Poetry

Romanian poems

Preparatory & Other Poemsβ€” Robert Șerban

TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMANIAN BY LIDIA VIANU AND ANNE STEWART Image Used For Representation  Preparatory I pluck wordsout of the poemas stubbornly asmy grandfather used his axeto shave slivers of woodfrom a poletill…...

Golden Moments and Other Poemsβ€” Nasera Sharma

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY MOULINATH GOSWAMI Whether I Am a Part of ItWhether I am a part of it or notI am nevertheless an eyewitness of this piece of time!Years back, the pregnant young womanslumped…...

Solitary Atlas And Other Poemsβ€” ŞükrΓΌ Erbaş

TRANSLATED FROM THE TUKISH BY NEIL P. DOHERTY AND GΓ–KΓ‡ENUR Γ‡.   Solitary Atlas Silence. Silence. Silence. Those hours when god becomes manThose hours when the leaves mouth prayersThose hours when dreams touch the worldThose…...

Bokultora and Other Poemsβ€” Maitrayee Patar

TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY DARADI PATAR AND THE POET     Bokultora(translated into English by the poet) Bokultora, come rest by me Even from before I knew you existed,A sky of lines was composed on my…...
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Skopjeβ€” Michele Porsia

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY BRENDA PORSTER Image Used for Representation  - This is my bodymade of roads and words, of houses and periodsthis is the body of the text, the gangrenous metonymy…...

Regarding Love and Other Poemsβ€” Cahit Zarifoğlu

TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY NEΔ°L P. DOHERTY   Translations dedicated to Paulette C Turcotte Β  Poem of the Blue Sacred Child Your hands rose right up to the centre of the skyIn the fieldHis…...
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Tenderness & Other Poemsβ€” Rosana Crispim Da Costa

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY BRENDA PORSTER Image Used For Representation   TENDERNESS I am waitingfor a sign from the seato discover where I’ll end upPerhaps, a safe harborOr an island…...

Kitchensutraβ€” Laila Wadia

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY THE POET     INTRODUCTION Me? Call me Kela ripe and luscious light skinΒ Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β  but heart dark with indignation against the suffering of the worldΒ Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β …...

Love Has its Reasons and Other Poemsβ€” Sylvie KandΓ©

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON   Love has its reasons In truth, I only loved one manand their countless faces I remember stillBut all of a sudden, in a song, the slowonslaught of…...