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Thank You for Being a Woman - by Jémima Fiadjoe-Prince Agbodjan

{ Poem }

Thank you for being a woman
/ For having been born
/ To know the pain of childbirth;
/ For having nursed my mother’s breast
/ To know…

My Son - by Fatoumata Sidibé

{ Poem }

The moon keeps watch
/ and the child sleeps.
/ His head emerges from the covers
/ like a flower smiling at life.
/ His breath is like…

Thor Heyerdahls mor - by Jan Erik Vold

{ Poem }

Thor Heyerdahl, en traust
/ og stillferdig
/ nordmann, som tenkte
/ sitt og ville
/
/ finne
/ ut om det
/ stemte – så han bygde seg en flåte
/ av balsa
/
/ på de…

Il Sogno Della Madre - by Stefano Dal Bianco

{ Poem }

Se state guardando una madre che dorme in poltrona
/ in un qualsiasi dopopranzo invernale
/ con il televisore temporaneamente spento
/ e con in casa…

from Poem to her Daughter - by Mwana Kupona binti Msham

{ Poem }

Daughter, take this amulet
/ tie it with cord and caring
/ I’ll make you a chain of coral and pearl
/ to glow on your…

Esej - by Semezdin Mehmedinović

{ Poem }

Zaslužuje pjesmu ova večernja šetnja.
/ Svjetlucanje aviona nad predgrađem
/ Dok u plavičastu tamu tone.
/ Varničenje žica nad trolejbusom.
/ Jedna je žena izgubila naušnicu
/ Sad se…

’Our cries, she used to say…’ - by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

{ Poem }

Our cries, she used to say
/ would scratch the moon’s windowpanes
/ and scrape the corners of tombstones which milked the moon
/
/ My mother…

Dog’s Tail - by Amjad Nasser

{ Poem }

My mother died in 2000 after she learned that all
/ the clocks and calendars had changed, and
/ possibly after she heard about…

Mother - by Attila József

{ Poem }

All this last week I have been thinking
of my mother, thinking of her taking
up in her arms the creaking basket
of clothes, without pausing, up to the attic.

As the child looks on - by Saradha Soobrayen

{ Poem }

his mother pulls the linen
/ from the cord.
/ She flaps each sheet,
/ folds each vest.
/ Collars are starched,
/ skirts are dressed.
/ She is spit, she is…

Like a Beacon - by Grace Nichols

{ Poem }

In London
/ every now and then
/ I get this craving
/ for my mother’s food
/ I leave art galleries
/ in search of plantains
/ saltfish/sweet potatoes
/
/ I need this…

Milk - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Your custom often
/ when the house was still
/
/ to brew milky coffee
/ and reminisce.
/
/ Child care experts would have frowned
/ on my late hours,
/
/ The bitter…

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