JUHAN VIIDING Poems

ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
It is something that life´s all about,
it is something that helps me be.

Oh, how hard it is in our climate,
which is the grey of the fog of distrust.
I´am taking some cakes to my auntie
through a forest of all kinds of lust.

There I meet some nymphs and some gnomes,
young girls of indecent ways
as well as some stricter aromas -
stern ladies of former days.

Old auntie - she eats what I´ve brought,
and this time no Wolf comes around.
Fragile flowers reside in my thoughts,
and my love is a borderless ground.

ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
This, my love, is what nature´s about,
and it finally makes us see.
...

What is this poet´s poetry?

It is: when you think about life
and something else besides.

What is the human´s part
in this wide world?
Not to get slept away.
Keep an eye on that.
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In the long grass in a great calm a tiny man
listens to the flow of time and eyes the clouds.
Summer is great, the sky is bright, all is still there,
but already in another calm - - - - -

Utterly other. And he notices: in the grass lies a man
like a dark dot or a comma in a picture of time.
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We make, make up for our life
a huge people-packed wall.
Not even the tall can reach over.

When a stone has fallen outwards,
making way for a gap as it goes,
whoever chanced to see out
has spoken of la vie en rose.
Meanwhile he too is seen through

and there is no place for feeling distraught.
A secret is now the only life he knows,
being himself through and through is his lot.
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