Poems Indexed by Place

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Africa, Botswana

• African Hair --- Barolong Seboni
• I am a 100% --- Letang Selepe
• Never Got The Chance --- Nompendulo Shabangu
• Dreams --- TJ Dema
• Lala --- Karabo Mosimanegape

Africa, Egypt

• Balloons --- Mostfa Ibrahim
• Keys --- Fatma Kandil

Africa, Ghana

• Give me black souls --- Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes
• Voices --- Chief Moomen
• Bottoms up! --- Ama Nuamah

Africa, Kenya

• No Coffin, No Grave --- Jared Angira

Africa, Nigeria

• Not my business --- Niyi Osundare

Africa, South Africa

• Could You Not Write Otherwise? --- Alan Paton
• To a small boy who died at Diepkloof Reformatory --- Alan Paton
• Next Time Use a Rope --- Mzikayise Mahola
• Night Space --- Ingrid De Kok
• Previously Dissed --- Aryan Kaganoff

Africa, Uganda

• Nature's Orchestra --- Jane Okot P’ Bitek Langoya
• A Child’s Cry --- Jane Okot P’ Bitek Langoya
• Where Have the Mushrooms Gone? --- Timothy Wangusa

Africa, Zimbabwe

• A Silhouette --- Julius Chingono
• At the Gate --- Julius Chingono
• Grapes --- Julius Chingono
• Kudzai --- Julius Chingono
• CLOSE 107 --- Julius Chingono
• Redundant --- Julius Chingono
• A Fake --- Julius Chingono
• AT a refugee camp --- Julius Chingono
• Survivors --- Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya
• Zimbabwe --- Tapiwa Mugabe
• African thoughts --- Philani Amadeus Nyoni
• Leadership --- Michael Mabwe

Austria

• 8 --- Alfred Brendel
• When Mozart was murdered --- Alfred Brendel

Azerbaijan

• With What Fury This Bird Sings --- Ramiz Rovshan
• Baby Snake --- Ramiz Rovshan

Belarus

• BELARUSIAN I --- Valzhyna Mort
• A Little Small House. . . --- Anatol Viarcinski

Belgium

• Avec le même amour que tu me fus jadis --- Emile Verhaeren

Bulgaria

• A Tale of Honor --- Hristo Smirnenski
• Rain --- Aksinia Mihaylova
• Little Brothers of Gavroche --- Hristo Smirnenski
• A Dead Soldier --- Dimcho Debelyanov
• On Parting --- Hristo Botev
• Haidouks --- Hristo Botev
• A Cloud of Darkness Has Appeared --- Hristo Botev
• The Hanging of Vassil Levski --- Hristo Botev

Burma/ Myanmar

• MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE --- Ko Ko Thett

Canada

• Tango VII --- Anne Carson
• something missing --- Kozue Uzawa
• I still remember --- Kozue Uzawa
• After he finishes --- Kozue Uzawa
• In Flanders fields --- John McCrae
• The Fallen --- Duncan Campbell Scott

China

• Tao Te Ching (chpt 9) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 11) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 16) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 17) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 27) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 33) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 41) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 49) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 52) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 56) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 63) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 64) --- Lao Tzu
• Tao Te Ching (chpt 64) --- Lao Tzu
• Night Snow --- Bai Juyi
• Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple --- Bai Juyi
• A Rural Home --- Mei Yaochen
• Mourning Loss --- Mei Yaochen
• Dreaming of My Deceased Wife on the Night of the 20th Day of the First Month --- Su Shi
• The Cry of a Generation --- Shu Ting
• No Need To Shut The Door --- Unknown
• A Happy Old Man --- Liu Tzu Hui
• A Letter --- Li Shang Yin
• Sighs of Autumn Rain - I --- Du Fu
• In Abbot Zan's Room at Dayun Temple - 4 --- Du Fu

Croatia

• 004 --- Vlado Bulić
• 009 --- Vlado Bulić
• 024 --- Vlado Bulić
• White --- Miroslav Mićanović
• Once upon a time I used to be a madman... --- Ivan Slamnig
• White people in white fur-coats --- Ivan Slamnig
• Be Shocked --- Ivan Slamnig

Denmark

• The Ancient Tree --- Hans Christian Andersen
• May Night --- Jeppe Aakjær
• Poem About Death --- Inger Christensen
• Late Days In March --- Henrik Nordbrandt
• Danish Manor Ghosts --- Henrik Nordbrandt

Estonia

• at work --- Jürgen Rooste

Finland

• Don’t take my name in vain --- Olli Heikkonen
• Bow before the mountain ash --- Olli Heikkonen

