A Paradise of Poems
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
SPECIAL EPISODE: Live Rehearsal Session @VIC // Aveiro Arts House
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a non-editing/filtering version of a live rehearsal session between me and JoĂŁo Grillo (guitarist). One day later, we performed at Lovecraft ...
Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade...
The Course Of Life by Friedrich Holderlin
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
 You too wanted better things, but love     forces all of us down. Sorrow bends us more     forcefully, but the arc doesn'...
Let It Enfold You by Charles Bukowski
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Final Story by Charles Bukowski
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BGM by Aleksey Chistilin - The Story of One Life
Clouds and Waves by Rabindranath Tagore
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me- “We play from the time we wake till the day ends. We play with the golden dawn, we play w...
Writing by Charles Bukowski
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
often it is the onlythingbetween you andimpossibility.no drink,no woman's love,no wealthcanmatch it.nothing can saveyouexceptwriting.it keeps the ...
Life is Fine by Langston Hughes
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered!I came up twice...
Australia by A D Hope
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws Of Sphinx dem...
The World Cup by chatGPT (in George Orwell's style)
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The World Cup, a global stage, Where nations come to play, A spectacle of skill and strength, A test of will and might. From distant lands they come, ...
Football by chatGPT (in Winston Churchill's style)
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Football, the beautiful game, A source of passion and of shame, A battle on the pitch of life, Where heroes rise and villains thrive. With leather bal...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Fernando Pessoa
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
II My gaze is clear like a sunflower. It is my custom to walk the roads Looking right and left And sometimes looking behind me, And what I see at eac...
Countless lives inhabit us by Fernando Pessoa
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Countless lives inhabit us. I don’t know, when I think or feel, Who it is that thinks or feels. I am merely the place Where things are thought or fe...
Messenger by Mary Oliver
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird— equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Reading love poems by listeners
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I invited you to share your favourite love poems. Here are a few submissions by listeners, read in English, Chinese and German. Enjoy ：）...
[SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT] Let's share the LOVE ❥(^_-)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, my dear listeners. I'm Camellia. The narrator of this podcast. Thanks a lot for listening to my show over the past two years. I'm glad to have...
Anywhere Out of the World by Charles Baudelaire
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite the stove, another is sure he wou...
The Poetry Reading by Charles Bukowski
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table I flatten it with my finger blood mon...
Poetry Readings by Charles Bukowski
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
poetry readings have to be some of the saddest damned things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week, month after month, y...
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight ...
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the ful...
My Sad Self by Allen Ginsberg
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes when my eyes are red I go up on top of the RCA Building and gaze at my world, Manhattan— my buildings, streets I’ve done feats in, lofts...
Sonnet XXVI- I Lived With Visions by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know A sweeter music than they pl...
If thou must love me... (Sonnet 14) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile—her look—her way Of speaking gently,...
After Summer Fell Apart by Yusef Komunyakaa
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I can’t touch you. His face always returns; we exchange long looks in each bad dream & what I see, my God. Honey, sweetheart, I hold you against...
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone by John Keats
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone, Bri...
Within by Bianca Caruana
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nice to meet you, I said I admire your strength You have courage and patience I once only dreamt You stand tall and move forward with passion, yet gra...
Kosmos by Walt Whitman
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the e...
Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers Or makes their feet Sore on the alleys cobbled wi...
In Warsaw by Czeslaw Milosz
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are you doing here, poet, on the ruins Of St. John's Cathedral this sunny Day in spring? What are you thinking here, where the wind Blowing from ...
Dreamwork Three by Jerome Rothenberg
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
a trembling old man dreams of a chinese garden a comical old man dreams of newspapers under his rabbi's hat a simple tavernkeeper dreams of icicles &a...
A Paradise of Poets by Jerome Rothenberg
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
1 He takes a book down from his shelf & scribbles across a page of text: I am the final one. This means the world will end when he does. 2 In the ...
Untitled by JoĂŁo Grillo
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
i become little i become tiny i become way bigger than myself i become something i dont care to know for sure splattered amid everything that's all ar...
Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be af...
In the Winter of My Thirty-Eighth Year by W. S. Merwin
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It sounds unconvincing to say When I was young Though I have long wondered what it would be like To be me now No older at all it seems from here As fa...
The Answer by Robinson Jeffers
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many t...
For Solitude by John O'Donohue
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
May you recognize in your life the presence, power and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness ...
Paris In Spring Poem by Sara Teasdale
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The city's all a-shining Beneath a fickle sun, A gay young wind's a-blowing, The little shower is done. But the rain-drops still are clinging And fal...
Envoi by Robert W. Chambers
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
IX. And if the sun incarnadine The clouds—green leaves shall be your screen; And if the clouds with jealousy Should weep—we'll beg of some kind tr...
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is...
Secret Love by John Clare
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I hid my love when young while I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly I hid my love to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light I dare not gaze...
To Whom It May Concern by Camellia Yang (English & Chinese)
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I love strolling on an empty street at five o’clock in the morning. I love discussing the absurdity of the world with wanderers. I enjoy watching th...
Air and Light and Time and Space by Charles Bukowski
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
”– you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way but now I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this place, a larg...
Paths that lead nowhere by Rosa Alice Branco
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are specialists in love. A man beeps without stopping, stuck in the line of traffic.
No Complaint Book by Rosa Alice Branco
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the beginning was the Word but now no one answers.
London Snow by Robert Bridges
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and lo...
A Quoi Bon Dire? by Charlotte Mew
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seventeen years ago you said Something that sounded like Good-bye; And everybody thinks that you are dead, But I. So I, as I grow stiff and cold To th...
