SOFTLY Lean spike is your body, from which the grain is dropped and will not return to sprout as a lean spike is lean your body. Skein of silk is your body, penned by the lust to the last wrinkle, like a skein of silk is your body. Sky burned is your body, in death fabric dreams ambushes, as a …
Read More »HE SAW HER ONLY ONCE – Poetry by Vladimír Holan
HE SAW HER ONLY ONCE He saw her only once. But from that moment he was surprised, and sang a song but do not know to whom, and intoned a chorus but no one followed him. He dared to worship her like that for a whole year, present to the future, as now knew where unsuspecting heavily it back, the …
Read More »PAVILION ON THE LAKE – Poetry by Wang Wei
PAVILION ON THE LAKE Light the boat I met nice guest door, which is the distance from much of the lake. Then, in the loggia, in front of a cup of wine, each side lotus flowers will open. In front of the balcony, as more ripples the expanse of water, the solitary moon goes wandering ceaselessly. From the bottom of …
Read More »THOSE TWO, EMBRACED – Poetry by Izet Sarajlić
THOSE TWO, EMBRACED Those two embraced on the bank of the Rhine in Gottlieben, could also be you and me, but the two of us never will walk most of any hugged the shore. Come on, we walk at least in this poem (Izet Sarajlić) http://www.amazon.com/fatto-Collezione-poesia-Italian-Edition-ebook/dp/B016NKFHZI
Read More »ASK THE HORIZON, ENRICHED WITH BLOOM OF STARS – Ibn Zamrak Poetry
ASK THE HORIZON, ENRICHED WITH BLOOM OF STARS Ask the horizon, adorned the flourishing of stars. In Him I trust, that you know who I am. The breeze I entrusted the burden, with which crosses time wandering hope. Whoever obeys his eyes to the laws of love, knows that it is usually break the veto imposed by the censor, avoiding …
Read More »PATAGONIA – Poetry by Kate Clanchy
PATAGONIA I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured a peninsula, wide enough for a couple of ladderback chairs, to wobble on at high tide. I thought of us in breathless cold, facing an horizon round as a coin, looped in a cat’s cradle strung by gulls from sea to sun. I planned to wait, till the waves had bored themselves to …
Read More »WANDERING I GO INTO FIRST SNOW – Poetry by Sergei Yesenin
WANDERING I GO INTO FIRST SNOW I go astray on the first snow in the heart of lilies forces erupted. The evening went on my way over the candle turquoise of a star. I do not know if there is light or dark, whether in the forest sing the rooster or the wind. Maybe instead of winter fields, swans have …
Read More »THE DAWN – Poetry by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
THE DAWN You were everything in my destiny, then came the war and the decay, and long, long you never heard anything more. And after many, many years, your voice again troubled me. All night I read your commands, reviving me as from a swoon. I want to go among the people, the crowd, the animation morning. I am …
Read More »MY CRYSTALLINE SOUL – Poetry by Paul Klee
MEINE KRISLALLKLARE SEELE > Meine kristallklare Seele war je da und dort hauchgetrübt, meine Türme manchmal bewölkt. Pein setzt sich zur Liebe, und ohne Sehnsüchte kann ich nicht lang noch kurz leben. MY CRYSTALLINE SOUL > My crystalline soul, it is sometimes disturbed by a breath, my towers are filled with clouds. The penalty cometh love and I can not …
Read More »EVERYWHERE WE GO – Poetry by Henrik Nordbrandt
EVERYWHERE WE GO Everywhere we go, we always come too late what a time we started to find. And in any city we stop, are the houses where it is too late to turn, the gardens where it is too late to spend a moonlit night, and the women that is too late to love, to torment us with their …
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