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I Hear America Singing - by Walt Whitman

{ Poem }

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
/ Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe…

from Tell Them - by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

{ Poem }

I prepared the package
/ for my friends in the states
/ the dangling earrings woven
/ into half moons black pearls glinting
/ like an eye in…

My Country - by Ricardo Miró

{ Poem }

Such a small country, spread on an isthmus
/ where the sky is clearer, the sun brighter;
/ all your music echoes within me,…

‘Brothers, your cries…’ - by Adi Rumi

{ Poem }

Brothers, your cries
are ours too.

‘My Belarus with cornflowers blooming . . .’ - by Nadzieja Salanovič

{ Poem }

My Belarus with cornflowers blooming,
/ my land of camomile!
/ I’m no ‘new Belarusian’ woman,
/ I cling to ‘older’ style.
/ Not by broad path, but…

from Song of Ocol - by Okot p’Bitek

{ Poem }

Tell me
/ My friend and comrade,
/ Do you remember
/ The night of uhuru
/ When the celebration drums throbbed
/ And men and women wept with joy
/ As…

Namibia - by Mvula Ya Nangolo

{ Poem }

I’ve returned here for many a reason
/ I’ll certainly live here for many a season
/ Like thousands of others I hear its…

Midday - by Ak Welsapar

{ Poem }

Midday, just look around:
the heat raises the sand to a boil.
Life is nothing more than a myth
when summer comes to this land.

You Ask Me, Why My Heart Flies From the Coast - by Antonio Machado

{ Poem }

You ask me, why my heart flies from the coast
/ back to Castile, to towering raw terrains,
/ why, near the sea, in…

وطنم - by Asadullah Habib

{ Poem }

وطنم قصۀ غمگينی است
/ برهمه باديه و جنگل و دشت
/ که نوشتن نتوان
/ ***
/ خواب رنگين شب عيد منست
/ سربام و شب…

Kõige Ilvem Maa - by Andres Ehin

{ Poem }

Ülemöödunud aastasajal panid hundid siin
/ igal aastal nahka kaks tuhat viissada inimest.
/
/ Naisedki kandsid vöö vahel väikesi kirveid.
/ Nad alid niisama täpsed kirveloopijad
/ kui…

The Sari - by Moniza Alvi

{ Poem }

Inside my mother
/ I peered through a glass porthole.
/ The world beyond was hot and brown.
/
/ They were all looking in on me…

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