#Swedish poetry

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"

~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"

[tokumei1ka]

A poem in swedish I wrote:

Han får mig att flyga

Han får mig att flyta

Han hindrar mina ben gå sönder

[lionofchaeronea]

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. --Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), trans. Robin Fulton

[kattahj]

What bananas believe 

Bananas believe that bananas

Have fallen at night from the sky.

They gather in bunches in tree tops

And bid the moon goodbye.

The moon is their goddess, their mother,

A giant banana above.

She carries the baby bananas

And fills them with motherly love.

When her belly is full and rounded

She is ready to give birth

And all of the baby bananas

Come down to live on earth.

The sun is in love with the moon.

He helped her to conceive

And is father to all the bananas.

That is what bananas believe.

By Lennart Hellsing

My translation

Swedish original (sung by Trazan & Banarne)

[moaklang]

Jag älskade dig.

Om du bara hade vetat hur mycket. Jag älskade att prata med dig, att höra ditt skratt. Men du visade aldrig det tillbaka. Så jag vågade aldrig säga något.

Det är mitt största misstag, och min största ånger.

Jag älskar dig.

Och du kommer aldrig veta hur mycket.

[nudeartpluspoetry]

"When One Has Come as Far. . .," by Gunnar Ekelöf

read by Hans Ostrom

[skilasophia]

The Library, Pt. 1

I smudged my eyeliner

And spilled my tears on a hardcover

Forgive me, Simone de Beauvoir

I never meant to hurt you

I've scrolled through books of love and death

Kierkegaard y José Gasset...

[arsanimarum]

Bogserbåten är fräknig av rost. Vad gör den här så långt inne i landet? Den är en tung, slocknad lampa i kylan. Men träden har vilda färger. Signaler till andra stranden! Som om några ville bli hämtade. På väg hem ser jag bläcksvamparna skjuta upp genom gräsmattan. De är de hjälpsökande fingrarna på en som snyftat länge för sig själv i mörkret där nere. Vi är jordens.

[The tugboat is freckled with rust. What is it doing so far inland? It’s a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold. But the trees still carry colours – wild signals to the other shore as if someone wanted to be fetched home. On the way back, I see mushrooms pushing up through the grass. Stretching for help, these white fingers belong to someone who sobs down there in the darkness. We belong to the earth.]

Tomas Tranströmer, Skiss I Oktober / Sketch in October

[manwalksintobar]

December Evening 1972  // Tomas Transtromer

Here I come, the invisible man, perhaps employed by a Great Memory to live right now. And I’m driving past the locked-up white church – a wooden saint is standing in there smiling, helpless. As if they had taken away his glasses. He is alone. Everything else is now, now, now. The law of gravity pressing us against our work by day and against our beds by night. The war.

(translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton)

[thoughtkick]

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

Swedish Proverb

[sunnyp1e]

* DSBM *

dsbm or “depressive suicidal black metal” is a subcategory of black metal and it talks mostly about agony, suicidal thoughts and tendencies, dark human life aspects and hopelessness and although this themes are recurrent in the black metal genre, dsbm stands for the intensity of their focus in this themes.

origins in 1990s with “dark ambient bands” and the atmospheric black metal subgenre.

Although dsbm can be seen as an angry, erratic hatred towards humanity and the word kind of thing, it can also be more of a suicidal, sad and melancholic type of art.

one of the main characteristics of dsbm is the “atmosphere” of the music, making u feel more desolated and alone than before with relatable lyrics and the agony screams for help of the artist singing

listening to dsbm can feel like being opened alive, feeling your guts being busted while the only thing u can do is listen to your own sounds of agony in the most beautiful and catchy way possible.

in my opinion, such darkness must exist in music because it exists in ourselves. it’s a form to let out our darkness and most depressive thoughts in a free space such as music

-if u want to add anything u can do it freely-

[floorworm]

This is abt this poem btw, original and translated below

English just doesn't have the WORDSSSS it goes sm harder in swedish I promise you 😓😓

Writing poetry in my mother tongue is???? AGH??? so lonely??? Like I'll write a classic rhyming poem and be proud of it but then idk who I would show it to when i wanna share ☹️ Bc I KNOW it wouldn't hit the same in english but I just want someone idk irl to read it, I want my silly guys in my phone to read it!!! It's not FAIR.

[perfectfeelings]

Who's gonna save the world tonight? Who's gonna bring you back to life?

Swedish House Mafia, Save the World

[quotefeeling]

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

[resqectable]

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

[nudeartpluspoetry]

Fine book.