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Painting by Rauf Janlbekov, Azerbaijan

AGAINST THE TIDE

Poetry

seeks its path
against the tide.

It cannot change the path of man
whose future is uncertain and distant.

But sometimes it can be lifebuoy

for those who are in danger of drowning.

Germain Droogenbroodt

from “Fragile Balance”

Translation by the author and Stanley Barkan