The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died...
**A Poem by Kamran Mir Hazar**
Virus Writing...
**A Poem by Marfuga Aitkhozha**
The Northern Breeze...
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Colours". (lemmy.world)
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies (poets.org)
Dedicated to the Poet Agostinho Neto, President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, "Battlegrounds"
Motorcycles and white tour vans speed between behemoth granite shafts, shove my body by their force, leave me roadside and wandering fields. Little is funny when you’re Chicana and walking a Civil War site not meant for walking. Regardless, I ask park rangers and guides for stories on Mexicans soldiers,...
**A Poem by Olzhas Suleimenov**
Any Liquid Poured into a Vessel…...
The World As Meditation - Wallace Stevens
J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l’exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l’a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s’arrête ni nuit ni jour. — Georges Enesco....
Wallace Stevens, "Palace of the Babies". (lemmy.world)
**A Poem by Annasoltan Kekilova**
If I ever had an enemy in this world,...
A Poet behind Israeli bars (www.penopp.org)
Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet, playwright, and photographer from the Arab town Reineh between Nazareth and Qana in Galilee.
**A Poem by Anies Ghuneimah**
Hello...
STAR by Zulfiya Isroilova
I drowned at home and went out the door,...
Roque Dalton, ¡fusilemos la noche! (cinelasamericas.org)
ROQUE DALTON, ¡FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE! is a poetic documentary, a manifesto both for reading poetry and for living a life that takes responsibility for the state of the world. Roque Dalton (1935-1975) is El Salvador’s most important poet.
some couplet by bedil
One’s worth is measured by the amount of world possessions these days,...
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu… | Poetry Magazine (www.poetryfoundation.org)
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I felt inspired tonight and wrote a little piece I titled "Salt Water." (lemmy.zip)
"For My People" by Margaret Walker (www.poetryfoundation.org)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly:
Why Do You Write Poems? by Nanao Sakaki
"Wanderlust" by Valerie Duff
In the Egyptian café in London,...
This Is the Honey by Mahogany L. Browne | Poetry Magazine (www.poetryfoundation.org)
There is no room on this planet for anything less than a miracle