Spindle

By Shinta Miranda

groundwater is often dry, dry on the branches
ground water is often wet, angry that blood
stuffy inside toward the root
absorb waste from greedy common sense

poured shower on concentrated liquid
processed particles crime
compounds lot of people forgot about
wisdom of the creation of the universe

while holding the book of books
said guidelines to live by
then kill the difference
ultimate curse of humanity

November 12, 2012
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Shinta Miranda. Woman poet, living in Jakarta.

Midwinter

By Tomas Tranströmer

A blue light
radiates from my clothing.
Midwinter.
Clattering tambourines of ice.
I close my eyes.
There is a silent world
there is a crack
where the dead
are smuggled across the border.

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(Source Barbara Chai, wsj blog, wsj.com)

Tomas Tranströmer. Born in Stockholm in 1931. He is Scandinavia’s preeminent poet. Tranströmer is the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors and awards include the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrach Prize in Germany, and the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum.