N.AHassan NajmiAn evening passes toward your night
The way noon crosses though a song.
And you do not tire.
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NAILJan Wagnerscarcely in the wall, he was the center,
expanding its radius
across the gardens,
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NAME #2Nano ShabtaiWhen I was little before I went to bed, my father, a big expert
on Greek mythology,
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NAMES AND NICKNAMESMonika KumarOut of affection
they’d cut my name short,
that’s how I learned my first
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NAMINGAli AbdolrezaeiMy mother’s named me
Don’t Nag So Much
but my sister
Ring Her
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NANJINGYao FengFine drizzle drizzles, and here I am in Nanjing again
French wutong plane trees still talk to
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NARCISSUSHalyna PetrosanyakListen to the voice that echoes to you, Narcissus.
This is the way the grass rustles as
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NARVA, BRIGHT AS DAYMarcel BeyerThe languages are strange to me, I’m like someone
wearing carpet-slippers: but there
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NASTY MORNINGHiromi ItōMore than through skin, more than through sex
Unease is something that becomes clear through
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NATIONAL ANTHEM 21Aung Khin Myintin striped pajamas
the nation showed up, & sat next to me
he asked for a
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NATIONAL ANTHEM 29Aung Khin Myintbefore making love
we stand at attention & sing the national anthem in unison
on a
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NATIONAL ANTHEM 35Aung Khin Myintthe blizzard came
dressed as a military policeman
no, no!
the exact opposite is
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NATIONAL ANTHEM 38Aung Khin Myintas a rehearsal
she dropped a Barbie doll
from the twelfth floor balcony
netted
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NATIONAL CINEMALuis VidalesThrough the yellowish
lantern sky
pass the Colombian clouds.
And how they show they
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NATIVE LANDRobin NgangomFirst came the scream of the dying
in a bad dream, then the radio report,
and a
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NATUREGiampiero NeriFrom a walk
under the vault of trees
one arrived at an enclosed space.
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NATURE IS GODInuo Taguchi1
Nature is as fierce as a nail
but as delicate as a finger
Nature is as
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NATURESGloria PosadaTo breathe or to evaporate
to take root or to go somewhere else
Surface is skin or
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NECESSITIESLêdo IvoA closed door is not enough for a man
to hide his love. He also needs an open door
so he
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NEERA, DON’T GET LOSTSunil GangopadhyayEach day for us was a day of changing birth
In the light – like pieces of broken glass in the
...
NEONRuth LastersNeon light, how it often starts flickering
when I’m aware of my futility. Coincidence,
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NEON SIGNHan Dongunable to sleep, I open my eyes
in the dark, the shape of a window
so I
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NERUDA'S PORTRAITXi ChuanAs a rule when everything is finished
And only music drifts about like twilight
I will
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NETMischa AndriessenThe father says, Jump.
Will you catch me? asks the son.
Trust me.
Up on the
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NEUVILLE-LE-CHEMIN – LE BARHans TentijeSeveral meters tall, it can be seen from afar, the statue of Jesus
on the steeple of the church
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NEVER A BALMÁlvaro MarínNight: sex of the earth
jet-black black night.
We drift into silence
falling like
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NEVER IN THE NETHERLANDSBranko Čegecthen he stopped and stared at me,
knowing he was never to see my eyes again.
what a
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NEW HOTELAdam ZagajewskiIn February poplars are even sadder
than in summer, frozen stiff. My family
scattered
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NEW LOVERShuijing Zhulianperversely you bring me here to the seaside in
...
NEW RITUALSCecilie LøveidWe carry up
everything that will be used
for the impromptu altar
We carry
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NEW SECOND STREETElma van HarenYou have to start looking for a point of departure somewhere,
so all lines of approach are
...
NEW WINEHédi KaddourThe sun highlights the ash-tree’s
Shadow against the golden shadow
Of the grove;
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NEW YEAR'S GREETINGSJ. BernlefHaving no faith in big words
in small words, conjunctions
interjections, in the last
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NEW YORKDavide Rondoni Central Park, end of
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NEW YORK, SLIKHES NAKHT* Amichai ChassonWest End Avenue corner of 79th Street,
outside Carlebach’s shul,*
black-suited
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NEWSOry BernsteinThe wind trembled all night, building after building.
On my bed, on my back, I
dress
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NEWS FROM NOWHEREInuo TaguchiIf I say “my blood stirs and my muscles flex”
that’s not seemly
my
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NEWTON'S ORANGEEwa Lipska1.
I marvel at new system shows.
