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The hue of the cherry
fades too quickly from sight
all for nothing
this body of mine grows old --...
poem by Ono no Komachi
If I had an eagle's wings
I would rise and fly on them
To our shores, to our own parts,
To See St...
poem by Konstantin Miladinov
By gates of Eden, Angel, gentle,
Shone with his softly drooped head,
And Demon, gloomy and resentf...
poem by Alexander Pushkin
While I don't see you, I don't shed a tear
I never lose my senses when you're near,
But, with ou...
poem by Adam Mickiewicz
If you see a hill of foam
It is my poetry that you see:
My poetry is a mountain
And is also a fea...
poem by Jose Marti
(An excerpt from the epic The Baptism at The Savica)

The warring clouds have vanished from the sk...
poem by France Preseren
I like that you are crazy not with me,
I like that I’m not with you crazy, either,
That ne’er ...
poem by Marina Tsvetaeva
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorou...
poem by William Shakespeare
When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge....
poem by Constantine Petrou Cavafy, 1911
That pretty girl--
munching and rustling
the wrapped-up rice cake....
poem by Kobayashi Issa
Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
moving slowly through
endless lowlands.
rows of unthi...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
Dark swallows will return
to hang their nests on your balcony
and again with their wings will rap ...
poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
I have always known
That at last I would
Take this road, but yesterday
I did not know that it ...
poem by Ariwara no Narihira
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before

The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wal...
poem by John Milton
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
with...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn tha...
poem by Richard Brautigan
A LIGHT! a light! rise up, be swift;
I seize, I worship, and I lift
The bridal torches' festal ray...
poem by Euripides
Well (thou´ll say) hearing stars! Certainly
Thou´ve lost your mind!" And I´ll say to thee, ...
poem by Olavo Bilac
Coolness--
the sound of the bell
as it leaves the bell....
poem by Yosa Buson
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is in my hair
She has the color of my eye
She has t...
poem by Paul Eluard
I love my land, but with a queer passion,
My mind isn't able to absorb it, yet!
Nor glory, purchas...
poem by Mikhail Lermontov
I did not have this face of today
So calm
So sad
So thin.

Nor these eyes so empty
Nor this bi...
poem by Cecilia Meireles
I stand aloft on the balcony,
The starlings around me crying,
And let like maenad my hair st...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sle...
poem by Langston Hughes
Strumicki Carnival

March 8th, 2011
Strumica, Macedonia

The Strumica Carnival is an annual fes...
article by Daniel
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sle...
poem by Langston Hughes
Stille, hjerte, sol går ned
(Heart be still, the sun goes down)

Heart; be still, the sun goes d...
poem by Jeppe Aakjaer
The vintage, friends, is over,
And here sweet wine makes, once again,
Sad eyes and hearts recove...
poem by France Preseren
When all the stars are sown
Across the night-blue space,
With the immense unknown,
In silence ...
poem by Bliss Carman
Below Mirabeau Bridge flows River Seine
Just like our loves.
Must one recall it to my mind that ...
poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness....
quote by D. H. Lawrence
I have shut my windows.
I do not want to hear the weeping.
But from behind the grey walls.
Nothin...
poem by Federico García Lorca
A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?...
article by Richard Brautigan
My sweet, here at the foot o fyour last bed
In which you're resting now from your long life,
I've ...
poem by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
...
poem by Langston Hughes
What means for you my simple name?
It soon will die as voice of grief --
A wave splash at a distan...
poem by Alexander Pushkin
12. Thursday. Friday. I know not what became of these days.

14. Saturday. I seem to have lost sig...
article by John Adams
UP and lead the dance of Fate!
Lift the song that mortals hate!
Tell what rights are ours on earth...
poem by Aeschylus
Now I understand!
When to remember me
She vowed,
She said she would forget me,
But kindly!...
poem by Saigyo Hoshi
I took wild honey from the plants,
I took salt from the waters, I took light from the sky.
Listen,...
poem by Jorge de Lima