France

• In Those Countries --- Charles Baudelaire

Germany

• Death --- Heinrich Heine

Greece

• Orpheus --- Antipater
• Heraclitus --- Callimachus
• Penury --- Alcaeus
• Iliad (Achilles mother, Thetis) --- Homer
• Awed by her splendor --- Sappho
• The Hyperboreans From Pythian X --- Pindar
• Ode 1. 11 --- Horace

India

• If.. --- Rudyard Kipling
• Look to this Day --- Kalidasa
• A Good Life Partner --- Thiruvalluvar
• Dignity --- Thiruvalluvar
• Medicine --- Thiruvalluvar
• Blade of Grass --- Guru Nanak
• Discipline is the Workshop --- Guru Nanak
• The Truth --- Guru Nanak
• The way through the woods --- Rudyard Kipling
• I am Justice: Clear, Impartial (Bhagavad Gita) --- Lord Krishna
• The way of knowledge (Bhagavad Gita) --- Lord Krishna
• The True Yoga (Bhagavad Gita) --- Lord Krishna
• still the body --- Kabir
• The drop and the sea --- Kabir
• When the Day came --- Kabir
• Krishna awakes --- Surdas
• Hussain Sagar --- Anand Vishwanadha
• Brothels --- Sahir Ludhianvi
• And I Left --- Premnath Shad
• My Grandmother's House --- Kamala Das
• A River --- A. K. Ramanujan
• The Opposable Thumb --- A. K. Ramanujan
• This game of love --- Amir Khusrao
• Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher --- Nissim Ezekiel
• Night Of The Scorpion --- Nissim Ezekiel
• Raag Bhairo --- Bhagat Namdev
• I am He --- isha upanishad
• The fire god --- Basavanna

Indian-American

• At The Museum --- Agha Shahid Ali

Iraq

• At the Door of a Lonely Heart --- Abboud al Jabiri

Ireland

• Cockles and Mussels --- Unknown
• What is Green --- Mary O'Neill
• Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven --- W.B. Yeats
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree --- W.B. Yeats

Italy

• The Inferno (Canto III) --- Dante Alighieri

Japan

• Dawn breaks early (Haiku) --- Masaoka Shiki
• Quietitude (Waka) --- Saitô Mokichi
• Tale of Genji (Chpt 4, 93)) --- Murasaki Shikib
• Tale of Genji (Chpt 4, 124)) --- Murasaki Shikib
• Rain (Mondo) --- Juan and Chu
• Sunset o'er the moors --- Ōtomo Yakamochi
• I shall miss you --- Ōtomo Yakamochi
• A part of me --- Saigyō
• Soon to die --- Basho
• Beneath the cherry blossoms --- Kobayashi Issa
• Invalid Facing Mirror --- Masaoka Shiki
• Chestnut rice --- Masaoka Shiki
• I do not know --- Masaoka Shiki
• Celery sticks --- Yukitsuna Sasaki
• Skylark --- Basho

Kurdistan

• A Homeland for Sale --- Dr Fereydun Rafiq Hilmi:

Lebanon

• Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII --- Kahlil Gibran
• Song of the rain VII --- Kahlil Gibran
• Your pain is.... --- Kahlil Gibran
• Song Of The Flower XXIII --- Kahlil Gibran
• My Love --- Kahlil Gibran

Lithuania

• Spring in the City --- Gunars Salinš

Mexico

• Lady --- Briceida Cuevas Cob
• Two bodies --- Octavia Paz

Mongolia

• When you leave me --- Galsan Tschinag

Nigeria

• Once upon a time --- Gabriel Okara

Pakistan

• Undone --- Imtiaz Dharker
• Who I am --- Bulleh Shah

Palestine

• Mimesis --- Fady Joudah
• I come from there --- Mahmoud Darwish
• Under Siege --- Mahmoud Darwish

Persia/Iran

• Zal, son of Sam --- Firdausi
• Zal and the Simurgh --- Firdausi
• Sam's dream --- Firdausi
• Rudabeh & Zal --- Firdausi
• The Gulistan --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 3) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 5) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 8) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 24) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 27) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 31) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 34) --- Sa'di
• The Gulistan (story 40) --- Sa'di
• Rubiayyat [1-3] --- Omar Khayyam
• Rubiayyat [17] --- Omar Khayyam
• Rubiayyat [27] --- Omar Khayyam
• Rubiayyat [32] --- Omar Khayyam
• Feridun to Silim --- Firdausi
• War --- Firdausi
• Time to Die --- Firdausi
• The caravan moves on --- Firdausi
• When The Feast Is Done --- Hafiz
• Look well to your eye (Mathnawi VI: 2955-2962) --- Rumi
• Whispers of love (Mathnawi V. 411-414) --- Rumi