The casual elegance of Armani.
...
NIGHTShuntaro TanikawaNight –
from somewhere comes
the sound of water boiling
a
...
NIGHTQin XiaoyuStep out of the tipi all hung with skins,
and all the deep nights slap you in the face,
...
NIGHTAldo NoveIt happens when we open up, and it tumbles
into us, brimming over to the horizon,
...
NIGHT AND FANGSToshio NakaeNight plants its fangs into Mother Earth
drives their pointed ends
into the wet earth
...
NIGHT AND FISHToshio NakaeAt night fish have a sense
that they are flowing out of the Earth
busily flapping their
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NIGHT BIRD SERIESZang DiI dreamt each time we’re together, three people are there.
You said, the other one is a
...
NIGHT BLOGMorten Søndergaard23/9
The night is here again.
Someone has let me into the control tower and thrown the
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NIGHT FILMLoftus Maraisa woman irons in front of a window
in her flat’s closed cube
battery lives, stooped,
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NIGHT JOURNEYOreet MeitalShe was fourteen
long-legged like a doe
they said they took her for a ride
in his
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NIGHT OF WAR 10Ilan Sheinfeld
A silver-haired commander came and took me to the firing zone.
I cuddled in his
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NIGHT OF WAR 14Ilan Sheinfeld
For two weeks already I haven’t heard from you.
You’re probably
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NIGHT OF WAR 6 Ilan Sheinfeld
On the Sabbath I woke in fear.
A special kind of fear: Petrol-air bombs.
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NIGHT PSALMMarlene van Niekerkit’s a honky tonk that illumines the night
it’s the keyboard of a honky tonk
...
NIGHT RAIDJoko PinurboThe gang of killers, who had surrounded his house,
shivered in rain that since early evening
...
NIGHT RESTMenno WigmanEvening. Two gardens further up spring is raging
and hijackers are stealing
...
NIGHT SHIFTLucas MalanGradually, as the sun goes down,
the night staff clock in for duty.
Punctually the
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NIGHT SONGAdmiel Kosman
I would like to fly with you tonight.
I would like to fly with you into the night
...
NIGHT SONGNorbert Hummeltit’s night-time again, I stand listening, bowed
over my child beside her bed, so that I
...
NIGHT SOUNDSPaul van OstaijenThere must be white farms beyond the edge
of the blue fields by the moon
at night you hear
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NIGHT STIRRINGCharlotte Van den BroeckEvening
and the glow stick’s in your eyes and you are looking
its orange snapped
...
NIGHTFALLPrabodh ParikhSuch an evening
as in the stillness of which one hears landscapes
steaming from the trains of
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NIKITINMykola Ryabchuk(from Epitaphs)
Old Nikitin, simply Nikitin,
had no other name.
Perhaps he
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NINETY-NINE LINESJimu LanggeA child said to another child
I have ninety-nine lines
This was the reason I sat down
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NINTH CENTURYH.H. ter BalktBeige and pale blue
the angels then flew,
at the east-facing twig
Earthen
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NINTH WARD, MATERNITYDan Comani enter the ninth ward a sheep hung at the neck.
struggling forward,
the security
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NOToon TellegenNo was a small word,
an insignificant word.
It listened to the large words:
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NO FISH TODAY, MOTHERMa EiNo fish today, mother
Not to mention taking a bath
Washing my hands and feet,
They
...
NO FIXED ADDRESSLinda Maria BarosThe aged, the grown-up city children, crawl on their stomachs,
they enter their houses of
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NO MAN’S COUNTRYPedro Arturo EstradaBlessed are those who lose all homeland
for theirs shall be the light of their own dominion.
...
NO MAN’S LANDJuan Manuel RocaNo One
Paints a bird where once a tiger was.
Its roar wipes out the whistling. He
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NO ONEEwa LipskaI agree to this landscape
which does not exist.
The father is holding a violin.
...
NO TRACES LEFTSalmaThere are objects
All over this room
Vases, awaiting
The visitor’s gaze
...
NO, NO AND NODebarati MitraThere's no hurry,
If you say this isn't the time
I agree to wait
No longer
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NOCTURNAL IN DEATHLauren MendinuetaDo not press so eagerly to live!
Death erases memory.
Henceforth the past no longer
...
NOCTURNAL MOMENTSJorge Gaitán DuránI watched the time and I knew the night.
My mind set up fires in the nothingness.
They
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NOCTURNEVahe ArsenDeath always finds excuses . . .
Everything blackens once born white
or created .