Walk Me Home by Camellia Yang
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eighty-four thousand thoughts and ideas, Landscape transformation in the whirligig of time, Everything is evolving and decaying in front of my e...
A Spell For Creation by Kathleen Raine
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Within the flower there lies a seed, Within the seed there springs a tree, Within the tree there spreads a wood. In the wood there burns a fire, And ...
Love Poem by Kathleen Raine
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yours is the face that the earth turns to me, Continuous beyond its human features lie The mountain forms that rest against the sky. With your eyes, t...
To Think of Time Walt Whitman
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Of and in all these things, I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed, I have dre...
Never Seek to Tell thy Love BY WILLIAM BLAKE
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently invisibly I told my love I told my love I told her all ...
Under One Small Star by Wislawa Szymborska
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take ...
FOR WHAT BINDS US by Jane Hirshfield
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces. Look around, you can see them: the skin that forms in a half-empty cup, nails rusting i...
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They both thought that a sudden feeling had united them This certainty is beautiful, Even more beautiful than uncertainty. They thought they didn't kn...
True Love by Wislawa Szymborska
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same ...
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what yo...
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever re...
To Autumn by John Keats
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that r...
A Woman Speaks by Audre Lorde
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unr...
Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun by Walt Whitman
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
1.Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the un...
The Eyes Where Love In Chastest Fire Would Glow by Luis Vaz de Camoes
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The eyes where love in chastest fire would glow, Joying to be consumed amidst their light, The face whereon with wondrous lustre bright The purple ros...
Follow Your Destiny by Ricardo Reis
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Follow your destiny, Water your plants, Love your roses. The rest is shadow Of unknown trees. Reality is always More or less Than what we want. Only ...
Beholding Her by Luis Vaz de Camoes
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I behold you, Lady! when my eyes Dwell on the deep enjoyment of your sight, I give my spirit to that one delight, And earth appears to me a Parad...
London by Manmohan Ghose
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Farewell, sweetest country; out of my heart, you roses, Wayside roses, nodding, the slow traveller to keep. Too long have I drowsed alone in the meado...
Stanzas by Emily Brontë
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of wealth and learn...
Remembrance by Emily Brontë
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed...
The Truelove by David Whyte
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed ...
Sprint, rest, sprint, rest by Camellia Yang
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Airpods in my ears, Playing podcasts and music, Hiding from the crowd. Maybe I’ll go deaf, But Beethoven composed music when he was deaf. There is n...
A Moment Of Happiness by Rumi
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and ...
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the w...
After Silence for Rachel Carson by Neil Gaiman
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seasons on seasons. The spring is signaled by birdsong coyotes screech and yammer in the moonlight and the first flowers open. I saw two owls today in...
When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes By Pablo Neruda
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I die I want your hands on my eyes: I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me one more time to feel th...
THE NINTH ELEGY” by Rainer Maria Rilke
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why, if it could begin as laurel, and be spent so, this space of Being, a little darker than all the surrounding green, with little waves at the edge ...
I Remember I Remember - written by Thomas Hood
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brough...
A SCIENTIST’S ADVICE ON HEALING by Christy Ducker
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point, in the way a pen must be put to paper in one particular spot, th...
Possibilities by Wisława Szymborska
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people to myself loving man...
First Love by John Clare
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I ne’er was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower And stole my heart away complete. My f...
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and l...
I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes — I wonder if It weighs like Mine — Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long —...
In Transit (for Arthur Eddington) by Neil Gaiman
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
1. To find the many in the one he sweated under foreign skies to see the stars behind the sun. So space and time were now undone reality was undisguis...
The Letter by Dana Gioia
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
And in the end, all that is really left Is a feeling—strong and unavoidable— That somehow we deserved something better. That somewhere along the l...
Antidotes to Fear of Death by Rebecca Elson
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all ...
Bed in Summer BY Robert Louis Stevenson
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see ...
Meditation by Qi Kaimin (English and Chinese)
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The light of the day is gone without a trace, Wealth and fame are like clouds passing by. I am a simple person living a life outside of the material ...
I have loved flowers that fade by Robert Bridges
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love...
[SPECIAL EPISODE] Where do you search me by Kabir
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dedicate this special episode to my Indian listeners. Stay safe and take care xx. English Translation: Where do you search me? I am with you N...
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it ...
Hymn to Time by Ursula K. Le Guin
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Time says “Let there be” every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gn...
A Smile to Remember by Charles Bukowski
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
we had the goldfish and they went around and around in the bowl on the table near the purple drapes across our front picture window and my mother, poo...
Warning Jenny Joseph
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer...
I Choose The Mountain by Howard Simon
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The low lands call I am tempted to answer They are offering me a free dwelling Without having to conquer The massive mountain makes its move Be...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY Robert Frost
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My li...
Meditation by Mu Dan (English and Chinese)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Holding the spring of life in my hands. I only feel that it comes fresh and It is an intense wine, fresh and frothy Into my ambition, my toil, ...
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in you...
Landscape by Charles Baudelaire
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I would, to compose my eclogues chastely, Lie down close to the sky like an astrologer, And, near the church towers, listen while I dream To their sol...
Meditation by Charles Baudelaire
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wise up, Sorrow. Calm down. You always lay claim to twilight. Well, here it is, brother, It descends. Obscurity settles over the town, bringing peace ...
Having a Coke with You Frank O'Hara
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, IrĂşn, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona ...
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,...
Arete by Keri Stewart
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Her mighty skin is basked in wisdom, bones soaked in wondrous prestige. She’s like the essence of love: delicate like a fresh patch of snow and stro...