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Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma - by Donna Williams

{ Poem }

What’s beautiful in Sign,
Is boring in a line,
What’s pretty in a line,
Is confusing in Sign.

Thonder they ligg - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Frae the Gaelic o George Campbell Hay
/
/ “Thonder they ligg on the grund o the sea,
/ nae the hyne whaur they…

Back - by David Kinloch

{ Poem }

Everything seems ok.
/ Rabbis study in the Lublin yeshiva again
/ even if the Jewish Quarter
/ is still razed to the ground.
/ Trains leave just…

Pstryk - by Julian Tuwim

{ Poem }

Sterczy w ścianie taki pstryczek,
/ Mały pstryczek-elektryczek,
/ Jak tym pstryczkiem zrobić pstryk,
/ To się widno robi w mig.
/
/ Bardzo łatwo:
/ Pstryk – i światło!
/ Pstryknąć potem…

Italy - by Giuseppe Ungaretti

{ Poem }

I am a poet / a unanimous cry / I am a particle of dreams…

Clan Donald’s Call to Battle At Harlaw - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

after the Gaelic of Lachlann Mor MacMhuirich (fl. 1411)
/
/ You Clann of Conn, remember this:
/ Strength from the eye of the storm.
/ Be…

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.

The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe - by Stéphane Mallarmé

{ Poem }

Such as into Himself at last eternity changes him, / the Poet with a naked sword provokes / his century…

Hallaig - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

‘Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig’
/
/ Tha bùird is tàirnean air an uinneig
/ trom faca mi an Àird Iar
/ ’s tha mo…

Curaidhean - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Chan fhaca mi Lannes aig Ratasbon
/ no MacGillFhinnein aig Allt Èire
/ no Gill-Ìosa aig Cùil Lodair,
/ ach chunnaic mi Sasannach san Èipheit.
/
/ Fear beag…

‘Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd’ - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd
/ is dè thug thu dhòmhsa?
/ Cha tug ach saighdean
/ geura do bhòidhchid.
/ Thug thu cruaidh shitheadh
/ is treaghaid na dòrainn,
/ domblas an…

Tràighean - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

Nan robh sinn an Talasgar air an tràigh
/ far a bheil am beul mòr bàn
/ a’ fosgladh eadar dà ghiall chruaidh,
/ Rubha nan…

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