Poems

Learning Resources

Dalgah
Jagunu
Yarabih barehbanu

make music
from the land
sing in dreams

~ Ellen van Neerven from ‘Gibam Garandalehn (Full Moon)’, Poetry In First Languages

• This difference exists
  By Candy Royalle

  1.
  all that makes us
  sink beneath the
  weight of simply

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• With Change
  By Aurora Liddle-Christie

  The land is crying for us to care
  care that blood waters its soil more than rain
  The seasons have shifted, but humanity stays the same
   

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• The language of hope
  By Hodan Yasin, Saba Vasefi

  translated by Saba Vasefi
   
  I close my eyes,
  Releasing countless butterflies—

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• Wildflower
  By Kirli Saunders

  I picked these
  to remind you
   
  that there is a place

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• Poem For a Stranger in a Time of War
  By Tishani Doshi, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips

  We left the city and found at the gates
  a prescription with your name on it.
  We took the metro to the beach
  and on the shore, we saw

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• The Great Displaced
  By Omar Musa

  For Jess
   
  The boy lights a candle
  and faces a perilous horizon.

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