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LATE ARRIVALON EARTH (1932)

 

THE FLOWERS

 

APOTHESIS

 

FERRYMAN'S SONG (1941)

 

I BELIEVE

 

EVERYONE

 

EUPHORIA

 

NON SERVIAM (1945)

 

NON SERVIAM

 

ABSENTIA ANIMI

 

STROUNTES (1955)

 

WHEN ONE HAS

 

GUIDE TO THE

UNDERWORLD (1967)

 

GIVE ME POISON

 

"THE FLOWERS DOZE IN THE WINDOW"

 

The flowers doze in the window and the lamp gazes / light

the window gazes with thoughtless eyes out into the / dark

paintings exhibit without soul the thought confided / to then

and houseflies stand still on the walls and think

 

the flowers lean into the night and the lamp weaves / light

the cat in the corner weaves woolen yarn to sleep with

on the stove the coffeepot snores now and then with / pleasure

the children play quietly on the floor with words

 

the table set with white cloth is waiting for someone

whose feet never will come up the stairs

 

a train-whistle tunneling through the silence in the / distance

does not find out what the secret of things is

but fate counts the strokes of the pendulum by / decimals

 

 

Friends, You Drank Some Darkness : Three Swedish Poets : Harry Martinson, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Tomas Tranströmer. Robert Bly. Beacon Press, p. 75

 

 

 

1_SWD 2_UNK 3_GER 4_FRA 7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN 10_ITA

7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN

 

Some of the most appreciated poems by Gunnar Ekelöf on different languages.