A leopard lives in a Muu tree
Watching my home
My lambs are born speckled
My wives tie their skirts tight
And turn away -...

To make sure your friend is a true friend,
you have to go with him,
to travel with him night and day,
travel with him near and...

1. When the earth came into being
when the sky arose
when my songs first sounded
the holy mountain stood before me revived.
In...

1. I'm sitting by the door
making moccasins
and I don’t mean anything,
the sun was half-sunken
at the end of the plain. I'm...

When we finally die,
we know so little about what happens later.
But people who dream
They often see the dead as they appear
as...

There is a tribe of invisible men
who move around us like shadows - have you felt them?
They have bodies like ours and live just like...

The book "Eskimo Poetry" was published in 1961 by the Bagdala publishing house from Kruševac, Yugoslavia, as part of the edition entitled "A Little...

You, stranger, you who see us only happy and carefree
If only you knew the horrors we often had to endure
you would understand our love...

At night, the sky is like a big city
inhabited by many animals and humans
but never has anyone there
killed a chicken or a goat...

In 1950's Tehran, in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad is 16 years old and has just gotten married to her cousin Parviz Shapour, against her family's will. A...

Greetings to the chief of an Akan state on the occasion of the new year The year has come round.
I have come to...

A herd of reindeer in the Varanger Peninsula
runs over rocks and stone heights.
Beautiful beasts claw their hooves
on the tops of the...

* From conception came growth.
From the growth, thriving.
From thriving, exuberant thought.
From the thoughts, memory.
From the...

Who was Nanao Sakaki? More than a decade after his death, that question is not easy to answer – mostly because he was a little bit of everything,...

Because we are stars. Because we sing. Because we sing with light. Because we are birds that give birth to flames. Because we spread our wings...

Like a bone
looked the first-born child
the white ants ate it
oh my love, don't cry
don't grieve
the two of us are here...

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky. Sometimes...

I am part of a lost generation.
And I refuse to believe that
I can change the world.
I realize this may be a shock, but...

The gradual disintegration of the Byzantine Empire enabled the Mongol attacks in the thirteenth century to threaten the population of Asia Minor...

I want to take you on a poetic journey around the world through the ancient tribes and the poetry that lived in them. This journey will consist of...