Stone Song - Vijf Gedichten

Words going backwards

are on their way to you:

so that you may hear

your ears are gone.

The Moon over Mtatsminda - Galaktion Tabidze

My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;

In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night.

Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light;

O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!

The difference between you and myself - Nicolas de Chamfort

“The difference between you and myself,” said a friend to me, 

“is that you have said to all the masqueraders: ‘I know you,’ 

the sole survivor - Saba Hamzah

In the conversation that lasted until 3 AM, she questioned, "Has

not the hour come

to forge a means of connection

that would bridge the chasm between my life and your death?"

Indian Ocean - MAB Elhad

string of islands that I shell

I put so much hope in your name.

IOC!

He is the One in many - Namdev

He is the One in many,

countless are His shapes and forms.

He pervades all that exists;

wherever I look, He is there.

But very few perceive this reality,

for Maya ever enchants us

with her multiple reflections

of color and alluring beauty.

It’s Not Love… - J-Rae Tedtaotao

When I was 13 I experienced loss before love

and for that I never stepped up to love’s challenge

since then I have been running from it,

and now I can feel it catching up and

its breath on my neck

but I am too scared to turn around.

Ay Ay Ay de la Grifa Negra - Julia de Burgos

Ay ay ay, that I’m kinky-haired and pure black;

kinky hair, Kafir lips

and my flat nose Mozambiques.

I wish I was blind - Alesana Kleis Seluka

To see things truly

Of what and who they are

Lament the ability to see

Eyes that are ever so deceitful

To my own mind

Rio Grande de Loiza! - Julia de Burgos

Rio Grande de Loiza!... Elongate yourself in my spirit

and let my soul lose itself in your rivulets,

finding the fountain that robbed you as a child

and in a crazed impulse returned you to the path.