POETRY

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – Petry, by William Shakespeare

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They…

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A WORLD THAT PLAYS ITS OWN GAME WITH US – Inger Christensen, poems

Christensen's father was a tailor, and her mother a cook before her marriage, but Inger Christensen (1935/2009, born in Vejle…

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CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY – An Qi, Ba Ling and Chen Guiliang

PARTING BEFORE DAYBREAK – First the day, then daybreak, and finally the time for parting. Local time in Beijing is…

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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN POETRY – Tanya Mendonsa, The Daughters of the Lie

Exhibitions of her paintings have been many, but as a poet, she is new to the Indian literary scene. Originally…

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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN POETRY – Love poem, by Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi - graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University – she is an…

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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN POETRY – K. Satchidanandan, poems

BURNT POEMS - I am a half-burnt poem. Yes, you guessed right, a girl's love poem. Girls' love poems have…

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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN POETRY – Adil Jussawalla, poems

HER SAFE HOUSE - Mother walking up a corridor with a stick, as frail as tissue paper, bunched on a…

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THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY – Poetry, by Gerbrand Bredero

THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY O ripe bosom white that steadily before mine eyes, so dearly drifts, like the clear…

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THE SHIP OF FOOLS – Introduction, by Sebastian Brant

THE SHIP OF FOOLS, INTRODUCTION Knowledge of trouth, prudence, and iust symplicite hath vs clene left. For we set of…

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I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF – Poetry, by Vittoria Colonna

I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF I live upon this wretched solitary cliff, like a bird of sorrow that…

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