so I wandered devouring darkness
Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi
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Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Selected Poems; "Opening Poem,"
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“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
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But
why am I too much for myself and too little with you
why, whenever you come near me, I feel as if a part of me has disappeared—
Adonis, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
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Mirages of impossibilities.
— Gopalakrishna Adiga, Selected Poems, transl by Sumatheendra Nadig, (2005)
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Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;
a wisp of feathers
flattened to the pavement,
wings spread symmetrically
as if in flight,
the head gone,
the black escutcheon of the breast
undecipherable,
an effigy of a sparrow,
a dried wafer only,
left to say
and it says it
without offense,
beautifully;
This was I,
a sparrow.
I did my best;
farewell.
William Carlos Williams, excerpt of "The Sparrow," from Selected Poems
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― Marina Tsvetaeva, from Selected Poems
[text ID: Somewhere in the night a / human being is drowning.]
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Pierre Reverdy, from “Selected Poems: ‘Inn’” tr. Patricia Terry.
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ne sabahın süsenleri tanır seni ne incir ağacı, ne atlar ne tepedeki dolunay, ne çocuk tanır seni ne de ikindi, ölüsün çünkü, dirileceğin de yok.
federico garcia lorca - tamarit divanı
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"He, like me, is
haunted by his
heart,"
- Mahmoud Darwish (Selected Poems)
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When we arrived at the centre of darkness the forest opened.
Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; Uncollected Poems (1962 –1972) from ‘Contemplation’, tr. Cecilia Rossi
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i will be forever alone
anna mendelssohn i'm working here \\ richard siken crush: "litany in which certain things are crossed out" \\ olivia laing the lonely city (via @virginiewoolf) \\ charles bukowski
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Alejandra Pizarnik, from Selected Poems; “Memories from the Little House of Song”
Text ID: They left me with dreams open, with my central wound open, with my tear. I lament; I have a right to do so.
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Is this really the world? Shall i grieve? Shall i hope?
// Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems
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You can shape me from my ashes.
[…]
Kiss my echo.
— Vasko Popa, Selected Poems, transl by Anne Pennington, (1969)
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I love the rainfall on the women of distant meadows. I love the glittering water and the scent of stone.
Mahmoud Darwish, from "Addresses for the Soul, outside this Place", diwan "Fewer Roses" (1986), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and A mira El-Zein)
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