Poems - Poetry International

YAGE
Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy
I know who you are

I have looked at you
in the Yage,
in the magical colored
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YAKANTALISA
Hezy Leskly
Bent is the smell of Yakantalisa
as bent as its stalk and its bent
philosophy.
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YAMANBA
Chimako Tada
With flies that speak the language of men
She inhabits these mountains
Collecting
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YANGON 2010
Maung Yu Py
Parents and guardians jostle over the quality of education available to their children, it’s been
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YANKUNYTJATJARA LOVE POEMS
Ali Cobby Eckermann
1.
I walk to the south I walk to the north
where are you my
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YARDBIRD
Roland Jooris
1

I would like to place
that nightly blackbird
on a branch in a poem,
but after all
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YEAH-YEAH THE BIG BANG
Maria Barnas
Yeah-yeah the Big Bang I hear myself say.
How is it possible that this fits in my mouth?
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YES
Toon Tellegen
There are thousands of mistakes.
When we wake up in the morning we are mistaken.
When we
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YES
Sitanshu Yashaschandra
I said:
Yes.

Birds broke out of eggshells, orange sun of an early morning
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YES
Hester Knibbe
Love, yes there is always a body involved
which makes it and makes it, makes it

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YES AND NO
Toon Tellegen
Yes has a task:
it protects people.
It kisses them and tucks them in,
tidies up the
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YESTERDAY I VISITED THE HOUSE OF LEOPARDI
Roberto Amato
Yesterday
I visited the house of Leopardi.
A beautiful apartment on the
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YESTERDAY’S IMAGES
Shinjiro Kurahara
A praying mantis on the edge of unconsciousness
raising its axes above the horizon,
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YET ANOTHER POEM
Mitsuharu Kaneko
The joy of buying things for women.
More than a hundred virtuous acts, humane deeds,
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YET, A STIRRING IN ME SEEMS
Tatsuji Miyoshi
Yet, a stirring in me seems like Spring,
mumbles an old man to himself
so mumbles fate as
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YOM EHAD
Christine D’haen
Yet coiledroundabout Night with elastic galactic body

The dark duration
Now
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YORK
Abol Froushan
The greasy Chinese
the empty Mexican
king’s ransom alien
filled with dinner
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YOU
Claude Esteban
You
who walk, who do not wish to see

go down, go down always, even
to
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YOU
Rogi Wieg
The problem with you is
that you’re dead,
that you can’t hear me
when I read this
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YOU
Eduardo Cote Lamus
Your word falls into loneliness like an olive branch
into peace. I did not know
that your
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YOU ARE ALL TRAVELERS
Benjamin Shvili
travels around the world are journeys
without end
I don’t desire anything
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YOU ARE IN THE VILLAGE THEN
Adonis
1.
When he leaves home carrying his axe, he is certain that the sun is waiting for him in the
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YOU ARE INVITED
Pierre Alferi
The day advances masked
The strongest subtlest feeling
Of the day
The
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YOU ARE SEEN BY THE DEAD
Norddine Zouitni
There was once a country
that disappeared,
no one knows why,
where every day was
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YOU ARE WELCOME TO ELSINORE
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
Between us and words there’s molten metal
between us and words there are spinning
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YOU DON'T NEED A HANDBAG, REBECCA
Daniel Oz
You don’t need a handbag, Rebecca, with face
toward the store window, head tilted back
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YOU HAVE NO NAME
Han Dong

you have no name, no form
when satisfied, you’re like nothingness
when
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YOU HAVE TRICKED ME
Ingrid Jonker
You’ve tricked me Dolie
you’ve cheated me like hell
my heart o little gooseberry
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YOU HAVEN’T SAID A WORD YET
Alfred Schaffer
What has to change here? There is no middle course, the escalator works,
the coffee is hot, the
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YOU IN THE SHADE OF A TREE
Kiyoko Nagase
For some time now I have been aware
of your eyes fixed on me from the shade of a tree.
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YOU MUST LOVE SOMEBODY
Federico Díaz-Granados
You must love something or somebody:
the pile of ruins that surrounds you
the sirens
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YOU SAY WHAT YOU DON’T SAY
Horacio Benavides
Let me hear you
when you don’t say anything to me

Your mouth sings
that which
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YOU SPOKE WITH THE TREES ALL NIGHT
Carlos López Degregori
I spent the whole night speaking with the trees.

I spoke one word and they drew back,
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YOU TALK COLOURS WEAR SOUNDS
Răzvan Ţupa
breathe objects our worship doesn’t accept anymore but unpredictable beings a vegetal
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YOU WERE DRIVING BY THE SEA
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
You were driving by the sea
in the dream,
explaining your regret,
why you led us
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YOU’LL SHRIVEL UP, YOU’LL BE AN EXOTIC FRUIT
Daniel Bănulescu
There’s no need to forget you
Because as soon as I fall asleep you’ll no longer
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YOU, HOLY SUN
Tomas Lieske
The sun as fireball right over us and boiling with flames of gas,
while it rests lazily and
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YOUNG LANDSCAPE
Paul van Ostaijen
So the two stand almost motionless in the meadow
the girl who hangs straight down on a rope
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YOUNG SMOKERS
Hannah van Binsbergen
Oh, I knew Saint Francis well, we practically grew up together,
the handsome French prince
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YOUNG WOMAN IN A COUNTRY CHAPEL
Rui Lage
Seated in a pew near the wall,
dark and fertile like tilled earth,
her eyes nodding off
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YOUR CONDENSED SUN
Marko Pogačar

How to climb the olive tree with those little claws,
stay a black lizard and survive the
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YOUR EMAIL
Dunya Mikhail
When you respond to my email,
all of the planets swirl about me,
even Pluto joining
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YOUTH WILL CONSOLE ME
Anat Zecharya
It will console me
sway right and left
crane its neck
lean on sharp elbows
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YOYO
Claudiu Komartin
when
there
will
no longer
be any
dealing
and
death
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