Spleen: I am like the King of a Rainy Country | Charles Baudelaire, 1857
Alexandre Benois, The King walked in any weather, 1898 I am like the King of a Rainy Country, Rich, but...
Poems
Cloud Piece | Yoko Ono, 1963
Edward Steichen, The Blue Sky, Long Island, New York, 1923 Imagine the clouds dripping. Dig a hole in your garden...
To Make Life | Vladimir Mayakovsky to Sergei Esenin, 1926
Sergei Yesenin in 1922 Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895 -1925) was a Russian lyric poet. On 28 of December in 1925...
Apparition Of Love | A poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 1902-87
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 1902-1987 . Sweet ghost, why do you visit me as in other times our bodies visited...
Dedication | A poem by Petya Dubarova, 1962-79
Petya Dubarova On chilly night, when drunk on rum,sleep wallows in my attic room,the moon grows darker from its sins,when,...
An Old Tune | A poem by Gérard de Nerval, 1808-55
Pablo Picasso, Paysage, Juan-les-Pins, 1924 There is an air for which I would disown Mozart's, Rossini's, Weber's melodies, - A...
The Edge | A poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
Alex Katz, Fall, 2015 "Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, we're afraid!" they responded. "Come to the edge,"...
Romance Sonâmbulo | A poem by Federico García Lorca, 1898 – 1936
Georgia O’Keeffe, Green Hill, 1916 Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the...
Visibility | The Poetic Voices of Arab women from Algeria to Palestine
Jaffa, the outskirts of the ancient port city. S.V. AtallaStory Splitting seeds in her teeth she spits out the years...
Swing | A poem by Eve Merriam, 1916 -92
Geoff Robbinson, Swing, Play Equipment Wicksteed Park, UK, 1923 Swing Swing me, swing me, swing me round, I don’t want...