My father speaks Urdu
language of dancing peacocks
rosewater fountains
even its curses are beautiful.
He speaks Hindi
uave and melodic
earthy Punjabi
salty rich as saag paneer
coastal Kiswahili
laced with Arabic,
he speaks Gujarati
solid ancestral pride.
Five languages
five different worlds
yet English
shrinks
him

down
before white men
who think their flat cold spiky words
make the only reality.

PATEL, S. Migritude. San Francisco: Kaya Books, 2010.

O poema aborda a trajetória familiar do eu lírico para ressaltar a questão

Warned

Sylvia Stults

The sands of time have rendered fear
Blue skies on high no longer clear
Stars were bright whence they came
Now dimmed, obscured, pollution's haze

Crystal clear our waters gleamed
Fish abundant, rivers streamed
Ocean floors sandy white
Now littered, brown, pollution's plight

Trees towered high above
Trunks baring professed love
Birds chirping from sites unseen
Gone, paper joined pollution's team

One can't blame pollution alone
As they say, you reap what you've sown
So let us plant a better seed
Tear out old roots, cultivate, weed

Protect what has been given for free
Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees
For once they're gone, don't you say
Consider yourself warned of that fatal day

Disponível em: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/warned. Acesso em: 09 mai. 2024.

Nesse poema, a autora Sylvia Stults quer estimular um sentimento de

O poema faz alusão ao mito de Ovídio para abordar a questão da mudança climática.

A narrativa prioriza o uso:

Spanglish

pues estoy creando Spanglish
bi-cultural systems

scientific lexicographical

inter-textual integrations

two expressions

existentially wired

two dominant languages

continentally abrazándose

in colloquial combate

imperio spanglish emerges

sobre territorio bi-lingual

las novelas mexicanas

mixing with radiorocknroll

immigrant/migrant

nasal mispronouncements

hip-hop, street salsa, spanish pop

standard english classroom

with computer technicalities

spanglish is literally perfect

LAVIERA, T. Benedición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2014 (fragmento).

Nesse poema de Tato Laviera, o eu lírico destaca uma

O poema Índio Velho, do poeta brasileiro Salgado Maranhão, traduzido para o inglês e publicado no New York Times, tem como foco:

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Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –

Disponível em: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/ because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479. Acesso em: 05 fev. de 2022.