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Poetry

A collection of poetry from all over the world. 

Maori: The Creation

10. 8. 2019
Maori: The Creation
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[New Zealand]

* From conception came growth.
From the growth, thriving.
From thriving, exuberant thought.
From the thoughts, memory.
From the memory, desires. * * The word became fruitful
bathed in a pale...

Tonga: A Social Poem

Tonga: A Social Poem

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We sat chatting about Vavau Tua Lik;
Then the women spoke to us:
"Let's go look for Lik, to watch the sunset;
Let's listen to the...

Apache: Poems of Masked Indians

Apache: Poems of Masked Indians

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1. When the earth came into being
when the sky arose
when my songs first sounded
the holy mountain stood before me revived.
In...

California Indians: Three Shaman Poems

California Indians: Three Shaman Poems

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1. I'm sitting by the door
making moccasins
and I don’t mean anything,
the sun was half-sunken
at the end of the plain. I'm...

Passamaquoddy Indians: Stars

Passamaquoddy Indians: Stars

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Because we are stars. Because we sing. Because we sing with light. Because we are birds that give birth to flames. Because we spread our wings...

Eskimos: Hunger

Eskimos: Hunger

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You, stranger, you who see us only happy and carefree
If only you knew the horrors we often had to endure
you would understand our love...

Eskimo Poem: Heaven and Hell

Eskimo Poem: Heaven and Hell

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When we finally die,
we know so little about what happens later.
But people who dream
They often see the dead as they appear
as...

Eskimo Poem: The Invisible Men

Eskimo Poem: The Invisible Men

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There is a tribe of invisible men
who move around us like shadows - have you felt them?
They have bodies like ours and live just like...

Tibet: A Proclamation

Tibet: A Proclamation

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A man born of a flower in space
a man riding a stallion born by a barren mare
holding the reins of the turtle's hair
using a...

Santal People: Miscarriage

Santal People: Miscarriage

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Like a bone
looked the first-born child
the white ants ate it
oh my love, don't cry
don't grieve
the two of us are here...

Western Mongolia: A Poem

Western Mongolia: A Poem

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I have a shade of thick fir-trees
at the foot of the high mountains.
The summer of distant plains,
come back to us one day! I have a...

Lapland: A Herd of Reindeer

Lapland: A Herd of Reindeer

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A herd of reindeer in the Varanger Peninsula
runs over rocks and stone heights.
Beautiful beasts claw their hooves
on the tops of the...

Greetings to the Chief of an Akan State

Greetings to the Chief of an Akan State

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Greetings to the chief of an Akan state on the occasion of the new year The year has come round.
I have come to...

Angola: How to Test a Friend

Angola: How to Test a Friend

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To make sure your friend is a true friend,
you have to go with him,
to travel with him night and day,
travel with him near and...

Zanzibar: A Poor Man's Poem

Zanzibar: A Poor Man's Poem

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Give me a chair
and let me sit among you
as I celebrate poverty
and scarcity. The face of the poor
remains wrinkled...

Yoruba People: Shango

Yoruba People: Shango

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Shango is a death that kills money with a big stick
A lying man dies in his home
Shango hits a fool
The liar runs away as soon as...

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