Words and silences: "Sawdust from under the saw" -- "Once I got a postcard from the Fiji Islands" / Jaan Kaplinski -- Old mountains want to turn to sand / Tommy Olofsson -- The meaning of simplicity / Yannis Ritsos -- Poetry was like this / Al Mahmud -- The Pen / Muhammad al-Ghuzzi -- The question mark / Gevorg Emin -- The gatherer / Ali al-mak -- Lizard / Bundgård Povlsen -- Between Ebb and flow / Fadwa Tuqan -- Crowned crane -- A tree within / Octavio Paz -- A short story / David Escobar Galindo -- Life of the cricket / Jorge Carrera Andrade -- Coils the robot / Floria Herrero Pinto -- from Altazor / Vicente Huidobro -- Paper doll / Guadalupe Morfin -- Distances of longing / Fawziyya Abu Khalid -- At the beach / Kemal Ozer -- Monkeys / Klara Koettner-Benigni -- Freedom / Wimal Dissanayake -- Lamento / Tomas Tranströmer -- Wordless day / Chang Shiang-hura --
Dreams and dreamers: "Eyes the color of sky" -- In the kitchen / Jean Joubert -- A headstrong boy / Gu Cheng -- Wanting to move / Vijaya Mukhopadhyay -- The cucumber / Nazim Hikmet -- The tin bird / Ramón C. Sunico -- On my birthday / Farhad Mazhar -- The orphan / Muhammad al-Maghut -- Wildpeace / Yehuda Amichai -- Healing / Yannis Ritsos -- Happy as a dog's tail / Anna Swir -- Picnic to the earth / Shuntarδ Tanikawa -- Why there are no cats in the forest / Simeon Dumdum -- Song / Cecilia Meireles -- The sick room / R.A. Simpson -- The shadow inside me / Tommy Olofsson -- "One day I asked the mirror facing me" / Tialuga Sunia Seroti -- The prison cell / Mahmud Darwish -- A salior's memoirs, Muhammad al-Fayiz -- "Where is the heart I am calling?" / Roberto Juarroz -- Day-dream / Samarendra Sengupta -- The parakeets / Alberto Blanco -- A dream of paradise in the shadow of war / Muneer Niazi -- Salt and memory / Zoltán Zelk -- My great grand uncle / Tarapada Ray -- Magic / Dahlia Ravikovitch --
Families: "the first tying" -- Wolf-ancestry / Vasko Popa -- To the ancestors -- Childhood / Jean Joubert -- Remembering / Xue Di -- Sparrow -- Transformations / Tadeusz Różewicz -- Souvenir of the ancient world / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Industrial childhood / Sharon Stevenson -- I was born in Jacinto Vera / Liber Falco -- Weights / Les Murray -- Small wants / Bibhu Padhi -- Believe it or not / Nicolai Kantchev -- Brownout / Tony Perez -- Atong / Benilda S. Santos -- Atong and his goodbye / Benild S. Santos -- Father and son / Tomasz Jastrun -- Petrified minute / Zoltán Zelk -- Companion / Manjush Dasgupta -- A pearl / Fawziyya Abu Khalid -- A new dress / Ruth Dallas -- Vistasp / Gieve Patel -- Poem for my son / Bibhu Padhi -- An appointment / Chang Shiang-hua -- The first shoe / Máire Mhac an tSaoi -- Grandmother / Sameeneh Shirazie -- My life story / Lan Nguyen -- The mushroom river / Xue Di -- Letter from my son / Shihab Sarkar -- Summer / Jayanta Mahapatra -- Jasmine / Kyongjoo Hong Ryou -- Footpath / Stella Ngatho -- Family portrait / Eka Budianta --
This earth and sky in which we live: "Water that used to be a cloud" -- Mindoro / Ramón C. Sunico -- Dawn / Edith Södergran -- Grass / Tom Kristensen -- The land of mists / Kwang-kyu Kim -- Spring poem / Collen Thibaudeau -- Dew / Linus Syryadu AG -- Beside a stone three / Christine M. Krishnasami -- Country memory / Leticia Herrera Alvarez -- Cuernavaca / Aline Pettersson -- Mountain tambourine / Peter van Toorn -- "the sodden moss sinks underfoot ..." / Aleš Debeljak -- Improvisation (eching) / Kevin Perryman -- "Greedy snowslide: -- The sky is vast / Pramila Khadun -- The penguin / Racardo Yáñez -- The open shutter / Karl Krolow -- Wind's foam / Al Mahmud -- The squirrel / Saleem Barakat -- The birth of a stone / Kwang-kyu Kim -- Caring for animals / Jon Silkin -- Autum and the sea / Javier Heraud -- Pitcher / Renee Ferrer de Arréllaga -- Cleaned the crocodile's teeth -- Cat / Jibananda Das -- The moon rises slowly ove the ocean / Xu De-min -- Stars at night / Iku Takenaka -- The pit ponies / Leslie Norris -- Great Aso / Tatsuji Miyoshi -- Ants / Yusuf al-Sa´igh -- from Diary of a woodcutter / Fuad Rifka -- Under this sky / Zia Hyder --
"What is it that upsets the volcanoes ..." / Pablo Neruda
There's and orange tree out there / Alfonso Quijada Urías
Horse by Moonlight / Alberto Blanco
A tree / Klara Koettner-Benigni
Love / Tymoteusz Karpowicz
A brief note to the bag lady, Ma sister / Yusuf Eradam
A man never cries / José Craveirinha
Surprise / Blanca Rodriguez - "Oh! oh! should they take away my stove ..." My inexhaustible ode to joy / Miron Bialoszewski
A train is passing / Poul Borum
A gift horse / Alamgir Hashmi
In the Lebanese mountains / Nadi Tueni
The garden of a child / Nirendranath Chakravarti
Bicycles / Andrei Voznesensky
The memory of horses / Rolf Jacobsen
Before the game / Vasko Popa.
Human mysteries: "White bracelets"
Napoleon / Miroslav Holub
Locked in / Ingemar Leckius
A boy's head / Miroslav Holub
The ship's whistle / Tarapada Ray
Sweet like a crow / Michael Ondaatje
Volunteer worker / Tony Perez
Behind bars / Fadwa Tuqan
On destiny / Shuntarδ Tanikawa
For Genevieve / Simeon Dumdum, Jr. / Childhood is the only lasting flower / Ramón Díaz Eterovic
Goodness / Benny Andersen
The rhythm of the Tomtom / António Jacinto "Do what you like with my face" / Amanda Aizpuriete
The new suit / Nidia Sanabria de Romero
White Bracelets / Colleen Thibaudeau
I have ten legs / Anna Swir
"A man comes in, his suit is crumpled" / Sergei Timofeyev
Greenland's history / Sven Holm
The wall / Tania Diaz Castro
Jerusalem / Yehuda Amichai
There are times when I can't move" / Roberto Juarroz
In his room the man watches / Homero Aridjis
The Indians / Roberto Sosa
The labourer / Toolsy Daby
Clouds on the sea / Ruth Dallas
Pride / Dahlia Ravikovitch
Lucia / Lucia Casalinuovo
At the ferry / Vihjaya Mukhopadhyay.