Poland

• Account --- Czeslaw Milosz
• Ars Poetica --- Czeslaw Milosz
• Encounter --- Czeslaw Milosz
• The Rain --- Czeslaw Milosz
• A Song on the End of the World --- Czeslaw Milosz
• Late Ripeness --- Czeslaw Milosz

Romania

• You Sang Out of Tune --- Ileana Malancioiu
• I Watch It Rain --- Ileana Malancioiu
• The Ghosts --- George Bacovia
• A Poem --- Nichita Stanescu
• Suicide --- Marin Sorescu
• Sleepy birds --- Mihai Eminescu

Russia

• Wait for me --- Konstantin Simonov
• Loyalty --- Yulia Drunina
• Life for me hardly flowed like a magnificent river --- Yulia Drunina
• Common Graves --- Vladimir Vysotsky
• The Death of Sophocles --- Anna Akhmatova
• Requiem --- Anna Akhmatova
• I taught myself to live simply --- Anna Akhmatova
• I Loved You --- Alexander Pushkin
• I shattered your heart --- Vera Pavlova

Scotland

• An Epitaph --- John Arbuthnot
• Murder of crows --- Dilys Rose

Singapore

• Public Librarian --- Aaron Lee Soon Yong

South America, Chile

• Walking Around --- Pablo Neruda
• A dog has died --- Pablo Neruda

South America, Peru

• To My Brother Miguel In Memoriam --- Cesar Vallejo

Sweden

• Allegro --- Tomas Transtromer
• Track --- Tomas Transtromer

Taiwan

• Electric Lock --- Shang Ch'in

Tibet

• An Old Cow --- Patrul Rinpoche

Turkey

• The Slipper --- Roni Margulies

UK

• Spring and Fall (...to a young child) --- Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Silver --- Walter De La Mare
• The Listeners --- Walter De La Mare
• The Lamb --- William Blake
• Auguries of Innocence --- William Blake
• Abou Ben Adhem --- James Henry Leigh Hunt
• Someone --- Walter De La Mare
• Flower in the Crannied Wall --- Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind --- William Shakespeare
• Winter --- William Shakespeare
• Double, double toil and trouble --- William Shakespeare
• Where the bee sucks --- William Shakespeare
• In delay there lies no plenty --- William Shakespeare
• Ozymandias --- Percy Bysshe Shelley
• When we two parted --- George Gordon Byron
• She walks in Beauty --- George Gordon Byron
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner --- Samuel T Coleridge
• A little learning --- Alexander Pope
• Ode on Solitude --- Alexander Pope
• Past, Present, Future --- Emily Bronte
• The River of Life --- Thomas Campbell
• The Poplar field --- William Cowper
• Elegy written in a country churchyard --- Thomas Gray
• Love --- George Herbert
• Death --- George Herbert
• I remember, I remember --- Thomas Hood
• On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born --- Charles Lamb
• Snake --- DH Lawrence
• Sudden light --- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• The Solitary Reaper --- William Wordsworth
• Invictus --- William Ernest Henley
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol --- Oscar Wilde
• Tarantella --- Hilaire Belloc
• Rebecca --- Hilaire Belloc
• The Early Morning --- Hilaire Belloc
• Epitaph On A Politician --- Hilaire Belloc
• The Llama --- Hilaire Belloc
• The Elm --- Hilaire Belloc
• April --- Hilaire Belloc
• The Ghost --- Walter De La Mare
• Peace --- George Herbert
• The Little Black Boy --- William Blake
• Dirge in Woods --- George Meredith
• Requiescat --- Matthew Arnold
• The Cigadas --- Hilaire Belloc
• Discovery --- Hilaire Belloc
• Catch a falling star --- John Donne
• When My Baby Looks At Trees --- Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
• Thaw --- Edward Thomas
• Song In the Songless --- George Meredith
• Suicide in the Trenches --- Siegfried Sassoon
• Soldier, rest! --- Walter Scott
• A Consolation --- William Shakespeare
• Carpe Diem --- William Shakespeare
• A Sea Dirge --- William Shakespeare
• The Blind Boy --- C. Cibber
• A Wish --- S. Rogers
• The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk --- William Cowper
• Warning --- Jenny Joseph
• The Sun Has Burst The Sky --- Jenny Joseph
• No Man Is An Island --- John Donne
• Leisure --- W.H.Davies
• The Old Oak Tree --- W.H.Davies
• Hour --- Carol Ann Duffy

