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Poems in Estonian by:
Jaan Kaplinski
- Estonia
All has been written about, all has been sung about.
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I have thought that I thought of death
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Hasso Krull
- Estonia
There are holes in the road
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Pollen and meadow-grass seeds swim in the wellspring
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“Oh!” “Please excuse me.”
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All people are pregnant, said Diotima
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Right now, right now I would like to change
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Look at him
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An empty Greek restaurant
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Father, can’t you see that I’m burning?
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Zhuangzi invites butterflies into his deathbed
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The night is full of holes
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Dawn has already broken
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The sea rustles quietly, like a running river
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Jürgen Rooste
- Estonia
what’s the use of poetry
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in danish town rivers are flowing
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WILL YOU LOVE ME UNTIL THE EDGE OF ETERNITY
(KASSA ARMASTAD MIND IGAVIKU ÄÄRENI)
at work
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BLACK AND WHITE MAN IN A COLOURFUL ROOM
(MUSTVALGE MEES VÄRVILISES TOAS)
you are beautiful like billie holiday
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METRICS AND ETHICS
(MEETRIKA JA EETIKA)
behind the florist’s daughter eyes
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The flight of the crane
The flight of the cranecrosses a sky of …
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THE VISITOR
Does no dishes, dribbles sauce across the floor. Is more dragon than spaniel, more …
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ENVY
Icarus imitated the golden plover,Drawn toward a blue follyAbove, looping through …
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ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them, all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and …
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SHARKS' TEETH
Everything contains some silence. Noise getsits zest from thesmall …
POEM
ARRIVAL AT SANTOS
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some …
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