Homesick - Elna Ratabwiy

I remember Nauru

Where the sun was shimmering

on the waves 

Charles Mingus Egg Nog Recipe - Mona Kareem

Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.

Two sugars for each egg, each person.

Pearls - Ahmed Sheik Koya

A pearl is not found in every oyster 

Only ones that endure a grit that comes to fester

Slowly its lacquered and covered with shiny plaster

It takes grit and time and no way to do it faster

And the grit is the start of the pearl of luster

The way ahead - Konai Helu Thaman

we cannot see

far into the distance

neither can we see

what used to stand there

Prescription - Emma Kruse Va’ai

Gather some sunshine

and warm rain,

one cicada

and a pocket of air from your kitchen.

Blood Sunday - Kithaka wa Mberia

I 

Beats of Reggae

Roar/rumble in the air

And get mixed

With sunrise

 

Prelude to hope - Vicente Huidobro

You sing and sing you talk and talk

And roll on through time

And weep like a wild lily

In unison of spires uprearing - Jan Křesadlo

In unison of spires uprearing

Below, the River's low pedal bass

To some she tastes of wine, light, cheering

To some of bile, and vinegar, base.

The Husband - Adela Zamudio

Thirsting in the desert of ambition,

in search of recognition he holds dear,

a man stands at the threshold of glory;

The foolishness of sacrifice - Rāmprasād Sen

Mind, why art thou so anxious? 

Utter Kālī’s name, and sit in meditation 

From all this pomp of worship the mind grows proud 

Worship her in secret, that none may know 

What is thy gam from images of metal, stone or earth?