Vertigo 2 - Robert Schindel

I’m poleaxed by sleeping

So tired that I’m weeping

Stuck here in these stones

I won’t be escaping

I Died Alive - Harriet Anena

I died

But my heart still breathed

The True Prison - Ken Saro-Wiwa

It is not the leaking roof

Nor the singing mosquitoes

In the damp, wretched cell

Childhood Stories (extract) - José María Cuéllar

I was born in 1942 if for some reason my mother

has not lost her memory.

The Children in the Moon - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

Hearken, child, unto a story! 

For the moon is in the sky, 

And across her shield of silver, 

See! two tiny cloudlets fly. 

Stormy Night - Jean Lahor

The wind screamed, the wind howled its rages,

The ocean leaped the length of the cliff

And my soul, faced with those surges

Of black rolling waves, breathed with greater relief.

British Merchant Service, 1915 - Cicely Fox Smith

Oh, down by Millwall Basin as I went the other day, 

I met a skipper that I knew, and to him I did say: 

"Now what's the cargo, captain, that brings you up this way?" 

Holy Spirit - St. Hildegard of Bingen

Holy Spirit,

giving life to all life,

Wild Roses - Mirjam Tuominen

Wild thickets thorn hedges

bar your way

wayless.

While You Decline To Cry - Ō no Yasumaro

While you decline to cry,

high on the mountainside

a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.