I couldn't decide between poems from India where my ancestors are from or poems from Japan whose language I'm studying. So, I picked one poem by Kamala Das, a famous Indian English poet and one poem by Chika Sagawa translated from Japanese.
I picked "My Grandmother's House" by Kamala Das because it fills you with a huge feeling of nostalgia. It's about the speaker's (probably Das') grandmother's house that used to be a place filled with love and books to old for her. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-grandmother-s-house/
I also picked "Ribbons of May" (五月のリボン）by Chika Sagawa because its really beautiful imagery comes through in both languages. I really like the imagery of the wind as hair, and the sound of the wind as laughing. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270572859_'Ribbons_of_May_Fading_Green_and_Angels_of_the_Sea_by_Sagawa_Chika' or if you want the Japanese original version: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4d32/e31a05bd0f45a40676cd2237bafe88726534.pdf (scroll down a bit)
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