WALT WHITMAN Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! Arouse–for you must justify me–you…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Four haiku and a sculpture by Satish Gupta, India From the Bo tree a golden leaf floats down – meditating in mid air Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka *** Water flowing, no time to pass judgment on uneven…
When the night falls she escapes She locks the cage carefully and leaves ………………….She wonders what she has forgotten ………………….She locks away and leaves ………………….Maybe the light is on ………………….Maybe the door is open ………………….Maybe the day after today ………………….Maybe…
Paola Musa’s poetry Barumini (Nuragic fortress, Sardinia) You could have loved me among the silent fortresses of our unknown ancestors. Now bitter is the meantime in your eyes. No verb, then, among the olive trees. No scroll, save the wind.…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE KISS I fell in love with your lips beautiful, red, voluptuous, like peaches adorned with cherries. When I began to kiss you your mouth tastes like the fruits of passion. Everything was so lively, so…
Yayati Madan G Gandhi’s poetry translated in Italian THE LIGHT Why not to house the God Of different religions, under one roof? Why to erect walls before the Light? If Mohammad is the ultimate revelation, Jesus-Krishna too reveal the self-same…
Poems from the sunset They will bring you dark and bitter chalices They will name you with words of steel They will play with your sanity and your dreams They, the unspeakable beings without time will search your name in…