USA

• Dreams --- Langston Hughes
• The Slave's Dream --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• A bird came down --- Emily Dickinson
• Snowball --- Shel Silverstein
• Hug O'War --- Shel Silverstein
• Ridiculous Rose --- Shel Silverstein
• Morgan's Curse --- Shel Silverstein
• My Zoootch --- Shel Silverstein
• The Landscape --- Thomas Merton
• Jamaica Farewell --- Lord Irving Burgess
• Broken Signboard (Haiku) --- Richard Wright
• I Died for Beauty --- Emily Dickinson
• The Grave --- Unknown
• The Beleagured City --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Rainy Day --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Rain in Summer --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Ballad Of William Sycamore --- Stephen Vincent Benet
• To Look At Anything --- John Moffit
• The Man with the Hoe --- Edwin Markham
• Daddy --- Sylvia Plath
• Cuz He’s Black --- Javon Johnson
• Because I could not stop for Death --- Emily Dickinson
• My beard --- Shel Silverstein
• Batty --- Shel Silverstein
• Dirty face --- Shel Silverstein
• Since Feeling is First --- ee cummings
• The Rock in the Sea --- Henry Ames Blood
• The Unknown --- E.O. Laughlin
• Hold fast your dreams --- Louise Driscoll
• Climb the mountains --- John Muir
• One last rose --- Gail Lemnah Barnett
• The Firefly --- Jane Stuart
• Who Are My People --- Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
• A Woman's Question --- Mary Lathrap
• AT NIGHTFALL --- Charles Hanson Towne
• What I Live For --- George Linnaeus Banks
• Somebody's Mother --- Mary Dow Brine
• Rags --- Edmund Vance Cooke
• My Dog --- John Kendrick Bangs
• Eat And Walk --- James Normal Hall
• Little Things --- Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
• I, Too --- Langston Hughes
• Hellen Keller --- Langston Hughes
• The Quadroon Girl --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Low Tide --- Henry Abbey
• What Do We Plant? --- Henry Abbey
• On A Great Warrior --- Henry Abbey
• The Drawbridge Keeper --- Henry Abbey
• The Singer's Alms --- Henry Abbey
• Storm --- Henry Abbey
• While Days Go By --- Henry Abbey
• Do It Now --- Berton Braley
• The Day Is Done --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• FIRST CHEROKEE LESSON: MOURNING --- Qwo-Li Driskill
• SECOND CHEROKEE LESSON: GHOSTS --- Qwo-Li Driskill
• THIRD CHEROKEE LESSON: MEMORY --- Qwo-Li Driskill
• FOURTH CHEROKEE LESSON: BIRTH --- Qwo-Li Driskill
• I am a dead man walking --- Amir Sulaiman
• She Said --- Amir Sulaiman
• The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver --- Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Minstrel Man --- Langston Hughes
• Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds --- John Murrilo
• Complete Destruction --- William Carlos Williams
• Dedication for a Plot of Ground --- William Carlos Williams
• To a Poor Old Woman --- William Carlos Williams
• Winter Trees --- William Carlos Williams
• Dust of Snow --- Robert Frost
• An Old Man's Winter Night --- Robert Frost
• In Exile --- Emma Lazarus
• 1 January 1965 --- Joseph Brodsky
• Lines on the Winter Campaign, 1980 --- Joseph Brodsky
• Song of Welcome --- Joseph Brodsky
• Star of the Nativity --- Joseph Brodsky
• Transatlantic --- Joseph Brodsky
• Solitude --- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Solitude --- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Keeping things whole --- Mark Strand
• Homework --- Allen Ginsberg
• Song of Hiawatha --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ukraine

• It Makes No Difference To Me --- Taras Shevchenko
• I Was Thirteen --- Taras Shevchenko
• A Reflection --- Taras Shevchenko
• Calamity Again --- Taras Shevchenko
• Fate --- Taras Shevchenko

Unknown

• Nocturne --- Etain Druantia

Vietnam

• Wild Geese --- Do Phap Thuan
• The Body of Man --- Van Ha nh
• Remembering Priest Quang Tri --- Doan Van Kham
• Emotions on a Spring Day --- Tran Quang Khails
• So much remains --- Dang Dung

unknown

• I did nothing today --- unknown
• What Did I Do Today? --- unknown
• Now --- unknown
• Try Smiling --- unknown