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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Each single angel is terrifying.
And so I force myself, swallow and hold back
the surging call of my dark sobbing.

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The British
by Benjamin Zephaniah

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
Add lots of Norman French to some
Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,

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Children Of War
by William Sutherland

The Children of War are like little flowers trampled,
Young and innocent, fragile and helpless,
Surrounded by violence and rampant destruction-
Their faces are filled with doubts and fear.

The Children of War, so precious and dear,
Stripped of their childhood years, their youth stolen away
Are little Saints for human failing through no fault of their own.

The Children of War, their lives lost and scarred,

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Jasmine
by Yusef Komunyakaa

I sit beside two women, kitty-corner
to the stage, as Elvin's sticks blur
the club into a blue fantasia.
I thought my body had forgotten the Deep
South, how I'd cross the street
if a woman like these two walked
towards me, as if a cat traversed
my path beneath the evening star.
Which one is wearing jasmine?
If my grandmothers saw me now

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The City Planners
by Margaret Atwood

Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight:
what offends us is
the sanities:
the houses in pedantic rows, the planted
sanitary trees, assert
levelness of surface like a rebuke
to the dent in our car door.
No shouting here, or
shatter of glass; nothing more abrupt

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Tomorrow's Aquatic Eyes
by Brady Stewart

I find comfort in my future omniscient self in my mind
Viewing this and laughing at my non-reflective verbosity
And recognition of the patterns in my speech and thought
I am an interesting one, at least.
I feel myself removed from my rivers of mind
When I think of the dams that define it
Is the water that I stockpile of importance?
Maybe dams utilize it for power,
Power that other people see as tangible?
Perhaps I will never let the water flow

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"जंगल की सुरीली ग़ज़ल"
by SANJAY SAHARAN

अजब है ये जंगल की कहानी, जहाँ चुप्पी सुनाती है,
प्राकृतिक रंगों का पैट्रन, एक अनसुनी संगीत।

वृक्ष, प्राचीन कथाकार, जिनकी शाखाएँ आकाश को छू रही हैं,
वायु के साथ नृत्य, समय के लिए एक ओड़े, जहाँ पत्तियाँ राज़ खोलती हैं।

हरे-भरे छायादान में, पृथ्वी साँस लेती है, एक अदृश्य ताल में,
पत्थरों के साथ कहानियों का संगम, और फर्न लगे हैं सपनों की तरह।

गुड़गुड़ाती धारा, एक प्रवाहिनी लोरी, हमेशा मनोहर दृश्य,

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Up Ahead
by Yareli Rodriguez

The angry voices on the phone,
The messy room in front of me.
If only I was prone
To all the things around me.

The big decisions in the future.
The crazy things in front of me.
If only I had decisive nature,
To have a clear road waiting for me.


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Dead Tree
by N Jacob

I was sitting under the Sigillaria Tree.
For I have been set free,
So I scream with glee!
While the stitching made me bleed.
I am forced to concede.

Forced my arms to my chest,
And I hold me close with no rest,
For I am trapped in this stitched arm unrest,
I am the court jester.

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The Future Of The World
by Tom Cameron

The future of the world is now
Give everything away
Spinning off the spectrum
Tumbling
Infinite

This is a rubbish heap
This is a treasure house
Oh my enchanted loom
The terrible power

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