...
NOCTURNERoland JoorisStill your eyes drink
the greener the twilight
still ever thinner
a
...
NOCTURNE IIIJosé Asunción Silva One night
One night heavy with the scent of
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NOCTURNE NUMBER EIGHTLuis VidalesTo carry a river deep in oneself singing like a child
and the sea of time, in oneself, roaring
...
NOCTURNESAntonella AneddaJuly, Night
That evil may decompose like the hamster buried in a shoebox in the
...
NOISEPhilippe BeckEvening makes a fire.
Day fades. Gone melancholy.
Man and woman weave
joy and
...
NOISY ANIMALSayaka OsakiDo not believe in words
Do not believe in “blue sky”
Do not believe in
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NOLI ME TANGEREAnat ZecharyaShe says
don’t touch me
only one more step left
one firm stride
before she
...
NOLI ME TANGEREYves BonnefoyThe flake hesitates in the blue sky
Once again, the last flake of the big snow.
...
NORTHGerður KristnýSlow as sperm whales
we glide through the gloom
which is white
here on the heath
...
NOSTALGIA OF STAYINGIvan SlamnigI walk a bit
it rains a bit
I stop over in some entrance
the rain stops
...
NOT A QUESTIONTian Yuan-1-
Who is it that plays a flute in the depths of time
and causes it to echo
...
NOT ALONEAshok VajpeyiNo, not only will the soul be scorched
in love
the body too
in the heat of its
...
NOT FAR FROM THE ROADGerrit KouwenaarDiscover the moment, it’s empty, it’s not far
from the edge of the road, there’s nothing
...
NOT KEEPING MY NOSE CLEANValérie RouzeauFrom this day on no sky a granny’s rag a ghost
A cotton phantom you could say a faded holey
...
NOT QUITE THEREJan BaekeOne thing holds, the other does not.
Today two hours of yesterday’s repeats.
We have
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NOT REVOLVERSRogi WiegIt’s raining, the last flowers let
go, but people blossom.
Hölderlin reads clearly
...
NOT THAT BADRogi WiegI’ve learned: dying of life is
not that bad. Old age makes
one little breaker too many
...
NOT UNTILSophia Pandeyayou fold your wings into this merciful night with its permanently
jaundice-yellow eyes
...
NOTEFernando PessoaMy soul shattered like an empty vase.
It fell irretrievably down the stairs.
If fell from
...
NOTEBernard DewulfGet up quietly in the early hours
just to see first light again.
Wash, put on old
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NOTES FOR MY AUTOBIOGRAPHYFernando LineroI was born in Santa Marta on October 4, 1957.
I have a wife, two children whom I watch
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NOTES OF A FLÂNEURRemco CampertGoing outdoors
Oh well I’ll just go out a bit
my work’s getting nowhere again.
...
NOTHINGDane ZajcShe vanishes in the clouds
And is gone
In clear nights she swallows stars of the
Big
...
NOTHINGNESSJan H. MysjkinI delve into my memories: nothing,
I retrieve nothing.
I have written, and
...
NOTICESong Xiaoxianthere’s a large notice board
in front of the court
I hadn’t looked at it for a long time,
...
NOTIONRoland JoorisI can hear
a passerby
draw a line, hear
departure thin out
into a
...
NOWEva Gerlachthe poem happens now
in the body of it this
happens. it breathes and it
runs and
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NOW HE IS A SIMPLE SPECTATORManolis AnagnostakisNow he is a simple spectator
An insignificant fellow in the crowd
Now he no longer applauds
...
NOW I CANDubravko DetoniNow I can only make love to your voice. The pale fibres of your cries touch me, burned by the
...
NOW I THINK ABOUT ITEster Naomi PerquinLots of things are well beyond me but what I have
mastered, you see here, I spend a lot of
...
NOW THAT WE ARE NO MORETaja KrambergerFor the painter Alenka Koderman
Now that we are no more,
Does the sky still part its
...
NOWHEREPaolo RuffilliHow many times
have I left
before daybreak or
at dead of night
and often
...
NOZINDABA –GOSSIP*Albert NyathiAlways gossiping
Everything comes from the gossip
No lies no sleep
Survives on
...
NURyuichi Tamurathere are rooms that have no windows
so in the world of the heart there are windows with no
...
NUDITYEduardo GómezNothing belongs to us
Everything is loaned to us to use as we see fit.
Future
...
NYMPHIrena Matijaševićwake me up with twisted steroid puddle
and push it in an arch
on the Vespa
no
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