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The Guest House - by Jalaluddin Rumi

{ Poem }

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

In the Snack-bar - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

A cup capsizes along the formica,
/ slithering with a dull clatter.
/ A few heads turn in the crowded evening snack-bar.
/ An old man…

Lyric IX from ‘Jane’ - by Stuart MacGregor

{ Poem }

When the first darkness creeps upon the floor
/ Your comfort filters green into my nostrils,
/ There is no need to ask for…

A true poem… - by Trefossa

{ Poem }

A true poem is a thing of awe.
/ A true poem is a struggle unto death.
/ A true poem is another land
/ where…

All of Them - by Qassim Haddad

{ Poem }

Everybody said it was useless
/ Everybody said, “you’re trying to lean on sun dust”
/ that the beloved before whose tree I stand
/ can’t…

Chai ya Jioni - by Euphrase Kezilahabi

{ Poem }

Wakati tunywapo chai hapa upenuni
/ Na kuwatazama watoto wetu
/ Wakicheza bembea kwa furaha
/ Tujue kamba ya bembea yetu
/ Imeshalika na imeanza kuoza
/ Na bado kidogo…

Ingo tubane - by Diomède Niyonzima

{ Poem }

Ingo tubane mu mahoro
/ Duhane amahoro ntiduhane imihoro
/ Ingo tureke gupfa ubusa nk’abasazi
/ Dusangire naho tudasa
/ Dusangire uburaro n’uburamuko.
/
/ Nta kamaro ko kumarana
/ Ubwoko bwaremwe n’lmana
/ Ubwoko…

وطن - by Mansur Rajih

{ Poem }

يا صاحبي لا تبتئس
/ وطن النهار بكرا .. لا يزال
/ والأرض بكر …
/ الحب خلف ضلوعنا ينمو
/ يملأ العمر مقاما آخرا ،
/ لم تزل في…

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…

Optimism - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
/ Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
/ returns over and over…

Tin Roof - by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

{ Poem }

Wild harmattan winds whip you
/ but still you stay;
/ they spit dust all over your gleam
/ and twist your sharp cutting edges.
/ …

Ilka Blade o’ Grass Keps its ain Drap o’ Dew - by James Ballantine

{ Poem }

Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind,
/ And hear ye a’ life’s changes wi’ a calm and tranquil mind.
/ Tho’…

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