#swedish poets

[tinajaxen]

We were elsewhere

but somehow we stood two.

We were two but somehow

we were locking high opinions

of ourselves in the sky.

It was suddenly somewhere in the pines;

somewhere in the times

of pretending.

We were two; only repetitive;

it was only ever about the night

standing kind on top of a straight line,

fast forward; seeing a sign

of another day.

We didn’t jump to surviving -

we left those sometimes behind.

I was more about keeping the spotlight

on the very first thought of mine.

I was elsewhere alone

and it was fine.

Still I couldn’t stand the delay,

picturing the last piece

of the cold last sun…

Other people fell away

with their gloom beginning

far in the back;

never did I mind

but the clouds remained sound

with a dream of a little view

of never being the one going down.

POEM FROM LAST YEAR :)

[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...

[tokumei1ka]

A poem in swedish I wrote:

Han får mig att flyga

Han får mig att flyta

Han hindrar mina ben gå sönder

[hernepenthenotes]

We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.

From A man called Ove

[literaryvein-reblogs]

A List of "Beautiful" Swedish Words

for your next poem/story

Älskar - love

Ärlig - honest

Avslappnad - relaxed

Förlåt - sorry

Hjärtat - my heart

Lagom - just enough

Lugn - calm

Mångata - moonbeam

Mysa - cosy

Nöjd - satisfied

Solkatt - when the sun reflects off your watch

Sommarmorgon - summer morning

Stjärna - star

Tystnad - silence

Vänlig - kind

Sources: 1 2 3 4 ⚜ More: Word Lists

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

[axarmae]

Real-life footage of me fighting my characters cuz they doing things I don't want them to

[fitzrove]

Reblogging that polar exploration post accidentally introduced me to a Finnish todolf poem xD Original Swedish & someone's German translation under the cut

Hjertats morgon (SE)

Mörker rådde i mitt sinne,

Kallt mitt arma hjerta kändes,

Innan kärleken der inne

Af en vänlig ängel tändes.

Ser du solen efter natten

Strålande på fästet tåga,

Dimmor skingras, land och vatten

I ett helgon skimmer låga.

Ser du bilden af mitt hjerta:

Så dess första morgon grydde,

Så med fruktan, tomhet, smärta

Skuggan från dess verldar flydde.

Sol, som lifvets natt förjagar,

Kärlek, om ett bröst du glömmer,

Hvartill dessa mulna dagar,

Som man utan dig fördrömmer.

Dessa dagar evigt like,

Dessa hopplöst långa stunder,

Detta lif i dödens rike

Utan ljus och utan under.

Des Herzens Morgen

Finsternis in meinen Sinnen,

kalt mein armes Herz ich fühlte,

bis ein Engel, bis nach innen,

es mit Liebeswärme füllte.

Siehst du nach der Nacht die Sonnen-

strahlen durch die Festung fliegen,

Land und Wasser wie versonnen

unter goldnem Schimmer liegen.

Sieh das Bild in meinem Herzen:

So sein erster Morgen graute,

so, mit Furcht, mit Leere, Schmerzen,

Schatten sich nicht zeigen traute.

Lebensdunkel flieht die Sonne,

Liebe kann ein Herz versäumen,

Wolkentage ohne Wonne

muss ich ohne dich verträumen.

Diese Tage, immer gleiche,

diese endlos langen Stunden,

Leben in des Todes Reiche,

ohne Licht und ohne Wunder!

© Willi Grigor, 2016,

aus dem Schwedischen

[jc-martin-og]

Encadenado por un recuerdo olvidado,

Que se desmorona en fragmentos rotos,

Retratos de memorias que ya no conozco.

Pushed down a cloudy hallway,

Adrift without purpose, no paths to follow,

No guiding light, more than dying flickers.

Rädd för en väg full av falska drömmar,

Laddad med ånger för döda förbindelser,

Saker jag vårdat, nu tysta strömmar.

Olvidado en un rincón de la existencia,

indiferente de mi alma se marchita,

¿Por qué no me buscan? ¿Por qué se lamentan?

Left behind, a shadow of what I was,

Fading into silence, losing the shape of feeling.

Why won’t they see me? Why would they save me?

Glömd i mörkret, där ingen röst når mig,

Hjärtat fryser, minnen bleknar, känslor suddas.

Varför hör de mig inte? Varför lämnar de mig?

[labyrinthofstreams]

NOVEMBER 1: SUNDAY: Why can't America, even England, produce something like the good Swedish and Italian and Japanese films? The corruption of the capitalist civilization? The lack of any knowledge of deep humanity?

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; 12 December 1958 – 15 November 1959.

[average-joseph]

Thank you @cowboylexapro for your recent post and I'm here to say let's make French Todd great again. Come join us in our conquest. 🫡💪💪💪.

[anthea-1]

Att leva eller att älska Att leva för att älska, Att älska för att leva, Man måste veta hur att leva för att älska, Och veta hur man älskar för att lära sig att leva. Men ta bort kärleken och du dödar livet, Ta bort livet och kärleken kommer att blekna. Man måste leva på kärlek och älska livet.

[tinajaxen]

It’s about the next only me,

it’s about the first try to be free.

I’d kill the first vibe that isn’t close to mine

and I must be in the right sphere

but I love to be the only thing,

the only thing to keep hunting down.

Can’t but I must and I will

and I can sidestep the new haunting blues

that is my will to be like the rest

on some slip of a blue tongue

but then actually what,

actually never.

It has never been that way…

[higherentity]

[mary-maud]

[murdockbuckley]

swedish eddie diaz in the valentines poet!buck fic

i've posted this snippet before but now it's (slightly) edited and laid out properly

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Hi, how are you?

I just wanted to say thank you so much for what you do with this blog. It is awesome.

I was just wondering about beautiful words in Japanese and Swedish but also just beautiful words to do with stars if you haven’t already done so.

If you don’t want to do then I understand.

Can’t wait to see more of your posts.

Have a lovely super upper day :)

Thanks so much for your kind words, so glad to hear this!

I have this list of Japanese words (I have a part 2 in the queue). And here's a list that includes some Japanese and Swedish words. A separate Swedish words list is also somewhere in the queue.

For star-related words:

Some Astronomy Vocabulary

Stellate - resembling a star

Writing Notes: Galaxies

Word List: Star

Daystar - morning star; sun

Earthstar - any of a genus (Geastrum) of globose basidiomycetous fungi with an outer peridium that splits into the shape of a star

Morning star - a bright planet (such as Venus) seen in the eastern sky before or at sunrise

Shotstar - archaic: meteor; an alga (Nostoc commune)

Starbloom - a pinkroot (Spigelia marilandica)

Starbright - archaic: bright as a star; also: studded with stars

Starburst - something (such as a pattern) that resembles diverging rays of light

Stardust - a feeling or impression of romance, magic, or ethereality

Starflower - any of several plants having star-shaped pentamerous flowers

Stargaze - to gaze at stars; to gaze raptly or contemplatively

Starglory - cypress vine

Starquake - a hypothetical violent shiver in the crust of a neutron star

Starshine - the glow of the stars; starlight

Starstone - an asteriated stone; especially: star sapphire (i.e., a sapphire that when cut with a convex surface and polished exhibits asterism)

Starthroat - either of two Brazilian hummingbirds of the genus Heliomaster whose throat feathers have a metallic luster

Hope this helps & have a lovely day/night as well :)