CONTENTS
Diwanê / Gibran Khalil Gibran ………………………………..4
I Love You / Riyad Salih Hisên…………………….6
Ho Ez!
Ho Hayat! / Walt Whitman ………………………….9 Mother's Hand / Parûyr Sevak…………………………………….
10 I am!
/ John Clare ………………………………………….. 12 Seven Winter Haikus / Sidiq Gorican ……………….. 13
You / Simin Behbahani …………………… …………………….
14 Tears of the Country / Andreas Gryphius………………………….
15 The Choice / Stein Mehren…………………………………….. 16
The Yellow Cat / Mahir Cimo ………………………………………….. 17
Barbara / Jacques Prévert…………………………………….. 18
Bo Abdulla Goran / Evdulwahab Elbeyati ……………….
20 Spring Time / Carl Gustaf Verner…………………….. 21
Following this Flood / Ingeborg Bachmann……………….
21 A Song in the Mind / Mahmoud Dervish …………………….. 22
Surra Derya / Stephane Mallarmé…………………….
23 Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold……………………….. 24
Clockwork / Harry Martinson…………….
26 Translators of Poets and Translators of Poets…….. 27
Rain in the Kajan Forest / Gabriele D'Annunzio….
29 Reaching Hades / Edith Irene Sodergran …………….. 33
When the Wind Blows / Gerus Abdulmelekiyan …………….. 33
For: MK / Hristo Fotev ……………………………… …… 34
Mercy Corps / Marion Poschmann…………….. 36
Alone / Maya Angelou …………………………………….. 37
That Man Who Killed Him / Thomas Hardy ……… …………….. 39
Spring / Mikhail Lermantov (1814 – 1841)……………….. 40
Farewell / Vahan Teryan (1885 – 1920)…………… 40
Mina Ashiq Sayad-Nova / Yeghishe Charents ………….. 41
Hair / Claudio Rodriguez Fer……………………………….
42 I Bring My Blessings With This Spicy Love / Andrée Chedid.
43 Joy / Carl Sandburg…………………………………………………… 43
My Dreams / Fernando Pessoa …………………………….. 44
The First Adam / Heinrich Heine... ……………………………….. 45
Because You Are Not Here / Mascha Kaléko …………………… 46
Beri / Grigor Muradyan ………………………… ……………… 47
stretched out his hand / Murid Berkhusi …………………… 48
Black Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson…………………….
49 Ar and Buz / Robert Frost ………………………………………… 49
Preludier I-III / Tomas Transtromer………………………….
50 Heta Vila Hîçe / Sohrab Sepehri ………………………….. 52
Refugee / Najah Alkailani …………………………………….. 53
Poetry / Thomas Häntsch……… ……………………………… 53
Count the beets / Paul Celan ………………………………… 54
genius / Seyed Ali Salehi ……………………………… …….
55 The Triangle Square / Edgar Georges…………………….. 56
July / Max Dauthendey………………………………………… 57
The Wolf / Jila Mossaed…………………… ……………………………… 58
Silent Songs / Erik Axel Karlfeldt …………………… 59
Love / Maya Angelou ……………………………….. 61
Maya Angelou ………………………….
61 If / Rudyard Kipling …………………………………………………… 62
Nothing Draws My Attention / Mahmoud Derwesh ………… 64