Odysseus at home - Yiorgos Chouliaras

Using as everyone knows my cunning
I left my shadow at sea
and returned immediately to Ithaca.

When time holds its breath - Mathalea Ntaote

From yester ashes, tomorrow blooms in a single breath
Time is a river, unyielding and wide,
A winding path that swallows the goal

The Ungay Science – Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Maturity. that terrible gift
whose giver, giving it, takes away
all the spontaneous joy of receiving
under the icy shade of a headstone–

Exodus from Ireland - Marwan Makhoul

I arrived in Ireland and my coat cried out:
You’ve gone abroad, my friend, but left me at home!

New Love - Louise Otto-Peters

When, with new glowing feelings and fervent longing,
Love mounts like sunrise into the heart,
There, in praise of new deeds, awaken new songs
That, in wondrous melodies, break the long silence within.

And then no more - James Clarence Mangan

I saw her once, one little while, and then no more:
’Twas Eden’s light on Earth a while, and then no more.

Fruits - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

You may choose
among the fruits of the perfumed season;
but this is what I will show you:
two plump mangos
where you may suck the sun melted within.

Problem - Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi

Life yearned for by multitudes
A ceremony of the first fruits
That causes both young and old
To walk up and down

Women’s Chorus - Aristophanes

They're always abusing the women,
As a terrible plague to men:
They say we’re the root of all evil,
And repeat it again and again;

African Poem - Antonio Agostinho Neto

There on the horizon the fire
and the dark silhouettes of the imbondeiro trees
with their arms raised
in the air the green smell of burnt palm trees