s a bar

where the employees loosen their ties

and drink beer with girls who steal

poetry from the bookstore on the corner.

Splendid are the heavens high - N. F. S. Grundtvig

Splendid are the heavens high,
Beautiful the radiant sky,
Where the golden stars are shining,
And their rays, to earth inclining,
-: Beckon us to heaven above :-

Rejoice (Oh Ye Africans) - Gladys May Casely-Hayford

Rejoice and shout with laughter

Throw all your burdens down,

If God has been so gracious

As to make you black or brown.

The Beloved - A.R. Cliff-Lubwa

Lapobo,

Tall but not too tall,

Short but not too short,

She is of medium size.

Parting from the Eldest Youth of the Tung Family - Kao-Shih

Long leagues of tawny sky shut out the day:

On the North Wind wind geese are whirled:

And fast, fast drives of snow.

The Bombax Tree - Fily Dabo Sissoko

Stripped of his crown

he stands

at the center of the town,

the crooks of his branches

heavy with enormous

warts.

Visions - Caetano da Costa Alegre

I saw you pass, far from me, far away, 

Like a walking ebony statue;