Boomerang - Rex Ingamells

This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped,

was curved so evenly while piccaninnies gaped

at a Warrior who chipped at it with pieces of flint,

A Swimmer Is A Horseman - Paul Snoek

Swimming is licentiously sleeping in sprawling water.

is making love with each still operable pore

is endlessly being free and inwardly triumphing.

Love's Autumn - T-Ö Erdenetsogt

aripple ripple aripple

love’s autumn meets with us, and

in song song in song

you come to us with memory’s recollection

The Lily Of The Valley - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

O'er hill and dale the welcome news is flying

That summer's drawing near;

Out of my thicket cool, my cranny hidden,

Around I shyly peer.

One Gentle Evening Suave - Rachel Bluwstein

One gentle evening suave, I'll go

Outside and immobile,

Not speaking to a single soul,

I'll sit awhile.

Autumn - Pavlo Tychyna

Fungus grows on the cultures of the world.

Autumn. In the cities by four o'clock street

lights come on.

Women - Anna Blaman

I

Her arms smooth and clear-skinned in the shadow

of dark tulle, amply perfumed and lips

of carmine-red—I see the tips

of her breasts heave coming and going.

Christ In The Corn - Ole Sarvig

I saw the corn last night,

the dreaming corn,

the corn and ears of all mankind ever

in these fields.

Here lay Leningraders - Olga Berggolts

Here are city dwellers, men, women, and children

Next to them, Red Army soldiers.

Advent Credo - Allan Boesak

It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss—

This is true: For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life;