Venice masks

Monday, 28 February 2022

untitled - Taras Shevchenko

As the sun sets and hills grow dark,
as the birdsong ends and fields fall silent,
as the people laugh and take their rest,
I watch.

Friday, 25 February 2022

Who Will Buy Me Certainty? - Hanane Aad

I am the Eternally Anxious One
Who will buy me certainty?
Where can I obtain the serenity of silence?

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Autumn - Giovanni

It’s morning time: leaves
lie restfully on the ground.

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Guinea - Jacques Roumain

It’s the long road to Guinea
death takes you down.
Here are the boughs, the trees, the forest.
Listen to the sound of the wind in its long hair
            of eternal night.

Tuesday, 22 February 2022

My Dear Hina! - Peni Latu

I shall tell you so that all may know
Of the dream that appeared in my mind
My most precious bread cast upon the water
Drifting further afar and into oblivion

Monday, 21 February 2022

While walking up Back Street - Debra Providence

While walking up Back Street
in green tank, yellow mesh T-shirt
and loose blue jeans
a copper hails me from
the other side of the street,

Sunday, 20 February 2022

The Word of the Cross - Paulinus of Nola

Look on thy God, Christ hidden in our flesh,
A bitter word, the cross, and bitter sight:
Hard rind without, to hold the heart of heaven.

Saturday, 19 February 2022

The Cry of the Bird - Nimrod Bena Djangrang

I wanted to be overcome with silence
I abandoned the woman I love
I closed myself to the bird of hope

Friday, 18 February 2022

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Picket Fence - Michael Donhauser

It is first of all, has been, here separates me picket by picket.
From you, if anything like "in back of: in front of" still existed.