Awake—I tremble before thee - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Awake—I tremble before thee;

Asleep—I may dare to behold thee:

So, life of my life, let me watch

While thou sleepest.

The Duration of Love - Ferdinand Freiligrath

Oh, love as long as you can love,

Oh, love as long as love you may!

The hour will come, the hour will come:

By graves lamenting you will stay.

The Full Moon - Marie Under

Bursting full is the moon,

its weight bends the trees.

The waters desire to be turned 

to wine,

they are so restless.

The Mirror - Dulce María Loynáz

The mirror hanging on the wall,

where I sometimes see myself in passing…

is a dead pond brought

into the house.

The Bathtub - Duy Quang Mai

instead, the poem begins when

the bathroom light brims my hands

High in the Sky - Anonymous

High in the sky a star is aglow,

cast ing bright beauty here below. 

A wave of salvation comes with the dawn:

born of a virgin is the Son.

Heaven and earth sing 

‘Alleluia! Jesus is born! Gloria!’

Mma - Tshifhiwa Itai Ratshiungo

You asked me not to make my words beautiful,

yet you told me of gods who ate butterflies gilded

with honey. I could imagine it, the taste of something

so delicate consecrated by those we give libation.

Under the Sycamores - Zeineb Yassin

I’m burning

To boil you

Las Posadas at Que Pasa - Lucille Sambo

With our hands intertwined we walked in the frosty night,

our feet crunching the left of tortilla leaves from autumn

and I remember you opened the door to Que Pasa

and my heart began to thaw, waters flowed from my skin,

Wings - Rajaa Bushara

In another life, I have wings.

In another life, I can write on the skies… write pieces during the day that’d be watered by the sun then watch them bloom at night… like that I know I can grow light.