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Monday, 10 July 2017
I hate the cyclic poem - Callimachus
I hate the cyclic poem and I don’t enjoy
The road that goes too far this way and that.
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Sunday, 9 July 2017
A hymn - Bede
A hymn of glory let us sing;
New songs throughout the world shall ring;
By a new way none ever trod
Christ mounteth to the throne of God.
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Saturday, 8 July 2017
The Scowl of the Perpetual Dictator - Elvio Romero
What a difficult countenance!
What a complex countenance!
There’s something that draws me to his furrowed brow,
on his patriotic mission.
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Friday, 7 July 2017
Who are You? - Gopal Prasad Rimal
Here we are fond of our needs,
the vanity which hides them
is dear to us:
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Thursday, 6 July 2017
All the characters - Ester Fenoll García
All the characters
Leave the book
To embrace me
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Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Ice - Torkilk Mørch
In the heart of the ice is fire.
You can touch it, feel it,
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Autopsychography - Fernando Pessoa
The poet is a man who feigns
And feigns so thoroughly, at last
He manages to feign as pain
The pain he really feels,
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Monday, 3 July 2017
Oh Madagascar - Michael Parfait Andrianjaka
Oh Madagascar the holy
Big island next to Africa
The sea surrounds you
I love you, adore you, and will never deny you
Because you are so wonderful
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Sunday, 2 July 2017
I look for you early - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
I look for you early,
my rock and my refuge,
offering you worship
morning and night;
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Saturday, 1 July 2017
My Donkey Says - Reesom Haile
I put on my pants
One leg at a time
And my shoes one after the other.
What's to understand?
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