REVERSAL   “Poet, read your poem,” they said, “so that the world would finally reverse like a head under the lamp, so that at last that name would

Painting by Miguel Óscar Menassa After the recital That’s it, I’ve recited, it’s all over. Now, surely, a friend will embrace me, with strength, with fury, with slight

Painting by Sajida Poésie sans frontières Ithaque 756 “BEAUTY AND SORROW” Dr. Naila Hina , Pakistan de ” Shadows Of The Sun “ – All translations are made

”Poetry” painting by Larysa Golik, Ukraine https://www.larysa-golik.de/bildergalerie/gemaelde/gemaelde.php. THE UNTRODDEN ROAD Uncertain as a body sometimes hesitates between life and death, so hesitates sometimes the word that awakened from

Painting by Mirek Kuzniar, Germany   Waiting for the bus   I’m waiting for the bus. Many busses pass by the station. They go to different places, But

Painting by John Hacking, Netherlands Windgrip Some words light like poplar seeds Rise spun by the wind sink Hard to catch carry far like poplar seeds Some words

Painting by Kelli Fomson, USA   Christmas The winter storms penetrate the world with furious power. There sinks on snowy wings, the fir-scented night . . . There

Painting by Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night TO THE STARS . . . Sometimes I get tempted, and I throw a poem to the stars . . .

Picture by Patrick Frischknecht © www.naturephotography.ch Simple         To understand the least things, the briefest and the simplest, I drank from the spring of pride, climbed

Painting by Nives Palmić, Slovenia  https://www.behance.net/nivespalmia91a Breakout from here For Paul Celan, Peter Szondi, Jean Améry, who did not want to go on living   The rope tied