End of a Year - Julian Symons

And in this year now

Remember all the harm.

The watcher on the hill

Weeps the heroic end

And under look of eyes

Or the bold clasp of hands

The lovers know their wrong.

Ring Of Peace - Paul Éluard

I have passed the doors of coldness

The doors of my bitterness

To come and kiss your lips

I.R.ME (I Represent Me) - Ben Caesar

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its a complicated/

subject that i touch/

sensitive/

like injured love/

Melody - Wazani Adamu Ijarafu

There is a melody

In the song of a mad man who lost his lover

To the romance of broken bottles

Liber VIII.LXXI (To Postumianus) - Marcus Valerius Martialis

Four pounds of silver plate in winter's season 

you sent me, Postumianus, ten years ago. 

While I hoped for a greater weight 

for gifts should stand fixed or grow 

there arrived two pounds more or less. 

Together and yet apart - Ketty Dan-Napwatt and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

Together and yet apart

Separated by a need greater than ourselves

Until the dawn when the roosters crow, together we shall be

Nativity - John Donne

Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb,

Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.

Christmas - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

The market and streets stand still and ghostly,

Each house in all the silence glows,

Along the lanes my thoughts come with me,

As the festive spirit ever grows.

The Tay Moses - Kathleen Jamie

What can I fashion for you

but a woven creel of river-

rashes, a golden

oriole’s nest my gift

wrought from the Firth –

A Night-mooring at Wuchang - Lu Lun

Far off in the clouds stand the walls of Hanyang,

Another day's journey for my lone sail...