Panegyric of Madog ab Maredudd - Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr

A Sov'reign Prince will extol, of nine parts is my poem, 

With all the force of numbers nine-nine are its topics, 

A hero 'tis to celebrate, Gogyrfan's like in stature. 

In The Bloom Of His Youth - At The Height Of Summer - Uuno Kailas

How wonderful to be lolling about here.

Spreading one's limbs on the palm of a rock's hand.

In the nude.

Asking for Blessing - Anonymous (traditional Gikuyu tribal prayer)

Say ye, the elders may have wisdom and speak with one voice.

Praise ye Ngai. Peace be with us.

I think of your hands as gills inside the sea - Luís Carlos Patraquim

I think of your hands as gills inside the sea

your hands that breathe sounds

and I think I’m within a shoal of moving fish

What have you done with your blue look? - Hulda Dagny Lütken

What have you done with your blue look?

Once your eyes were like the sky.

Fair Ladies are Delicate Things - Dugald Buchanan

                    [1.]

Fair Ladies are Delicate Things

The Pleasure and Joy of Man’s Life

Companions for Nobles & Kings

And who would not have a Good Wife¹

black majesty - Luis Pales Matos

Through the fiery Antillean street

Va Tembandumba de la Quimbamba

—Rumba, macumba, candombe, bambula—

Between two rows of black faces.

Spiritual Song Of The Aborigine - Hyllus Noel Maris

I am a child of the Dreamtime People

Part of this land, like the gnarled gumtree

I am the river, softly singing

Chanting our songs on my way to the sea

October Sky - Tadeusz Borowski

October was beautiful. As if it were yesterday I remember

the strangely clear, strangely deep sky

shimmering in the noon heat as a leaf shimmers in the wind,

empty and unreachable. I am oddly melancholy

telling you about this, for what do words mean?

Lao-Tze - Anonymous

1.
Back in the depths of ancient time;
Remote, before the Tis began;
Four equal sides denned the earth,