NEWS & VIEWS: POEMS
In Memory of Gabriel Rosenstock
Peter Huitson remembers the Irish writer and haikuist who contributed several pieces to Beshara Magazine
April 2026
Gabriel Rosenstock
Don Quixote in Search of the Holy Land
Poems for These Times: 18 – New Year 2024
Benjamin Zepahniah | Faceless
“You have to look beyond the face // to see the person true // Down within my inner space // I am the same as you…”
Poems for These Times: 17
Taras Shevchenko | Calamity Again
“Dear God, calamity again!
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We had just begun to break the chains…”
Poems for These Times: 16
Jane Hirshfield | The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
“The monk stood by a wheelbarrow, weeping.
God or Buddha nowhere to be seen –
These tears were fully human…”
Poems for These Times: 15
Laurie Lee | Twelfth Night
“No night could be darker than this night, no cold so cold,
as the blood snaps like a wire
and the heart’s sap stills…”
Poems for These Times: A Reflection
Jane Clark and Barbara Vellacott review the poetry series we presented during the Covid-19 lockdown, March – June 2020
Poetry engages the imagination, and can touch us deeply, body and soul; it can bring us to a sense of our common humanity
Poems for These Times: 14
Seamus Heaney | From The Cure at Troy
“… So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here…”
Poems for These Times: 13
Kathleen Raine | The Instrument
“… And it may be that soul extends
Organs of sense
Tuned to waves here scarcely heard…”
Poems for These Times: 12
Ted Hughes | A Green Mother
“Why are you afraid?
In the house of the dead are many cradles.
The earth is a busy hive of heavens…”
Poems for These Times: 11
John Milton | “Adam’s Lament” from Paradise Lost
“O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!…”
Poems for These Times: 10
Elizabeth Jennings | Song of Time
“Deliver time and let it go
Under wild clouds and passive moon.
Once it was fast, now it is slow…”
Poems for These Times: 9
Rainer Maria Rilke | The Tenth Duino Elegy
“Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight,
let me sing out jubilation and praise to assenting angels…”
Poems for These Times: 8
Benjamin Zephaniah | The Old Truth
“Rumour has it
Once upon a time
Dere was Peace, Luv and Unity…”
Poems for These Times: 7
Rupert Brooke | The Dead
“These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth…”
Poems for These Times: 6
Amir Khusrau | Ghazal 1836
“Green is newly sprouted
and rain comes scattering pearls
and the heart comes
to incline to fields
and flowing waters…”
Poems for These Times: 5
Jane Hirshfield | The Weighing
“The heart’s reasons
seen clearly,
even the hardest will carry
its whip-marks and sadness…
Poems for These Times: 4
D. H. Lawrence | Trust
“Oh we’ve got to trust
one another again
in some essentials…”
Poems for These Times: 3
Czesław Miłosz | Before Majesty
“It is bitter to praise God in misfortune…”
Poems for These Times: 2
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching, Chapter Forty-seven
“Without going outside, you may know the whole world…”
Poems for These Times: 1
Lynn Ungar | Pandemic
“What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times? […]”
In Memory of Gabriel Rosenstock
Peter Huitson remembers the Irish writer and haikuist who contributed several pieces to Beshara Magazine
April 2026
Gabriel Rosenstock
Don Quixote in Search of the Holy Land
Poems for These Times: 18 – New Year 2024
Benjamin Zepahniah | Faceless
“You have to look beyond the face // to see the person true // Down within my inner space // I am the same as you…”
Poems for These Times: 17
Taras Shevchenko | Calamity Again
“Dear God, calamity again!
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We had just begun to break the chains…”
Poems for These Times: 16
Jane Hirshfield | The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
“The monk stood by a wheelbarrow, weeping.
God or Buddha nowhere to be seen –
These tears were fully human…”
Poems for These Times: 15
Laurie Lee | Twelfth Night
“No night could be darker than this night, no cold so cold,
as the blood snaps like a wire
and the heart’s sap stills…”
Poems for These Times: A Reflection
Jane Clark and Barbara Vellacott review the poetry series we presented during the Covid-19 lockdown, March – June 2020
Poetry engages the imagination, and can touch us deeply, body and soul; it can bring us to a sense of our common humanity
Poems for These Times: 14
Seamus Heaney | From The Cure at Troy
“… So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here…”
Poems for These Times: 13
Kathleen Raine | The Instrument
“… And it may be that soul extends
Organs of sense
Tuned to waves here scarcely heard…”
Poems for These Times: 12
Ted Hughes | A Green Mother
“Why are you afraid?
In the house of the dead are many cradles.
The earth is a busy hive of heavens…”
Poems for These Times: 11
John Milton | “Adam’s Lament” from Paradise Lost
“O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!…”
Poems for These Times: 10
Elizabeth Jennings | Song of Time
“Deliver time and let it go
Under wild clouds and passive moon.
Once it was fast, now it is slow…”
Poems for These Times: 9
Rainer Maria Rilke | The Tenth Duino Elegy
“Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight,
let me sing out jubilation and praise to assenting angels…”
Poems for These Times: 8
Benjamin Zephaniah | The Old Truth
“Rumour has it
Once upon a time
Dere was Peace, Luv and Unity…”
Poems for These Times: 7
Rupert Brooke | The Dead
“These hearts were woven of human joys and cares,
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth…”
Poems for These Times: 6
Amir Khusrau | Ghazal 1836
“Green is newly sprouted
and rain comes scattering pearls
and the heart comes
to incline to fields
and flowing waters…”
Poems for These Times: 5
Jane Hirshfield | The Weighing
“The heart’s reasons
seen clearly,
even the hardest will carry
its whip-marks and sadness…
Poems for These Times: 4
D. H. Lawrence | Trust
“Oh we’ve got to trust
one another again
in some essentials…”
Poems for These Times: 3
Czesław Miłosz | Before Majesty
“It is bitter to praise God in misfortune…”
Poems for These Times: 2
Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching, Chapter Forty-seven
“Without going outside, you may know the whole world…”
Poems for These Times: 1
Lynn Ungar | Pandemic
“What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times? […]”
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