Articles tagged ‘Saturday poems’.
By Neil Boyack Murray River camp 1998 Earlier the man from the rice farm came with a metal detector and a beer stomach through an open bowling shirt l...
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By Marina Tsvetaeva English version by Elaine Feinstein Original Language Russian I know the truth — give up all other truths! No need for peop...
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by Ibn Ata’ Illah English version by Victor Danner Original Language Arabic A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you...
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By Neil Boyack Windows and doors open to the bush no moon three types of walking possum echidna fox under insect hail the barking owl’s female scree...
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by Gabriela Mistral English version by Helene Masslo Anderson Original Language Spanish A crippled child Said, “How shall I dance?” Let yo...
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by Anna Akhmatova English version by Jane Kenyon Original Language Russian A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and...
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By Walt Whitman Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation, The...
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By Walt Whitman Original Language English Grand is the seen, the light, to me — grand are the sky and stars, Grand is the earth, and grand are l...
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by Antonio Machado English version by Ivan Granger Original Language Spanish I dreamt you took me up a white lane through the heart of the green field...
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By Roberto Fernández Retamar, translated by Andrew McKenna Manage your love efficiently (But love is an absurd green flame) Exercise love as necessar...
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by Patrick Cotter The undreamt life is not worth living. Witness Angus, desolate and isolated, although all loved him, a favourite son, cherished for ...
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By Klare Lanson Klare was one of the feature readers at the August Castlemaine Word Mine reading, which happens on the last Wednesday of every month i...
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By Roberto Fernández Retamar, translated by Andrew McKenna This delicate poet Who would be that commander Who would be that philosopher Who would be...
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By Roque Dalton*, translated by Andrew McKenna When you hear that I’ve died do not say my name because death would then stop and rest Your voice...
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by Vidyapati English version by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Denise Levertov The moon has shone upon me, the face of my beloved. O night of joy! Joy perm...
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Now all my singing Dreams are gone, But none knows where they have fled Nor by what trails they have left me. Return, O Dreams of my heart, And sing i...
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Translated by Chief Yellowlark, 1887 Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds Whose breath gives life to the world, hear me I come to you as ...
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Castlemaine Word Mine is teaming up with Castlemaine Independent to offer the chance to have your poems and short stories published on CI as part ...
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We’re on holidays for three weeks! Send us a postcard! The whole fun crew at CI is headed to Acapulco for some team building, workshops on non-v...
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The classifieds software we use recently had an upgrade with significant structural change. Since then we have had a number of people who couldn’...
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by Lu Tung Pin English version by T. C. Lai Original Language Chinese My heart is the clear water in the stony pond. Right now it is invaded by the pe...
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by William Butler Yeats Original Language English I. That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees –...
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By Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Andrew McKenna In the evening, they are sweet, those neon and mercury lights, pale and beautiful … And t...
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By Julia de Burgos, translated by Andrew McKenna A candle! A candle swimming in the sea! Is it the sea that has come to look at me, or is is my s...
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By Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Andrew McKenna This will be my revenge: That one day a book by a famous poet will reach your hands and you...
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by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi English version by Nader Khalili Original Language Persian/Farsi look at love how it tangles with the one fallen in love lo...
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By Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Andrew McKenna Me contaron que estabas enamorada de otro y entonces me fue a mi cuarto y escribí ese artíc...
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by Denise Levertov Original Language English The Rav of Northern White Russia declined, in his youth, to learn the language of birds, because the extr...
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by Li Po English version by L. Cranmer-Byng Original Language Chinese The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses, And wine-flushed petals bring ...
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Singer and performer Darryl Emmerson will lead the Orange Tree Concert, a celebration of the work of Australian lyric poet John Shaw Neilson, at Chri...
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By Lalla Don’t flail about like a man wearing a blindfold. Believe me, He’s in here. Come in and see for yourself. You’ll stop hunti...
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by John O’Donohue May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work You do with the secret love and warmth ...
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by Clare of Assisi English version by Regis Armstrong & Ignatius Brady Original language: Italian What you hold, may you always hold. What you do...
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by Eihei Dogen (1200 – 1253) English version by Steven Heine Original Language Japanese To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In...
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by Pima (Anonymous) (18th Century) English version by Frank Russell Earth Magician shapes the world. Behold what he can do! Round and smooth ...
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Inniskeen Road: July Evening By Patrick Kavanagh The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,...
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