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Julielai Posted 20 years ago

Poetry sharing

I think we should have an international poetry-sharing thread. Come share with us a poem translated from your native language!

Here's one written by a famous Chinese poet, Li Bai.

Thoughts on a Still Night

Before my bed, the moon is shining bright,
I think that it is frost upon the ground.
I raise my head and look at the bright moon,
I lower my head and think of home. (http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb4.html )
  

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Umberto Ungaretti- Soldiers We stay, just the way leaves do in autumn on the trees. It loses all of his magic when translated... The italian version of it: Si sta come, d'autunno, sugli alberi, le foglie.

  • Umberto Ungaretti- Soldiers We stay, just the way leaves do in autumn on the trees.
  • It loses all of his magic when translated...
  • The italian version of it: Si sta come, d'autunno, sugli alberi, le foglie.
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Umberto Ungaretti- Soldiers

We stay, just the way leaves do in autumn on the trees.

It loses all of his magic when translated...
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Like a flower, but not a flower
No one cares when it falls
And lies discarded at the roadside
But though
Unmoved, I think about
The tangle of wounded tendrils
Lovely eyes full of sleep
About to open,yet
Still in dreams, following the wind ten thousand miles
In search of love
Startled, time and again, by the oriole's cry

Do not
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Last Lines
By Emily Brontë (1819–1848)



NO coward soul is mine,
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marvelous idea with exchanging poetry ! =)) thanks a lot to everybody who posted such nice national poems! =))
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very nice poetry , thanks for sharing!
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Remember
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards rememb
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Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?

See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be
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Marina Tsvetaeva

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I like that you are not obsessed with me,
I like that I have no obsession either,
And not for once in the eternity
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great mood and deep feeling in this poetry! yes, there exists unconditional love..Emotion: smile
thanks for sharing!
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=).. such nice and pure feelings in this poem..thank you sam . one person told me,that people,who are waiting for their one and only love finally receive the most great and strong feelings and very special soul connections

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